An online training was held on 23 September 2022 within the scope of the 5th Cycle of 2022 of the "BIPM - TÜBİTAK UME Project Placements" program implemented in cooperation with TÜBİTAK UME and the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM).

The online training, with the participation of Andy Henson, BIPM International Relations and Communications Manager, and Chingis Kuanbayev, International Relations Officer, covered the international metrology system and the CIPM Mutual Recognition Arrangement (CIPM MRA), which provides an institutional framework for metrology institutes internationally to recognize the equivalence of each other's national measurement standards and calibration certificates.

Before the online training, the participants completed the CIPM MRA training modules on the BIPM website and made presentations about the projects they are conducting in TÜBİTAK UME laboratories within the scope of BIPM-TÜBİTAK UME Project Placements.  

In the 5th cycle of the Project Placements, which has been organized in cooperation with BIPM and TÜBİTAK UME since 2018, 10 participants from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Philippines, Guyana, India, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Uzbekistan and Tanzania were accepted to the program among 83 applications from 30 different countries. 

In the program, which started on 5 September 2022, 10 participants are trained by TÜBİTAK UME experts in their own research fields between 1 and 3 months, and the training and accommodation expenses of the researchers accepted to the program are covered by TÜBİTAK UME.

The success of this training program, which has made an extraordinary contribution to the integration of developing country institutes into the international system and has been carried out jointly with BIPM for 5 years, has an important prestige value in terms of consolidating TÜBİTAK UME's place in the "league of champions" category of the metrology world.