Membership
Becoming a Member of SEAANZ
Who Should Join?
SEAANZ members consist of individuals and organisations from Australia and New Zealand who are interested in the growth and development of small enterprise. Members are presently from a wide range of institutions including:
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Small businesses where they are owner-managers or self-employed operators
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Business organisations
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Service providers to small enterprise
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Universities
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TAFE Colleges
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Business Enterprise Centres
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Private training institutions
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Government departments and agencies
Membership is open to all interested persons, and includes educators, researchers, students, professional business advisers, economic development agency staff, owners and senior managers of small and medium-sized firms and entrepreneurs.
SEAANZ members, in addition to other ECSB international members, will be able to renew their membership annually. All affiliate members will also have access to the ECSB website as a benefit of international affiliation.
Good reasons to join
There are numerous benefits to becoming a member of SEAANZ not the least of which is your membership brings you into the largest dedicated small business and entrepreneurship body in Oceania.
Membership of SEAANZ also provides you with:
- Affiliate membership of the European Council for Small Business;
- Affiliate membership of the Asia Council for Small Business; (broken)
- Participation in SEAANZ Annual Conferences; (broken)
- Access to other news and information sources from SEAANZ; (broken)
Our Individual Membership
Individual membership is available to all persons who are: full-time or part-time teachers or scholars of small enterprise management or related disciplines in educational institutions; consultants to small enterprise; employees of organizations with a significant involvement in small enterprise management education, research, training, advice or consulting; and to such other persons, including small enterprise operators, as may have a substantial interest in the advancement of scholarship in those disciplines.
Individual membership provides all benefits for one individual (Now Free).
Student Membership
Student membership is available to students enrolled for full-time courses in small enterprise management or similar programs, including doctoral research students, and to other persons having an interest in small enterprise. Please note that under the SEAANZ Constitution student members to stand for election to be an officer of the Association. Note that student membership is open to full time enrolled students only (Free).
Institutional supporter
This shall be available to those organisations with a substantial interest in the advancement of small enterprise including (but not limited to): educational institutions, small enterprise institutes or centres, consulting organisations, firms that provide professional service to small enterprise, government agencies, professional and trade associations and chambers of commerce.
Institutional membership allows the organisation to nominate two individuals with all membership benefits, promotional advertising on the SEAANZ website, links from the SEAANZ website, and promotion in the Networker (A$1,540 incl. GST).
Life Member
Life Membership is bestowed on those individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the work of SEAANZ and its mission of advancing research, education, policy and practice in the field of small enterprise. A list of SEAANZ Life Members can be found here.
Membership Renewals
Existing members can also renew by contacting Dr Miria Lazaris at the SEAANZ Secretariat.
New Membership applications
If you are a new member please download and complete the membership application form [download the membership form (PDF) ] and email to SEAANZ Secretariat or complete the online form.
If you want more information please feel free to contact:
Dr Miria Lazaris
SEAANZ Secretariat
Individual
- Individual membership provides all benefits for one individual
Student
- Student membership is open to full time enrolled students only
Institutional Supporter
- Allows the organisation to nominate two individuals
- Price includes GST
Secretariat
For more information on SEAANZ please use the form to the right or contact:
Ruth Jackson
SEAANZ Secretariat
admin@seaanz.org