About

The Methodologies Office is part of the Directorate-General for Digital Services of the European Commission. Its purpose is to develop, support and promote a suite of methodologies for the European Commission, which also available to all EU institutions, bodies and agencies. In addition, the Methodologies Office maintains a training and certification programme, exclusively available to EU staff, and manages EU Institutions-wide Communities of Practice for the exchange of good methodology practices.

The Methodologies Office also promotes PM² externally. The PM² methodologies, which include PM² Project Management, PM²-Agile, PM² Programme Management, and PM² Portfolio Management, are open to all via a CC licence.

The Methodologies Office also develops and maintains open e-learning courses which are available via the EU Academy. It also promotes the PM² Methodologies to external stakeholders such as Member States, public administrations, EU Funded Programmes, and others.

All the external activities of the Methodologies Office are grouped under the Open PM² Initiative which is funded by Digital Europe Programme.

* The Centre of Excellence in PM² (CoEPM²) is now part of the Methodologies Office.

For the European Institutions and Agencies:

• Training and Certification programmes
• Consultancy Services
• Community of Practice events

Externally: 

• PM² publications available from the Publications Office of the European Union: PM², PM²-Agile, PM²-Programme Management and PM²-Portfolio Management
• e-Learning modules on PM² and PM²-Agile Essentials via the EU Academy
• Promotes the use of PM² as a European and Open Project Management Methodology