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• Project Fundamentals Programs (PF) 
• Project Leadership Experience (PLE)
• Project Professional Programs (PP)
• Project Executive Program (PE)

Project Academy mission
To develop a community of project executives, professionals and leaders that consistently delivers extraordinary short and long term project results in both national and international settings.

Project Academy Goals

• Develop current and next generation world class project executives and project professionals
• Create a step change in the effective and reliable delivery of major projects
• Enhance the skill and abilities of the project leadership community
• Improve connectivity in the global project community
• Maintain a strong Statoil profile in the academy programmes and collaborate with world class academic institutions

The teaching is given as courses and programmes at different levels and in association with academic institutions in Norway as well as abroad. Statoil has cooperated with a number of universities in Norway and other countries for many years regarding Project Management programmes.

The following quote from The Wall Street Journal highlights the Project Executive program::

"Some long-term custom programs reach beyond the business school and draw in professors from other parts of the university. StatoilHydro ASA (now Statoil ASA) , the Norwegian oil company, has formed a partnership with the University of California at Berkeley for a one-year interdisciplinary program to prepare managers for projects in Africa, the Middle East and other parts of the world. In addition to business-school professors, the StatoilHydro program brings in experts in engineering, international studies, sociology and psychology to teach classes that participants attend for one week each quarter. Statoil's own executives also teach in some classes, and a StatoilHydro representative is even stationed at Berkeley to work regularly with the school's administrators and professors...

We're helping prepare StatoilHydro's people for managing in uncertainty, communicating in cross-cultural environments and understanding the sociopolitical history of other regions of the world," says Whitney Hischier, assistant dean of the Center for Executive Development at Berkeley's Haas School of Business. "We have also brought in psychology professors who study microfacial expressions and show how style and physical appearance affect power and negotiations."
(Wall Street Journal, September 2007)

Candidates are to be nominated through the People@Statoil process.