ECOS | Environmental Coalition on Standards

Become a full 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? Would you like to gain access to a range of exclusive benefits and opportunities? Have a look at what the ECOS full membership package entails.

In addition to networking and visibility opportunities and access to updates on standardisation developments, full members benefit from exclusive trainings, tailor-made workshops and the possibility to shape the ECOS work programme through the right to vote at the General Assembly. We also cover travel and accommodation costs when our full members come to ECOS events and trainings.

Invitations to ECOS events and general assembly

With travel and accommodation expenses covered by ECOS.


Shaping the organisation & work programme

The right to vote at the General Assembly & the possibility to join one of our task forces.


Exclusive access to members area on ECOS website & preferential acces 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.our task forces.


Visibility opportunities

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


Free acces to ECOS annual standardisation training & a tailor-made national workshop

ECOS can cover travel and accommodation expenses for the ECOS annual training & help co-organise and fund a national workshop on standardisation in your country.


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/strong>

Identify potential project partners and form alliances through exculsive 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.

The membership fee is adapted to geographical coverage of the member organisation and its annual income.

Take a look at the fee grid:

Fill in our membership application form!

Become a member

Our Senior 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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