Course Overview
This course takes you through the entire life cycle of a wind-energy project — from the first site scan to the moment the blades begin to turn. Whether you are an engineering student, a young professional entering the renewables sector, or a practitioner looking to formalise your project-management skills, you will leave with a toolkit you can use on Day 1.
Course Highlights
The course opens with the language of project management: definitions, the triple constraint, SMART goals, Work Breakdown Structures and the five-phase project life cycle. You will then move into planning — feasibility assessment, key financial indicators, and a structured approach to risk analysis using probability-impact matrices and mitigation strategies. Scheduling techniques follow: Gantt charts, PERT estimation, Critical Path Method and float calculations. The final modules cover execution, resource management, cost and schedule control, stakeholder engagement, reporting and project closure.
MAIN GOAL
Project management courses are everywhere. This one is built specifically for wind energy — so you will not just learn what a critical path is, but why blade delivery and crane mobilisation sit on it almost every time. Safety is treated as a design discipline, not a compliance checkbox: dedicated sections cover onshore and offshore OHS hazards and the real trade-offs managers face when schedules slip. Digital skills run throughout, from GIS and wind-resource software in the early phases to scheduling tools and project dashboards at the end.
Learning Outcomes
After completion of this course, you will gain the ability to:
- + Become comfortable with the language of project management: definitions, the triple constraint, SMART goals, Work Breakdown Structures and the five-phase project life cycle.
- + Employing techniques such as feasibility assessment, key financial indicators, and a structured approach to risk analysis using probability-impact matrices and mitigation strategies as apply to project planning
- + Understand how to use Gantt charts, PERT estimation, Critical Path Method and float calculations. The final modules cover execution, resource management, cost and schedule control, stakeholder engagement, reporting and project closure.
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Entry Requirements
- + All you need is curiosity — and a willingness to think like the person who keeps a hundred-million-euro project on track.
Teaching and Assessment Methods
- + The backbone of the course is a series of focused video lectures — each around 3–5 minutes long — covering key terms, project planning stages, teamwork, stakeholder management, resource management, controlling and monitoring, and reporting and evaluation.
- + Interactive e-lessons let you apply what you have just watched: dragging activities onto timelines, setting Go/No-Go sliders for candidate sites, building risk registers, and placing risks on heat maps.
- + Practical exercises give you hands-on experience with budgeting, scheduling calculations and project data analysis — skills you can transfer directly to your own projects.
- + Quizzes after each module confirm your progress, and reflection prompts encourage you to think like a working project manager.
Application Deadline: TBC.
Practical Notes
- + The course is fully asynchronous and self-paced, designed to fit around work or study.
Fees & Funding
Tuition Fees
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Course Info
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