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Virtuality training of trainers to pilot virtual hands-on laboratory training

Through what virtual formats can hands-on laboratory training be conducted when the on-site presence of all participants and the trainer is not possible? This question was already addressed by the PTB Capacity Development working group at an exchange of experience in February 2021. As a fruitful outcome of this event, the Virtual Hands-on Laboratory Training…

A woman in a white lab coat looks at the tablet in her hand. She is standing in front of a shelf with numerous medications.

Ghanaian delegation visits PTB virtually to discuss local vaccine production in Ghana

The promotion of drug and vaccine manufacturing, strengthening the regulatory framework or the harmonization of standards and their implementation — the intervention areas of quality infrastructure in the pharmaceutical sector in Africa are manifold. The need for efforts in these areas is greater than ever, especially in the current situation: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown…

Christmas tree in front of the PTB site in Braunschweig

2021: Another extraordinary year comes to an end

The increasing availability of Covid-19 vaccines was an encouraging breakthrough in 2021 that turned a lot of things around. However, the pandemic is not over, and many of the challenges we encountered in 2020 remained. With a few exceptions, most of PTB’s International Cooperation activities therefore still took place in a virtual setting, and working…

Farewell: A decade with Serbia

“It is a strange feeling to say goodbye to partners during a video conference after 10 years of cooperation,” says Stefan Wallerath, project coordinator for cooperation with the countries of South-East Europe. PTB’s involvement with the region, which was marked by the conflicts of the 1990s, began back in 2006. Serbia, as the largest economy…

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Training of French-speaking Calidena facilitators

The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) has developed the Calidena method to improve quality within value chains and within national quality infrastructures (NQI) to create a business-friendly environment. This method can be used within the scope of international projects. Its main objective is to ensure that the NQI takes its users and their needs into account and…

In an exhibition hall of the Intra-African Trade Fair 2021, information booths are lined up on both sides. Long banners hang from the ceiling.

Quality as an opportunity for trade: Intra-African Trade Fair 2021

“Transforming Africa” was the theme of this year’s Intra-African Trade Fair which took place in Durban, South Africa. For the second time already, over 1,100 exhibitors took advantage of this unique platform which ran from 15-21 November to network across the entire continent and to intensify collaborations in different sectors. Roughly 10,000 visitors attended the…

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The power of the sun: Solar thermal project completed

Our project on Strengthening quality infrastructure for solar thermal energy in the Maghreb ended this October with a virtual closing event following nine years of successful cooperation. “I have mixed feelings about today,” reflected Carl Felix Wolff, who heads PTB’s Middle East and North Africa Section, as he looked back at the joint milestones, successes…

Two Online Workshops on Measurement Challenges

Thursday, 4 November 2021 | 10:00 – 15:45 hrs | SARS-CoV-2 and Future Pandemics Lecturers: Stakeholders and Representatives from NMIs / DIs Institute: European Metrology Network on Traceability in Laboratory Medicine | Technical Committee for Metrology in Chemistry Place: MS Teams, link after registration: https://www.euramet.org/european-metrology-networks/laboratory-medicine/registration-tlm-mc/?L=0 The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 posed significant challenges for healthcare systems around…