The European Physical Society provides an international forum for physicists and acts as a federation of national physical societies. Founded in 1968, the EPS now has over 2500 physicists from a variety of occupations as individual members, and brings together 40 national physical societies ­ which represent 100,000 physicists from the countries of Europe that have an active physics community.

The EPS works to promote the interests of physics in Europe. Its activities revolve around the themes of:

• promoting excellent physics research
• supplying a European view on important questions relating to physics
• acting as a catalyst bringing together physicists in different countries
• acting as a liaison between physicists working in different fields.