Your competence, assessed and recorded against the standards of the Institute.
An independent record of what you can actually do, owned by you and carried to every employer. Free to start.
INSTITUTE OF PROJECT PROFESSIONALSFour 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.
Join as a Student
Register in under two minutes. Free membership, no post-nominals yet, just the community, your competency record, and CPD logging from day one. Try a course free before you ever pay.
Free foreverChoose 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 CandidateEarn 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 tierBuild towards Member and Fellow
Practitioner Certificate plus your Calibrate evidence portfolio takes you to MIPP. The Fellowship panel and senior experience take you to FIPP. Each level is genuinely harder to earn, which is the point.
Member · FellowThe tools behind the credential
IPP runs on the Module Six platform. You learn on Activate, evidence competency on Calibrate, and carry a membership that anyone can verify in seconds.
Structured pathways, topic by topic
Every qualification runs on Activate: guided topics, checkpoints that prove you are keeping up, and an exam door that unlocks when your readiness score says you are genuinely ready, not before.
Explore the qualifications
A competency record that belongs to you
Calibrate maps your evidence to the IPP Competency Framework, gets it verified, and keeps your CPD honest. The Passport travels with you between employers, because the record is yours, not theirs.
See how the Passport worksA credential anyone can check
Your membership card carries your number and a verification code. Employers and clients confirm your standing on the public register in seconds, and a lapsed membership fails the check, which is what makes passing it mean something.
Verify a memberFind 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.
Project Management
Traditional and hybrid project delivery. Governance, planning, commercial management, and stakeholder leadership. The core pathway for practising project managers.
Agile
Agile Project Management. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe and hybrid delivery. For Scrum Masters and agile practitioners who want a structured, evidence-based credential.
Business Change
Organisational change, benefits realisation, and transformation delivery. For change managers and business analysts working on programmes and strategic initiatives.
Planning
Project planning, scheduling, and controls. For planners and project controls professionals who want a recognised credential for their specialism.
Start with a full course, free.
Sustainable and Responsible Project Management
The whole course, every lesson, completely free. Run projects responsibly with sustainability built in. Create a free Student account and start now, no card needed.
Create a free account and start ›Then the full library: fifteen courses in all, the rest included with an Educate subscription, monthly or annually. Every one counts towards your CPD.
Project Management for Non-Project Managers
For people handed a project without the title. Four modules, twenty topics.
View course › SubscriptionProject Safety Management
Run a project without dropping the ball on safety: hazards, assessment, control and delivery.
View course › SubscriptionProject Risk Management
Spot, assess and manage what could go wrong before it does.
View course › SubscriptionProject Stakeholder Engagement
Map and keep onside the people who can make or break delivery.
View course › SubscriptionProject Planning and Scheduling
Turn a goal into a realistic, sequenced, resourced plan.
View course › SubscriptionProject Governance and Lifecycle
How projects are controlled, approved and moved through their lifecycle.
View course › SubscriptionLeading Project Teams
Get useful work from people who do not report to you.
View course › SubscriptionRequirements, Scope and Benefits
Pin down what is actually needed, and the benefit it is for.
View course › SubscriptionProject Budgeting and Commercial Basics
Cost a project, track spend, and talk money with confidence.
View course › SubscriptionProject Quality and Closure
Deliver to standard and close a project properly.
View course › SubscriptionAI in Project Management
Use AI tools to run projects better, without the hype.
View course › SubscriptionLeading Change
Deliver change that people actually adopt.
View course › SubscriptionAgile and Hybrid Delivery
Agile, waterfall and the hybrid middle most real projects live in.
View course › SubscriptionSponsoring Projects
For the people who commission and back projects, not run them day to day.
View course ›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.
Every IPP qualification you pass, recorded against your name and verifiable by reference.
Your levels against the eight areas of the IPP Competency Framework — assessed and reviewed, not self-declared.
A continuous record of your professional development, logged against real activity throughout your career.
It belongs to you, not your employer. Change jobs and the whole record travels with you, intact.
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.
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.
Corporate and organisational membership available for teams of 2 or more. Contact us for pricing.
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
Built to be trusted
A credential is only worth the standard behind it. Here is ours.
Your first credential costs nothing.
Join as a Student, try a course free, and start building your competency record 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.