Member Societies

Our Member Societies serve the microbiology community through providing resources, building capacity, and stimulating collaboration. Microbiological societies can apply to become a FEMS Member Society, but individuals can apply to become a member of a FEMS Member Society. If you are a member of one of our Member Societies, then your Society can pass on the unique member benefits to your membership by being a part of FEMS.

How to join a FEMS Member Society
Have a look at the Member Societies below and find out more about them, learn how you can join them or contact them.

FEMS Member Societies
Currently, we have one Affiliated Organization, the European Culture Collections’ Organisation. Please note that if you are a member of a Affiliated Organization, you are partially eligible for FEMS membership benefits, as described here.

country/region FULL Member societies
Armenia Armenian Microbiological Association
Austria Austrian Association of Molecular Life Sciences and Biotechnology
Austria Austrian Society for Hygiene, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine
Belarus Belarussian Non-governmental Association of Microbiologists
Belgium Belgian Society for Microbiology
Bosnia-Herzegovina Microbiology Society of BiH
Bulgaria Bulgarian Society for Microbiology (Union of Scientists in Bulgaria)
Croatia Croatian Microbiological Society
Czech Republic & Slovakia Czechoslovak Society for Microbiology
Denmark Danish Microbiological Society
Estonia Estonian Society for Microbiology
Finland Finnish Biochemical, Biophysical, and Microbiological Society
France French Society for Microbiology
French-speaking regions Francophone Association for Microbial Ecology
Georgia Georgian Association for General and Applied Microbiology
Germany German Society of Hygiene and Microbiology
Germany Association for General and Applied Microbiology
German-speaking regions Society for Virology
Global International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation Society
Greece Greek Society of Microbiology
Greece Society of Mikrobiokosmos
Hungary Hungarian Society for Microbiology
Iceland Microbiological Society of Iceland
Israel Israel Society for Microbiology
Italy Italian Society for Virology
Italy Italian Society of General Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnologies
Italy Italian Society of Agro-Food and Microbial Biotechnologies
Italy Italian Association for Clinical Microbiology
Italy Italian Society of Microbiology
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Association of Human Microbiome Researchers
Kosovo Kosovo Society for Microbiology
Latvia Latvian Society for Microbiology
Lithuania Lithuanian Microbiological Society
Luxembourg Luxembourg Society for Microbiology
Macedonia, Republic of Macedonian Microbiological Society
Moldova Society for Microbiology of Moldova
Netherlands, The Royal Netherlands Society for Microbiology
Norway Norwegian Society for Microbiology
Poland Polish Society of Microbiologists
Portugal Portuguese Society of Microbiology
Russia Interregional Russian Microbiological Society
Russia Interregional Association for Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Russia All-Russian Public Organization “National Academy of Mycology”
Serbia Serbian Society for Microbiology
Slovenia Slovenian Microbiological Society
Spain Spanish Society for Microbiology
Spain Spanish Society for Virology
Sweden Swedish Society for Microbiology
Switzerland Swiss Society for Microbiology
Turkey Turkish Society of Microbiology
Ukraine Society of Microbiologists of Ukraine
United Kingdom and Ireland Microbiology Society
United Kingdom Applied Microbiology International
United Kingdom British Phycological Society
United Kingdom British Mycological Society

 

 

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All but one of the FEMS journals are now fully open access (OA), with one journal, FEMS Microbiology Letters remaining a subscription journal with free-to-publish and OA options. Open access is key to supporting the FEMS mission of disseminating high quality research as widely as possible: when high quality, peer reviewed sound science is open access, anyone, anywhere in the world with an internet connection, can read it.

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