On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Project Management Institute (PMI), members and volunteers of its Luxembourg chapter will be joining the institute's Global Celebration of Service initiative supporting the United Nations’ mission to align its strategies with the principles of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption and to take actions that advance societal goals.
This year, PMI is celebrating the progress the profession of project management has made since its official acknowledgment in 1969. Over the course of the past 50 years, the landscape of PMI has dramatically changed, having evolved from a local initiative founded at the Georgia Institute of Technology in US into a worldwide institute that serves more than 2.9 million professionals, including over 500,000 members in 208 countries and territories around the world. The institute also has 300 chapters (including the one in Luxembourg) and 10,000 volunteers in over 80 countries.
The activities of PMI consist in consolidating standards and providing official accreditation in project management, boosting research and education, but also in offering networking opportunities for members in local chapters and promoting advancements in the profession by hosting conferences and training seminars.
To promote the idea of building trust in the profession through the desire to be of service to others, Luxembourg Chapter is celebrating this anniversary in a unique way: by cooperating with Sportunity, a local NGO that supports refugees’ integration into Luxembourgish society through sport activities. PMI members, turning into Local Buddies, are getting ready to jump and run to help vulnerable members of the local community to regain a feeling of belonging. This forms part of a shared vision to make a positive impact, fuel social change and promote project management as the profession of future.
The results of the initiative along with the 50 years anniversary of the Institute will be celebrated later this coming December at an event envisioned to signal a future with more project management impact to businesses and society.
