Montréal - The École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP) and Polytechnique Montréal are pleased to announce the creation of a new graduate diploma, a DESS in the Management of Systems and Complex Projects for Public Interest.

This 30-credit program has been designed for those who work the interface between public administration and engineering firms, and who wish to understand the social, economic, technological, organizational, political, and ethical issues related to projects that are technically intensive and fit into an optic of public interest.

The program will equip students to:

• understand the logic of political decisions and the management of complex systems and projects for public interest;
• Make quality decisions and manage the risks of such systems and complex projects;
• Choose the institutional agreements that make it possible to integrate, throughout the process, civil society’s various stakeholders - going beyond typical central stakeholders such as governments and engineering firms.

ENAP President Guy Laforest is enthusiastic about this first fruitful collaboration with Polytechnique Montréal. "This new joint DESS with Polytechnique Montreal comes at exactly the right time, as public interest projects multiply and become more complex both here and globally. By joining forces, we will equip those who wish to be a part of tomorrow’s exciting challenges of managing public initiatives that will shape the future world as we know it,” notes Mr. Laforest.

Philippe A. Tanguy, Polytechnique Montréal’s President, commented: "Public administration and engineering are complementary fields that benefit from being taught together. An engineer working for an engineering consulting firm who responds to a call for tenders to build a hospital, has a definite interest in mastering the functioning and processes of public decision-making, regulatory environments, and public governance practices. Likewise, a lawyer employed by a ministry who drafts a call for tenders for a project with a great deal of technological content, must themselves understand the language of engineers and the technical and economic constraints of production. The management of complex systems and projects for public interest requires excellent skills in both spheres of specialization, hence the interest in and scope of this joint program, which is unparalleled in Québec.”

Interested potential students can send their application for program admission as of immediately, to either institution. The program will be offered as of Autumn 2021.

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