ABSTRACT
The background to the concept of project work being adopted in 1972 was closely connected with the establishment of the new university, and both were due to what might be called a happy convergence of a number of societal factors and forces. The immediate cause was an explosion in numbers of university students. The basic principles of project work are those of problem orientation, exemplarity and what we call participant direction; the secondary principles are those of interdisciplinarity and group work. The main process features are the introduction, the phase of forming student groups around self-selected topics, planning the process, investigating the problems selected empirically and theoretically by employing correct scholarly methods, producing a written report as output and a basis for internal evaluation, and the final examination.
