TECES member status may be obtained by enterprises and other business organisations, research and educational institutions that are primarily active in the same fields as TECES, and are interested in using TECES’ services for the purpose of pursuing their own activities.

• Rights, benefits and obligations of TECES members
• Procedure for obtaining TECES member status

1. discount for services provided by the Institute,
2. in securing, or collaborating in, assignments organised by the Institute, members are granted priority before the involvement of other interested non-founding entities and non-members.

1. discounts up to 5 % for TECES’ R&D services,
2. discounts up to 10 % for activities (education, training…) conducted and organised by TECES,
3. other discounts for various activities under the auspices of TECES (joint procurement of hardware or software, visits…),
4. possibility of using the results of partners’ joint projects,
5. possibility of joint applications to tenders for co-financing R&D activities and infrastructure subsidised on the basis of state, European or other tenders, and various Slovenian or EU incentives (e.g. European Structural Funds for regional development, 7th framework programme…),
6. possibility of collaboration in joint promotional activities,
7. mediation regarding enquiries from, and establishing contacts with, domestic and foreign business or other associations,
8. integration and brief presentation on the TECES information portal (pages featuring presentations of members),
9. e-notification with the latest information from TECES’ fields of activity
10. availability of the e-notification system for registered users of information portals under the auspices of TECES (tenders, events, notifications, inquiries…).

1. payment of annual membership fee.

Pursuant to decision No 2006-17 of the Board of the TECES Institute, adopted on 13 December 2006, the following shall apply:

the membership fee for a particular year depends on the member’s size; for large and medium-sized enterprises, the annual membership fee amounts to 500 € + VAT; for research institutions (faculties, institutes, technology centres, other research institutions, independent enterprises…) small and microenterprises, the annual membership fee amounts to 100 € + VAT.

Pursuant to Article 29 of the Statute of TECES Institute, the following procedure must be implemented for a new member to join the Institute:

1. an entity wishing to become a member of the Institute must submit to the Institute an accession statement stipulating its rights and obligations. The accession statement must be accompanied by a brief presentation of the applicant’s activities and the profit and loss account for the past three years;
2. the accession statement for membership, including the attachment, shall be considered and voted upon by the Board of the TECES Institute;
• on the day the consent for accession is issued by the Institute Board, the interested entity is awarded member status;
• in case the Institute Board refuses to issue consent for the accession of a new member, the accession statement is refused with a suitable explanation.

ATTACHED DOCUMENTS
Accession Statement for TECES Membership (336,0 KB)