Ms. Slavica Simić Acting Assistant Director of Directorate of Measures and Precious Metals (hereinafter DMDM) attended meeting of directors, representatives of metrology institutes within Working Group for metrology Capacity Building. The meeting took place in Vilnius, Republic of Lithuania on October 25 and 26, 2017. Host of the meeting was EURAMET – regional metrological organization in Europe.

During the meeting strategic goals were discussed and in regard to that, revision of actions from 2017 as well as planned activities for 2018. Report related to Work Group activities from 2016 and 2017 were adopted. Status and possibility of scholarship for young metrologists in research activities in developed metrology institutions, as well participation on calls for projects from 2017 which will be financed were considered. Also, news from EURAMET, WELMEC – European cooperation in legal metrology, BIPM CIP MRA – Arrangement on mutual recognition of national standards and calibration certificates and measures issued by national metrology institutes and CBKT activities within International Bureau of Weights and Measures were considered.