In June, a seminar on export quality management of honey and dried fruits was held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, in English and Russian. We organised the workshop together with the Ministry of Investment of the Kyrgyz Republic, MinInvest, as well as with international experts from the International Trade Center, ITC and Globally Cool, a consulting firm…
On 29 April, PTB’s Asia Section and the ConnectingAsia Programme of Polis180, a Berlin-based grassroots thinktank, jointly facilitated an online panel discussion about the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in Asia. The aim of the event was to consider whether the benefits of RCEP would trickle down to the least developed, low or lower middle-income…
Today, the CSIR-NPL India, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research – National Physical Laboratory, celebrates the 75th anniversary of its foundation. The PTB sends its warmest congratulations and all the best for the future. Together with the CSIR-NPL, the PTB proudly looks back on a successful partnership over many years and has high expectations for…
How can we prevent the spread of Covid-19 — especially in crowded places where people are queueing while they wait to buy chai, dhal curry or other food? This challenge moved health authorities in Sri Lanka to join forces with local business support organizations and international partners. In June and July, PTB’s partner organizations, the…
Myanmar had good reason to celebrate at the beginning of February – it was as if World Metrology Day had been preponed. On 4 February 2020, a representative of the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories India (NABL) officially handed over the certificate for a successful assessment of the mass laboratory of the National Institute…
Together, we endeavour to underpin the monitoring of the Ganges’s water quality: We are happy to announce that the cooperation between PTB and National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) to strengthen the water monitoring of the Ganges River officially started in November 2018. After initial assessments of the situation at that time, a kick-off workshop…
2018 is a special year for metrology in Thailand. The Thai economy is celebrating the 20th anniversary since the National Institute of Metrology (Thailand) was founded. NIMT and PTB are taking this opportunity to look back on 20 years of close and faithful cooperation. NIMT’s development is rightly noted as a success story. Established during…
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…
By April 2017, Dr. Jeon from the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) will have been a guest at PTB for a period of five months. KRISS is a national metrology institute (NMI). Dr. Jeon studied physics and business administration. He has now been working at KRISS for over 30 years. He is…
In January, I had the opportunity to discover Myanmar during a two-week official trip. Myanmar is not only a popular destination for tourists, but is increasingly the focus of international cooperation. When I tell people that I am coordinating a project in Myanmar, I often look into their shiny eyes – and not only those…