Quality Infrastructure Council of the Americas
Standardization
Acreditation
metrology
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about us
The Quality Infrastructure Council of the Americas (QICA), comprises the three independent regional organizations involved in quality infrastructure in America: the Pan American Standards Commission (COPANT), the Inter-American Metrology System (SIM) and the Inter-American Accreditation Cooperation (IAAC), each of which has an active and broad participation in American countries in their respective areas of expertise.
QICA is a platform to develop joint projects, information sharing, and cross-functional training and development that, by acting collaboratively, exceeds the abilities of any one-organization acting alone.
Members Events
IAAC
General Assembly
Lima, Perú, August 16 – 21, 2026.
SIM
General Assembly
Quito, Ecuador, November 16 – 20, 2026.
COPANT
General Assembly
Bahamas, 2026.
Our focus
MoU (English)
Memorandum of Understanding
Newsletter 2018-11
(English)
Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Efficiency
NQI REPORT (English)
Quality Infrastructure of the Americas / STRATEGIC ROADMAP
NQI REPORT (Spanish)
Quality Infrastructure of the Americas / STRATEGIC ROADMAP
Brochure 2017 (English)
Informative brochure about QICA activities
Brochure 2018 (English)
Informative brochure about QICA activities
Brochure 2019 (English)
Informative brochure about QICA activities
Brochure 2020 (English)
Informative brochure about QICA activities
Brochure 2017 (Spanish)
Informative brochure about QICA activities
Brochure 2018 (Spanish)
Informative brochure about QICA activities
Brochure 2019 (Spanish)
Informative brochure about QICA activities
Brochure 2020 (Spanish)
Informative brochure about QICA activities
QICA Bodies
IAAC
InterAmerican Accreditation Cooperation
SIM
InterAmerican Metrology System
COPANT
Pan American Standards Commission
News
Our activities
Capacity
Co-organizing awareness and capacity building events for stakeholders, including public officials.
Resources
Exchanging documents, specific information and access to databases and general information, incluiding professional personnel to strengthen projects and programs.
Visibility
Increasing the visibility of each other’s services and activities among their respective networks.
Training
Offering joint seminars and training courses on priority areas, and supporting each other’s training activities.
Meetings
Carrying out joint meetings to address matters of common interest.
Collaboration
Developing and implementing joint programs and promoting cooperation and collaboration among each other’s members at a national level.
Our Blog
QICA Background
QICA creation is the result of a joint effort between the three regional organizations of the QI in technical cooperation projects. Takes into account the initiative of Ministers and High Authorities of Science and Technology of the Organization of American States (OAS), for access to quality infrastructure services and has counted and has strong support in its creation and ongoing development, from PTB, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, the National Metrology Institute of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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