#184 Dressing Up Project Managers - The PM Agora Initiative
In this episode of The Grant Podcast, I sit down with three inspiring guests - Christina Achilleos (Founder & Director, InnoEUsphere), Alessandro Carbone (Owner, T-Hap), and Andreas Stefanidis (President, Academy of Entrepreneurship & Educational Association of Athens) - to talk about PM Agora, a grassroots initiative created by and for EU project managers. PM Agora isn’t funded. It’s not tied to an institution. It’s a voluntary community that exists because these three persons saw the need to connect, support each other, and improve how we manage EU projects in practice.
They share how PM Agora grew from a common interest and care for EU project managers into a structured initiative that gathers and facilitates in-depth exchange and knowledge-sharing. From templates and training to safe spaces for open discussion, the initiative is redefining how professional development can happen in the project world - especially in regions where institutional support is limited or missing entirely. We dig into the upcoming event in October, how it is structured and what is the added value.
Time codes:
00:01:58 Introduction
00:04:20 Fly in
00:06:43 Motivation and background
00:13:56 The initiative in a nutshell
00:21:22 What happens at PM Agora?
00:43:03 Why this matters now
01:00:06 Reflections, future vision and call to action
01:04:52 The toughest challenge