The challenge is open to corporate graduates, apprentices or trainees who have less than three years of experience in a project role, or students who are undertaking study during the period in which the competition runs. If you meet these criteria, talk to your peers or colleagues to form a team and submit your entry form.

No. The Project Management Challenge is designed to support aspiring and early-career project professionals in developing their skills, so it is open to anyone who meets the eligibility criteria, whether or not they are an APM member.

Enter Project Management Challenge if you want to improve your project management skills, increase your profile within the project community and experience a full project lifecycle, whilst supporting a cause that benefits society.

If you have already identified a team of participants for the competition, please complete and submit the entry form naming your team’s participants. Please return your completed form to the email address provided.

As teams plan their own resourcing, this is largely dependent on the scope of their project and their role. As an estimate, previous participants advised that they spent around 2-3 hours a week once they reach the project delivery phase.

Teams develop an idea for a project before creating and submitting a project proposal to a judging panel. Teams are encouraged to deliver a project which will provide social benefit. If the judges approve the project, teams will go on to deliver the initiative under the guidance of a mentor.

If you miss a submission deadline, you can still submit your entry; however, late submission penalties will be applied. Teams are encouraged to submit by the published deadlines wherever possible to avoid any impact on their overall score.

As part of the challenge, the project sponsor should be  a senior representative from the organisation or HEI who endorses the team's participation in the competition. The sponsor confirms that the organisation supports the entry, that appropriate approvals and resource commitments are in place, and that the team has permission to represent the organisation throughout the competition. Sponsors should be identified before entry submission and are encouraged to review the team's final report.

If your project progresses to the delivery phase, APM will reimburse finalists for money spent, up to a maximum of £150 per team. Spending will be retrospectively reimbursed through APM’s expense claim process and should be accompanied by full receipts for each claim.

Networks taking part this year are:

• London Network
• Midlands Network
• North East Network
• North West Network
• Scotland Network
• South Wales and West of England Network
• Thames Valley Network
• Wessex Network
• Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire Network

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