The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) has opened applications for its 2025 ACTIVE Cup competition which has been running for three decades.
The high-pressure project management competition, which started in 1994 and takes place three times a year, gives teams experience of the whole project management process as they manage a simulated project through an execution phase of 28 weeks.
The industry-led skills body, which organises the competition in collaboration with Cranfield School of Management, is inviting engineering companies to submit teams for the January and March 2025 cohorts.
The January competition will take place at Cranfield University, near Milton Keynes, from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 January 2025.
The March competition will be held from Monday 3 to Wednesday 5 March 2025 at Carnoustie Golf Hotel, north of Dundee.
“The ACTIVE Cup is one of the flagship components of our project management programme to develop and nurture behavioural skills, such as collaboration, in the next generation of project managers.
“The competition gives teams experience of the whole project management process and tests the wide range of skills needed for this such as planning, cost control, negotiation, working under intense time pressure and, of course, collaborating both internally and with other teams.
“Effective delivery of projects is crucial for the engineering construction industry, particularly to support our journey to net zero.”
Andrew Hockey
ECITB CEO
ACTIVE Cup gives 'great insight'
Technip Energies, Worley, Altrad, Fluor, Subsea7, McDermott International, Wood, Saipem, Aker Solutions, Lorien Engineering Solutions, part of the NIRAS Group, Bechtel Corporation, a joint Magnox / NRS Dounreay team, Xodus, Stork and STATS (UK) Ltd all fielded teams in 2024.
Comments from previous teams include:
- “As engineers, it was a great insight into how a project works from start to finish.”
- “The ACTIVE Cup was a brilliant experience and I would encourage everyone to participate.”
- “The competition illustrates the project life cycle and how every professional can impact the schedule and cost through their daily actions and decisions.”
The ACTIVE Cup is part of the ECITB’s wider project management training programmes aimed at raising skill levels within the engineering construction industry.
Pictured: The Technip Energies team won the June 2024 ACTIVE Cup event after giving a presentation (below) it worked on over the three days (above) at Cranfield University.
To find out more or download the registration form, please visit the ACTIVE Cup webpage via the link below:
Applications for the January and March competitions close Friday 20 December 2024.
