In a bid to enhance Moldova’s industrial landscape and align it with European standards, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) Eastern Partnership Project (EaP) organized impactful training sessions in Chisinau on January 15th and 17th. The initiative, spanning five countries including Moldova, aims to bolster the quality infrastructure (QI), support digitalization, and contribute to a sustainable, green…
The International Cooperation group of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) is organizing a series of online events complemented by a knowledge management platform to share and discuss lessons learned in the development of quality infrastructure (QI) for the photovoltaic (PV) sector in PTB partner countries and invites all interested parties to this virtual QI4PV global exchange.…
PTB, in partnership with the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) and the Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality (STAMEQ) in Viet Nam, is implementing a bilateral, BMZ-funded project called “Promotion of Quality Assurance Services for Sustainable Energy” in Viet Nam from 2022 to 2025. The project aims to enhance the quality infrastructure (QI) services…
On October 25, an engaging digitalization kick-off workshop brought together colleagues from national metrology institutes and national accreditation bodies from the Eastern Partnership countries, including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine. Moreover, other colleagues from Asia, participating in the ADAPT project, joined the workshop as eager listeners. This virtual gathering aimed to facilitate the exchange…
The Tunisian Accreditation Council (TUNAC) has recently started to digitalize its administration system as well as its accreditation processes and has set up a central database for this purpose. TUNAC is carrying out these activities to be able to react to the requirements of ISO/IEC 17011 towards accreditation bodies and the accreditation process as well as…
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…
Following 10 years of successful and valuable cooperation with our Mongolian partners, our BMZ-funded project Support to Mongolia’s Quality Infrastructure with Particular Regard to the Energy Sector came to an end on 31 August 2023. To mark the occasion, we jointly organized a virtual wrap-up event entitled Insight into PTB Laboratories and we were very…