01.09.2026
Winning an IPMA Award is more than a moment of recognition. It is an invitation to become part of a global community of professionals, project teams and researchers who are shaping the future of project management.
The IPMA Awards Winners Club is an exclusive community bringing together finalists and winners from across the IPMA Awards. It provides a unique space where award recipients can stay connected, share experiences, discuss their achievements, and explore the ideas and approaches that made their projects, careers and research stand out.
What makes the Winners Club particularly valuable is the quality and diversity of the people it brings together. Alongside award-winning project managers, project leaders, teams, and researchers, the community also includes experienced judges, assessors and other leading professionals involved in the IPMA Awards. Their combined experience, expertise and different perspectives create a unique environment for meaningful conversations, knowledge sharing and professional exchange. By bringing together those who have demonstrated excellence with those who have evaluated and recognized it, the Winners Club creates a space where expertise is shared, new connections are formed, and the standards of the profession continue to evolve.
Through the Winners Club, participants have the opportunity to explore the stories behind outstanding projects and achievements: the challenges that were overcome, the decisions that made a difference, the solutions that delivered impact and the lessons learned along the way. Award-winning project teams can share their experiences and approaches, while individual award recipients can offer perspectives on leadership, innovation, sustainability, diversity, PMO excellence and other topics shaping the profession. By opening up these conversations, the Winners Club turns award-winning achievements into valuable insights that can inspire and benefit the wider project management community.
The Winners Club also creates an important connection between research and practice through the IPMA Global Research Awards. Research Award finalists and winners have the opportunity to present their work, exchange perspectives and engage in discussions around key themes emerging from their research. The IPMA Research Panel provides a dedicated forum for these conversations, encouraging dialogue on how new research and ideas can contribute to the development of project management practice. The next IPMA Research Panel will take place as part of the 15th IPMA Research Conference, held in Vienna from 19 to 21 May 2027, continuing this important dialogue and bringing together researchers and practitioners to explore new perspectives and ideas shaping the future of project management.
IPMA Research Panel at the 14th IPMA Research Conference in Bogotá, Colombia
The connection between academia and practice is fostered through a special online Winners Club session hosted by IPMA once a year in June. The session brings together Research Award winners with award winners and finalists from other IPMA Awards, to explore current topics, emerging trends and challenges facing the profession. These discussions create an open exchange between researchers and practitioners, allowing academic insights to meet real-world experience and encouraging new ideas, perspectives and opportunities for collaboration. The most recent session took place online on 18 June 2026.
The IPMA Awards Winners Club is ultimately about what happens after the trophy is handed over.
It is about keeping the conversation going, creating connections that last beyond the Awards Gala and giving recognized individuals, teams and researchers an opportunity to continue contributing to the development of project management worldwide.
From award-winning projects and inspiring leaders to groundbreaking research, the Winners Club brings together people who have demonstrated excellence, and gives them a platform to share it, challenge it and build on it together. We invite you to join us in Hiroshima on 16 September for the next Winners Club session and be part of this inspiring exchange. To join us, please register via the link below: https://forms.gle/157VCFWVmdqvYMco8
Because at IPMA, recognition is not the end of the journey. It is the beginning of a conversation.
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