The evaluation report Triangular cooperation in German development cooperation has been published. In this report, special mention is made of PTB’s five successful cooperation projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. It was not without good reason that triangular cooperation projects have been increasingly moving into the focus in International Cooperation since 2011. The…
In February 2020, a workshop with nearly forty participants took place in Mexico City which brought national supporters of both solar thermal and photovoltaic power plants as well as bank representatives together with Mexico’s quality infrastructure (QI) experts. The meeting was organized by PTB and was based on the project ‘Strengthening the Quality…
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…
We celebrated the 50th anniversary of PTB’s cooperation with the national metrology institute of Argentina in November 2017. Fifty years of cooperation is also a great achievement for us. The development that INTI has gone through in all those years is impressive: It went from being a partner in one of the largest technical cooperation…
All documents shown here can be found on the PTB website at: https://www.ptb.de/cms/en/ptb/fachabteilungen/abt9/fb-93/publications.html An overview of all previously published publications:
The bilateral project »Quality Infrastructure for Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency in Mexico« is being realized by the Technical Cooperation Department since 2013 on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) as a part of the German-Mexican development program »Sustainable Energy in Mexico«. During the course of this project, we successfully…
Why is the »green economy« relevant to Latin America and the Caribbean? What is the role of renewable energies and energy efficiency? These questions were discussed at the first »Green Quality Dialog« session on 4 November 2016. The event took place within the framework of the Latin American QI Expert Week. Tilman Altenburg from the…