Join FEMTEC
What are the benefits of joining FEMTEC?
Participation in FEMTEC offers the following benefits:
- Information and knowledge sharing:
- through the FEDERATION, organizations from different backgrounds and at different levels will interact and contribute to the achievement of a common vision
- FEMTEC publications will be posted on the web site
- material of discussion during the General Meeting and Planning Group will be posted on the web site
- Increased access to technical, financial, human and physical resources, provided by different collaborating parties according to their comparative advantages
- Recognition:
- participants will be highlighted on FEMTEC web site
- participants will be mentioned in FEMTEC publications
- participants may create a link to the Alliance in their web site
- Reputation and enhanced credibility:
- participants will benefit from being part of an Alliance that has a positive role in the surveillance, prevention and control of chronic respiratory diseases.
- Participation:
- participants will take part in the annual General Meeting and their views and issues can be passed on to global health decision makers
- participants will be invited and asked to share their expertise on different FEMTEC activities and projects
- Networking and collaboration towards a greater ‘reach’:
- through the Federation parties have the opportunity to network, collaborate and coordinate activities to achieve FEMTEC vision, goal and objective
- Opportunities to contribute to FEMTEC tool development:
- parties have the opportunity to contribute their experiences and expertise to Federation publications and other tools and activities
How to join FEMTEC
The FEMTEC Members are:
- Inter-governmental Organizations, including the World Health Organization
- Governmental institutions and agencies;
- WHO Collaborating Centres
- Professional and Patients’ Organizations, with a main active involvement in the fields of hydrotherapy, balneology, physical rehabilitation, complementary medicine, health tourism, SPA management, training, economy, human anthropology
- Foundations and Researches Institutes active in the field of hydrotherapy
Your organization falls under the category of participant and you are interested in joining FEMTEC? Please do send us the following documentation:
- Introduction form: DOWNLOAD HERE
- Constitution / Terms of Reference
- Declaration of intent to attend FEMTEC meetings on a regular basis
- One-page proposal (max 500 words) for technical projects to be developed within FEMTEC
FEMTEC Board of Directors will evaluate the application according to the following criteria:
- Credibility of the organization
- Present infrastructure / Staffing in place
- Financial base for support of activities
- Technical capability
Contact and information: Dr.Natalia Chaurskaya (natmo@mail.ru)
What are the responsibilities of a Member?
Participants will be encouraged to:
- contribute to FEMTEC activities by sharing new ideas, data, best practices and other resources. Resources include the full range of technical, human, knowledge, physical and financial resources and assistance with communication or networking
- actively initiate and participate in collaborative activities with FEMTEC collaborating parties
- share knowledge and information concerning chronic respiratory diseases related activities, success stories, lessons learnt, reports, articles and projects
- attend and contribute to the General Meeting
- participate and support the implementation of the publications
- promote FEMTEC
- focus on countries activities
Role of a Member
The Member is expected to:
- Participate in the discussions and deliberations of FEMTEC General Assembly and strategic decisions.
- Participate through his vote in the decision-making process