diff --git a/app/models/project_ownership.rb b/app/models/project_ownership.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4eda116
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/models/project_ownership.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+class ProjectOwnership < ActiveRecord::Base
+  belongs_to :user
+end
diff --git a/app/models/user.rb b/app/models/user.rb
index 865b981..1995bb0 100644
--- a/app/models/user.rb
+++ b/app/models/user.rb
@@ -8,5 +8,6 @@ class User < ActiveRecord::Base
   validates :email, presence: true
   validates :email, uniqueness: true
 
+  has_many :project_ownerships
   # Alert: when adding new parameters to this model, they should also be added to registrations_controller
 end
diff --git a/db/migrate/20130826211404_create_project_ownerships.rb b/db/migrate/20130826211404_create_project_ownerships.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..12be625
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/migrate/20130826211404_create_project_ownerships.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+class CreateProjectOwnerships < ActiveRecord::Migration
+  def change
+    create_table :project_ownerships do |t|
+      t.integer :user_id
+      t.integer :project_id
+
+      t.timestamps
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/db/schema.rb b/db/schema.rb
index 660198f..fe289cb 100644
--- a/db/schema.rb
+++ b/db/schema.rb
@@ -11,7 +11,14 @@
 #
 # It's strongly recommended that you check this file into your version control system.
 
-ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20130627183652) do
+ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20130826211404) do
+
+  create_table "project_ownerships", force: true do |t|
+    t.integer  "user_id"
+    t.integer  "project_id"
+    t.datetime "created_at"
+    t.datetime "updated_at"
+  end
 
   create_table "users", force: true do |t|
     t.string   "name",                   default: "", null: false
diff --git a/spec/factories/project_ownerships.rb b/spec/factories/project_ownerships.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..666eb68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/factories/project_ownerships.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Read about factories at https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl
+
+FactoryGirl.define do
+  factory :project_ownership do
+    user_id 1
+    project_id 1
+  end
+end
diff --git a/spec/models/project_ownership_spec.rb b/spec/models/project_ownership_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8224c34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/models/project_ownership_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+require 'spec_helper'
+
+describe ProjectOwnership do
+  describe 'associations' do
+    it { should belong_to(:user) }
+  end
+end
diff --git a/spec/models/user_spec.rb b/spec/models/user_spec.rb
index 1fa16aa..bf53bb2 100644
--- a/spec/models/user_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/models/user_spec.rb
@@ -8,4 +8,8 @@ describe User do
     it { should validate_presence_of(:email) }
     it { should validate_uniqueness_of(:email) }
   end
+
+  describe 'associations' do
+    it { should have_many(:project_ownerships) }
+  end
 end
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