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, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
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).
General Council (GC)The General Council is the governing body, containing one or two delegates from each Member Organization. Sessions are held annually.
Technical Board (TB)The purpose of the Technical Board is to supervise the Technical Committees. The TB is chaired by the President Elect. The TB is responsible for creating and disbanding TCs, developing proposals for new TCs, facilitating communication with the journal
Measurement, arranging sponsorship, the approval of events to be organized by the TCs, the support of the Editorial Board of
Measurement, and helping to prepare Technical Sessions and Round Tables at World Congresses.
Technical Committees (TCs)TC1 - Education and Training in Measurement and InstrumentationTC2 - PhotonicsTC3 - Measurement of Force, Mass and TorqueTC4 - Measurement of Electrical QuantitiesTC5 - Hardness MeasurementTC6 - Vocabulary Committee [suspended]TC7 - Measurement ScienceTC8 - Traceability in MetrologyTC9 - Flow MeasurementTC10 - Technical DiagnosticsTC11 - Metrological InfrastructuresTC12 - Temperature and Thermal MeasurementsTC13 - Measurements in Biology and MedicineTC14 - Measurement of Geometrical QuantitiesTC15 - Experimental MechanicsTC16 - Pressure and Vacuum MeasurementTC17 - Measurement in RoboticsTC18 - Measurement of Human FunctionsTC19 - Environmental MeasurementsTC20 - Energy MeasurementTC21 - Mathematical Tools for MeasurementsTC22 - Vibration MeasurementTC23 - Metrology in Food and NutritionTC24 - Chemical MeasurementsIMEKO I Budapest Hungary 1958IMEKO II Budapest Hungary 1961IMEKO III Stockholm Sweden 1964IMEKO IV Warsaw Poland 1967IMEKO V Versailles France 1970IMEKO VI Dresden East Germany 1973IMEKO VII London Great Britain 1976IMEKO VIII Moscow Soviet Union 1979IMEKO IX West Berlin 1982IMEKO X Prague Czechoslovakia 1985IMEKO XI Houston USA 1988IMEKO XII Beijing China 1991IMEKO XIII Turin Italy 1994IMEKO XIV Tampere Finland 1997IMEKO XV Osaka Japan 1999IMEKO XVI Vienna Austria 2000IMEKO XVII Dubrovnik Croatia 2003IMEKO XVIII Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2006IMEKO XIX Lisbon Portugal 2009IMEKO XX Busan South Korea 2012IMEKO XXI Prague Czech Republic 2015Traditionally the following awards are bestowed at the closing ceremony of a World Congress:
Distinguished Service Award, bestowed upon persons for outstanding services to IMEKO, active for many years as well-known specialists in the field of measurement.György Striker Junior Paper Award, a donation of the Founder and first Secretary General of IMEKO and his wife, to be given to a junior author under 35 years of age, whose paper reflects a deep understanding and knowledge of the theme of a World Congress. The sum of the award is USD 1100.IMEKO activities are documented in the following publications:
ACTA IMEKO – proceedings of the World CongressesIMEKO TC Events Series – proceedings of Technical Committees eventsMEASUREMENT – published by Elsevier Science Ltd, OxfordIMEKO BULLETIN – semi-annual newsletterRepository of publications – proceedings of IMEKO eventsIMEKO's websiteIMEKO 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.
