Our consortium brings together all the European national metrology institutes (NMIs) and three universities active in the field of optical atomic clocks. Other NMIs and external partners bring in additional facilities and expertise, such as optical fibre links to enable optical clock comparisons or experience in algorithm development. National Physical Laboratory (NPL) UK Cesky Metrologicky Institut (CMI) Czech Republic Central Office of Measures (GUM) Poland Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM) Italy Laboratoire national de métrologie et d’essais (LNE) France Observatoire de Paris (OBSPARIS) France Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) Germany VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd National Metrology Institute VTT MIKES (VTT) Finland Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Israel Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) France Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH) Germany Politecnico di Torino (POLITO) Italy Centrum Baden Kosmicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk (SRC PAS) Poland Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika w Toruniu (UMK) Poland Université Paris 13 (UP13) France