The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) has published a new assessment report providing an analysis of the national quality infrastructure (NQI) of Zambia. PTB is supporting the implementation of a long-term strategy called “Quality for Africa” within the scope of the Pan-African “Upgrading of Quality Infrastructure in Africa” project. One of the objectives is to assist the…
How can quality infrastructure (QI) contribute to protecting water resources? In a new brochure Quality Infrastructure and Water, PTB’s International Cooperation group gives a 4-page summary of how it supports its partner countries in this regard. This includes supplying an adequate amount of drinking water to the population, disposal and treatment of waste water as…
Restrictions on travel and meetings in the wake of the covid pandemic have had a negative impact on lab expert training. Hands-on lab training sessions have suffered particularly, as they require the trainer and the trainees to be present on site. To make virtual collaboration for this type of training possible as well, virtual alternatives…
Determining the current state of development is a first step toward needs-based support for the establishment and expansion of national quality infrastructure (QI). The quality infrastructure system of each country requires continued further development in order to meet the needs of industry. However, needs and potential can vary from country to country. Each QI system…
The year 2020 demanded that we take our digital work to the next level. A wide range of procedures could no longer be conducted in person as they normally are, and had to be completed digitally – sometimes successfully, sometimes less so. The accreditation field was no exception when it came to this development, as…
Creating an African single market – that is the aim of the African free trade treaty which came into force in 2019. An operational and well-developed quality infrastructure is indispensable for reaching this goal. On 2 October 2020, within the scope of a virtual meeting, the Pan-African Quality Infrastructure (PAQI) confederation therefore presented three studies dealing with the…
No quality, no trade – a very drastic description! Still, it reflects reality in global trade. And with this topic, we struck a chord at the Aid for Trade Global Review: Six other side events alone addressed the relevance that quality infrastructure aspects have on trade and economic development – with very different areas of…
Qualitätsinfrastruktur and Peace PTB’s projects supporting quality infrastructure are often carried out in countries and regions that are characterized by their high instability and by open conflicts. PTB’s support of QI in these partner countries can indirectly influence the stability of the project regions concerned. If you want to learn more about the ways we…
They came from places as far away as Angola and Bosnia, from Canada and Vietnam – 170 metrologists from 70 countries met in Hamburg on 9-12 October at the invitation of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) for the annual meeting of the International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML Their goal was to discuss the further steps…
The new ambassador from Sri Lanka, Karunasena Hettiarachchi, had barely taken up his post in September 2017 when the first joint talk with project coordinator Daniel Böhme took place on the future collaboration to strengthen quality infrastructure in Sri Lanka. How did the new ambassador find out about the joint project between Sri Lanka and…