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Training Course “Risk Management in Projects”

Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe’s Training Centre (FTU) offers a training course on Risk Management in Projects in cooperation with the European Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA). The event will take place in Karlsruhe, Germany, on 16 May 2006.

16 May 2006 - 16 May 2006
Austria
Projects contain a lot of risks. Risk areas usually are on the contractual, scheduled and financial side. Additional risks in R&D projects could be in the field of the particular science and technology involved. It is a fundamental responsibility of research managers, administrators, scientists and engineers to apply the tools of risk management and to identify, analyse, mitigate and control potential or actual risks of any projects.

The following topics will be covered:
• Definition of risk management
• Project risks: Technology, schedule, cost, contract etc.
• Risk identification: Potential, actual
• Risk analysis: Impact, quantification of damage
• Risk classification: Low, medium, high
• Risk mitigation procedures
• Risk protection: Margins, insurances etc.
• Risk monitoring and control

The course is designed for research managers and administrators, scientists, engineers, technical and administrative staff involved in projects. The aim of this course is to provide the necessary knowledge and skills of risk management required by project managers and project staff.

Further information is available at http://www.earma.org(opens in new window) or from Rudolf Woeste rudolf.woeste@ftu.fzk.de.

Date: 16 May 2006
Course fee: 345 EUR for EARMA members. The fee includes tuition, documentation, morning coffees, buffet lunches, afternoon teas and refreshment drinks. Non-EARMA members will be charged an additional EARMA Individual Membership fee of 150 EUR along with the course fee (total 495 EUR).

Venue: AAAA-Hotelwelt Kuebler, Bismarckstr. 37-43, D-76133 Karlsruhe, Germany

Rooms are available in AAAA-Hotelwelt Kübler, Karlsruhe at a special rate of 71 EUR per night (standard single, B&B) http://www.hotel-kuebler.de(opens in new window)

To book a place simply email your personal details to rudolf.woeste@ftu.fzk.de or go to http://www.fortbildung.fzk.de(opens in new window) for online booking, keyword "Risk Management".
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