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The International Project Management Association (IPMA) invites Applications for their 2010 research awards. IPMA Research Awards aim to promote excellent research to enhance project management. With these annual awards IPMA recognises recent outstanding contributions to the development of the discipline and profession of project management through professionally conducted research.

General criteria

Researchers may come from academia, other research institutions or industry. Researchers may come from disciplines other than project management but must contribute to the development of project management, program management, project-oriented companies, or any element named in IPMA's International Competence Baseline (ICB).

Candidates must apply with a research project. The research project must have had at least a duration of one year and must be completed by the time the application is submitted. Completion of a research project may date back to 1 January 2009. If a researcher (or lead researcher of a team) wins an IPMA Research Award, this person cannot apply for the IPMA Research Award during the following three years.

Categories

IPMA Young Researcher Award: Cutting edge research by a young researcher (born 1975 or later, or the candidate can prove that he/she is less than 10 years involved in research).

IPMA Research Award: Cutting edge research project of a researcher or a team. The application of interdisciplinary projects is encouraged.

Prizes

In each category, two prizes will be distinguished:

• Research Award Winner


• Honours for Outstanding Research Contributions
  

Winners and honours can present their research at the annual IPMA World Congress, where they are honoured.

Evaluation criteria

During the evaluation, the jury will consider the research results as well as the research process. The evaluation criteria are:

• Research results achieved


• Originality and innovation


• Theoretical foundation


• Transparency and professionalism of research process


• Practical relevance


• Management as research project
  

2010 Jury for IPMA 2010 Research Awards

• Prof Qian Fupei, China, IPMA Vice President Research, Jury Chair.


• Prof Rajat K. Baisya, India, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.


• Dr Jan Betta, Poland, Wroclaw University of Technology.


• Prof Constanta Bodea, Romania, The Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest.


• Prof Svetlana Cicmil, UK, University of the West of England.


• Prof Lynn Crawford, Australia, Bond University.


• Dr Brane Semolic, Slovenia, IPMA Research Management Board.


• Miles Shepherd, UK, University College, London.


• Prof Jonas Söderlund, Norway, BI Norwegian School of Management.


• Prof Rodney Turner, France, ESC Lille.


• Prof Derek H.T. Walker, Australia, RMIT University.


• Representative of the IPMA World Congress Istanbul, Turkey.
  

Schedule

• Application forms are available at www.ipma.ch or click here.


• Applications will be accepted from15 January 2010 until 25 June 2010


• Applicants and the IPMA national association of the prize winners will be notified by 15 October 2010
  

The IPMA Research Award ceremony will be held at the IPMA World Congress in Istanbul, Turkey during 1-2 November 2010.

For more information about the IPMA Research Awards, contact martina.huemann@wu.ac.at.

Founded in 1967 and registered in Switzerland, the International Project Management Association (IPMA) is the world's oldest project management professional organization. IPMA is an international federation of more than 45 national PM societies in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. IPMA's annual World Congress is one of the largest and most important gatherings of project management authorities and leaders each year. The president of IPMA for 2009/2010 is Ms. Brigitte Schaden. Additional information about IPMA is available at www.ipma.ch.