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Navigating the Digital Transformation: Insights from the Kick-Off Workshop on digital metrology and accreditation

Digital, EventsLaura Donath

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…

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The digital accreditation process has been established in Tunisia. Congratulations!

Accreditation, Friends, Middle East and North AfricaAnna Schätzlein

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…

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Africa comes together: Third IATF takes place in Cairo

Africa, EventsMartin Laumeyer, Kathrin Wunderlich

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.…

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NIMT directors visit PTB

Asia, Events, FriendsAnna Kalkuhl

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.…

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Symposium on green hydrogen: IRENA presents the QI roadmap

Events, FriendsMartin Laumeyer and Carl Felix Wolff

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…

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Memorandum of Understanding between the INM de Colombia and PTB

Events, Latin America and the CaribbeanManuela Behrendt

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…

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Final workshop marking 10 years of successful work in the Mongolian energy sector

Asia, EventsIrina Santourian, Sonja Brandes

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…

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Two Rounds of Thank Yous

Events, FriendsSonja Brandes, Sabine Thomas

PTB at the 2023 Open House at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in Berlin The BMZ in Berlin opened its doors to interested visitors on 19 and 20 August 2023. The event, which took place on a summer day, attracted several thousand people who were able to learn about the ministry’s…

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National Quality Infrastructure Festival in Indonesia

Asia, EventsSvann Langguth, Jana Körner

From 14 – 16 June 2023, the central QI institutions of Indonesia organized a memorable festival titled Synergy of Metrology, Standards and Accreditation for Increasing Indonesia’s Competitiveness. This marked the first time since the incorporation of the National Metrology Institute (SNSU-BSN) under the umbrella of the National Standardization Agency of Indonesia (BSN) in 2018 that…