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Friday, September 21, 2012

Mobilizing chinese participants in international standardisation

Chinese participants in the 5-day course on Participation in international standardisation  were invited to a follow-up training focusing on their skills as trainers. The instructors were Hay Eggen (training expert) and Folke Hermansson Snickars (standardisation expert).

Monday, September 17, 2012

Going international - an e-Learning course on Participation in international standardisation

As a follow-up of the EUCTP II-training course on Participation in international standardisation for the Standardization Administration of China (SAC) there was wish to elaborate a distance learning material. The training material for the 5-day training course consisted of slide presentations and instructions for group exercises. This material became the basis for establishing an e-Learning course: Going international. As the Subject Matter Expert we developed a content in the MyUdutu authoring tool. The course content is then planned to be transferred to the LMS MOODLE. During a Training the trainer-course September 2012 the e-Learning course was presented and evaluated. 

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Education about quality infrastructures


The ICES Conference 2012 was held 10-11 May 2012 in Bali, Indonesia. See the post below.

A reflection after my return home is that it should be much more interesting to include metrology, conformity assessment and accreditation into a International Cooperation on Education about SMCA, i.e. Quality Infrastructures.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

ICES Conference 2012

The International Cooperation on Education about Standardization (ICES)  was founded in Tokyo, February 6-8, 2006 at a meeting on ‘The Future of Global Education in Standards' hosted by CSK(a Japanese IT-service company), ITSCJ (Information Technology Standards Commission Japan) and Sun Microsystems.

ICES has held workshops each year after the first meeting
2007 Delft, The Netherlands
2008 Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
2009 Tokyo, Japan
2010 Geneva, Switzerland
2011 Hangzhou, China
2012 Bali, Indonesia
ICES is a network of individuals and organizations interested in education about standardization. ICES aims to promote education about standardization and improve its quality and attractiveness for all stakeholders.

From 2010 ICES workshops has been organized in conjunction with the annual World
Standards Cooperation (WSC) Academic Day.

ICES Conference 2012 aimed at promoting the quality and attractiveness of education
 about standardization by sharing good practices. The WSC Academic Day 2012 was conceived by ISO, IEC and ITU to promote dialogue between universities and the international standards community, to raise awareness and to foster cooperation and joint initiatives.

In conjunction with the ICES Conference and the WSC Academic Day, ISO was organizing an event 7-9 May aiming at supporting developing countries in defining programmes targeting universities and at developing strengthening courses on education about standardization in their countries.

Learning about standardisation as an adult












My submission of a paper on experiences from training of participants in standardisation was accepted by the conference organizers (Henk de Vries, Vice-Chair of ICES, Tisyo Haryono, Head of Center for Education and Promotion of Standardization, BSN). This paper became a summary of a life-long career in human communication from my studies at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg to my present occupation as consultant and trainer on standardisation and market access. In addition to the 8-page paper six slides were prepared for the oral presentation at the conference.