This Courseware is suited for the PRINCE2® 2017 Edition Foundation exam.

Why take a PRINCE2® course?

There are six variables that present in every project. These variables need to be managed accordingly. The six variables are:

- Money

- Time

- Quality

- Scope

- Risks

- Benefits

PRINCE2® is an integrated framework of processes and themes that will provide handles for planning, delegating, supervising and maintaining the six aspects of project performance.

By using examples and assignments...

More than once we can be amazed by the scientific wealth

of ancient Egyptian culture. Regardless of whether it concerns

architecture,astronomy,mathematics, geometry, natural sciences,

medicine and healing, agriculture, chemistry, martial arts or philosophy.

Egypt and not Greece is rightfully the cradle of our European culture.

All the great Greek scientists did spend years and years of training

in the famous Universities of that time throughout Egypt.

Among them was Plato, Socrates, Aristot...

In many countries regional and local authorities are given more powers in the field of social security. Supposedly, this is a general trend taking place throughout the developed world and beyond. In this volume the processes of devolution and decentralisation in social security are researched from a comparative European perspective, taking into account the constitutional setting and the architecture of the social security systems. The book includes thirteen country studies based on a uniform ...

The first half of the twentieth century witnessed the rise of modernist architects. Brokers of Modernity reveals how East Central Europe turned into one of the pre-eminent testing grounds of the new belief system of modernism. By combining the internationalism of the CIAM organization and the modernising aspirations of the new states built after 1918, the reach of modernist architects extended far beyond their established fields. Yet, these architects paid a price when Europe’s age of extre...

The award of public contracts has to comply with among others the principle proportionality. In many instances during the tender procedure the contracting authorities has to pay particular attention to the principle of proportionality. Think of the following topics: suitability requirements, requirements relating to financial and economic strength, requirements relating to technical and professional skill, selection criteria, requirements for consortiums and the award criteria.

For many civil...

By using Amsterdam as a living laboratory, graduate students, researchers and teachers of the architectural design chair of Complex Projects at the Department of Architecture at TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment have been interested in seeing how ‘growth’ and rapid ‘changes’ – growth of numbers of inhabitants and tourists, and change of energy, mobility, health and leisure concepts - will affect the City of Amsterdam on a time horizon 2050. How can innovatio...