The Office for Research and Project Management is an administrative unit of the UO, established to organise and coordinate all activities related to the preparation and implementation of scientific, teaching and investment projects at the University. The Office, fulfilling the function of PMO (Project Management Office), provides administrative support to project applicants and managers, and supervises work on the correct submission and settlement of applications for external funding.

The organisation of the work of the Office and cooperation with other organisational units of the University is based on process management. That is, all activities are reflected in prepared process flows, with the roles, activities and relationships of all process participants described. Such an approach allows tasks and responsibilities to be transparently defined during development and implementation of projects, with the aim of eliminating bottlenecks and thus reducing the duration of the entire process and improving communication.

The Office’s tasks include:

• Standardisation of processes related to the preparation, launch, implementation
  and correct settlement of projects;
  Periodic verification of the University’s project needs in order to determine the direction of the Office’s actions;
• Collaborating with the University Centre for Knowledge and Technology Transfer in initiating projects, finding partners for their implementation, as well as commercialising the results of the projects carried out;
• Initiating any actions aimed at obtaining external funds and launching projects;
• Active cooperation with University staff in the preparation of project documentation,
• Monitoring the progress of projects and supervising project teams within the scope of the Office’s competence;
• Administrative and financial handling of ongoing projects and cooperation with other University units in this regard;
• Coordination of actions related to project control;
• Implementation of actions related to student and staff mobility within the framework of international agreements and international educational and scholarship programmes, as well as within the framework of individual mobility agreements;
• Maintaining an electronic project list – Project Database.