Recertification IPMA PMO and IPMA D

Re-certification IPMA B

Your IPMA certificate is valid for five years. The exact expiration date is shown at the bottom of your certificate. After that, you can extend it for another five years through Certification renewal. This can be done starting 6 months before the expiration date and must be completed no later than 6 months after the certificate has expired.

Certification renewal is possible within five disciplines for IPMA-B:

IPMA-B-Project
IPMA-B-Program
IPMA-B-Portfolio
IPMA-B-Agile
IPMA-B-PMO

Depending on your experience from the past 5 years, you determine for which of these fields you can best recertify.

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Steps Re-certification

Re-certification requirements for IPMA-B

  • To be eligible for re-certification of IPMA-B, you must demonstrate that over the past five years, you have spent at least: 35 hours per year maintaining your competencies. This requirement is counted from the expiration date of your current certificate.
  • You must also have at least 30 non-overlapping months of experience in your chosen field. Of this, 60% must be at IPMA-B level. The remaining work experience must be at least at IPMA-C level. IPMA-B has a minimum complexity score of 25 and IPMA-C has a minimum complexity score of 16.
  • In these 30 months or more, you must have spent at least half of your working time in your field. This concerns 2200 hours or more. This applies from the end date of your current certificate.

Step 1 - Sign-up 

Step 2 - Submit re-certification document  

Step 3 - Reference research 

Step 4 - Review documents 

Step 5 - Result 

Request for documents Re-certification