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World Standards Day – making cities smarter

Less waste, better results and increased efficiency. Why EURAMET is a key player in global standardisation.

Each year on 14 October, World Standards Day celebrates the collaborative efforts of the thousands of experts worldwide who develop the voluntary technical agreements that are published as International Standards. The theme of 2017 is Standards make cities smarter and focuses on the fact that international standards support the development of tailor-made solutions that can be adapted to the particular circumstances of any city.

The day aims to raise awareness among regulators, industry and consumers as to the importance of written standards in the global economy and how standards are developed.

EURAMET is actively contributing to standardisation: Over the years, EURAMET has united experts from metrology, industry and standardisation communities. The European Metrology Research Programmes EMRP and EMPIR have several case studies and projects linked to standardisation, many of which address the needs of standardisation groups for traceable measurements to support standardisation work or to develop new standardisation documents.

To support the development of the standardisation activities in EMRP and EMPIR joint research projects, Eveline Domini, standardisation manager at the French National Metrology Institute (LNE), also works as a consultant for EURAMET: “One way to foster our contribution to standardisation is the cooperation between EURAMET and CEN-CENELEC, the European Committee for Standardisation and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation.”

In 2014 both organisations launched the STAIR EMPIR platform to facilitate collaboration and exchange information between the standardisation and metrology communities. Each year there is an EMPIR normative call along with a STAIR EMPIR workshop. The latest STAIR EMPIR meeting on 10 October brought together representatives from standardisation and metrologists to prepare their input to the 2018 EMPIR Call.

To demonstrate EURAMET’s role in global standardisation, here are a selection of EURAMET’s normative EMPIR research projects and EMRP projects that have had an input on standards, along with some case studies showing the early impact on standardisation from the expertise of European metrology institutes:

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Paper describing work of Large Volume Metrology EMPIR project wins outstanding paper award
2024-03-27

Improving large-scale dimensional measurements for manufacturing more

EMPIR project publishes good practice guide to aid uptake of standards related to waveguides
2024-03-25

From 2012 to 2016 the IEEE published standards for high-frequency waveguides. EMPIR NeWITT project supports their uptake more

EMPIR project publishes freely available appearance measurement training videos on YouTube
2024-03-21

The videos regarding the metrology of appearance cover a variety of topics and will help increase photometry and radiometry expertise across National ... more

EMPIR project leads publication of first ISO measurement standard on graphene
2024-03-19

Graphene could revolutionise many technology sectors but needs standardisation more

BIPM initiative: Young Metrologists’ 2050+ Vision
2024-03-18

Take part in EURAMET workshop and BIPM survey! more

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