European Physical Society
| APS | American Physical Society |
| AIF | Associazione per l'Insegnamento della Fisica |
| CERN | Centre Européenne de Recherche Nucléaire |
| DPG | Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft |
| EFDA | European Fusion Development Agency |
| EIROFORUM | European Intergouvernmental Scientific Research Organisation |
| EMBL | European Molecular Biology Laboratory |
| EPS | European Physical Society |
| ERASMUS | European Commission DG-EAC, Higher Education Programme (see SOCRATES) |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| ESO | European Southern Observatory |
| ESRF | European Synchrotron Radiation Facility |
| ESTEC | European Space Research & Technology Centre |
| EUPEN | European Physics Education Network |
| GIREP | Groupe International de Recherche sur l'Enseignement de la Physique |
| IAPS | International Association of Physics Students |
| ICPE | International Commission on Physics Education |
| ILL | Institut Laue Langevin |
| IOP | Institute of Physics |
| IUPAP | International Union of Physics and Applied Physics |
| IYPT | International Young Physicists' Tournament |
| NNV | Nederlandse Natuurkundige Vereniging |
| PFS | |
| SFP | Société Française de Physique |
| SOCRATES | European CommissionDG-EAC, Higher Education Programme (see ERASMUS) |
| TEEP | Trans-national European Evaluation Project |
| TUNING | Tuning Educational Systems in Europe |
E.W.A. Lingeman, ed@nikhef.nl, 14 February 2003