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The funding of the first pilot project from the field of digital medicine, which will investigate agile certification for AI in medical devices, was recently funded by the European Commission. Within a large consortium from nine European countries under the name “Testing and Experimentation Facilities – Healthcare” (TEF-Health), the IZSM (together with the PTB and other partners) will examine...

At the annual general assembly, the directors, coordinators and founding board members of the IZSM e. V. reported on the current status of the association and on the ongoing pilot projects for Digital Medicine, Mobility und Smart City. Building on these reports, further structural and strategic questions were discussed with the aim of firmly establishing the IZSM in the innovation ecosystem of...

With its entry into the register of associations at the Local Court in Braunschweig, the IZSM e. V. became legally independent and took another important hurdle in effectively putting systems metrology into practice.

In a phase of upheaval towards the end of the 19th century, the scientist Helmholtz collaborated with the entrepreneur Werner von Siemens to tread a completely new and visionary path by founding the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (Imperial Physical Technical Institute – PTR) in 1887. The PTR was the world's first metrology institute, and it served in conjunction with the evolution of...

The next step toward setting up an Innovation Center for Systems Metrology (IZSM) has been taken: On 8 June 2021, PTB’s Presidential Board along with nine other staff members founded the IZSM as a registered association (e. V.) and elected Prof. Dr. Tobias Schäffter, Dr. Anna Cypionka and Susanne Wiemann to be its founding directors. The new directors are now tasked with drawing up the...

After many months of intense discussions, PTB has submitted a detailed concept to the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy) for the establishment of an Innovation Center for Systems Metrology (IZSM). With its proposal, PTB is responding to the urgent request from its Kuratorium (Advisory Board) to establish suitable structures for creating...