Help shape the future now. Whether you are an expert, a manager, a student or young professional: As a VDE member, you can make a valuable contribution in the fields of
- innovation and progress
- safety and sustainability
- standardization and consumer protection
- technology acceptance and young talents
This is your contribution to our society and to Germany as a business and investment location – upholding our VDE tradition of over 125 years.
Join one of the world’s major technology associations
- become an active member and help shape the future of electrical engineering – take responsibility and support the neutral and non-profit work of the VDE e.V. (registered association)
- continue to expand your expertise
- join our network – more than 100,000 experts and about 1,500 companies have already become VDE members.
Your VDE membership offers you both personal and professional advantages:
- gain access to interdisciplinary networks of more than 100,000 experts on a global, regional and local level
- gain an advance in expertise from more than 1,600 VDE congresses and seminars taking place every year
- expand your professional knowledge using VDE studies, innovation updates and the VDE dialog magazine
- benefit from discounts for our events and also partner services such as Sixt, HRS and Visa
Create a better career start as a student or young professional:
- use our career platform VDE Young Net
- practice-oriented seminars such as “Der Übergang vom Studium zum Beruf” (Transition from studying to working) support you in starting your career
- students and young professionals are offered free entry to VDE conferences, subject to availability
- you will have free access to the technology magazine VDE dialog and also to an annual subscription of the etz journal
Free first-year membership for new members!
Your active interest and fresh energy will support VDE activities:
- promotion of research, science and young talents
- international collaboration in subjects of technology and education
- transfer of technological expertise among science and industry
- testing and certification of components, equipment and systems
- publication of journals and books
Membership fee
- Good from the start – free of charge in the year of joining, basically a professional society free of charge, from the second year on 86 Euro p.a.
- Experience innovation – with free admission to the Hanover Fair
- Be flexible and mobile – with the free VDE Visa Card, favorable conditions at Sixt and HRS.
VDE membership fees are non-profit and tax deductible!
Termination
Notice of resignation must be given in writing at least 3 months before the end of the year.
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VDE membership fees
VDE membership fees are non-profit and tax deductible! (Currently only available in German.)
Multiple memberships
Individual VDE members are given a 25% membership fee discount if they also belong to one or more of the following associations and societies:
- DECHEMA Deutsche Gesellschaft für chemisches Apparatewesen
- DEGA Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik
- DGG Deutsche Glastechnische Gesellschaft
DGMK Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mineralölwissenschaft und Kohletechnik - DPG Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
- DVS Deutscher Verein für Schweißtechnik
- FME Fachausschuß des maschinen- und elektrotechnischen Dienstes
- GDCh Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
- GI Gesellschaft für Informatik
- IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- IEICE Communications Society of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
- KIVI NIRIA Koninklijk Instituut Van Ingenieurs
- LitG Lichttechnische Gesellschaft
- SEEEI Society of Electrical and Electronic Engineers in Israel
- VDEh Verein Deutscher Eisenhüttenleute
- VDI Verein Deutscher Ingenieure
European membership
VDE members automatically belong to EUREL (Federation of the National Electrotechnical Associations of Europe) as well. When traveling abroad, VDE members enjoy the same privileges (discounted participation fees, use of libraries, etc.) as the members of local professional associations. Local VDE offices issue EUREL membership cards.
EUREL-Homepage: www.EUREL.org
Further memberships
German Committee of CIGRE at VDE
CIGRE – the international forum in the field of electrical power generation, transmission and distribution
CIGRÉ (Conseil International des Grands Réseaux Electriques) unites experts worldwide who are involved in the planning, construction, operation, service, development and design of equipment and systems for power plants and electrical power transmission and distribution networks.
- Planners and operators receive approaches to solutions for the safe and economical operation of the networks.
- The manufacturing industry benefits from insights into requirements, stresses and operational experience of products and systems, which are incorporated into new developments.
- Energy traders gain insight into what is technically and economically feasible.
- Science has a forum at its disposal where it can discuss its latest findings with users in a practice-oriented manner.
- Companies have the opportunity to benchmark with other companies.
- The members get an intensive personal contact to colleagues all over the world.
- In particular, CIGRE offers young engineers the opportunity to develop and become known on an international level.
CIGRE makes a significant contribution to the safe, environmentally friendly and economical supply of electrical energy to the world’s population.
Through its technical work, CIGRE influences IEC international standardization.
CIGRE can look back on more than 80 years of experience. CIGRE’s current membership of around 6,300 is made up of 5,300 personal members and around 1,000 corporate members from more than 80 countries.
