Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2025-26

The subject of Design and Management of International Business Projects is taught in the third year of the Degree in International Relations, as a compulsory subject. This discipline aims to train and qualify the student in the different methodologies for project management that are currently used as guidelines or standards in international environments, as well as their related techniques and technologies and familiarization with their common vocabulary.
A major challenge for organizations today is to maintain the balance between their business operations and business transformation in order to survive and compete in a dynamic and complex environment. Projects are the environment through which change can be introduced, and while many of the competencies required are similar to managing operations, there are crucially important differences between managing business as usual and managing the work of a project.
Project management focuses on the planning, delegation, monitoring and control of all aspects of the project, including the motivation of those involved to achieve the project objectives within the expected performance goals of duration, cost, quality, scope, benefits and risks.
The responsibility and competencies to carry out the project management, falls on the figure of the Project Manager, who develops the planning and integration of all the indispensable aspects for the successful completion of the project.
Project management is a discipline of growing interest for companies around the world, which has been updated in recent years thanks to the contributions of technological organizations with the emergence of agile models for project management. This new paradigm has evolved into hybrid frameworks between traditional techniques and these new approaches, all of which are addressed in the course.

 

 

Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2025-26

Transversal Competences

  • CT1 : Capacitats informàtiques i informacionales
  • CT2 : Ser capaç de comunicar-se correctament tant de forma oral com a escrita
  • CT3 : Capacitat d'anàlisi i síntesi
  • CT4 : Capacidad de organización y planificación

 

General Competences

  • CG4 : Obtenir i gestionar la informació relativa a l'àmbit de les relacions internacionals
  • CG5 : Liderar, organitzar i gestionar equips de treball en contextos internacionals
  • CG6 : Saber expressar-se oralment de forma correcta sobre temes internacionals
  • CG7 : Adquirir la capacitat d'aprenentatge autònom

 

Specific Competences

  • CE13 : Conèixer el paper que les empreses multinacionals exerceixen en les organitzacions internacionals i en les relacions internacionals en general.
  • CE20 : Identificar els principis ètics que regeixen les relacions internacionals.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2025-26

- To know and apply the standards for the international projects management
- To develop the leadership skills and competencies of the 'International Project Manager'.
- To manage the techniques and technology associated with Project Management.
- To become familiar with and use the common vocabulary -necessarily in English- of the discipline

 

 

General

Code: 28225
Lecturer responsible:
Rienda García, Laura
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,20
Practical credits: 1,20
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: Company Organisation
    Area: COMPANY ORGANISATION
    Theoretical credits: 1,2
    Practical credits: 1,2
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught