Membership

Membership of TCI is open to all individual and organisations throughout the private, public and voluntary sector coming from all the countries.
The Competitiveness Institute is financed through annual membership fees and through the revenues coming from conferences and certain services offered to the members and to general public.

Membership types

Members are grouped into three different categories:

Ordinary Members: The Competitiveness Institute's ordinary members can be individual cluster practitioners with at least two years of proven experience in cluster projects.
Supporting Members: Non-profit organizations, government agencies, or multilateral organizations dedicated to fostering economic development participating as economic supporters of The Competitiveness Institute.
Honorary Members: Nominated by the Board of Directors in recognition for their contribution to the Association.

To learn more about the advantages of the Organizational membership, download the information flyer.

Fees

All members of The Competitiveness Institute (except honorary members) are requested to contribute financially to its operation through the payment of a membership fee.
Annual membership fees are:

2000 Euros for supporting members (public agencies, universities and other public or non profit organizations)
200 Euros for individual members
20 Euros for student membership as ordinary members

Register

Use the on line registration form

Download the membership application form Application Form 2008 and send it by mail, email or fax. See details below.

The membership fee includes:

access to the reserved area in The Competitiveness Institute web page
access to latest ideas and methodologies in cluster development
discounts and preferential rates on The Competitiveness Institute products and other services
use of The Competitiveness Institute logo and promoting material

Payment methods

You can pay the membership fee either by bank transfer or with a credit card. You may make secure, quick and easy creditcard payments using PayPal

You may also choose to make online payments using our bank's secure payments system (VISA/Mastercard/Tarjeta6000). Beware that our bank, La caixa, is unable to process some of the common credit card payments.

For bank transfer, please use this account:
Bank: "la Caixa"
Account No.: 2100 0362 18 0200210551;
SWIFT code: CAIXESBB
IBAN ES86 2100 0362 1802 0021 0551

There are several ways to register: on line, by email, by mail or by fax. Once you have paid the corresponding fee, you are a member of TCI.

Register on line

Mail, email, Fax

Download application form in Word format

Fill in the form and send it to TCI:

The Competitiveness Institute
Valles Technology Park
08290 Barcelona - SPAIN
Tel. +34 93 5824483
Fax. +34 93 5504469

Membership applications may also be send by email (as an attached file) to pvaldenebro @ competitiveness.org
or by fax to +34 93 5504469

Attached files:

PromotionOrg.doc

TCI Organizational Member-application form-2008.doc