Awards
Moving Projects Forward
The IPMA International Project Excellence Award is annually awarded to the most successful project teams in the world. The award identifies examples of excellent project management and acknowledges innovative projects. It supports professional project management in achieving high performance in projects and motivates project teams to identify and optimize the use of their strengths. The assessment process is based on the IPMA Project Excellence Model.
The Award was presented for the first time at the IPMA World Congress in Berlin in 2002.
GENERAL BENEFITS FOR AWARD APPLICANTS
The PE Award is a unique form of benchmarking for project work. All award applicants receive an individual, detailed written benchmark report from a team of qualified and experienced project experts in leading positions. Benchmark report shows not only the strengths in project management but also indicates in which areas the project work can be improved, which leads to better project results in the future. The benchmark report includes also the comparison of the best project teams' performance.
SPECIAL BENEFITS FOR THE AWARD FINALISTS
Prestige: The IPMA International Project Excellence Award offers a considerable gain of prestige. Award Finalists, Prize Winners and Award Winners are published and the logo of the IPMA International Project Excellence Award is available for company documents and publications. This enables the team to show that it is one of the most successful and internationally recognised project teams.
Exchange experience: All Award Finalists are invited to exchange their experience of “Project Excellence” at the annual IPMA World Congress for Project Management. They are also are invited to join the IPMA Award Winners Club which was established in at the IPMA World Congress in Helsinki in 2009. The Winners Club is an exclusive group for Award Finalists and the IPMA Award Management Board and selected IPMA Team Lead Assessors.
Leading project team: This is an outstanding opportunity to show their status as a leading project team and to exchange professional experience with the other winners.
IPMA World Congress: The IPMA World Congress documents and other publications provide further opportunities to demonstrate the excellent Project achievement of the team and the organisation responsible.