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KRISS Attends 2022 APMP General Assembly and Related Meetings

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KRISS Attends 2022 APMP General Assembly and Related Meetings


- Dr. Hyun-min Park, President of KRISS starts his term as APMP new chairperson after APMP GA2022


Dr. Hyun-Min Park, the president of KRISS, attended the 2022 Asia Pacific Metrology Programme (APMP) General Assembly (GA) in Tokyo, Japan from November 28 to December 2. During the APMP 2022, NMIs could discuss issues on measurement standards in the Asia-Pacific region. After GA 2022, Dr. Hyun-min Park, officially started his term as APMP new chairperson and he convened the first EC (Executive Committee) meeting.

 

APMP GA 2022 was the first in-person meeting since the outbreak of COVID-19 as the past two GAs (2020, 2021) were held online to adhere to social distancing protocols. However, in-person attendance was limited to Executive Committee (EC) members and Technical Committee (TC)/ Developing Economies’ Committee (DEC)/ Focus Group (FG) chairs because of the host country Japan’s limit on the number of people meeting in groups as part of disease control measures. NMI directors and other related parties participated online.

 

The key agendas at this year’s GA were as follows: △ introduction of candidate institutes seeking full membership, △ revisions to membership fee structure, △ report on APMP website renovation, △ election on new EC members and TC/FG chairs, and △ voting of host country for the next GA. By a vote of NMI representatives in a closed session, Dr. Woong Kang of the Flow Rate Measurement Team and Dr. Il Doh of the Medical Data Precision Measurement Team were elected as the chair of the Technical Committee for Fluid Flow (TCFF) and Medical Metrology Focus Group (MMFG), respectively. Moreover, Dr. Seok-Hwan Lee of the Flow Rate Measurement Team was awarded the APMP Young Metrologist Prize. Korea, which last hosted the GA in 2014, was announced as the host country of APMP GA 2025, taking place in the same year as the 150th anniversary of the Metre Convention and 50th anniversary of the founding of KRISS. 


△ President Hyun-Min Park at GA 2022

△ APMP EC members

 

The APMP Secretariat Handover Meeting was also held in conjunction with the GA. With President Hyun-Min Park’s inauguration as the APMP chairperson, Korea will chair APMP effective December 2022 for 3 years. Accordingly, KRISS set up the APMP Secretariat under its Office of International Cooperation last June. Dr. Sam-Yong Woo, the Executive Secretary of APMP, and Ms. Tae-Yi Hong, head of APMP Secretariat, held two handover meetings with NIM, China. The former chair (Mr. Fang Xiang, Director of NIM, China) shared notable achievements, and the participants exchanged opinions on major issues. In addition, KRISS introduced strategic plans on leading APMP over the next three years.

 

△ APMP Secretariat Handover Meeting

△ Former and current staff of the APMP Secretariat

(Left: NIM, China, right: KRISS, Korea)

 

President Hyun-Min Park, whose official term as APMP chairperson begun with the end of GA 2022, chaired the EC Meeting (II). Two new EC members, Dr. Angela Samuel (NMIA, Australia) and Prof. Venu Gopal Achanta (NPLI, India), were present. President Hyun-Min Park officially greeted the members as APMP chairperson and discussed directions for the future.

 

The significance of this year’s APMP GA lies in being the first APMP event held in-person since the outbreak of COVID-19 and marking the start of Korea’s term as APMP chair country. The 27 APMP member states agreed on the importance of measurement standards in light of the changing needs of international society following COVID-19 and digital transformation, and expressed their common determination to closely cooperate with member states in the global measurement standards community. KRISS looks forward to APMP’s expansion of future-oriented cooperation, and expects to play an active role in supporting Korea’s role as chair country in the next three years.

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