Associations, Federations and Special Interest Groups

Aware of the importance of international cooperation for the advancement of science, INSTICC works closely together with several other national and international associations and is proud to welcome them as partners in its activities or to arrange initiatives in cooperation with them.

While several forms of partnership are welcome, INSTICC places special value in "Technical Co-Sponsorships", by means of which both associations support each other from a scientific perspective for their mutual benefit. Additionally, in this case, members of partner organizations benefit from the same registration conditions as INSTICC members.

Current Institutional Partners:

Workflow Management Coalition

Founded in 1993, the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) is a global organization of adopters, developers, consultants, analysts, as well as university and research groups engaged in workflow and BPM. The WfMC creates and contributes to process related standards, educates the market on related issues, and is the only standards organization that concentrates purely on process. The WfMC created Wf-XML and XPDL, the leading process definition language used today in over 80 known solutions to store and exchange process models. XPDL is a process design format for storing the visual diagram and all design time attributes.

http://www.wfmc.org/

Object Management Group

The Object Management Group (OMG®) is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry standards consortium. Founded in 1989, OMG standards are driven by vendors, end-users, academic institutions and government agencies.

http://www.omg.org/

EDSO for Smart Grids

EDSO for Smart Grids gathers leading European distribution system operators (DSOs) for electricity, cooperating to bring smart grids from vision to reality in Europe and is focused on guiding EU RD&D, policy and member state regulation to support this development.

http://www.edsoforsmartgrids.eu/

IEEE TCSC Technical Area in Green Computing

The primary aim of the Technical Areas of Green Computing is to create a Technical Resource Center, which provides introductory information and various challenges in the area of Green Computing, links to major R&D projects around the world of Green Computing.

http://sameekhan.org/

IEEE Power & Energy Society

The Power & Energy Society (PES) provides the world's largest forum for sharing the latest in technological developments in the electric power industry, for developing standards that guide the development and construction of equipment and systems, and for educating members of the industry and the general public. Members of the Power & Energy Society are leaders in this field, and they — and their employers — derive substantial benefits from involvement with this unique and outstanding association.

http://www.ieee-pes.org/

ACM SIGCAS

http://www.sigcas.org/

Associação Portuguesa de Engenharia do Ambiente

http://www.apea.pt/

Israeli Smart Energy Association

The Israeli Smart Energy Association, ISEA, serves as a national platform, bringing together local and global Smart Energy players and stakeholders to share knowledge, drive initiatives, and build partnerships.
Through its members, supporters, and affiliations, ISEA currently leads local and global Smart Energy Innovation frameworks which are aimed at shaping the industry and driving economic growth.

http://www.isea.org.il/

European Alternative Fuels Observatory

http://www.eafo.eu/

Smart Cities Council

The Smart Cities Council is a commercial consortium representing the world's foremost smart city practitioners and innovators dedicated to improving the livability, workability and sustainability of the world’s cities.
The Council has a network of 40+ companies and 75+ expert advisors, including two national laboratories and 11 universities from seven countries. Together, the Council’s member companies employ well over 1,000,000 people in 150+ countries. Over the past five years, they have completed more than 5,000 smart city projects all over the world.

http://smartcitiescouncil.com/

OSGP Alliance

OSGP Alliance, founded in 2006 as the Energy Services Network Association (ESNA), is an independent global, not-for-profit association that promotes the adoption of the Open Smart Grid Protocol (OSGP) and related services and infrastructure for smart grid applications. Members include utilities, software, hardware and service providers, and solution integrators that share a common goal and vision for promoting open standards for energy demand side management, smart grid and smart metering systems.

OSGP Alliance promotes the change in perspective of the current metering business, from selling isolated units, into offering interoperable smart meter management systems as an embedded element in the total value chain of energy sales and distribution. In addition, AMM, based on OSGP AMI architecture, offers added value in achieving the political objectives such as; saving energy and reducing CO2 blast and ensuring stability of the grid. Last but not least it will also contribute to more consumer satisfaction, in supporting a better understanding of energy consumption and as basis for a competitive energy purchase.
http://www.osgp.org/

Friends of the Supergrid

Friends of the Supergrid-FOSG are a group of international companies sharing a mutual interest in promoting the concept of open markets in electricity transmission, trans-national interconnection and exploiting the resulting business opportunities. This development in interconnection has become known as “Supergrid”. FOSG combines companies in sectors that will deliver the HVDC infrastructure and related technology, together with companies that will develop, install, own and operate that infrastructure. Supergrid is defined as: “a pan-European transmission network facilitating the integration of large-scale renewable energy and the balancing and transportation of electricity, with the aim of improving the European market.

http://www.friendsofthesupergrid.eu/