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BP extends support for project management school

5 March 2014 17:04 (UTC+04:00)
BP extends support for project management school

By Aynur Jafarova

BP and its co-ventures in the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan, Shah Deniz, and South Caucasus Pipeline projects have extended their support for the School of Project Management (SPM) until November 2015.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on extension of the initiative was signed on March 5 by BP's Regional President for Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey Gordon Birrell at Azerbaijan's Khazar University.

Addressing the event, Birrell said the decision to extend the cooperation is based on the success that BP and its business partners have seen over the past three years of the School's existence.

"We are pleased that the globally-recognized, comprehensive project management training curriculum and international project management standards offered by the SPM have been fully translated and are available in the Azerbaijani language along with English. This means that now non-English speaking national managers also have direct access to the trainings and this is very important in the local environment," he said.

SPM was established by BP and its co-ventures in 2011. The objective of the initiative is to help improve the local project management performance and establish a long term project management capability in the country.

The curriculum of the school leads to two globally-recognized certifications, in particular the Masters Certificate in Project Management, awarded by the George Washington University (GWU), and the PM Professional certificate, awarded by the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Since its start in 2011, SPM has trained over 300 specialists representing 98 private and public sector organizations. Of the graduates, 129 have been qualified for Masters and 192 for Associates Certificates by the George Washington University.

The project is implemented by ESI International - a leading project management training and solutions company, in collaboration with the Khazar University.

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