Become an associate member

Are you part of an NGO working to protect the environment? Does your organisation share our mission to defend environmental interests in the development of standards and product policies? Associate membership is a possibility for organisations to support ECOS without being involved in its decision-making.

Associate members provide a representation mandate and benefit from networking opportunities as well as from access to information and updates on standardisation developments. This membership package is free of charge and does not include certain exclusive benefits reserved for Full Members.

Exclusive access to members area on ECOS website & preferential access to our free webinars

A Virtual Library of resources and tools supporting work in standardisation & webinars organised in line with Member’s needs and possibly in cooperation with them.

Visibility opportunities

Promoting Members’ activities through various channels: our monthly Newsletter, dedicated news items on our website, social media.

Training opportunities

Free acces to ECOS annual standardisation training.

Information updates from the heart of Europe

ECOS Secretariat will update members on developments in European and international standardisation on a regular basis via the monthly Newsletter, direct mailings, social media and website, including a Members Area.

Potential partnership & professional network;

Identify potential project partners and form alliances through exclusive access to an international network of experts and stakeholders in standardisation and product policy. ECOS can also help members establish relationships with their National Standards Body or other civil society stakeholders.

If you are an NGO or a social enterprise – most likely yes!

You do need to meet the following criteria:

Be a legal entity or a consortium of legal entities in their own right, registered in
countries whose national standardisation bodies are members of an international
standardisation body or from a country whose National Standardisation Body is eligible
to join ISO or the IEC;
Carry out their activities on a continuous basis, independent of any commercial, industrial
or party political influence or interest,
Demonstrate through your statutes and practice that:
• your main objective is to preserve, promote, defend and/or study environmental interests, with, in the latter case, the goal of advancing environmental protection;
• you have a national, regional or supranational outreach;
• your work in one or more areas of environmental interest;
• Profit-for-purpose organisations reinvest their surplus in a socially and environmentally conscious way.

Simply fill in our application form, and we’ll take it from there!

All applications must be approved by the ECOS Executive Committee.

No, this membership is free of charge!

Fill in our membership application form!

Become a member

Our Membership & Network Manager will be happy to answer any questions concerning our membership packages (in English, French, Spanish & Swedish). Get in touch with Cecilia Rolland at cecilia.rolland@ecostandard.org

ECOS is co-funded by the European Commission and EFTA Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or EISMEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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