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The IPP Passport

The professional
passport for project practitioners who take their career seriously.

Your IPP Passport is a verified record of your qualifications, competence and CPD — proof of what you can actually do, built across your career and carried with you from one job to the next. Free to start, structured from day one.

Student badge
Student
Free
Candidate badge
Candidate
£29/yr
Associate badge
Associate
£49/yr
Member badge
Member
£69/yr
Fellow badge
Fellow
£129/yr
16
Qualifications
4
Career pathways
£0
To get started
Founding cohort
47 founding members have already joined
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Founding status closes at 500
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Every credential is yours to keep, permanently
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Verifiable by any employer in real time
How it works

Four steps from newcomer to Fellow

Every stage builds on the last. You choose the pace. The credential you earn at each level is yours permanently, regardless of where you work.

01
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Join as a Student

Register in under two minutes. Free membership, no post-nominals yet, just access to the community, resources, and the first module of your chosen learning pathway to try before you commit.

Free forever
02
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Choose a pathway, start learning

Pick Project Management, Agile, Business Change, or Planning. Complete the base-level Award qualification through Activate. Pass and you become a Candidate member at £29/yr.

£29/yr on Candidate
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Earn your first professional credential

Upgrade to Associate membership and your Foundation Certificate pathway opens up. Complete it, pass, and you become AIPP. Your credential goes live in the public directory, verifiable by any employer instantly.

Associate tier
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Build towards Member and Fellow

Practitioner Certificate plus your Calibrate evidence portfolio takes you to MIPP. Advanced Certificate and senior experience takes you to FIPP. Each level is genuinely harder to earn — which is the point.

Member · Fellow
Learning pathways

Find the pathway that fits your career

Four routes to professional recognition. Each has its own qualification framework and leads to the same IPP post-nominals. You can cross pathways at the same level once you have your first qualification.

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Project Management

Traditional and hybrid project delivery. Governance, planning, commercial management, and stakeholder leadership. The core pathway for practising project managers.

APME FCPM PCPM ACPL
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Agile

Agile Project Management. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe and hybrid delivery. For Scrum Masters and agile practitioners who want a structured, evidence-based credential.

AAE FCAPM PCAPM ACAL
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Coming 2027
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Business Change

Organisational change, benefits realisation, and transformation delivery. For change managers and business analysts working on programmes and strategic initiatives.

ABCA FCBC PCBC ACBL
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Coming 2027
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Planning

Project planning, scheduling, and controls. For planners and project controls professionals who want a recognised credential for their specialism.

APE FCP PCP ACPC
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Coming 2027
One-off training courses

Not on a qualification pathway? These still count.

Standalone courses for specific roles or audiences. No progression requirement, no exam pressure. Complete and get a formal IPP certificate.

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PM Appreciation for Managers and Leaders

For senior leaders who commission and oversee projects but don't run them directly. Practical context for better sponsorship and decision-making.

One-off certificate · £29.99
Coming soon
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PM for Non-Project Managers

An IPP-accredited course for professionals who find themselves running projects without a PM background. Structured, practical, and immediately applicable to the day job.

One-off certificate · £29.99
The IPP Passport

One record. Verified. Yours for life.

Your Passport is the live record behind your IPP membership. It holds what you have earned and what you can prove, in a form an employer can trust at a glance — not a document you wrote about yourself.

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Qualifications

Every IPP qualification you pass, recorded against your name and verifiable by reference.

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Competence

Your levels against the eight areas of the IPP Competency Framework — assessed and reviewed, not self-declared.

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CPD history

A continuous record of your professional development, logged against real activity throughout your career.

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Portable and owned

It belongs to you, not your employer. Change jobs and the whole record travels with you, intact.

See how the Passport works › Verify someone's Passport

A new Passport starts with what you have verified so far and grows as you qualify, develop, and have your competence reviewed. Self-assessed entries are shown as self-assessed until they are independently confirmed.

Membership

One membership. Your whole career.

Start for free and progress at your own pace. Each tier unlocks the next stage of learning. Your credentials stay with you, not with your employer.

STU
Student
No post-nominal
Free
No card required
Community access and resource library
First module of any pathway, free
IPP Student badge for LinkedIn
Access to member events and webinars
Join free
STU
Candidate
No post-nominal
£29
per year
Digital Candidate badge and certificate
Peer study groups by pathway
Full resource library
Foundation pathway unlocks on upgrade
Start learning
MIPP
Member
MIPP
£69
per year
MIPP designation, priority directory listing
Calibrate included in membership
Peer review and mentoring network
IPP governance voting rights
Get MIPP
FIPP
Fellow
FIPP
£129
per year
FIPP: the highest IPP designation
Fellow badge, premium directory listing
IPP governance and working groups
Calibrate included in membership
Get FIPP

Corporate and organisational membership available for teams of 2 or more. Contact us for pricing.

Why IPP

Project management credentials that employers can actually verify.

Most professional body memberships are expensive to get, slow to update, and disconnected from how professionals actually develop. IPP is built differently: every qualification is evidence-based, every membership is verifiable in real time, and every credential is yours to keep regardless of where you work next.

  • Any employer can verify your IPP status instantly via the public directory, no login required
  • Your Calibrate evidence portfolio and competency record travel with you when you change jobs
  • MIPP and FIPP require demonstrated experience, not just an exam pass
  • Total cost from Student to MIPP is a fraction of equivalent professional body routes
  • CPD is tracked in Calibrate automatically, so renewal is straightforward, not a scramble
Start for free ›
Your career trajectory
Join as Student
Register free. Access the first module of your chosen pathway. Try before you commit.
Free
Pass your base Award, become Candidate
25 questions, 40 minutes. Pass at 65% and your Candidate badge activates. £29/yr to join.
£29/yr
Upgrade to Associate, earn AIPP
£49/yr unlocks the Foundation Certificate pathway. Pass and you are AIPP with post-nominals in the directory.
£49/yr
Practitioner Certificate, become MIPP
Written paper plus your Calibrate evidence portfolio. 5 years minimum project experience required.
£69/yr + Calibrate included
Advanced Certificate, Fellow (FIPP)
Professional discussion, full evidence portfolio, 10 years senior experience. The complete globe.
£129/yr + Calibrate included
From the community

What members say

Early feedback from the founder cohort. These are practitioners, not marketing copy.

"I've been managing projects for six years with no formal credential. Activate gave me the structure to understand what I was already doing, and now I have a qualification that reflects it."
SH
Sarah H.
Senior Project Manager
Associate (AIPP)
"The way the learning is structured means you actually understand why, not just what. The mock exam was harder than I expected, which made passing feel like it meant something."
MT
Marcus T.
Project Coordinator
Candidate
"Having Calibrate bundled into the Member subscription made the decision easy. I was paying for a separate CPD tool before. Now everything is in one place and my renewal takes ten minutes."
JR
Jo R.
Programme Manager
Member (MIPP)
Get started today

Your first credential costs nothing.

Join as a Student, try the first module of your chosen pathway, and see what the framework looks like before you spend a penny. If you decide to progress, every step from there is clearly priced and every credential is yours to keep.

No credit card required for Student membership. Cancel paid tiers any time.