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Membership

Effective Membership

All members of the General Assembly are effective members of the EORTC. In addition, members of the EORTC Groups and EORTC Committees are associate members of the organisation.

Associate Membership

Investigators who recruit patients into EORTC clinical trials and contribute to laboratory research conducted for these clinical studies or to other EORTC activities approved by the Board are admitted as associate members. They must be natural persons.

Applications of candidate associate members are submitted for assessment by the Membership Committee. They may be submitted by the candidate directly or by a Group Chair. The Membership Committee delivers its recommendation to the Board. A Group Chair may appeal to the General Assembly against the refusal of an application he or she had submitted.

Associate membership is granted for an initial probationary period ending immediately prior to the date of the third ordinary General Assembly held after the admission of the associate member.
Associate membership can then be renewed for successive periods of three years. The Board decides on the renewals at its last meeting before each ordinary General Assembly. A Group Chair may appeal to the General Assembly against the refusal to renew the associate membership of a member of his or her group.

The Board may withdraw the associate membership from members who no longer meet the admissibility criteria applied by the Board (a minimum of 15 patients recruited over the last 3 years across all EORTC Groups) or upon recommendation of the Quality Assurance Committee for lack of compliance or quality.

In some circumstances, other types of membership may be considered for scientists who bring a substantial contribution to the activities of a group without recruiting patients into clinical trials (basic scientists, pathologists, and radiologists, etc.). Foreign membership may be considered for“temporary” affiliation of an institution with an EORTC Group in the context of a specific clinical trial provided that EORTC rules allowing foreign membership have been followed.