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Project and Grant Management A

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 115-0411/02
Abbreviation PDMA
Course title Project and Grant Management A
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Management
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Michaela Melecká Staníčková, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

1. Basic project management terminology - project management and change management, projects and operations, project classification, portfolio of projects, projects as a system, project management knowledge strain (PMBOK).
2. Life cycle of the project - phase of project life cycle, typology of project management processes, PDCA cycle.
3. Funding sources of project financing in the European Union - overview of grant sources / titles for financing projects from the European Structural and Investment Funds.
4. Grant sources of project financing in the Czech Republic - Overview of grant sources / titles for financing projects from public sources of the Czech Republic at the level of municipalities, towns, regions and state.
5. Grant life cycle and project path co-financed from the European Structural and Investment Funds - subsidy cycle from state administration perspective, subsidy cycle from applicant's point of view, project preparation and realization.
6. Project cycle management and project logic framework method - PCM method, logical framework of the project - analysis
and plan, matrix of the logical framework of the project, project intervention logic, project evaluation.
7. Financial management of projects in EU and CR conditions - general criteria for projects financed from national and European sources, project budget, eligibility of expenditure, management of project changes, project risk management.
8. People and organizations in project management - organizational groupings in a project, organization in project management, project team, project manager.
9. Initialization of the project - initialization (initiation) of the project, main documents of the initialization phase, project selection, basic project document, project specification.
10. Project Planning - Project Planning Processes, Work Structure Structure (WBS), Organization Structure of the Project (OBS), Ratio Matrix (RAM), Project Timetable, Planning Resources in the Project.
11. Implementation of the project - start of the project implementation, management and communication in the project, procurement in the project, operational instructions and principles, project implementation control, quality management, project documentation, closure of the project.
12. Project control - control processes in the project, types of controls, control of public contracts.
13. Preparation of an application for support for projects co-financed by the EU Funds - Practical procedure for the preparation of the aid application - Case study.
14. Preparation of the application for support for projects co-financed from local, regional and national sources of the Czech Republic - practical procedure for preparation of the application for support - case study.

E-learning

E-Learning course is accessible in LMS Moodle system (120-0466/02)
https://lms.vsb.cz/course/view.php?id=132556

Povinná literatura

FIELDING, Paul J. How to Manage Projects: Essential Project Management Skills to Deliver On-time, On-budget Results. New York: Kogan Page, 2022. 240 p. ISBN 9781398606241 .
KERZNER, Harold. Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling. London: Wiley, 2022. 880 p. ISBN 9781119805373.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) and the Standard for Project Management. 7th edition. Pennsylvania: PMI, 2021. 250 p. ISBN 978-1-62825-664-2.

Doporučená literatura

BADIRU, Adedeji B. Project Management for Scholarly Researchers: Systems, Innovation, and Technologies. Boca Raton (FL): CRC Press, 2023. 348 p. ISBN 978-1-032-08096-3 .
LESTER, Albert. Project Management, Planning and Control: Managing Engineering, Construction and Manufacturing Projects to PMI, APM and BSI Standards. 8th edition. Oxford (UK): Butterworth-Heinemann, 2021. 658 p. ISBN 978-012-824339-8 .
HARTLEY, Stephen. Project Management: A practical guide to planning and managing projects. New York: Routledge, 2020. 464 p. ISBN 9781760631789 .