EURAMET Seasons's Greetings | 21 December 2015

Dear all,

We would like to thank you - our members, friends, partners and stakeholders - for all your support and assistance during another important year of development and change for EURAMET.

For many years EURAMET has stood for a strong European and worldwide community, working together for harmonisation and innovation in metrology to foster areas such as health and quality for life, sustainability and industrial competitiveness.

We look forward to continuing to collaborate across borders and cultures, in the spirit of tolerance and solidarity, in 2016.

We wish you and your families happy holidays, a peaceful time and a wonderful New Year.

Your EURAMET Community

EURAMET’s highlights from 2015

Important personnel changes

In 2015, EURAMET saw important personnel changes within the association contributing to its successful development. Not only have there been six new Technical Committee Chairs introduced at EURAMET's 9th General Assembly but the new Chairperson has also started their term. In addition, a new Vice-Chairperson (EMPIR) and the first General Secretary have been announced, with terms starting in January 2016.

Beat Jeckelmann (Switzerland) is EURAMET's new Chairperson
Dr Beat Jeckelmann, the Delegate of METAS (the Federal Institute of Metrology of Switzerland), has taken over the position of EURAMET Chairperson. He was elected by the General Assembly in 2014 and started his three years' term in June 2015. More information and an interview with EURAMET's new Chairperson can be found here >>

New EURAMET Vice-Chairperson (EMPIR) elected
Erkki Ikonen (Aalto, Finland) was elected as new EURAMET Vice-Chairperson (EMPIR) at the December EMPIR Committee held in Prague.
read more >>

First General Secretary for EURAMET
In November EURAMET announced the appointment of Mr Jörg Zymnossek to the post of General Secretary for EURAMET.
read more >>

EMPIR Delegation Agreement signed - 600 million Euro Metrology Research Programme ready to go

An essential milestone for the 600 million European Metrology Programme for Innovation and Research (EMPIR) was reached in 2015. EURAMET was happy to announce the signing of the Delegation Agreement by the European Union, represented by the European Commission, and EURAMET.
The projects from the 2014 call (Industry, Research Potential and Support for Impact) successfully started this year. Following the announcement of the 2015 call in January (Health, SI Broader Scope, Industry, Research Potential, Support for Impact) a review conference was successfully held in November to evaluate the proposals. The selected proposals will be announced in January 2016.
read more >>

EURAMET relaunched website

The relaunch of the newly designed website represented an important step for EURAMET in 2015. The website, available at www.euramet.org, has a new and modern design and will support EURAMET on the way towards more interactive, open and transparent communications with its stakeholders.
read more >>

Closer co-operation with ETSI

At the beginning of 2015 a newly established formal proposal for co-operation between EURAMET and ETSI was signed. "We are delighted that EURAMET now has an official partnership with all three European Standardisation bodies" said Dr Kamal Hossain, EURAMET Past-Chairperson (as of June 2015).
read more >>

Strategic Research Agenda for Metrology in Europe

The Strategic Research Agenda for Metrology in Europe (SRA) is being developed to provide a high-level strategic view of measurement capability requirements which may be delivered not just by EURAMET's European Metrology Programmes, EMRP and EMPIR, but by the wider research community involved in measurement-related programmes regionally, nationally and internationally. The SRA has been prepared by EURAMET with input from the EURAMET Technical Committees and Task Groups in consultation with their stakeholders. To engage the broader stakeholder communities in the development of the SRA, the document was subject to an open consultation in 2015. The collected views and comments are now being taken into account before the final version will be published.


Editorial Coordination
Anne Trumpfheller, EURAMET Communications Officer
If you have any feedback, contributions or comments, please send an e-mail to anne.trumpfheller@euramet.org.