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 ‘Common Platform’ as announced in the EC 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 planners (ECTP)

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
• Introduction of the 'European Charter of Interior Architecture Training'
• The 'ECIA Recognised Education Program'

• Co-operation with educational institutions in the field of Interior Architecture & Design

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

• Model Code of Conduct

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 Members Only resources and web-site

• 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’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

• Observe to ECIA’s statutes and internal regulations