

Partners: TU Braunschweig
Involved AGs /FBs: All
Metrologie-Initiative Braunschweig bundles the cooperations of PTB with the Technical University of Braunschweig in research and teaching. The close cooperation has created an internationally recognized competence center in the field of metrology, which is unparalleled worldwide.

Partners: TU Braunschweig
Involved AGs /FBs: All
B-IGSM is an international graduate school of metrology within the MIB cooperation, for the advancement of metrological knowledge in all fields of science and technology. Our research areas are: Metrology for Society, Industrial Metrology, and Fundamentals of Metrology.

Partners: Leibniz Universität Hannover
Involved AGs /FBs: All
The QUEST Leibniz Research School is a cross-structure bridging several existing faculties and creates the structural framework for excellent cross-faculty research in the fields of quantum engineering, quantum sensors, space-time research and novel technologies.

Partners: TU Braunschweig
Involved AGs /FBs: 4.1, 4.2, AG 4.01, AG 4.55
LENA – one of the research centers of Technische Universität Braunschweig (TUBS) within the framework of the MIB cooperation – combines research activities of 12 groups from TUBS and 8 groups of the Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) Braunschweig, including electrical engineering, semiconductor-, microsystems-, and particle-technology, physics, chemistry, optics, production measurement technology and more, to enable interdisciplinary research in the field of nanometrology.

Partners: Leibniz Universität Hannover
Hannover Institute of Technology (HITec) Hannover Institute of Technology (HITec) at Leibniz Universität Hannover is an interdisciplinary research infrastructure for quantum technologies and their applications in fundamental research.

Partners: Leibniz University Hannover, TU Braunschweig, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Laser Center Hannover e.V., Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM)
Involved AGs /FBs: All
In the Cluster of Excellence QuantumFrontiers, we use light and matter to extend the foundations of and applications in metrology beyond the quantum limit.

Partners: Leibniz University Hannover, TU Braunschweig, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Laser Center Hannover e.V., Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM), DLR Institute for Satellite Geodesy and Inertial Sensing, Sartorius, Niedersachsen Metall, QubeDot
Involved AGs /FBs: All
Founded in 2020, QVLS is a comprehensive initiative to merge Lower Saxony’s competencies in quantum technologies and to accelerate technology transfer in Lower Saxony and beyond. The initiative is supported by the publicly owned legal entity QVLS e.V. with members from academia and industry.

Partners: 16 European Members States
Involved AGs /FBs: All
The European Metrology Network for Quantum Technologies provides active coordination of European measurement science research to maintain competitiveness in the field of quantum technologies.

Partners: Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK), the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ), and RIKEN
Involved AGs /FBs : 4.3, 4.4 and QUEST
The Max-Planck-RIKEN-PTB Center fosters the synergetic and close collaboration between experimental groups in atomic physics, antimatter physics, nuclear physics, quantum optics and metrology. The intensified collaboration between these precision measurement teams enables them to tackle fore-front topics in precision measurements of time and constants of nature, to test fundamental symmetries and contribute to ultra-high precision searches for physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.