PTB’s partner institutions and project teams have experienced some eventful weeks in North and West Africa and the Middle East, especially in Tunisia: With the participation in the 10th International Conference on Metrology (CAFMET) in Hammamet and the shared organization of the workshop on quality infrastructure in Tunis, PTB created important momentum in terms of…
Water is life, but millions of people still have problems with access to clean water. To mark World Water Day on 22 March, we are drawing attention to our global commitment to sustainable water and energy management. With our projects in Jordan, Bolivia, India and Tunisia, we are strengthening the quality infrastructure for the water…
“I would like to thank all of our partners again and to assure them of our commitment to the success of our current and future cooperation projects.”1 With this conclusion, the Tunisian Minister of Industry, Mines, and Energy (MIME), Fatma Thabet Chiboub, inaugurated the two new Tunisian-German projects “Strengthening the quality infrastructure for a sustainable…
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…
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and international experts meet virtually to discuss quality requirements. An impact study conducted in cooperation with Technische Universität Berlin and the Mediterranean Business School in Tunis was recently the forum for virtual meetings about quality. This all took place within PTB’s project titled “Developing expertise in quality assurance for the export…
Recently, we received good news from Tunisia: metrology is now an integral component of university physics degree programmes! We were highly pleased to hear from our project partners at the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research about this milestone in the development of our cooperation. Effective from this academic year, metrology will be…
How is the photovoltaic sector structured in Germany? Which quality-assuring mechanisms exist to guarantee the quality and sustainability of PV facilities? And what does Tunisia still need before it can set up a functional quality infrastructure in the PV sector? All of these questions were at the focus of a one-week study trip which took…