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 Instrumentation
TC2 - Photonics
TC3 - Measurement of Force, Mass and Torque
TC4 - Measurement of Electrical Quantities
TC5 - Hardness Measurement
TC6 - Vocabulary Committee [suspended]
TC7 - Measurement Science
TC8 - Traceability in Metrology
TC9 - Flow Measurement
TC10 - Technical Diagnostics
TC11 - Metrological Infrastructures
TC12 - Temperature and Thermal Measurements
TC13 - Measurements in Biology and Medicine
TC14 - Measurement of Geometrical Quantities
TC15 - Experimental Mechanics
TC16 - Pressure and Vacuum Measurement
TC17 - Measurement in Robotics
TC18 - Measurement of Human Functions
TC19 - Environmental Measurements
TC20 - Energy Measurement
TC21 - Mathematical Tools for Measurements
TC22 - Vibration Measurement
TC23 - Metrology in Food and Nutrition
TC24 - Chemical Measurements
IMEKO I Budapest Hungary 1958
IMEKO II Budapest Hungary 1961
IMEKO III Stockholm Sweden 1964
IMEKO IV Warsaw Poland 1967
IMEKO V Versailles France 1970
IMEKO VI Dresden East Germany 1973
IMEKO VII London Great Britain 1976
IMEKO VIII Moscow Soviet Union 1979
IMEKO IX West Berlin 1982
IMEKO X Prague Czechoslovakia 1985
IMEKO XI Houston USA 1988
IMEKO XII Beijing China 1991
IMEKO XIII Turin Italy 1994
IMEKO XIV Tampere Finland 1997
IMEKO XV Osaka Japan 1999
IMEKO XVI Vienna Austria 2000
IMEKO XVII Dubrovnik Croatia 2003
IMEKO XVIII Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2006
IMEKO XIX Lisbon Portugal 2009
IMEKO XX Busan South Korea 2012
IMEKO XXI Prague Czech Republic 2015
Traditionally 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 Congresses
IMEKO TC Events Series – proceedings of Technical Committees events
MEASUREMENT – published by Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford
IMEKO BULLETIN – semi-annual newsletter
Repository of publications – proceedings of IMEKO events
IMEKO's website
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.
