EDEN Doctoral Seminar on Project Management begins with interesting first day at ESC Lille in France

The "Special EDEN Doctoral Seminar on Perspectives on Projects" for the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) began on 17 August 2009 at the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Lille (ESC Lille) campus in Lille, France. The EDEN seminar is being held in conjunction with the 9^th Annual ESC Lille Doctoral Seminar hosted by the Lille School of Management Research Center (LSMRC) in ESC Lille's School of Management. ESC Lille is located in Lille, the major metropolis of the North of France, near the Belgium border, between Paris and London.

The August 2009 Doctoral Seminar has two main aims: (1) to provide a forum for doctoral students in project management from Europe and around the world where they can share experiences and exchange information related to theoretical paradigms, research and literature in project management; and (2) to introduce doctoral students in project management to the system of classification of projects developed by professors Lynn Crawford, Brian Hobbs and Rodney Turner.

According to Jim Joiner, Director of the Graduate Program in Project Management at the University of Texas at Dallas, who is a guest at this year's seminar in Lille, "After a warm welcome by Christophe Bredillet, Day One of this year's Doctoral Seminar began with presentations on Application areas in practice and Life-cycle Practice by Graham Winch. These presentations were followed by 8 doctoral student presentations on the status of their dissertations. Prior to the last activity, presentation of the dissertation of Azad Chalikuzhi, Shankar Sankaran gave a presentation on ROMAC-A HUMANITARIAN SOCIO CULTURALY COMPLEX PROJECT FOR HOPE AND DIGNITY FOR THE FUTURE."

According to Prof. Christophe Bredillet, PhD, D.Sc., Dean for Postgraduate Programmes at ESC Lille (pictured), "We are happy that our 9th International Workshop in Project and Programme Management also includes the EDEN Special Doctoral Seminar. We have again brought world leaders from the project management field together for this seminar, a tremendous opportunity for the doctoral students. Today was a good start."

Faculty for the August 2009 EDEN Doctoral Seminar - Perspectives on Projects: Project Attributes include Prof. Christophe N. Bredillet, ESC Lille School of Management, Lille (France); Prof. Rodney Turner, ESC Lille School of Management, Lille (France); Prof. Lynn Crawford, ESC Lille School of Management, Lille (France) & Bond University, Brisbane (Australia); Prof. Ralf Muller, Umea University (Sweden); Dr. Martina Huemann, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Austria); Dr. Phillipe Ruiz, ESC Lille School of Management, Lille (France); and Dr. Frank T. Anbari, The George Washington University (USA).

Other guests this year include Dr. Edwin Andrews, James Joiner, Dov Dvir, Hiroshi Tanaka, Aaron Shenhar, Georg Gemunden, David Lowe, Xue Yan, Ed Hoffman, Tony Maturo, Miles Shepherd, and Liz Lee-Kelley, among others (including current and former graduate students).


EIASM involves not only the best doctoral students and their supervisors, but also their institutions. Through the creation of EDEN, EIASM contributes to the most critical phases in a scholar's life - his/her introduction to and early growth on the academic market. The EDEN program includes an integrated set of doctoral seminars to bring participants into systematic interaction for comparing approaches and cross-examining research work. The EDEN doctoral seminars are at alternating locations to establish linkages with leading European Business Schools. Since June 1988, over 2000 doctoral students from all over Europe have become EDEN Fellows and 238 professors have acted as EDEN faculty members. More information can be found at http://www.eiasm.org/r/about-eiasm.

Founded in 1892, Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Lille - ESC Lille - is one of the oldest business schools in France, with campuses in Lille and Paris. It was the first institution outside North America to receive GACPM accreditation by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and the first outside the UK to receive the Association for Project Management (APM) academic accreditation. The project management program at ESC Lille was inaugurated in 1979. ESC Lille offers postgraduate programs in project management: two masters in project & program management (one taught in English, the other in French); a MBA in Strategy, Program & Project Management (English); and a PhD in Strategy, Program & Project Management (English). ESC Lille research activities in project & program management are grouped together into the Lille School of Management Research Center. Additional information can be found at www.esc-lille.eu.