International Measurement Confederation


The International Measurement Confederation 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, 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.

Structure

IMEKO is entirely staffed from volunteers from its Member Organisations - 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. The MOs organise IMEKO events.
;General Council
;Technical Board
;Technical Committees

World Congresses

Awards

Traditionally the following awards are bestowed at the closing ceremony of a World Congress:

Publications

IMEKO activities are documented in the following publications:

International contacts

IMEKO is one of the five Sister Federations within FIACC.
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.