DIN Financing: The FINA25 model
Transparent financing for future-proof standardization
Standards are a central pillar of the German economy. They promote innovation, quality and safety. To ensure that these standards can be further developed in a future-proof manner, DIN relies on sustainable and transparent financing.
The following information relates only to the internal standards committees of DIN.
How is DIN financed?
As a non-profit organization, DIN is mainly financed through the sale of standards, publications and services. Other sources include project funds from industry, public funding and membership fees. This broad funding enables independent standardization work at national, European and international level that is focused on the common good.
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Why FINA25?
DIN gives you, the expert, the opportunity to actively shape your markets — and to do so much more cost-effectively than with other approaches to market design. You gain access to several standardization bodies with just one contribution. In this way, we promote interdisciplinary cooperation and secure the competitiveness of the German economy — today and in the future.
The advantages at a glance:
- More transparency
- Increasing flexibility
- Better planning capability
- Easy involvement
The FINA25 model in detail
FINA25 is based on a two-pillar model. This model enables both the support of national standardization work and the financing of DIN-led European and international secretariats.
Pillar 1: Participation in our national standardization bodies
Pillar 1 comes into play if you are involved in our national standardization bodies, regardless of the standards committee. The contribution rates are based on the number of seats in the standardization bodies per expert.
Pillar 2: DIN-led CEN and ISO secretariats
Pillar 2 comes into play when DIN holds the secretariat of CEN and ISO bodies. Important secretarial tasks and services are secured on a permanent basis through project-related service contracts. Each secretariat (CEN or ISO committee) is calculated individually using a standardized tool and the service provided by DIN is contractually secured with the stakeholders.
Companies and institutions that participate in the financing of CEN and ISO secretariats can use a key visual to document both externally and internally that they support and promote standardization and thus also their economic innovation. The key visual can be used on the website, social media or even in the email template. It is therefore available in various formats. The key visual is provided internally by the standards committees. They are available in both German and English.
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