Corporate Membership
Download: Corporate Membership Application Form
Annual Subscription
Current rate for Corporate Membership is €200
Criteria
Corporate Membership is the “main” membership category within the Institute and is open to planners who have reached a standard of knowledge, skill and professional responsibility necessary to engage in planning.
Entry Requirements
The entry requirements for Corporate Membership include both a satisfactory educational qualification at an appropriate level and also a sufficient period of post-qualification practical experience of work as a professional planner.
Candidates for Corporate Membership must comply with one of the following criteria:-
(a) A person who holds a recognized or accredited planning qualification or degree from a planning school, which meets the educational requirements of the Institute (see accredited courses), and who has gained two years’ satisfactory experience in planning after obtaining the relevant qualification;
or
(b) A professionally-qualified planner who is a full / corporate member of another national planning institute or national association that is a full member of the European Council of Spatial Planners (ECTP), and who has gained two years’ satisfactory experience in planning after obtaining the relevant membership;
or
(c) A person who holds a planning qualification at degree or equivalent level, which is not accredited or recognised by the Institute, and which was obtained within the European Union/European Economic Area, and is at a level which is equivalent to the planning qualifications or degrees that are recognized or accredited by the Institute, and has gained two years’ satisfactory experience in planning after obtaining the qualification;
or
(d) A person who holds a planning qualification at degree or equivalent level, which is not accredited or recognised by the Institute, and which was obtained within the European Union/European Economic Area, and is at a level which is not equivalent, as defined under Article 11(d) of EU Directive 2005/36/EC, to the planning qualifications or degrees that are recognized or accredited by the Institute, and who satisfies the Institute that their post qualification experience in planning is such that they are competent to practice planning in Ireland.
(Persons to whom this paragraph applies, who cannot satisfy the Institute with regard to their post qualification experience, may be entitled to Corporate Membership by either passing the Institute’s Test of Professional Competence or successfully completing any period of adaptation required by the Institute, under the provisions of the Directive, and also demonstrating at least two years’ satisfactory experience in planning after obtaining their qualification or passing the Test/completing the period of adaptation, as appropriate.)
or
(e) A person who holds a planning qualification at degree or equivalent level, which is not accredited or recognised by the Institute, and which was obtained outside the European Union/EEA area, and where their course was broadly in accordance with the Institute’s Educational Guidelines, and who satisfies the Institute that their post qualification experience in planning is such that they are competent to practice planning in Ireland.
Action Required
Fill in the relevant application form (including the signatures of two existing Corporate Members/Fellows of the Institute, and send to the IPI Head Office
Include a copy of the degree certificate (s)
Include a detailed CV of planning work experience to be initialed by an existing Corporate Member / Fellow of the Institute
In addition, in the case of category (b), provide written confirmation from the institute/association concerned of current full/corporate membership from the relevant national institute / association that is a full member of the European Council of Spatial Planners.
In addition, in the case of categories (c), (d) and (e), provide details of the educational courses concerned, and - if the candidate wishes to be considered under category (d) - a statement as to whether the candidate wishes to opt for the test of Professional Competence or for the period of adaptation, and if the latter, the means by which the candidate proposes to complete this period of adaptation (including the written consent of the Corporate Member/Fellow or other professional planner of similar level under whom this period of adaptation is to be carried out).