In nearly all areas of our everyday life, Covid-19 has been presenting us with huge challenges. This also applies to our work routines. Whereas people working in certain professions can work from home, this is simply impossible for others. In such cases, the workplace must, despite the pandemic, provide employees with a safe environment and…
Not everyone sees “Made in Africa” as a quality stamp yet, for sure. But it could soon be the case. The Alliance for Product Quality is working on it. Hang on a sec. The what alliance? The Alliance for Product Quality, abbreviated to AfPQ, helps African companies get a better foothold in the international market.…
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…
What are we most likely to do when looking for specific information these days? We open a browser on our mobile phone or PC, select our favourite search engine and enter a search key. Within seconds, hundreds of results appear on our screen, but most of the time, we only look at the first few…
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…
Raising awareness of the progress that has been made in the industrialisation of the African continent and, on the other hand, of the challenges that the coming years will bring – these are the topics of this year’s Africa Industrialisation Week (AIW) which is taking place from 16 to 20 November. Like so many other events this…
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…
The African Union Commission and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention are hosting a special workshop on promoting local manufacturing of personal protective equipment. Date: Thursday, 3 September 2020 Time: 1.00-4.30 p.m. Eastern Africa Time Register and connect to the workshop through this link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q–PI60nQWamHnxe_CNPwg Here you can find the announcement in English,…
In mid-September, Department 9.3 became a meeting place for all of the experts who regularly work for PTB in Africa and the Middle East and the employees of the “North Africa and Middle East” and “Sub-Saharan Africa” working groups. Within the scope of the “Regional days – Africa and the Middle East”, there was an…
Mauritania has approximately 4.42 million inhabitants and a surface area of 1,030,700 km², making it almost three times larger than Germany. Being a transit country between West Africa and the Maghreb, Mauritania plays a special role in German Development Cooperation. Recently, the German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Dr. Gerd Müller, underlined in…