Secretariat

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

ETSI Secretariat Structure

Around 120 staff members provide technical, project, administrative and logistical support to ETSI. The Secretariat is headed by the Director-General of the institute.

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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 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:

  • Committee Support Centre
  • Mobile Competence Centre
  • OneM2M Competence Centre
  • Document Production Centre

Here, Support Officers and Assistants look after individual committees and projects, whilst a team ofediting 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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