Join IPA

The IPA is inviting public participation worldwide from various technical fields especially related to the Press-in engineering such as environmental, geotechnical, mechanical, instrumentation and construction engineering.
   

Types of Membership		Individual Members	Corporate Members		Student Members
			Representative	Free membership
Privileges	• Members are able to join the global network of IPA Members and the organizations in association with IPA • Subscription of the quarterly publication of IPA Newsletter • Posting articles to the IPA Newsletter • Apply special rate in admission/registration fees for the events organized by IPA • Submission of research papers to the conferences and seminars organized by IPA • Browsing of the research papers with respect to the Press-in Method through IPA homepage	○	○	○	○
	Voting right to the IPA General Assembly	○	○	×	×
	Participation to the various IPA Committees	○	○	○	×
	Linkage of Corporate Member homepages with the IPA homepage	×	○	×	×
	Advertise Corporate Members in the IPA Newsletter	×	○	×	×
	Receiving advices and suggestions with respect to technical information, papers, information exchanges and joint-researches	×	○	×	×
	Free individual membership without voting right to be provided	-	○	-	-
Annual  Fee		JPY 10,000	Refer to the following	Free	Free

 

Types of Corporate members	Annual Fee	Free membership
Platinum	JPY 1,000,000	5 memberships
Gold	JPY 500,000	3 memberships
Silver	JPY 300,000	2 memberships
Bronze	JPY 100,000	1 memberships

   

Types of Membership	Individual Members	Student members	Corporate  Members
Admission application processing	By online （Recommend）	By online （Recommend）	By email
	By email	By email

   

• The financial year of International Press-in Association (IPA) runs from 1 April until 31 March in the following year.
• Invoices/Receipts are not basically issued. If necessary, please contact the secretariat after sending the application.
•  Applying online is only compatible with credit card payment.
•  For Corporate Members, the IPA secretariat shall inform them of their annual fee and the detail of the bank account for the payment after receiving the application.