Benefits
Membership in the ECIA offers a shared platform for achieving the recognition of the profession of an interior architect through the following:
- Policy development with regard to international issues and EU legislation and directives
- Work toward the status of a ‘Common Training Framework’ as announced in the EU Directive on the liberal professions
- Inter professional cooperation and exchange on a European level with related professions such as architects (ACE), landscape architects (EFLA) and city planners (ECTP)
- Presentation of the qualified profession and examples of European interior architecture
Membership in the ECIA offers a shared platform for developing common educational standards and qualification profile through:
- Exchange of information, ideas and best professional practice
- Cooperation with educational institutions in the field of interior architecture /interior design
- Establishment and updating of the “European Charter of Interior Architectural Training”
Membership in the ECIA helps strengthening of the profile and broadening the scope of work of a national member organization by developing common policy documents:
- Collaboration in advocacy of the profession
- Uniform admittance policy, leading to easy cross border practice and guest membership format
- European Charter of Interior Architectural Training
- Model Code of Conduct
- Platform for dialogue and exchange of information about professional development, best practices and education for the national organisations
- Collaboration with the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI)
Through membership in ECIA national organizations offer the following benefits to their individual associated interior architects:
- Partner in a wide community of trained professionals with high standards of ethics, recognised within the industry and by the general public
- Sharing the minimum standards of education and professional profile of Interior Architects in Europe
- Recognized integrity through ECIA’s Model Code of Conduct
- Easy access to Cross Border practicing through guest membership in participating professional organizations
- Access to all ECIA activities
- Access to or participation in working-groups of international experts on a number of topics relevant for the profession
- ECIA newsletter
ECIA’s member organizations shall:
- Promote shared ECIA’s core values on a national level
- Maintain mutually agreed standards of professional practice and conduct
- Inform and discuss matters of mutual and international interest