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AIPIA · European Window
AIPIA in Europe.
The Italian Association of AI Professionals — accredited by the European Commission, member of the European AI Alliance, endorser of the Rome Call for AI Ethics. Information for AI practitioners across the continent in English and nineteen EU languages, with operations coordinated through aipia.it.
01 — Identity
Italy's first professional association for AI practitioners.
AIPIA is a non-profit, independent association recognised by Italian Law 4/2013. It brings together more than three hundred and forty AI practitioners — software engineers, data scientists, researchers, consultants and educators — under a common ethical code and a shared standard of professional practice.
Founded in 2025, the association acts as an institutional reference for Italian AI work, with channels into universities, public administration, and the European regulatory environment. Its programmes culminate in the European AI Credential, the first verifiable AI credential issued through Europass under eIDAS.
This site, aipia.eu, exists for one reason: to make AIPIA findable in twenty-two languages across the European Union, and to send qualified visitors to the operational hub at aipia.it.
02 — Activity
Four pillars hold the work together.
Training, information, events, consulting. Each pillar exists to serve members and, through them, the practitioners and institutions building AI in Europe.
Select a pillar to read more.
Information
Newsletter, publications and a working library on regulation, standards and AI practice in Europe.
Events
Conferences, regional meet-ups and dedicated tracks for members and partners.
Consulting
Advisory for companies and public administration: AI literacy, audits, compliance, ethics.
03 — Reach
A continent regulating AI faster than it can train for it.
The EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) entered into force in August 2024. Prohibited practices and AI literacy duties applied from February 2025; governance rules and obligations for general-purpose AI models followed in August 2025; the bulk of high-risk obligations begins in August 2026.
The pace exposes a gap: regulation is European, while professional representation has been overwhelmingly national. AIPIA's Italian roots are deep — its ethical code, its credential issuance, its directory of certified professionals. The European-facing site you are reading exists to make those roots accessible to practitioners in every member state who recognise the association by name and want to join, train with, or consult through it.
04 — Where to start
Three entry points into AIPIA.
European AI Credential
A verifiable AI credential issued through Europass and sealed with eIDAS — the closest thing to a professional licence the AI sector currently has at European level.
About the credential ↗
Membership and directory
AIPIA is open to anyone working with AI in good faith. Members are listed in the public directory of certified professionals and supported by a written code of ethics.
Become a member ↗
AI Act and regulation
AIPIA tracks the EU AI Act and supports practitioners and organisations in the practical work of compliance — literacy, audits, governance.
Read on regulation ↗
Join the European AI professionals' community.
Open to professionals, researchers, students, managers and organisations working with AI. €12 a year. Application and onboarding on aipia.it/en/membership.