APM’s Project Management Challenge: Empowering future Project Managers

The challenge aims to nurture the next generation of project management professionals by giving entrants the opportunity to experience a full project lifecycle from conception to delivery, with the support of an experienced mentor. It encourages corporate apprentices, graduates with fewer than three years’ experience, and higher education students to develop their project management skills by delivering a project using APM’s theoretical frameworks and project competencies to guide their approach.

Last year’s finals night included presentations from SIX teams, who presented their projects to a room of peers and judges. Team Summit from Jacobs were crowned the winner on the night. Coming together back in October 2023, Team Summit quickly found a collective vision of delivering a fundraising event for Men’s metal health charity ANDYSMANCLUB. Combining their love for live music and the need to raise awareness for men’s mental health, Team Summit successfully made use of the APM’s £150 funding to deliver a Charity Concert in Manchester city centre with 177 attendees raising £3022 for ANDYSMANCLUB. The endeavor did not come without it’s challenges, risks and last minute disasters. But, despite this Team Summit are grateful for the opportunity and incredibly proud of the outcome.

This year, the APM Project Management Challenge will be featured as a category at the APM Project Management Awards, taking place on 18 November at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, London. Teams who won at regional level were shortlisted to participate with the winner to be announced on the night.

Could you be part of this year’s winning team?

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