Secretariat

 
 
 
 
 

Based at Sophia Antipolis in the South of France, the ETSI Secretariat supports all the Institute's entities and activities.

ETSI Secretariat's Structure

Around 120 staff members provide the ETSI community with technical, project, administrative and logistical support. The Secretariat is headed by a Director-General assisted by six Vice Presidents each responsible for a different Competence Centre.

ETSI main building

In addition technical experts are based at ETSI headquarters on a full or part-time basis in Specialist Task Forces. At any time, about 30 STFs are active, that is 100 experts.

ETSI Secretariat's Objectives and Activities

The Secretariat's objectives and activities are based on a Business Plan  which is established annually by the ETSI Director-General.ETSI Secretariat's Objectives.

The Secretariat's main objectives are:

  • to maintain our role as a world-class ICT (telecommunications/electronic communications) standards-making organization and
  • to serve the ETSI Members for the best of their interests and for the benefit of the Institute.

ETSI Secretariat's Activities 

General

Most of the support to the Technical Organization comes from dedicated support teams:

  • the ETSI Standardization Projects (ESP) Competence Centre
    • Technical Body Support (TBS)
    • Editing and Document Management (EDM)
  • the International Partnership Projects (IPP) Competence Centre
    • Mobile International Partnership Project (MCC)
    • Other International Partnership Project (OIP).

Here, Support Officers and Assistants look after individual committees and projects, whilst a team of editing specialists assist with the processing, approval and publication of standards and reports that are drafted by the committees/projects.

Services

Interopolis and Forapolis are ETSI's standards enabling services allowing us to provide the full range of standardization related services, giving 'Idea to Product' solutions for Organizations, Alliances, Fora and Consortia external to ETSI.  Whereas Forapolis is technology-enabling, Interopolis is product-enabling.
The Forapolis value proposition consists of a high quality, flexible and cost efficient association management services portfolio including Business Process Management, Administration, IT, Meeting support and Legal advice. We are able to assist clients through all phases of their activity from establishment through business development to full scale operation.
 
Interopolis offers high quality and experienced support on test methodology, test specification development, interoperability initiatives (including interoperability events), training, test tool frameworks and validation support.

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