Business Effective Communication
Business Effective Communication was a five-year research project with the purpose to develop knowledge about how information and communication can be used in the leadership of organisations in order to achieve a higher degree of external effectiveness » 

Communication Index
The aim of this project is to try and map all investment in communication/public relations activities made within Swedish communication and public relations operations. The project started in 2005 and is updated every year »

INFO 2007, Member Survey
The Swedish Public Relations Association’s Member Survey 2007. The survey is conducted every other year and this is the 12th survey since the first one in 1982. The member survey is an important tool for the association, and to compare changes over time within the communication industry » 

Lobbying the EU
In March 2006 started a research project at Örebro University on EU-lobbying with primary focus on communication strategies and Swedish actors. Camilla Berggren, former Public Affairs consultant at EPPA, will present a doctor’s thesis in 2010 » 

MD/GD 2005
A survey of managers’ opinions of the public relations industry. This MD/GD study aims to examine the prosperity and increase in demand experienced by the industry by looking at the clients’ view of the public relations industry, its development, competence and services. It serves as a follow-up to the survey conducted in 2000 »

Communication is value creation
The Swedish Public Relations Association has been involved in the research and development of intangibles as value creation since mid 90's. Communication indicators as reputation, brands, image, motivation, relationships etc. are parts of the total palett of intangibles which are used for managing, measuring and reporting of a company's ability to survive in the future. Those indicators have become essential on the capital market as well as the consumer market. They are also important in attracting future employees and in a society perspective as a licence to operate. The report Return on Communication was published in 1996 »

Meritum
A great interest in this issue followed in 1997 when a European project called Meritum (Measuring the intangibles to understand and improve innovation management) was initiated in EU. Six countries (Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Spain, France) nine universities and thirty researchers have been involved in the project. Three main areas or capital are lined out; Human capital, Structure capital and Relational capital. The Swedish Public Relations Association was one of the financiers »