Project vs. Seminar — What's the Difference?

A project (or program) is any undertaking, carried out individually or collaboratively and possibly involving research or design, that is carefully planned (usually by a project team, but sometimes by a project manager or by a project planner) to achieve a particular aim.An alternative view sees a project managerially as a sequence of events: a "set of interrelated tasks to be executed over a fixed period and within certain cost and other limitations".A project may be a temporary (rather than permanent) social system (work system), possibly staffed by teams (within or across organizations) to accomplish particular tasks under time constraints.A project may form a part of wider programme management or function as an ad hoc system.Note that open-source software "projects" or artists' musical "projects" (for example) may lack defined team-membership, precise planning and/or time-limited durations.

A seminar is a form of academic instruction, either at an academic institution or offered by a commercial or professional organization. It has the function of bringing together small groups for recurring meetings, focusing each time on some particular subject, in which everyone present is requested to participate.

An undertaking requiring concerted effort

A course of study for a small group of students in a college or graduate school, often entailing research under the guidance of a professor.

An extensive task undertaken by a student or group of students to apply, illustrate, or supplement classroom lessons.

The group of students in such a course.

A plan or proposal for accomplishing something.

A scheduled meeting of such a group.

Also projects A housing project.

A meeting for an exchange of ideas; a conference.

To thrust outward or forward

A class held for advanced studies in which students meet regularly to discuss original research, under the guidance of a professor.

To throw forward; hurl

A meeting held for the exchange of useful information by members of a common business community.

To send out into space; cast

A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; - formerly called also seminary, now seldom used in this sense.

To cause (an image) to appear on a surface by the controlled direction of light

Any meeting for an exchange of ideas

(Mathematics) To produce (a projection).

A course offered for a small group of advanced students

To direct (one's voice) so as to be heard clearly at a distance.

(Psychology) To attribute (one's own emotion or motive, for example) to someone else unconsciously in order to avoid anxiety or guilt.

To convey an impression of to an audience or to others

To form a plan or intention for

To calculate, estimate, or predict (something in the future), based on present data or trends

To extend forward or out; jut out

To direct one's voice so as to be heard clearly at a distance.

A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.

An urban low-income housing building.

(dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.

A raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot diamond in the rough

(obsolete) A projectile.

(obsolete) A projection.

(intransitive) To extend beyond a surface.

(transitive) To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.

(transitive) To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.

(transitive) To make plans for; to forecast.

To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.

To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.

(cartography) To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.

(geometry) To draw straight lines from a fixed point through every point of any body or figure, and let these fall upon a surface so as to form the points of a new figure.

(neuroanatomy) (of a neuron or group of neurons) to have axon(s) extending to and therefore able to influence a remote location

To speak or sing in such a way that one can be heard from a large distance away.

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.

An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.

To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.

To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.

To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the like; - sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point upon a plane. See Projection, 4.

To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.

To form a project; to scheme.

Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted;

A planned undertaking

Communicate vividly;

Extend out or project in space;

Transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another

Project on a screen;

Cause to be heard;

Draw a projection of

Make or work out a plan for; devise;

Present for consideration

Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind;

Put or send forth;

Throw, send, or cast forward;

Regard as objective