Legal Documents

Association status of the IPT

The IPT is officially registered in France at the French Physics Society headquarters: 33 rue Croulebarbe, Paris. Our SIREN no is 990 759 359 and RNA no is W751280524. The operation of the IPT as a non-profit association is governed by the law from 1 July 1901 and the decree from 16 August 1901 (la loi du 1er juillet 1901 et du décret du 16 août 1901). The IPT Statute covers the governing, responsible parties, operation and reporting.

It is available in French (original), and in English (translation).

11 Apr 2025 IPT Statute (original in French)

11 Apr 2025 IPT Statute in English

11 Apr 2025 Extract from the Founding General Assembly

Code of Conduct

With the ethos of this tournament, which is in part to make science accessible to all at a young age and to members of the public, we believe it is great to have intermediary events, such as domestic tournaments, go on. It is encouraged these be as open as possible for these members of society to see. Considering the openness and timing of these events before the final tournament and also with some works going onto impact-wielding scientific publications. We would like to remind teams, especially team members and team leaders that they should maintain scientific integrity, as is expected amongst academic staff when attending conferences and seeing unpublished works, etc. We stress the importance of bearing in mind positive scientific ethics when participating in the tournament as a spectator or as a participant. In case of potential plagiarism, we remind you that there are rules in place in this tournament to tackle plagiarism/intellectual theft and we advise that issues be brought to us first should they arise.

We are summarising the values and principles of the event in our Code of Conduct.

Decision Assembly

The IPT is governed by the Decision Assembly, consisting of the national representatives of the participating countries. The current list of national representatives and their eligibility criteria can be found on our national representatives page.

The Decision Assembly meets annually, usually during the IPT event. The Decision Assembly minutes can be found below.

On top of the meetings (online and in-person), some IPT decisions are made by the Decision Assembly remote ballots, which are set up online on the IPT website. The descriptions and results of these polls are given below too.

Activity Reports

The IPT execom puts together annual reports of the activites, events and decisions throughout the year. Find the reports below: