URSI-UK

 The International Union of Radio Science (URSI - Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale) was established in 1919 to cover the discipline of radio science. Since that date it has encouraged the growth of all aspects of the science associated with radio waves. This has become a very large subject with applications ranging from telecommunications to radio astronomy. URSI is interdisciplinary and encompasses both the science of electromagnetic waves and the engineering applications of radio, microwaves and optical waves it is effectively concerned with the science base for telecommunications. 

URSI is an active Union with 42 member countries (plus 5 associate members) supporting a range of activities centred around the triennial General Assemblies. It is supported by a small secretariat based at the University of Gent in Belgium with an unpaid Secretary General and Assistant Secretary General and one full-time paid member of administrative staff. The object of URSI is to stimulate and to co-ordinate, on an international basis, studies in the field of radio, telecommunication and electronic sciences, and, within these fields:

• to promote and organise research requiring international co-operation, and the discussion and dissemination of the results of this research;
• to encourage the adoption of common methods of measurement, and the inter-comparison and standardisation used in scientific work;
• to stimulate and co-ordinate studies of the scientific aspects of telecommunications using electromagnetic waves, guided and unguided, the generation and detection of these waves, and the processing of the signals embedded in them.