Membership Fees

The membership of the Society consists of individuals and/or legal entities interested in the objectives of the organization, from any country or profession. Upon filling in the application form and becoming a member, one implicitly agrees to accept the Bylaws of the Society.

The annual membership dues are determined by the Council. Current classes of membership and the corresponding annual membership fees are given below.

Individual Memberships:

We invite you to join this young and vibrant Society and widen your horizons when it comes to porous media research. Join hands with hundreds of other researchers in promoting porous media science and technology. Increase your professional opportunities and/or the applicability of your research by learning about a very wide range of various porous media applications.

Institutional Memberships:

The contact person should login to their InterPore Member account here (or create a new account here) and choose an Institutional Membership.

After payment, we will contact you to coordinate activating your members. You may also send the names and email addresses of your members directly to membership@interpore.org. InterPore will then generate individual member accounts.

* SME refers to Small and Medium Enterprises. An enterprise is medium size if both criteria given below are fulfilled:
1. Number of employees is less than or equal to 250,
2. The turnover is less than 50 MEuro or Balance Sheet total is less than 43 MEuro.
More details on SME can be found here.

Group Membership for National Chapters from LMI countries

InterPore cordially invites the porous media communities of all countries to form national chapters.

National chapters offer elevated visibility, improved local and global networking, platforms for joint workshops and many other benefits. In addition, InterPore provides developing countries the possibility of an institutional membership at reduced rates**.

Find out more about successful national chapters to date here.

Academic researchers associated with national chapters from Low- and Middle-Income countries (LMI countries, as defined by the world bank, https://data.worldbank.org/country/XO) can qualify for special group membership.

A group of researchers from a national chapter of a LMI country can apply for group membership. They must be from academia or research institutes, and not affiliated with an industry. Contrary to regular institutional membership, they do not have to be from the same institution to qualify for this group membership.

There are two categories: small group formed by 15 researchers and large group formed by 35 researchers.

Academic 1 year60 €
Academic 2 years100 €
Academic 3 years145 €
Student 1 year30 €
Retired 1 year35 €
Industry (non SME*) 1 year200 €
Industry (SME*) 1 year80 €
younger than 40 years840 €
40 to 45 years720 €
46 to 50 years600 €
51 to 55 years480 €
56 to 60 years360 €
61 years and older240 €
Academic 1 year600 €
Academic 2 years1100 €
Academic 3 years1500 €
Academic 5 years2400 €
Industry (non SME*) 1 year2000 €
Industry (SME*) 1 year840 €
Industry (SME*) 2 years1500 €
Industry (SME*) 3 years2100 €
Industry (SME*) 5 years3400 €
small group 1 year300 €
small group 2 year530 €
small group 3 year690 €
large group 1 year600 €

Please note this category is only available to a group of researchers from a national chapter of a LMI country. They must be from academia or research institutes, and not affiliated with an industry. Contrary to regular institutional membership, they do not have to be from the same institution to qualify for this group membership.

There are two categories:

Small group formed by 15 researchers.

Large group formed by 35 researchers.