The main aims of EUROMET are to:

  • Encourage cooperation in the development of national standards and measuring methods
  • Optimise the use of resources and services
  • Improve measurement facilities and making them accessible to all members
  • Perform comparisons to ensure a better coherence of measurements.

To achieve these aims EUROMET works through eleven subjects fields in four types of collaboration.

EUROMET’s subject fields are:

  • Acoustics, ultrasound and vibration
  • Electricity and magnetism
  • Flow
  • Ionising radiation
  • Interdisciplinary metrology
  • Length
  • Mass and related quantities
  • Metrology in Chemistry
  • Photometry and radiometry
  • Quality
  • Time and frequency
  • Thermometry

The collaboration types are:

  • Cooperation
  • Comparison
  • Consultation
  • Traceability
  • Joint research project