European grant for writing manuels on management
The Department of Engineering at Reykjavík University, the University of Technology in Warsaw, the University of Technology in Darmstadt, GEBZE in Turkey, and Studi de Ferrara in Italy, recently received an Erasmus+ European grant of 400,000 Euros. The grant is awarded for writing manuals on management for the construction industry. 
The project is called CLOEMC VI and is related to the EU Dir 89/48/EWG on regulated professions in respect of recognition, promotion, and certification of qualifications by international associations and organization – from construction.
RU‘s role in the project is interesting, as Þórður Víkingur Friðgeirsson, Haukur Ingi Jónasson, and Helgi Þór Ingason, will write about project-based business life, risk management, and leadership skills, among other things. These topics fit well with the trio's research focus.
Below is a description of the project.
The project's main task is to improve the Directive's ideas, which will create a proper EU system of comparison, certification, and mutual recognition of managerial qualifications in construction. Profile of construction managers' education, responsible for cooperation in the construction field in the EU, developed differently in different countries. The project is the continuation of LdV.
Construction Managers' Library's (CML) appearance on the European market, containing an extended compendium of innovative managerial knowledge in construction, will promote social dialogue concerning the adjustment of education profile for the labor market needs. To decrease unemployment and increase managerial knowledge in construction, there is a need to educate people with qualifications and competence to run a business, which will increase employment.
Therefore, after the project's completion, it is planned to improve postgraduate complementary courses in management, which will allow certification and assure recognition of competence according to agreed European policy concerning the promotion of transparency of qualification (EuroPass) in the form of the title EurBE (European Building Expert). So far, the 32 manuals (created in CLOEMC I – V phases) have been used for establishing didactic content of courses accredited by such esteemed organizations like RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) or IPMA (International Project Management Association). For all manuals, look at the project website
