The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the UK's national measurement institute. For more than a century NPL has developed and maintained the UKs primary measurement standards. These standards underpin an infrastructure of traceability throughout the UK and the world that ensures accuracy and consistency of measurement.

NPL employs over 500 scientists, based in South West London.

Contact: Tony Fry

The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt ist Germany´s national measurement institute providing scientific and technical services for more than 125 years.

PTB performs fundamental research and development work in the field of metrology as a basis for all the tasks entrusted to it in the areas concerning the determination of fundamental and natural constants, the realization, maintenance and dissemination of the legal units of the SI, safety engineering, services and metrology for the area regulated by law and for industry, as well as technology transfer.

PTB has about 1800 staff members and is located in Braunschweig and Berlin.

Contact: Ulrich Neuschaefer-Rube

RSE is a Non-profit Research Organisation with a wide and very successful role in integrating the national research programmes with the EU directives and plans in the electricity and energy sector.

The mission is to perform public interest R&D programs to address the national energy, environmental and economic goals, with an open view to the EU research initiatives.

The organisation consists of approximately 350 technicians and researchers.

Contact: Federico Cernuschi