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Projects Creation and Management
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:7.00
Study Course Accepted:09.07.2021 11:37:59
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VPUPK_221 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Management | Target Audience: | Psychology | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Jana Duhovska | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Health Psychology and Paedagogy | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 5 J. Asara Street, vppk rsu[pnkts]lv, +37167061587 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Not required. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To advance the acquisition of theoretical and practical knowledge in project development and management by developing and presenting a project according to ones’ professional interests and requirements of a self-chosen national or international project tender. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Types of projects and funding sources: national and international project tenders. Other resources (patronage, sponsoring). | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Development of the project idea, innovations and creativity aspects. Target audience and stakeholders of the project. Project mission, tasks and aims. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Project team (team and management, the importance of planning in teamwork, the stages of team development, the development of communication in the team). Involvement of specialists and sub-contractors. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Project planning, management, supervision and control. Evaluation of the project risk factors. Development of the project structural plan, the project course plan and the project schedule. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Planning and control of the project finances. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | The project idea presentation to various target audiences, the dissemination of the course and results of the project, the involvement of traditional and social media. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | To independently consolidate the lecture material by reading the indicated sources systematically. Working in groups of four to five students, develop a project that complies with any of the self-chosen national or international project tenders for their professional interests or submission. To present the project. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | A project application has been prepared and presented in writing in accordance with the criteria and structure of the national or international project competition of one's choice. The final evaluation, based on the project presentation in the form of a presentation, consists of: 1) evaluation of the course lecturer (50%), 2) motivated evaluation of the course members' project presentation (25%), 3) self-motivated project evaluation of the presentation group (25%). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Oral) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students explain the concept of the project, name the basic principles for its creation, planning, implementation and management, as well as team formation, rising of funds and risk assessment. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students select and aggregate the information about the available project tenders, formulate a topical and creative project idea, plan the aspects of activities, funding, control, risk management, communication and teamwork, as well as select the collaboration partners. Describe the project according to the criteria and structure, laid down by the chosen project tender. Present their own idea and project. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | During the teamwork students plan and describe a project which corresponds to the basic principles of project management and present it to the audience. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | De Bono, E. (2009). Sešas domāšanas cepures. Rīga: Zvaigzne | ||||||||
| 2 | De Bono, E. (2011). Kā gūt radošas idejas: 62 vingrinājumi domāšanas attīstīšanai. Rīga: Zvaigzne | ||||||||
| 3 | Kerzner, H. (2009). Project management: a systemsapproach to planning, scheduling, andcontrolling. NewJersey: JohnWiley&Sons | ||||||||
| 4 | Kotlers, F. (2007). Mārketings no A līdz Z: 80 koncepcijas, kas jāzina katram vadītājam. Rīga: Jumava | ||||||||
| 5 | Jangs, T. (2009). Kā vadīt projektu: zelta padomi veiksmīgai projektu vadīšanai. Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC | ||||||||
| 6 | Programma Erasmus+: Jaunatne darbībā: http://jaunatne.gov.lv/lv/erasmus/par-erasmus-jaunatnes-jomu | ||||||||
| 7 | Programma Nordplus: http://www.nordplusonline.org/ | ||||||||
| 8 | Programma Norden: http://www.norden.lv/lv/grantu-programmas | ||||||||
| 9 | Teterevu fonda projektu konkurss: http://www.teterevufonds.lv/ | ||||||||
| 10 | Sabiedrības Integrācijas fonda projektu konkurss: http://www.sif.gov.lv | ||||||||
| 11 | Valsts Kultūrkapitāla fonda projektu konkurss: http://www.kkf.lv | ||||||||
| 12 | Rīgas domes Izglītības, kultūras un sporta departamenta projektu konkursi: http://www.iksd.riga.lv | ||||||||
