The AEP Program
(Accredited Education Partner)

What we Know about this Market:

• Cross-corporate Project Business is the fastest growing sector of project management: Work that corporations would have done internally in the past is more and more handed out to contractors (Details).
   
• Project managers in cross-corporate projects describe themselves as under-educated (Details). 
   
• Conflicts in cross-corporate projects mostly arise from conflicting business interests of the parties involved (Details).
   
• In large cross-corporate projects, trouble mostly originates not inside the organizations involved but at the interfaces between them (Details).
   
• Project managers are poorly prepared and supported in managing cross-corporate projects on both sides, customers and contractors.

Project managers are poorly prepared and supported in managing cross-corporate projects on both sides, customers and contractors, while the challenges on them are enormous and further growing.

What the Project Business Foundation Offers You:

• License to use the Accredited Education Partner badge on your website.
   
• Access to the market of Project Business Management education as an accredited competence center
   
• License to prepare students for the free PBP certification. You will perform trainer-led classes, which include the exam at the end of the class.
   
• License to use the PBP preparation materials in your classes
   
• No investment upfront: You can start with an already certified ACE (Approved Consultant & Educator) conducting your seminars. Later, when you are prepared to do the investment, you get your own trainers certified as ACEs (Approved Consultants and Educators).
   
• The PBP certification is not open for self-directed and on-demand training. It requires participation in a trainer-led seminar conducted online or on-site.
   

What the Project Business Foundation Expects from You:

• Addition of the PBP preparation to your published seminar portfolio
   
• Active marketing of the PBP preparation to your clients
   
• Reliability in running the PBP classes, including the online examination during the last hour
   
• Active support in the further development of the Project Business Foundation as the one-stop shop for professionalism in Project Business Management.
   

The Costs:

The offer of the Project Business Foundation is free, including:

• PBP seminar material
• PBP certification
• ACE trainer certification, if desired (Details)

The cost factors are:

1. The trainer fee
   – if you use external ACE-certified trainers,
   or alternatively
2. The assessor’s fee
   – if you go for ACE certification of your inhouse trainers.

The Process:

Becoming an AEP is simple:

• Contact us at [email protected] or use the Contact Form.
   
• We will send you an agreement for signature by both sides along the rules above.
   
• Then, you have two options:
    
  1. Schedule PBP classes to be conducted by our ACE-certified trainers working for you as your contractors.
      
  2. Get your own trainer(s) ACE-certified and perform seminars with them.

You may begin with the 1st option and change to the 2nd when you are prepared to invest in your in-house trainers.