03-12-2010 ECIA President Joke van Hengstum and Secretary General Gerrit Schilder visited Brussels on the 3rd of December to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ACE, the Architects Council of Europe.

01-11-2010 Call for Papers
Two linked conferences – FLOW 1 and FLOW 2 – will address issues of the relationships between interiors and landscape. FLOW 1 will take a historical perspective covering the period from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It will be hosted by the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC) in collaboration with the Landscape Interface Studio, Kingston University, in London on the 12th and 13th May 2011. FLOW 2 takes a critical approach to contemporary environments, and will develop themes and issues that emerge at FLOW 1 in London. This conference will take place at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, in February 2012.

02-08-2010 - ACE Survey: Optimism grows but continued lack of confidence in Public sector.

The Architects' Council of Europe's (ACE) has completed its sixth quarterly survey on the impact of the global financial crisis on the architectural sector in Europe. The results show an increasing optimism that work in the private sector will grow in the coming months but a continued lack of confidence in the public sector.

11-05-2010 - The Architects' Council of Europe's (ACE) has just completed its fifth quarterly survey on the impact of the global financial crisis on the architectural sector in Europe. The results clearly show that the situation is at the present time worse that at any time since the crisis began in September 2008 but that architects are hopeful of an upturn in workload in the coming quarter.

CALL FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS
10-05-2010 - Academics, research students and practitioners are invited to submit design research papers and critical project works that engage with interior design/interior architecture theory and practice for the IDEA JOURNAL 2010.

This years General Assembly will take place in Reykjavik, Iceland, on 11 September. There are many good reasons to come to Reykjavik this September; see program that ECIA and the Icelandic Federation, FHI have come up with!

Call for Articles – Special Issue (Vol. 2 Issue 1 - 2011)
INTERIORS: DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE - Berg Publishers
05-05-2010 - The editors Anne Massey (Kingston University) and John Turpin (Washington State University) invite contributions to the journal’s 2011 special issue 'Living in the Past: Histories, Heritage and the Interior'. 

20-04-2010 - Interior Educators (IE) is a new organisation established by academics representing well-established Interior design / interior architecture courses from across the UK. It is a unique group in that it provides a forum for debate and the exchange of ideas and practice effecting the education of designers of interior space. It is currently the only relevant and influential mouthpiece for interiors education and educators in the UK. At the present time it meets formally twice each year. 

Call for Papers / Call for Posters
17-04-2010 - The premises laid down by IFW2010 is that in our globalised world it  is possible to construct a single unified narrative - though one with  different facets - or to describe/specify a complex constellation of   Interiors by means of the words that characterise them.

13-04-2010 - The Architects Council of Europe together with the  European Concrete Platform and Future Conversations is organising a Conference entitled "Do you Speak Sustainable Construction?".  The Conference will be held in Brussels, on 20 May 2010.
Registration for this conference is now open and places are filling up quickly. Please register now if you wish to attend. 

25-02-2010 - 10 Jahre nach Bologna ist die Akkreditierung der überwiegenden Zahl von Studien-gängen der Architektur und Planung abgeschlossen. Reakkreditierung bzw. Sys-temakkreditierung stehen an. Dies ist der Zeitpunkt an dem ASAP die bisherigen Ergebnisse einer kritischen Würdigung unterziehen und die Erfahrungen der Gut-achter aus den bisherigen Verfahren evaluieren möchte.

18-02-2010 - The Modern Interiors Research Centre Conference, Kingston University, London Thursday 13 and Friday 14 May 2010. Online booking for this conference is now open at: http://www.kingston.ac.uk/fada/research/mir/mir_conf.php
This conference will consider the historical insights that ethno/auto/biographical investigations into the lives of individuals, groups and interiors can offer architectural and design historians; the methodological issues that arise from the use of ethno/auto/biographical sources to explore the history of the interior as a site in which everyday life is experienced and performed; and the ways in which contemporary architects and interior designers draw on personal and collective histories in their practice.
 

09-02-2010 - The Dutch Parliament approved an important alteration of the Architects Title Act. Since 1987 the titles of Architects, Interior Architects, Landscape Architects and Urban Designers have been reserved to registered professionals in the Netherlands. The now approved review of the Title Act introduces an obligation for continuing education for Interior Architects, Landscape Architects and Urban Designers (already into force for Architects), as well as a two-year professional experience period before entry into the Register. The most important change however for the Interior Architects is the requirement of a training concluded with a Master’s Degree.

In order to create a real internal services market by 2010, the 'Services' Directive aims to facilitate freedom of establishment for providers in other Member States and the freedom of provision of services between Member States. It also aims to increase the choice offered to recipients and improve the quality of services both for consumers and businesses using these services. The Directive was adopted on 28 December 2006 and should be transponded by all member states by 28 December 2009.