How to join AGIR

Applying

How to become a member

AGIR membership is open to holders of an engineering degree recognised in Romania, to graduates of other disciplines who have interdisciplinary interests related to engineering and accept the association’s Statute, and to final-year students of technical higher education.

You join by submitting an application, which is approved either by the branch (or professional society) you choose or by the AGIR Bureau.

Fill in the online application with your contact details and confirm your email address.
Complete your file in your member account: personal details, professional situation, education, degree certificate and a photograph.
Your application is approved by the branch you chose or by the AGIR Bureau, who check your file (or ask you for more information).
Pay the admission fee and the membership fee; you receive your membership number and a welcome email.

The online application form and the member account are in Romanian. If you need help, write to office@agir.ro.

Apply online (in Romanian) I am already a member

Members living outside Romania

25 €

admission fee, paid once

75 €

annual membership fee

Paid in euro by bank transfer to the AGIR EUR account (IBAN RO95 BTRL EUR CRT00W3590801, SWIFT BTRLRO22, Banca Transilvania). Please state your name and, if you have one, your AGIR membership number. Payment details

Fees for members living in Romania, 2026

Situation	Admission fee	Annual fee
Employed	50 lei	150 lei
Retired	50 lei	100 lei
Student	exempt	exempt
Unemployed	50 lei	150 lei

Amounts in Romanian lei (RON). The admission fee is paid once. The annual fee is paid by 31 December of each year for the following year. Junior members do not pay a membership fee.

AGIR Statute, Art. 11–14

Rights and obligations

Members’ rights

to take part in the activities organised by the association;
to use the association’s facilities for the purposes for which they were created;
to receive support in practising their profession;
to take part in continuing education programmes;
to be kept informed and to express their opinion on AGIR’s work;
to join research, study, expert-appraisal and consultancy teams or carry out other engineering work within their competence, and to take part in research projects contracted by the association;
to benefit from the work of the AGIR Publishing House: to receive the association’s publications on favourable terms, to publish articles and studies in them, and to publish books;
to state in official and personal documents that they are a member, honorary member, collective member or supporting member of AGIR.

Individual members have the right to vote and to stand for election to the association’s governing bodies.

Members’ obligations

to know and respect the association’s Statute;
to know and respect the engineer’s code of ethics;
to contribute to achieving the association’s aims;
to carry out activities that enhance the association’s prestige;
not to carry out activities that damage the association’s image;
not to carry out political activities within the association;
to pay the membership fee by 31 December of each year for the following year. Junior members do not pay the fee.

Loss and withdrawal of membership

Members lose their membership if they:

seriously breach the Statute or the engineer’s code of ethics;
have been convicted of a criminal offence related to the practice of the profession, have been banned from practising by a final court decision, or have a criminal record;
carry out political activities within AGIR or activities that damage the association’s prestige;
no longer meet the conditions on which they were admitted;
have not paid the membership fee for two consecutive years;
do not contribute, through their work, to achieving the association’s aims.

The decision to withdraw membership is taken by the organisation that approved the admission (branch, professional society or the AGIR president). Appeals are addressed to the AGIR Board of Directors within 15 days of notification.

Members may leave the association by writing to the governing body of the organisation they joined.