IRMGR42318 Project Development and Funding (Autumn 2025)
Facts about the course
- ECTS Credits:
- 10
- Responsible faculty:
- Faculty of Computer Sciences, Engineering and Economics
- Campus:
- Fredrikstad.
- Course Leader:
- Bjørn Gitle Hauge
- Teaching language:
- The language during the lecture will be English. Basic Norwegian language is recommended regarding the Norwegian funding programmes.
- Duration:
- ½ year
Table of contents
The course is affiliated to the following study programme
Recommended previous knowledge
Teaching semester
Content
The course will provide the students with an overview of different sources of project funding, and how different applications are evaluated.
The students will learn how to write an application for project funding, working on real cases. The application can be written for an external industrial or public partner or for a project where ØUC is the main applicant. Applications that are considered to have high quality might be submitted as an actual application.
The student's learning outcomes on passing the course
Knowledge
The student
- has knowledge of different funding sources
- has knowledge of evaluation of different funding applications
- has knowledge of the bureaucratic hierarchy that governs funding programs
- can analyse the political processes connected to various funding sources.
Skills
The student
- knows how to budget a project for funding purposes
- knows how to get political support for funding
- knows how to conduct a funding process towards success.
General competence
The student
- can conduct an interdisciplinary project funding process
- can understand the political basis for different governmental funding programs
- is able to write an application for project funding.
Teaching and learning methods
The course will be taught as a combination of lectures, seminars and project work.
The students learn about various sources of project funding, practice on evaluating funding applications, and write an application for external funding in interdisciplinary teams.
It is expected that the student will perform extended self-study regarding the funding programmes.
Workload
Coursework requirements - conditions for taking the exam
- Attendance at minimum 75% of seminars/external assignments.
- A minimum of 4 written project submissions and oral presentations must be approved (group work).
The required coursework is assessed as approved / not approved.
Exam
This exam consists of two components:
- Funding application - project plan (group work). A preliminary grade will be awarded on the basis of this report. Groups of 1-10 students.
- Group oral examination. Duration: approx. 20 min. The oral examination may adjust the preliminary grade maximum two grades up or down. Except the presentation, no supporting materials are allowed.
A final, individual grade will be awarded after the oral examination.
The funding application - project plan has to be evaluated as passed before the oral examination.
Grading scale: A-F.
Examiners
Conditions for resit/rescheduled exams
If the funding application is graded as failed, the group will be given one more chance to improve the application.
If the group fails the oral examination, a re-take of the oral exam will be arranged in the following semester.