Membership

Our VDE Community

Our passion is the advancement of technology, the next generation of engineers and technologists, and lifelong learning and career development “on the job”. Within the VDE network, more than 100,000 honorary experts, and 1,500 companies are dedicated to ensuring a future worth living: networked, digital, electrical.

Interested? Take a look at the advantages offered by a VDE membership, and check out our attractive package offers – including free first-year membership for new members.

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VDE Personal Membership

Publishing date: 2022-02-17

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VDE Corporate Membership

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Publishing date: 2022-02-17

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Your Advantages

An interdisciplinary and international network of experts
Continuing education opportunities and knowledge transfers
Prizes for research and young talents
Professional studies and position papers
Attractively priced meetings/ seminars and journals/magazines
Free literature searches for research purposes
Free VDE VISA card
Attractive car rental offers from Sixt
No membership fee in first year

Club Advantages in the VDE YoungNet

Over 14,000 students and young professionals enjoy these benefits:

VDE university groups and YoungNet service
University and professional networking
Job exchanges
Free admission to many VDE events*
Free FAZ university guide*
1 year subscription to etz*

* for students

What does VDE membership cost?

Individual members pay no fees for the first year.

	Annual fees
Full members	86,-- Euro*
Special rates:
Job starter, first four years after completion of studies, to maximum of age 34	43,-- Euro
Junior members (students), to maximum of age 30	16,-- Euro

*25 percent fee discount for multiple Memberships

Membership in the first professional society is free. An additional 10 euros is charged for the second extra society membership and 20 euros for every further society membership.
Additional society memberships are free of charge for junior members.

Multiple memberships

Individual VDE Members paying an annual fee of 86 € are entitled to a discount of 25 % in membership fee, 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.
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