International Measurement Confederation
IMEKO emblem
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| Formation | 1958 |
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| Headquarters | IMEKO Secretariat Dalszínház utca 10, 1st floor, Office room No.3 H-1061 Budapest |
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Membership
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42 MOs |
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Official language
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English |
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President
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Prof. Kenneth T. V. Grattan |
| Website | http://www.imeko.org/ |
The International Measurement Confederation (abbreviated IMEKO, from Internationale Meßtechnische Konföderation) is a non-governmental federation of metrological organizations. It was founded in 1958 in Budapest, Hungary.
IMEKO has member organizations in the following countries: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Congo (Democratic Republic), Croatia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, the Republic of Korea, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
IMEKO is entirely staffed from volunteers from its Member Organisations (MOs) - scientific societies or institutes of the corresponding member countries. They delegate specialists in the different fields of metrology to contribute to the work of IMEKO in the General Council, the boards and the Technical Committees (TCs). The MOs organise IMEKO events (congresses, conferences, workshops, symposia).
Traditionally the following awards are bestowed at the closing ceremony of a World Congress:
IMEKO activities are documented in the following publications:
IMEKO is one of the five Sister Federations within FIACC (Five International Associations Co-ordinating Committee, further consisting of IFAC - International Federation of Automatic Control, IFIP - International Federation for Information Processing, IFORS - International Federation of Operational Research Societies, and IMACS - International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation).
IMEKO also works with OIML, BIPM, the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. The way of co-operation is organising joint events, co-sponsoring events and inviting keynote speakers to each other.
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