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IPMA ITALY Journal of Applied Project Management
Volume 1 no. 2 (July 2015)

Fulvia Project Management
Verzegnassi
in European
IPMA Level C –
Thales Alenia Commission (FP7): an
Space Italia
Industrial Experience

The management of a European Commission Project is
not limited to the monitoring and control of the technical
Team’s work in terms of quality, costs and duration, but it
is required the active and valuable participation to the
final project’s results in terms of impacts on the long term
scenario of industrial strategy. In this paper the
specificities of the management competences mostly
involved in this kind of projects devoted to the fulfilment
of the interested stakeholders are analyzed. One of the
main characteristics of the industrial projects in European
Commission framework is demonstration of the technical
research and innovation contributing to
completing/building market products of the future, in line
with the industrial core business and strategy. The
quantifiable results of the industrial research must be
measurable with the long term economic growth of the
Company and then must be inserted into the overall
industrial strategy and roadmaps of business. In this view it
must be highlight that often the final research’s projects
performances cannot be compared with the same
parameters of other commercial project’s outcomes,
being the research a cross cutting activity applying to
different internal developments of products with different
impacts.
After a brief introduction of the environment in which the
projects are issued, this paper overviews the specificities
of the EC projects, the methodologies applicable to the
different phases of the projects from the preparation of
the proposal, the negotiation with the Commission and
within the Consortium and, finally, the management of
the project. The “industrial validating results” that are
recognized have the main impacts on the stakeholders at
all the levels are also reported. The risks and opportunities
analysis that the Project Manager should deal with, are
also reminded.

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