ITOC
International Timescales with Optical Clocks

Our consortium brought together all European national measurement institutes that are active in the field of optical atomic clocks, as well as experts in general relativity theory and in regional and global gravity field modelling. The project coordinator was Dr Helen Margolis from NPL.

National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
UK

Cesky Metrologicky Institut (CMI)
Czech Republic

Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM)
Italy

Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d'Essais (LNE)
France

Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy
Finland

Observatoire de Paris (OBSPARIS), SYRTE laboratory
France

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Germany

We had an associated researcher excellence grant (REG)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH)
Germany

OBSPARIS worked closely with the following linked third parties:

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
France

Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)
France

We also had an associated researcher mobility grant (RMG)

Cesky Metrologicky Institut (CMI)
Czech Republic

Collaborators

  • Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane
    France

  • Institute of Metrology of Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • DIATI-POLITO (Politecnico di Torino)
    Italy

  • Observatoire Royal de Belgique
    Belgium

  • TimeTech GmbH
    Germany

  • National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Japan

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology
    USA

The research within this EURAMET joint research project receives funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme, ERA-NET Plus, under Grant Agreement No. 217257.

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