Young Crew Finland

Young Crew Finland, also called YC among friends, is network for young project professionals. As a member you get to grow your network, learn new things and develop your skills as a project professional. Our activities reach beyond country boarders as you are part of international IPMA® Young Crew network as well. Our goal is to help young professionals to build their expertise and add interest towards project management. We also aim to insure high level project management skills and know-how in the future.

Young Crew is targeted to young project professionals and those aiming be to ones. Because we are a network for young professionals, to join you must be under the age of 35. So, whether you are already a professional, student or just awoken your interest in project management – welcome! We don’t care about your field of expertise, experience or skills. Only thing you need, is willingness to participate and interest towards projects!

Happening right now

We are looking for a group of enthusiastic young project management professionals and/or students to advance and create new Young Crew activities. Are you interested? Gather your like-minded friends and colleagues & contact us. Let’s boost up YC Finland to the next level together!

YC Finland is the national section of international Young Crew network in Finland and we operate bilingually, in English and in Finnish. If we peeked your interest, contact us at yc(a)pry.fi .

Election for the 2025 Board and for project manager positions is now open!

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(We promise not to spam you. The Young Crew newsletter only comes out 4-6 times a year.)

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By joining YC activities you get meet other young professionals as well as seasoned project veterans. You learn more about projects by exchanging ideas with other members and participating in events.

Young Crew offers you possibilities to test your skills in project teams either as a team member or project manager. You can e.g. throw a party or organise an event, create whole new activities or your own networking campaign. You also get a change to create international relationships by networking and participating in IPMA® Young Crew’s activities.

Active participation within the group is the corner stone of YC – as a member you are in the centre of organising different campaigns, events and activities. YC Finland has organised trips abroad, after work events and visits to well-known companies, just to mention some of our previous activities.

As A Member of Young Crew:

you will network with young and experienced project professionals & create relationships
grow and develop your skills as a project professional
get to test your skills and gain experience from projects by leading your own YC Projects or as a team member
you are part of Finland’s largest project professionals’ association and international IPMA® Young Crew network. You get the support of a large network on your side in your journey to become a project superhero.

By joining Young Crew, you are a member of Association of Project Professionals Finland also. You can either already have a membership – in which case you can just sign up – or apply for membership when you join YC.

As a Young Crew Finland member, you have all the benefits of Association of Project Professionals Finland at your disposal and you can for example take part in interesting project related events and webinars. Read more about membership.

YC Finland is part of international IPMA® Young Crew. As a member of YC Finland you are already part of larger international YC and IPMA® (International Project Management Association) network!

IPMA® YC brings young project professionals and those interested in project management together from all over the world. There are active YC groups in several IPMA® member countries and many of those groups are very much involved in social media ect.

Our international mother organisation IPMA® offers a lot of other benefits than just networking to Young Crew members, such as special YC pricing for tickets to global events. Read more about international Young Crew from here.

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Competitions we host

PMC-competition:

Would you like to improve your competences in project management in a fun way? Are you interested in networking with other students? Or maybe you would like to represent Finland in international competition.

Project Management Championship, aka PMC-competition is project management competition for Universities and Universities for Applied Sciences, in which teams from all over the world compete for dominance in project management field. YC organizes the Finnish final and the winner of that final will have the honor of representing Finland in the international competititon.

The PMC will come again in the spring 2024.

Read more info on the 2024 competition here.

GeCCo - Global eCollaboration Competition

Are you interested in learning more about project management? Would you like to experience what is it like to work in a multicultural team. Could you use a impressive addition to your resume?

In case one or more of the previous list sounds familiar, we encourage you to apply for this virtual and global project case competition!

The registration for the 2024 competition is now open!

YC-Board


Milla Ranta President Academic Relations	Jonna Vuorenpää Vice President Communications and PR Manager

Vipul Agrawal B2B Relations Manager	Jasmin Pakkala PMO Manager International Co-operation Manager

Oluwaseyi Sodola Competence Development Manager	Narendran Narasimhan Social Media Team Lead