IEC and Academia

This section of the IEC website is dedicated to the academic world, professors, researchers and students.

From academic papers on "Consideration of the economic, business and social impact of the development and use of International Standards for end-users at any level of business activity" to lecture series and basics on eletrotechnical standardization, we are making available a wealth of documents.

Academic papers
A library of recently published papers from Academia highlighting the social and economic benefits of International Standardization.

Lecture series
A resource developed specifically for use by lecturers in universities and business and engineering schools. All lectures in Powerpoint available for download (no request needed).

About standardization
These presentations take you through the standardization process - from an idea to a draft document to the consensus-based International Standard.

Sample standard & working documents development
Samples of working documents illustrating the progression from initial proposal to final standard.

Subscribe to e-mail alert services
To keep in touch with developments, we highlight the electronic newsletters available for free subscription.

IEC Challenge
The IEC competition organized in association with The Economist and in partnership with IET, IEEE and VDE.

IEC cooperation with ISO and ITU on Academia
The IEC, through the World Standards Cooperation or WSC, coordinates and shares best practices on initiatives aimed at academia with its partners, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Please see www.itu.int/ITU-T/academia and http://www.iso.org for the respective information for academia.