European Council Of Interior Architects Ecia

The European Council of Interior Architects is the representative body for the European professional organizations in Interior Architecture and Design. Founded in 1992, ECIA currently represents 16 members-national organizations, with over 14000 professionals Interior Architects/Designers. ECIA provides a common platform for the exchange of information on best professional practice. It endorses minimal common standards of education and professional profile for the Associated Interior Architects/ Designers in the member organisation. The profession of interior architecture is enhancing the full spectrum of interior architecture, which can be as much as furniture designs as small-scale architecture. The ECIA has been established to found a European network to intensify the European network for interior architects/ designers and to constantly develop and intensify the profession. This is done by an intensive communication about the profession and sharing views and a permanent dialogue with the members, partners, and sister organisations, institutions and the European parliament itself. One of our tasks is to endorse minimal common standards of education and a professional profile for the associated interior architects/ designers of our member organisations. Furthermore we wrote the ECIA Code of Conduct; a Professional Ethics sets standards for the Associated Interior Architects/Designers on approach and responsibilities within the profession, towards clients, society an environment. We intensively worked on these themes and developed our mission: “ECIA is an European platform to represent and promote the qualified profession of interior architects/designers.” The profession has various embedding’s in the different member countries. Different by law, type of protection, professional requirements and education. We thereby want to achieve a general recognition of the profession by the public and legislative bodies at local, national and EU level.