The IPMA Research Awards aim to promote excellent research to enhance project management. With these annual awards, IPMA recognizes recent outstanding contributions to the development of the field and profession of project management through professionally conducted research.

Researchers may come from disciplines other than project management but must contribute to the development of project, programme and portfolio (PPP) management and the project-oriented companies or any element named in the IPMA ICB, IPMA PEB or IPMA OCB.