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.
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