The Wideman Education Foundation (WEF) is an autonomous registered charity created to promote sound project management principles and skills, especially among young people.
WEF sees this as a way of improving people’s capability and value – not just in the workplace, but in all their endeavors, and throughout their lives.
Our Mission is to teach, develop, promote and encourage the use of proven, successful project management skills that are needed every day by everyone.
The Latest News
2013 Wideman Prize for Project Management Excellence – April 27th
The finals for the Wideman Prize were held at Simon Fraser University (SFU) Surrey campus on Saturday 27th April 2013. What a day! High energy, high expectations and a lot of fun! Students from SFU and UBC gathered to show their projects and demonstrate their skill, with the “Gateway Innovations” team from SFU emerging as winners. Read more:
2012 4th Annual Career Speaker Event – Nov. 28th
WEF held its 4th annual Career/Speaker Event at SFU Surrey on Nov 28, 2012. With a theme of “STEP UP TO OPPORTUNITY”, this event provided an opportunity for high school students to come to SFU to learn about project management and to see how these skills can be of practical benefit today, tomorrow, and in the future. The event was a great success, with 49 students in attendance and very positive feedback from many of them.
2012 2nd Annual Wideman Prize
The Wideman Education Foundation is pleased to announce that team “Don’t Hate Just Dance” from the Simon Fraser University Surrey campus was the winner of the 2012 Wideman Prize competition held on April 28th 2012. Press release to follow…
2011 3rd Annual Career Speaker Event – Nov. 22nd
The Wideman Education Foundation proudly presented its 3rd annual Project Management Career Speaker Event at SFU on Nov 22nd, 2011. The theme of the event was “What’s Cool about Project Management’. Read More…..
2011 Wideman Prize Awarded
The finals and award ceremony for the 2011 Wideman Prize competition were held on the 14th of May 2011, at the Simon Fraser University, Surrey Campus. Congratulations to Project Clearwater from the Simon Fraser Burnaby campus on winning the 2011 Wideman Prize for Project Management Excellence. Read more….
The Annual Report for 2012 is now available.
All annual reports are available for viewing on our “About the WEF” page.