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EU projects are evolving in a direction where projects are increasingly expected to show what they actually deliver, and with what environmental, social and economic effects. Sustainability is moving from a well-phrased sentence to a tracked and verifiable part of the project. The PM² sustainability addendum (SPM²) offers a structure for sustainable project execution.
Read more: PM² Sustainability Addendum: Preparing for Tighter EU Funding Conditions
The rules governing EU funding are changing. The European Commission's proposal for the 2028–2034 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) merges cohesion, agricultural, migration and security funding into a single framework, delivered through National and Regional Partnership Plans. At the same time, disbursement is being tied more tightly to results, milestones and national-level reforms. Administrative "simplification" at the top does not mean lighter requirements at project level — quite the opposite.
The pillars of PM² — Governance, Lifecycle, Processes, Artefacts — and the Mindsets acting as a 'glue' provide a core on which the PM² Foundation has built three separate extensions for specific environments: PM² Agile, the PM² Addendum for EU-Funded Projects, and the PM² Addendum for Sustainability. All three speak the same PM² language, but direct it toward a particular purpose — agile delivery, multinational consortium work, or embedding sustainability objectives into projects.
Read more: PM²'s extensions: agility, EU funding and sustainability
Conversations about project management methodologies tend to gravitate toward PRINCE2, IPMA, and PMBOK — heavy, certification-driven frameworks. Lighter alternatives, designed specifically to support day-to-day work rather than exam preparation, get less attention. P3.express and PM² are two such methodologies, and they have more in common than you might expect — even though they were developed for different purposes.
Read more: How do P3.express and PM² support project execution?
Our site hosts two content tracks that live side by side: the project success vector, which describes what success means, and the PM² methodology, which describes how to succeed. This article connects the two — with a particular focus on EU-funded projects.