Four women are examining a swatch of fabric at Basalt Fibres Limited.

Strengthening Collaboration: First Quality Infrastructure Week in Georgia

Europe, South Caucasus, Central AsiaKeya Choudhury

From 23 to 27 February 2026, the first “Quality Infrastructure Week” took place in Georgia, bringing together representatives from industry, laboratories, academia, and quality infrastructure (QI) organizations. The event provided a valuable platform for exchanging experiences, strengthening collaboration, and exploring how QI supports manufacturing, innovation, and economic development. The week-long programme aimed to deepen participants’…

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Harvesting the Fruit: Three Years of QI Collaboration in the Eastern Partnership

Europe, South Caucasus, Central Asia, PublicationsSuzana Lange und Theresa Reinel

When our three-year regional PTB project came to an end this past January, we dedicated the final event to harvesting the achievements we made together with our partners in the Eastern Partnership (EaP) region. Against this backdrop, a shared metaphorical landscape began to take shape, reflecting the progress made across the key areas of quality…

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A Success for the Future: PTB establish programme for pharmaceutical operators in Kenya

Africa, Friends, Sub-Saharan AfricaChristina Foerg-Wimmer

In collaboration with the International University of Africa USIU and the German multinational science and technology company Merck, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany’s National Metrology Institute, joins forces with Kenyan pharmaceutical manufacturers Dawa, Biodeal, Elys, and Regal to establish an educational programme in the East African Country. This programme aims to improve the pharmaceutical manufacturing…

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WTO meets with PTB and BMZ: Trade, standards and technical regulations

Friends, PTBGuillaume Robardet, Martin Laumeyer

The World Trade Organization (WTO) visited the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). PTB and the Trade Department of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) invited various stakeholders from industry, politics and civil society to Berlin on 6 July 2023 for a presentation and discussion…

Determining the status quo of national quality infrastructure

PublicationsJana Bante, Darinka Blies, Svenja Sender

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…

Cooperation between the PTB’s International Cooperation Department and the OECD

Covid-19, InternationalDr. Karl-Christian Göthner

In 2020 correspondence took place between Dr. Marion Stoldt, Head of the PTB’s International Cooperation Department, and Dr. Annalisa Primi, Director of the OECD Development Centre’s Structural Politics and Innovation Department. Per this correspondence, closer cooperation between the PTB and the OECD Initiative for Political Dialogue on Global Value Chains, Production Transformation and Development was…

Going Digital at Work

Covid-19Sabine Thomas

Today, we would like to draw your attention to a section of our covid-19 website devoted to working digitally. Because we can no longer have meetings in person, including those on site in our partner countries, we have to rely on the digital world to take up the slack. However, we can’t just do this…

Corona taskforce — International Cooperation during the corona pandemic

Covid-19Sonja Brandes

What does the spread of COVID-19 mean for PTB’s International Cooperation Department and what challenges do we have to face? Effective immediately, the International Cooperation Department will be providing answers to these questions on a specially designed website: www.covid19.ptb.de. The ongoing spread of Sars-CoV-2 has left its mark throughout the world. The social and economic…