Junior project managers´ training

Content: Training focuses on research project’s and project team’s management. A task is completed in pairs / small groups that is related to the development of the project activities in one’s own research institute or to the development of the combined good practices in different research institutes. The training takes four days and is held in two two-day sessions (2+2 days).

1. Research project’s management
November 7, 2025, from 9 am to 12 pm: Jussi Harmanen
• Research projects as production tools
• Management of jointly funded projects
• The role and responsibilities of the Project manager (human resource and network management perspective)
• The financial management of the research project (Tuula Pietilä, SYKE)
November 12, 2025, from 9 am to 12 pm: Jussi Harmanen
• The research project’s project cycle management part I: Research project planning and resource management
• Risks of research project and their management
• The research project’s project cycle management part II: Decision-making, monitoring and evaluation
• Selecting the development task

2. Management and Leadership in the Projects’ Team
November 19, 2025, from 9 am to 12 pm: Jussi Harmanen
• Review of the interim tasks
• Towards a common goal and an outcome as a team
• Identification of different stakeholders in research institute projects
• Research collaboration in stakeholder groups
• Lean management in research field’s service (case example)
• Conclusions of the Lean and the project management
• Project communication and media relations (Sari Aalto-Setälä)
• Communication on networks (Sari Aalto-Setälä)
Coaching approach in project work
November 26 or 28, 2025, from 9 am to 12 pm: Jaana Kalliomäki-Adan, HAUS
• Coaching approach in project work
• Project-team as a goal and result oriented working group
• Diversity in a project team – opportunities and risks
• A communication challenge – people having different cultural background
• Team dynamics an interaction
• Recap – Coaching approach in project work
• Feedback discussion and the end of a day and a program