Proficiency in project management

Programme Overview

The 'Proficiency in project management' option offers an in-depth course in project management, with a view to working on large-scale projects or programs, or as a junior project manager, or even as a supervisor and then project director.
 

Training objectives:

• Manage or direct projects or programmes,
• Understand project governance and roles,
• Plan a project, evaluate workloads, allocate work and monitor progress,
• Finance a project or program and monitor the budget,
• Manage risks,
• Manage people and communicate on a company-wide basis,
• Analyze the existing situation, have needs articulated, define a target and share a trajectory,
• Share a vision,
• Lead, motivate and support a project team,
• Correct unprofessional behavior, manage conflict,
• Manage change,
• Draw up a master plan

 

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Admission

International students can follow this option, taught in French, via:
 

• A double degree programme - Open to international students selected by our partner institutions. Selected students spend two years studying courses from the engineering programme at Centrale Nantes. This usually includes one year of the common-core engineering curriculum followed by one year of specialisation. Double degree students are typically accepted after successfully completing two or three years of higher education in their home institution.
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• The fast-track engineering programme: Open to students with a Bachelor's or equivalent degree in science. Our fast-track programme gives international students who are qualified to bachelor level the opportunity to gain the 'diplôme d'ingénieur' in just two years.
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Course Content

Academic Year 2024 / 2025

 

Autumn Semester	Spring Semester
Core skills consolidation	Programme and project management (PMO)
Advanced project management	Leading a project

 

• Part 1 (32 hours): Core skills consolidation
• Part 2 (32 hours): Advanced project management
• Part 3 (32 hours): Programme and project management (PMO)
• Part 4 (34 hours): Leading a project

 

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Student Feedback

Video of Camille, a student in the Proficiency in project management specialisation (video in French with English subtitles)

Video transcript

Pitch your specialisation : Camille, specialisation Proficiency in project management

Hello, my name is Camille Lucas, I'm 23 and I'm doing a double degree in architecture and engineering. I've already spent 4 years at the Nantes School of Architecture. Now I'm at Centrale Nantes, currently in the third year and following the Proficiency in project management option.

20 seconds to pitch your specialisation :

The Proficiency in project management option involves piloting and monitoring a project for a client. This year, we're working on a project for Nantes University Hospital. The idea is to find a governance structure, a scope and to manage a team throughout the year, as a team. 

3 reasons to choose this specialisation:

It's an opportunity to get a solid grounding in project management, so as to be able to work later as a project manager, or project director. Also, to carry out a real project for a client, a project that really comes to fruition, and so, to have added value in one's career. And at the same time, to be able to work as part of a team, to form sub-teams and to learn within the sub-team how to manage a team.

Why Centrale Nantes?

Centrale Nantes is the partner school for my double degree with Nantes School of Architecture, so I joined Centrale Nantes directly. For me, the double degree was particularly interesting in terms of my career path, as it gives me the opportunity to learn more about building structures, thermal engineering and acoustics. 

What's next?

At the end of the year, I'll be doing a final year internship via the architecture school. And next year I'll be finishing my course at the architecture school, after which I'd like to be a project manager in a firm of architects.