In a few days, the kick-off workshop of our latest project with the Ghana Standards Authority, GSA, will take place. The aim of the project is to foster GSA’s capacities, so that they will be able to offer high-class metrological services – and thereby strengthen the country’s industrial development. Not only will the investment climate…
How can quality infrastructure, or QI for short, strengthen the economy during the Covid-19 pandemic? A team of internal and external PTB experts has examined this issue in a discussion paper. The topic was developed as a basis for discussion within PTB’s International Cooperation Group on a task force that deals with the challenges of…
On 29 April, PTB’s Asia Section and the ConnectingAsia Programme of Polis180, a Berlin-based grassroots thinktank, jointly facilitated an online panel discussion about the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in Asia. The aim of the event was to consider whether the benefits of RCEP would trickle down to the least developed, low or lower middle-income…
Since March 2020, the PTB’s International Cooperation Group has been facing major challenges due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The social and travel-related restrictions have led to the staff members having to transfer the project work almost completely to the virtual realm. This has not only raised many questions regarding technical implementation. A major challenge is…
PTB’s International Cooperation and the Ghana Standards Authority, GSA, have been working together for over a decade. Now, with the most recent PTB-project “Establishment of a Fit-for-Future National Metrology Institute in Ghana“ our cooperation enters an exciting new phase. On 19 May, just one day short of the World Metrology Day 2021, the kick-off workshop…
Everyone has been talking about PCR tests since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, but how are they related to quality infrastructure? What relevance does the topic have in the context of PTB’s development cooperation? How can it be guaranteed that test results are correct, comparable and internationally recognized? The international standard ISO 15189:2012 (the…
We are pleased to announce that the metrology laboratory of the Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards (SLBS) has been accredited in the area of calibration (mass and volume) to the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025:2017 by JANAAC, the Jamaica National Agency for Accreditation. We would like to extend our warmest congratulations to our partners on receiving…
A Ghanaian-German development cooperation success story Pesticides may only be registered and marketed if they are not harmful to human health, do not contaminate groundwater and have no negative impact on the environment. In Ghana, due to limited logistics and human resources at relevant governmental institutions, there is insufficient testing of the quality of pesticides…
Wherever you are | Whenever you wish. PTB’s International Cooperation department has commissioned an animated film to sketch a vision of the future and encourage discussions. Roughly speaking, the film is about the ways that the living conditions in our partner countries can be improved in the sense of the Sustainable Development Goals through digitalized…
In 2020 correspondence took place between Dr. Marion Stoldt, Head of the PTB’s International Cooperation Department, and Dr. Annalisa Primi, Director of the OECD Development Centre’s Structural Politics and Innovation Department. Per this correspondence, closer cooperation between the PTB and the OECD Initiative for Political Dialogue on Global Value Chains, Production Transformation and Development was…