IPTS (other)
IPTS may refer to: * Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, in Seville, Spain * International Practical Temperature Scale, predecessors to the International Temperature Scale of 1990 The International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90) is an equipment calibration standard specified by the International Committee of Weights and Measures (CIPM) for making measurements on the Kelvin and Celsius temperature scales. It is an appro ...

Institute For Prospective Technological Studies
The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), located in Seville, Spain, is one of the seven institutes of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), a Directorate-General of the European Commission (EC). Projects Its first project was ESTO, the European Science and Technology Observatory, which after some 10 years of work, developed into two new networks: *ERAWATCH Network, a web-based service that presents information on national research policies, actors, organisations, programmes; and *ETEPS Network (European Techno Economic Policy Support Network), a network of European organisations that operates in all 27 EU Member States, covering policy subjects such as agriculture, consumer protection, energy, environment, enterprise, health, information society, innovation, research, and transport. The Institute also co-develops the POLES energy model, tp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/energy/docs/weto-h2_en.pdf WETO-H2 Study/ref> with the French research institute LEPII and th ...
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