ALTE MEMBERS

ALTE is constituted as a European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG). Full membership of the association is only open to organisations from member countries of the European Union and European Economic Area. However, it is possible for EEIGs to admit Associate Members, the main difference being that Associate Members do not have voting rights within the EEIG.

Membership

There are 2 types of ALTE members:

Full members: organisations based within the EEA and whose primary activity is producing tests of their language as a second or foreign language who satisfy the criteria for membership and who have duly and successfully completed the ALTE auditing procedure.
Associate members: organisations which fulfil the criteria for full audited membership but which have their legal place of establishment outside the EEA.

Full membership

The usual procedure for an organisation wishing to join ALTE as a full member is first to send a letter to the ALTE Secretariat setting out an interest in joining. The interested organisation should provide information about the examinations it produces such as:

their levels
how many people take them
who sets them and how they are administered
what kind of statistical analyses of results are carried out
any new examinations which are planned for the future

The organisation seeking full membership may be asked to undergo an audit of one or more of its examinations. Please contact the ALTE Secretariat for further information on ALTE auditing procedures. Organisations may wish to first join ALTE as Institutional Affiliates in order to meet the members and learn about the organisation and its procedures.

The annual subscription for members is 2000 euros.

If you are interested in membership, please contact the ALTE Secretariat info@alte.org.

Associate Members

The procedure for associate members to join ALTE is the same as for full members. Associate Members have the same rights and obligations as full members, without voting rights and this is reflected in a lower annual subscription: 1000 euros

Both Full Members and Associate Members include their details on the ALTE web site, with links to their organisations’ home