The science magazine ¡De acuerdo! – La ciencia a tu medida (¡De acuerdo! – Science made to your measure) has published its 10th issue. We would like to congratulate the magazine’s authors and technical collaborators as well as members of the editorial and executive boards on this special occasion. We are also looking forward to…
The Intra Africa Trade Fair (IATF), where the theme was “The AfCFTA marketplace”, took place on 9-15 November 2023 in Cairo, Egypt. The fair, which welcomed a total of 1,615 exhibitors from 61 countries (including 42 African states) was organized by the African Union (AU), the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat and Afreximbank.…
We welcomed special guests to PTB on 23 October 2023. We were very pleased that the director of the National Metrology Institute of Thailand (NIMT for short), Dr Pornchai Suteerakune, and his deputy, Anusorn Tonmueanwai, paid us a personal visit during their trip to Europe. NIMT and PTB have a long history of successful cooperation.…
Within the scope of the four-day International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Innovation Week, a symposium on the need for a quality infrastructure (QI) for the green hydrogen industry took place in Bonn on 28 September 2023. Around 50 representatives of international institutions, lobbies, consulting firms as well as other actors from the energy supply sector and QI met…
For almost five decades, the national metrology institutes of Colombia and Germany, the INM and PTB, have been closely collaborating on metrology on behalf of their respective countries and have achieved significant milestones in the scientific field. Since its inception, this alliance has sustained metrology as a fundamental pillar for the quality infrastructure that contributes…
IC 2.0 – this is the slogan under which PTB’s International Cooperation (IC) has been working since 2021 to make its project work more environmentally and climate-friendly. Inspired by the learning experiences of the Corona pandemic, this process is focussed on four fields of action: Reducing or optimizing the travels that PTB staff take, further developing…