PMI requests research proposals from scholars in project management and other disciplines (e.g. management, organizational psychology, education, sociology, etc.).

Proposed research should have direct application to some aspect of the project management body of knowledge or its practice.

PMI encourages proposals for research involving multi-disciplinary teams of scholars or teams consisting of academics and practitioners, who can potentially bring new ways of thinking and related bodies of literature to the field.

Preliminary proposals will be accepted between 1 April and 25 May 2009, and those advancing to the second round will be notified by 10 July 2009. Awards, up to $50,000, will be announced in October 2009.