IPMA Young Crew Sweden is a non-profit organization for students, young professionals and anyone interested in project management up to the age of 35. We operate under the umbrella of Svenskt Projektforum, the Swedish certification body of IPMA. Our goal is to become a key contributor in raising project management knowledge and preparing students in Sweden for a future career. We want to provide o
ur members with an active network, challenging tasks and the latest updates in project management. Our activities include organizing seminars, lectures and workshops that are held by project management professionals and speakers from various industries
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IPMA Young Crew är ett internationellt kunskapsnätverk med fokus på erfarenhetsutbyte, nätverkande och personlig samt professionell utveckling. Nätverkets moderorganisation är IPMA och förvaltningen sker under den nationella projektorganisationen; i detta fall Svenskt Projektforum. Idag är IPMA Young Crew aktiva i 19 länder. För att det ska lätt att kunna kommunicera med IPMA international är engelska det huvudsakliga språket i nätverket. IPMA Young Crew Sverige är ett nätverk för studenter, unga yrkesverksamma och alla som är intresserade av projektledning fram till 30 års ålder. Målet är att höja projektledningskunskapen och förbereda studenterna i Sverige för en framtida karriär inom projektledning. Genom ett aktivt nätverk, seminarier, föreläsningar och workshops samlas nätverket regelbundet på de Universitet och högskolor som har en aktiv avdelning. IPMA
The International Project Management Association (IPMA) is a non-profit, Swiss-registered organization for the promotion of project management internationally.The IPMA is a federation of more than 50 national and internationally oriented project management associations with over 120.000 members world-wide as of 2012. The association was started in 1965 in Vienna by a European group of managers, and initially established under the name “International Management Systems Association” (IMSA). It held its first international congress in Vienna in 1967, which was attended by professionals from 30 different countries. In 1979 the association was renamed to International Project Management Association. IPMA’s focus is in the development and promotion of the project management profession. It provides standards and establishes guidelines for the work of project management professionals through the IPMA Competence Baseline (ICB®). The Certification Program is delivered by National Member Associations and/or Certification Bodies in various membership countries. As of 2012 there are more than 150,000 IPMA-certified competency-based certificates worldwide, which are held by professionals from recognised businesses and organisations around the world. With its unique federation approach, IPMA is an umbrella organization for independent Member Associations from over 50 countries world-wide, each of whom represents IPMA in their respective countries. Moving Society Forward
IPMA is a Federation of over 55 Member Associations (MAs). Our MAs develop project management competencies in their geographic areas of influence, interacting with thousands of practitioners and developing relationships with corporations, government agencies, universities and colleges, as well as training organizations and consulting companies. Our Vision: IPMA is the leading authority on competent project, programme and portfolio management (PPPM). Through our efforts, PM best practice is widely known and appropriately applied at all levels of public and private sector organizations. IPMA History: IPMA is the World’s first project management association, founded in 1965. Our national associations collaborate to advance our profession’s achievements in project and business success. Evidence of our strategic vision, our prior name was INTERNET, which we changed to IPMA, International Project Management Association, in the early 1970s. How We Run IPMA. IPMA is member-driven, and volunteer-staffed. Our IPMA boards and Member Associations are filled with experienced project management practitioners. As a geographically-distributed organization, we collaborate on an ongoing basis, holding board and council meetings regularly around the World. This “collaborate globally, serve locally” approach to serving PPPM is unique to IPMA. Answers: Our Federation style of organization does raise questions. Our member-driven decentralization differs from other, top-down organizations. Our governance structure, with decision-making at the national level, is a great strength in serving local needs, while moving forward the practice of competent project and programme management. IPMA Initiatives
PMA actively promotes competence in project management for individuals, project teams, businesses, organisations and government agencies around the World. To increase the recognition and effectiveness of the profession, we:
Certify project managers in a wide range of specific roles,
Seek to highlight, improve and increase the behavioural and contextual competences of all project and programme stakeholders, a key prerequisite to initiative success,
Recognise and Award excellent and successful project teams, research projects, and individuals,,
Assess and certify the PM maturity of entire organizations,
Support basic and advanced PM education and learning,
Acknowledge and further develop the performance competence of emerging young professionals, and
Offer distinctive and useful project management publications. IPMA Growing, Moving Forward
PMA has spread from Europe to Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Australia, and North and South America. The demand for our products and services and the number of our Member Associations is steadily growing. Through IPMA, project management practitioners from all cultures and all parts of the world can network, share ideas, and move our practice and our stakeholders forward through effective collaboration and cooperation.
