Commissions

A CIB Commission is a worldwide network of experts in a defined scientific area who meet regularly and exchange information on a voluntary basis.

The scope, objectives and work programme of each Commission are defined by its members and officially approved by the CIB Programme Committee.
Most Commissions have one Coordinator, who is appointed by its members and by the CIB Programme Committee.
Some Commissions have not one but two Joint Coordinators and some have a Secretary also.
Some Commissions have set up Working Groups to focus on specific parts of the work programme and some have established their own projects in which Commission members or their institutes collaborate.
Most Commissions have annual plenary meetings, which are organised by a CIB member organisation represented in the Commission. Certain Commissions however, have more frequent plenary meetings and/or additional meetings of their Working Groups. Also most Commissions at regular intervals organise an international symposium, conference or workshop.

Although there are a few Commissions which only act as a platform for an informal exchange of information between their members, most also produce official publications featuring their output which are then distributed within the CIB community and sold externally on a commercial basis.

A growing number of these Commissions now have their own Home Page and there are also some which have a liaison with an officially CIB Encouraged Journal covering their particular area of expertise.

In order to give an insight in the programme of CIB's current Commissions (as at January 2011) two documents can be downloaded: an overview of the scope and objectives of all Commissions and also the most recent list of all CIB Commissions as they relate to the CIB Priority Themes and Areas of Scientific Interest.

For each Commission detailed information on its Scope and Objectives, Work Programme, Meeting Schedule, Publications, External Relations, Membership and Electronic Addresses is given in the section "Commissions" of the part "Data Base" of this Home Page.