IRMGR42318 Project Development and Funding (Autumn 2023)
Facts about the course
- ECTS Credits:
- 10
- Responsible department:
- Faculty of Computer Science, Engineering and Economics
- Campus:
- Fredrikstad.
- Course Leader:
- Bjørn Gitle Hauge
- Teaching language:
- English.
- Duration:
- ½ year
The course is connected to the following study programs
Master in Green Energy Technology (Elective).
Recommended requirements
Basic knowledge of Project Management.
Lecture Semester
Third semester (autumn).
The student's learning outcomes after completing the course
Knowledge:
The student
has knowledge of different funding sources
has knowledge of evaluation of different funding applications
has knowledge of the bureaucratic hierarchy that governs funding programs
can analyze the political processes connected to various funding sources.
Skills:
The student
knows how to budget a project for funding purposes
knows how to get political support for funding
knows how to conduct a funding process towards success.
General competence:
The student
can conduct an interdisciplinary project funding process
can understand the political basis for different governmental funding programs
is able to write an application for project funding.
Content
The course will provide the students with an overview of different sources of project funding, and how different applications are evaluated.
The students will learn how to write an application for project funding, practicing on real cases. The application can be written for an external industrial or public partner or for a project where HiØ is the main applicant. Applications that are considered to have high quality might be submitted as an actual application.
Forms of teaching and learning
The course will be taught as a combination of lectures, seminars and project work.
The students learn about various sources of project funding, practice on evaluating funding applications, and write an application for external funding in interdisciplinary teams.
Workload
250-300 hours.
Coursework requirements - conditions for taking the exam
Attendance at minimum 75% of seminars/external assignments
A minimum of 4 written project submissions and oral presentations must be approved (group work).
Examination
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Funding application - project plan (group work). A preliminary grade will be awarded on the basis of this report
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Group oral examination, which may adjust the preliminary grade maximum two grades up or down. A final, individual grade will be awarded after the oral examination
The funding application - project plan has to be evaluated as passed before the oral examination.
Grades from A to F, where A is the best grade, E is the lowest passed grade, and F is failed.
Examiners
One internal and one external examiner.
Conditions for resit/rescheduled exams
If the funding application is graded as failed, the student will be given one more chance to improve the application.
If the student fails the oral examination, the student will have to prepare a new individual funding application, which must be evaluated as passed in order to re-take the oral exam.
A re-take of the oral exam will be arranged in January or February the following semester, providing students sufficient time to prepare a new funding application.
Course evaluation
The course will be evaluated by a standardized electronic form.