A set of weights from 1 g to 500 g is only one of several metrological artefacts representing one of four quantities that will go on tour over the next few months. The round trip these artefacts will take through southern Africa to visit different countries and laboratories will be of a somewhat different kind.…
Together, we endeavour to underpin the monitoring of the Ganges’s water quality: We are happy to announce that the cooperation between PTB and National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) to strengthen the water monitoring of the Ganges River officially started in November 2018. After initial assessments of the situation at that time, a kick-off workshop…
On 6 December last year, our colleague Alex Inklaar passed away unexpectedly in Berlin. With Alex we have lost one of the most important experts for the promotion of standards in development cooperation. This obituary is also a way of dealing with the enormous loss in his circle of colleagues. It is an attempt to…
Aristide Nguedeu’s careful examination of calibration certificates and a discussion with those in charge of the visited labs to understand their needs: that is a typical scene from the regional metrology network CEMACMET’s experts tour through the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) in the spring of 2018. The tour served the purpose of…
Forty participants, six days and a wonderful surprise: On 29 July through 3 August, the 6th Regional Meeting with experts from Latin America and the Caribbean took place at PTB. Topics related to sustainability and cooperation were on the agenda as Working Group 9.33 started off the first expert dialogue since 2016. In a friendly…
They came from places as far away as Angola and Bosnia, from Canada and Vietnam – 170 metrologists from 70 countries met in Hamburg on 9-12 October at the invitation of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) for the annual meeting of the International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML Their goal was to discuss the further steps…
Mauritania has approximately 4.42 million inhabitants and a surface area of 1,030,700 km², making it almost three times larger than Germany. Being a transit country between West Africa and the Maghreb, Mauritania plays a special role in German Development Cooperation. Recently, the German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Dr. Gerd Müller, underlined in…