QICA – Quality Infrastructure Council for the Americas

Quality Infrastructure Council of the Americas

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The Quality Infrastructure Council of the Americas (QICA), comprises the three independent regional organizations involved in quality infrastructure in America: the Pan American Standards Commission (COPANT), the Inter-American Metrology System (SIM) and the Inter-American Accreditation Cooperation (IAAC), each of which has an active and broad participation in American countries in their respective areas of expertise.

QICA is a platform to develop joint projects, information sharing, and cross-functional training and development that, by acting collaboratively, exceeds the abilities of any one-organization acting alone.

Our focus

The Council is the contact point for cooperation actions in support of strengthening national quality infrastructure in all countries of America.

Our basic objective is to promote a shared vision for mutual support in standards development, the development of accreditation and the scientific, industrial and legal metrology.

QI4CE Fund - First call for proposals

The purpose of this call is to identify further regional QI initiatives that contribute to the circular economy in Latin America and the Caribbean in different sectors.

All quality infrastructure institutions from the LAC region can apply. Applicants should be member organizations of one of the QICA (Quality Infrastructure Council of the Americas) bodies, i.e. a member organization of COPANT, IAAC or SIM.

QICA Bodies

The Quality Infrastructure (QI) comprises three pillars, standardization, metrology and accreditation.

The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, the National Metrology Institute of Germany cooperates with QICA in the frame of PTB Regional Projects, to strenghten the Quality Infrastructure (QI) in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Members Events

These are the annual events from our members, for 2019

IAAC

General Assembly

Manaus, Brasil, August 27 to September 1, 2023.

SIM

General Assembly

Paraguay, november, 6th to 10th, 2023.

COPANT

General Assembly

Barbados, april 24th to 26th, 2023 (Hybrid).

News

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Our activities

We work promoting standardization, metrology and accreditation.

Co-organizing awareness and capacity building events for stakeholders, including public officials.

Exchanging documents, specific information and access to databases and general information, incluiding professional personnel to strengthen projects and programs.

Increasing the visibility of each other’s services and activities among their respective networks.

Offering joint seminars and training courses on priority areas, and supporting each other’s training activities.

Carrying out joint meetings to address matters of common interest.

Developing and implementing joint programs and promoting cooperation and collaboration among each other’s members at a national level.

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QICA Background

QICA creation is the result of a joint effort between the three regional organizations of the QI in technical cooperation projects. Takes into account the initiative of Ministers and High Authorities of Science and Technology of the Organization of American States (OAS), for access to quality infrastructure services and has counted and has strong support in its creation and ongoing development, from PTB, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, the National Metrology Institute of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Quality Infrastructure Council of the Americas

Standardization

Acreditation

metrology

about us

Our focus

QI4CE Fund - First call for proposals

QICA Bodies

Members Events

IAAC

SIM

COPANT

News

Our activities

Our Blog

QICA Background

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