IMEKO is a non-governmental federation of 36 national Member Organizations, individually concerned with the advancement of measurement technology and instrument engineering. The Member Organizations are scientific / technical societies or committees from Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom, and USA. The membership consists of the representatives of metrological institutions, higher education, industry and the users of instruments. The fundamental objectives are the promotion of international interchange of scientific and technical information in the field of measurement and instrumentation and the enhancement of international co-operation among scientists and engineers from research and industry. Permanent organs of IMEKO are: General Council, Secretariat, Advisory Board, Technical Board, Drafting Committee, and Credentials and Membership Committee. The activity of IMEKO is basically carried out through the Technical Committees (TC), which organizes symposia, conferences, workshops, and seminars on specific topics at regular intervals; publish proceedings of events, textbooks, glossaries, studies, etc. Numerous TC-s have already organized over 20 international conferences, some having over 300 participants from over 20 countries and producing proceedings of about 500 pages each. A royalty of 5 % of the registration fees helps to reduce the financial burden of MO-s to cover the overall expenses of the Confederation. IMEKO organizes regularly World Congresses; these global events select noble, humanitarian scopes, to demonstrate how the field of metrology can serve the improvement of the quality of life. Primarily the TC-s are determining the main topics. The difference between a TC events and a World Congress is, that while TC events are concentrating on a narrow topic in full depth, the Congresses offer cross-fertilization of different fields and a possibility to the participants to achieve an overall view on the progress as a whole and a vision of further development. |