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TECOM Schweiz

TECOM Schweiz, the Swiss society for technical communication was founded at Zurich in February 1987. Members of this free and neutral branch association are

authors, editors, illustrators and other technical communicators,
operative as contractors, employees or independent individuals
in the applied science (R&D, technical laboratories, software, etc.)
in different industries (mostly in the machine industry for investment and consumer goods)
in domestic trade, economy, banking, advertising or translation business, etc.
and working in, for or with professional companies, offering technical communication services in all its exciting aspects.

The society offers to its members branch information, further development of TC, national and international contacts and corresponding events on technical communication as workshops and seminars.

Some more data in brief form:

Officers
President/INTECOM Delegate:	Annette Verhein Jarren	averhein@hsr.ch
Secretary:	Marcelle Becker	mbecker@verbalis.ch
Webmaster:	Gaston Pfister	webmaster@tecom.ch
Members
Membership:	282
	127 individual members, 155 members out of 56 company members

Activities:

Annual Conference	Held each January
Other Activities	Development and promotion of a qualified modular professional training course on technical communication, approved by the Swiss federal authorities Development of a certification programme Association with tekom (Germany), since 1.1.2002.
Planned Activities	Founding of a regional chapter in the French-speaking Switzerland

Website with more information and events (in German language): www.tecom.ch