QuaMet-Sud : quality metrology expertise in tropical and Mediterranean countries laboratories

Process study / engineering Sustainable agriculture Food and agrifood technology
How can we guarantee the international reliability and traceability of our research results, products and analyses? Mastering a measurement process requires a sound management of the metrology function and the evaluation of measurement uncertainties. CIRAD can help you improve or consolidate your laboratory.
Laboratory in need of upgrading © Cirad, Gilles Calchera

Laboratory in need of upgrading © Cirad, Gilles Calchera

Metrology applied to tropical regions

QuaMet-Sud is part of CIRAD’s offer to strengthen and maintain metrology quality skills. QuaMet-Sud supports teams and their management by providing diagnostics, training and expertise. Laboratories and research partners benefit over the long term from the knowledge and practices of our experts in tropical and Mediterranean countries.

The benefits of our metrology expertise

More than just a skill, QuaMet-Sud's expertise is based on a metrology quality platform that:

  • supports your laboratory at key stages: diagnosis, training, audit and laboratory assessment;
  • mobilizes a network of experts, in particular through  CAFMET,  QuaRES and Cnam;
  • benefits from 20 years' experience in metrology quality, for operational capacity building in tropical and Mediterranean countries, within the framework of research projects, research units and facilities in the South;
  • develops face-to-face and e-learning training modules.

How can QuaMet-Sud expertise be mobilized?

You are a research laboratory or an analytical or industrial service provider in a tropical zone, and have objectives in terms of:

  • Certifications (ISO 9001), accreditations (ISO/CEI 17025);
  • Setting up metrological processes;
  • Assessment of measurement uncertainties;
  • Method validation;
  • Reliability of results.

Do not hesitate to contact us with your needs regarding:

For further information, prices and payment terms, please contact-us.

The research team: The Delegation for Quality, Social Responsibility and Research Infrastructures, notably through the QuaMet-Sud team, works with you to guarantee, at an international level, the reliability and traceability of research results, products and analyses from CIRAD laboratories. It also supports laboratories in partner countries.

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