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Sponsoring the Canadian ISO/TC 266 Mirror Committee

Thanks for sponsoring Melina Angel to be the second Canadian mirror committee delegate at the October 20-22, 2014 annual ISO/TC 266 meeting in Liège, Belgium.  The ISO/TC 266 Biomimetics Standard Initiative provides an overview of the initiative (9MB PDF, first published in Zygote Quarterly issue 10).

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Please consider a minimum sponsorship of $50.  You can request that your sponsorship be anonymous by expanding the Please indicate if you prefer anonymity box on the confirmation page and entering your instructions.  Note that we are not a registered charitable organisation and therefore cannot issue charitable donation receipts.

Thanks in advance from the Canadian mirror committee:

Mojtaba Ahmadi, Melina Angel, Edwin DeMont, Stephen Dewar, Marjan Eggermont, Carl Hastrich, Norbert Hoeller, Shoshanah Jacobs, Mark Kerbel, Philip Ling and Filippo Salustri

Click on the image below for a copy of the sponsorship letter:

Terms & Conditions

  • Funds will be held in trust by Norbert Hoeller, chair of the Canadian ISO/TC 266 mirror committee and will only be disbursed upon presentation of expense receipts.  Mark Kerbel will also receive notification of all PayPal transactions and will audit the disbursements.
  • All funds will be refunded if the $3,000 CAD goal is not reached by September 19th or Melina Angel is unable to attend the ISO/TC 266 annual meeting.
  • No fees will be deducted from funds other than PayPal transaction and currency exchange charges.
  • Any funds not used to cover Melina’s travel and living expenses will be used to defray Filippo Salustri’s expenses.
  • No charitable donation receipt will be issued since the Canadian ISO/TC 266 mirror committee is not a registered charity.
  • Credit card charges or bank withdrawals will be from Canadian ISO/TC 266 Mirror Committee or SMCISOTC266, the official short form of the mirror committee.