IPMA promotes research cooperation, as a means to improve the knowledge creation and transfer in the field of project, programme and portfolio management, to initiate joint research projects and programmes addressing the global challenges in this field and to establish of common baselines in research.

IPMA  and APM collaborate in publishing the International Journal of Project Management (IJPM). IJPM is acknowledged as being the leading journal for the field of project management and organization studies. The mission of IJPM is to publish leading-edge innovative research for significantly advancing project management and organizing.

IPMA publishes the open access journal Project Leadership and Society.
The Journal opens up for novel approaches that study projects and relate them to society.
PLS articles study the interaction between projects, project leadership, project management on the one hand, and economic, social, political and organizational processes, on the other.
IJPM and PLS are published by Elsevier.

Elsevier, as a leading publisher, in addition, supports IPMA research events.
IPMA actively participates in many research events in the field of project and general management.

Elsevier, APM, and IPMA collaborate in publishing the International Journal of Project Management (IJPM). IJPM is acknowledged as being the leading journal for the field of project management and organization studies. The mission of IJPM is to publish leading-edge innovative research for significantly advancing project management and organizing.
Elsevier and IPMA collaborate in publishing the open access journal Project Leadership and Society

IPMA acts as a sponsor of IRNOP Conferences. IRNOP represents the network of scholars having a common interest in projects, project organizations and temporary systems.