ECA

ECA may refer to:

Government and government agencies:

• Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, a part of the United States Department of State
• Economic Cooperation Administration, a former United States government agency
• European Chemicals Agency, an agency of the European Union
• European Court of Auditors, an institution of the European Union
• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, a commission to encourage economic cooperation among African countries
• Export credit agency, a financial institution with intermediation functions between national governments and foreign companies

Law:

• European Communities Act 1972 (UK), an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
• European Communities Act 1972 (Ireland), an act of the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament)
• Early case assessment, the estimation of risk and cost to prosecute or defend a legal case

Education:

• ACES Educational Center for the Arts, an arts school in New Haven, Connecticut, USA
• Escuela Campo Alegre, an American international school in Caracas, Venezuela
• Edinburgh College of Art, an art school in Edinburgh, Scotland
• Education Corporation of America, a company running schools in southern USA states
• Escola de Comunicações e Artes (School of Communication And Arts), of the University of São Paulo, Brazil
• Evangelical Christian Academy (disambiguation)
• Evangel Christian Academy, in Shreveport, Louisiana

Medicine and anatomy:

• ECA stack, a drug combination of ephedrine, caffeine, and aspirin
• External carotid artery, a major artery
• Emergency care assistant, an ambulance driver in the United Kingdom

Organizations:

• Ecosystems Climate Alliance, an alliance of eleven NGOs committed to keeping natural terrestrial ecosystems intact
• Electronic Cigarette Association, a trade association for the electronic cigarette industry
• Electronic Components Association, ECA represents designers, manufacturers and suppliers of passive and electromechancial electronic components, connectors ,wire and cable, component arrays and assemblies, and materials and support
• Entertainment Consumers Association, a membership organization representing North American video game consumers
• European Cheerleading Association, an association representing cheerleading in Europe
• European Club Association, an association of European football clubs, which was founded in January 2008
• European Cockpit Association
• European Canoe Association, the European governing body for canoeing

Science and technology:

• Electrical circuit analysis, an aspect of Network analysis
• Embodied conversational agent, a type of embodied agent in artificial intelligence
• Enterprise Collaboration Architecture, a standard of the Object Management Group
• Event condition action, a principle to define triggers in a database
• Elementary cellular automaton, a class of simple mathematical models of spatially extended systems
• Ethyl cyanoacrylate, a type of glue

Other:

• Easington Catchment Area, a group of natural gas fields in the North Sea
• ECA International, a consulting firm
• Elemental Cost Analysis, a method of recording which enables the cost of a scheme to be monitored during design development; see Elemental cost planning
• Eurocypria Airlines
• Electronic Arts, a computer-game company
• ECA Services, an industrial and medical computer supplier
• Europe and Central Asia, an abbreviation used by the World Bank