Institute of Progressed Understanding

The Institute of Progressed Understanding (I.P.U.) was set up in the late 1940s in order to give a clearer understanding of the rapid developments happening in science and technology at the time. Until recently its activities had been of the up most secrecy, however with the passing of the Secrets Act in 1998 some of its operations where forced to be made public. In 2007 there was even an ‘open day’ at the formally top secret Ministry of Defence base at Dean Hill.

The I.P.U. is now facing even more pressure to make its activities more transparent, to the dissatisfaction of its often private investors. It is for these reasons that the I.P.U. is soon to open its Aberdeen office to the general public