What EGNATON stands for
- smaller life cycle costs, extended life cycles, and smaller insurance premiums,
- an increase in the value of the real estate, higher productivity,
- an improved image of the laboratory technology,
- reduced operator risks, location security,
- positive influences on the health of the users,
- reduced effects on cultural environment, environment and local structures and
preservation of resources.
The initiative obtains a paradigm shift in the public acknowledgement of laboratory sciences, chemical and pharmaceutical industry and life sciences.
Identity and culture
EGNATON is a European association and does not base on existing national bodies. To strengthen the objectives of EGNATON and accelerate the proceedings, we necessarily bundle the European interests in one organisation. EGNATON will work on a balanced representation of European countries and their habits.
EGNATON will not support the establishment of mirror organisations but shall collaborate with different national organisations obliged to sustainability.
EGNATON language is English. However, the website and any literature may show other languages.
EGNATON is based upon the German laws for associations. It operates according to democratic rules. The bodies are obliged to work on a unanimous vote.
Constitution and Bodies
The association EGNATON e.V., founded in 2009 according to German association law, has slightly more than 100 members, who elect their president, the praesidium and the board of directors at the general meeting. See the box on the right.
The members of the Executive Board, including the two Managing Directors, are responsible externally in the sense of § 26 of the German Civil Code (BGB). Therefore, the two managing directors have an exclusive right of representation for the association within the scope of their statutory duties.
The statutes of the association (GER, ENG) regulate details.
Membership and members
The attractiveness of European locations for scientists worldwide is strongly related to the fact that in Europe, sustainability is also beginning to prevail in the planning, construction, and operation of research and laboratory buildings. EGNATON members are following this spirit.
Some of these companies are global players, some are on their way there, and others have more European, national or regional significance. What they all have in common, however, is a particular commitment to sustainability.
If your company wants to support EGNATON's sustainability goals, too, we would be glad if you would join us as a member or sponsor our association. Please talk to us.
EGNATON
- turns to all enterprises, organisations, public and institutional laboratory operators, those with the planning and the enterprise of laboratories are concerned and recruit their membership.
- appeals for the membership of persons and associations at home and abroad, who dedicate themselves to the goals of sustainable laboratory technologies.
- works for a world-wide network the sustainability sees itself obligated.
- wants to prevent the politicization of the sustainability thought, in order to arrange thereby „sustainability also sustainable“. It is necessary to promote and develop technologies and initiate relevant research projects.
- works consciously in the international context in order to prevent single-handed attempts and to gain a harmonization of the valuation criteria from sustainable laboratory technologies.
we all are members of EGNATON
EGNATON e.V. in facts
Presidium
Miguel Antunes Pinto (President) / PharmaArquitetos, Porto, PT
Dr. Christoph Heinekamp (Vice-President) / dr. heinekamp labor- und institutsplanung, DE
Mario Don Porto Carero (Vice-President) / Johnson & Johnson, Beerse, BE
Bernd Gmeiner (Managing Director) / EGNATON, Ensdorf, DE
Angelika Malinowski - Max Planck Society
Angelika Malinowski, Max Planck Society
Jens Feddern - Siemens Schweiz AG
Maike Kranz - Carpus+Partner AGung
Executive Board in the definition of § 26 BGB
Bernd Gmeiner (Managing Director) / EGNATON, Ensdorf, DE
Miguel Antunes Pinto (President) / PharmaArquitetos, Porto, PT
Dr. Christoph Heinekamp (Vice-President) / dr. heinekamp labor- und institutsplanung, DE
Mario Don Porto Carero (Vice-President) / Johnson & Johnson, Beerse, BE
Managing Director
Bernd Gmeiner (Managing Director) / EGNATON, Ensdorf, DE
Registration Code
Landgericht: Darmstadt Registerblatt VR 82752
Name / postal address
European Association for sustainable Laboratories EGNATON e.V
Im Eichenböhl 4 | D-64625 Bensheim | Germany
Bank details and tax ID
Auditors
Commerzbank Bensheim
SORT CODE 508 400 05 - Account no. 630117000
IBAN DE31 5084 0005 0630 1170 00 - BIC COBADEFFXXX
Tax number: 007 227 15639 - Sales tax ID: DE267995660
Gabi Lilienthal (Univ. Frankfurt) - Matthias Beyer (BeyerConsult)
Court of Arbitration
Stephan Eckbert Borger/Pharmaplan
