The Piedmont and Turin local administrations (Piedmont Region, Torino Province, City Council and Chamber of Commerce) established the Comitato Promotore Programma Galileo (Galileo Promoting Committee) on  February 2003 with the aim of setting a Galileo Regional Initiative in the Piedmont and Torino area, to exploit the local scientific and industrial expertise in Satellite Navigation. The scientific bodies already operating are the Politecnico of Torino and its partner Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, an ICT Research Center, both active in the PNT receiver technology, the INRiM – Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (ex IEN Galileo Ferraris), a worldwide recognised Time and Frequency metrology centre, moreover the Torino area is an important industrial district with several experienced Aerospace industries, both SMEs and Large Enterprises.

Time, the core competence of Satellite Navigation Systems, leverages the presence in Torino of INRiM, Thales Alenia Space – Italia  and SEPA, that have already consolidated a significant competence and know-how on the Galileo Time having worked on the Experimental Precision Timing Station (E-PTS) development and operation, since the beginning of the Galileo System Test Bed V1.

Based on the above considerations the Comitato Promotore Programma Galileo identified the PTF project acquisition as a strategic objective for the consolidation of the Piedmont scientific and industrial competencies on the Galileo Time and for the future development in the Galileo Timing field as well as a basis for future national and international programs in the Timing  area. 

The Politecnico of Torino	INRiM - a lab	Istituto Superiore Mario Boella

 Consorzio Torino Time

The Consorzio Torino Time (CTT) has been established on April 2nd 2004 on initiative of the Comitato Promotore Programma Galileo (funded in Turin on February 2003 by Public Regional Entities) with the aim to bid for the Galileo PTF Element and related timing Projects.

The CTT members “consorziati” are:
•    Finpiemonte SpA
•    Fondazione Torino Wireless
•    INRIM (ex IEN Galileo Ferraris)
•    Politecnico di Torino
•    Alenia SIA SpA
•    ALTEC  SpA
•    SEPA Sistemi Elettronici per Automazione SpA
•    Thales Alenia Space -  Italia SpA

All the CTT members are located in the Torino area. This provides a high added-value in terms of ease of communication, teamwork, speed, efficiency and reduced operational costs. This added value combined with the presence in Torino of INRiM, that hosted the experimental operations of the GSTB-V1 E-PTS, has made Torino an ideal candidate area for the design and development of the PTF element. 

The Torino geography focus of the CTT is also associated with an ‘open door’  policy and strategy toward Europe and the rest of the world.. Moreover, a key advantage of the CTT is the mix of private and public members where the private members play the industrial role, Politecnico of Torino and INRiM play the scientific and the educational role, while Fondazione Torino Wireless and Finpiemonte act as institutional members.

Consorzio Torino Time Information

The Consorzio registered office is located at Galleria San Federico 54, Torino while its operating office (CTT Project Office) is located at ALTEC  premises in Torino, Corso Marche 79.

The Consorzio is a non-profit association.

The bodies of the Consorzio are:
1)    the General Meeting of members;
2)    the Board of Directors;
3)    the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman;
4)    the Technical Committee

A Project Director has been appointed by the  Board of Directors in order to manage the operations of the Consorzio.