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Dates
20 - 22 October 2025
Face-to-Face
Flemings Hotel, Frankfurt, Germany
Registration Deadline
30 September 2025
Price
€1,600 per person (includes 19% VAT)
€1,400 group price pp (minimum of 3
participants from the same organisation)
Quality Infrastructure for Development: Advanced Training
Enhance your understanding of Quality Infrastructure (QI) and its impact on economic development.
Scheduled for 20 to 22 October in Frankfurt am Main, it is designed for professionals in international organisations, business associations, consultancy, and policymaking.
Course Overview
This advanced training provides:
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A thorough exploration of the Quality Infrastructure System and its economic relevance
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Insights into QI's role in global development, including trade, innovation, sustainability, and digitalisation
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Focus on supply and demand-driven QI development strategies
Key Features
Expert-led sessions drawing from Mesopartner's 20+ years of experience in QI promotion
Balanced learning approach combining technical inputs, case studies, and experience sharing
Opportunity to join Mesopartner's global QI network
Target Audience
Development cooperation project managers
QI institution staff
Policymakers overseeing QI institutions
Social and economic science researchers
Location
The training takes place in Frankfurt am Main, a hub for German quality infrastructure institutions that offers a blend of central accessibility and urban appeal.
Why Attend?
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Gain a systemic understanding of quality infrastructure
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Learn tools for analysing and influencing QI systems
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Network with global experts and peers in the field
Take advantage of this opportunity to deepen your QI expertise and contribute to economic development initiatives worldwide.
Register now to secure your place in this exclusive training program.
What is included?
The fees will cover your participation in the training session, snacks, lunches, and one group dinner on Tuesday, 21 October. However, please note that the fees do not include any expenses related to travel, accommodation, breakfast, or dinner.
Accommodation Booking
If you wish to stay at the Flemings Hotel in Frankfurt, kindly mention it on your registration form. We will reserve your accommodation, and you can pay directly to the hotel. The accommodation dates are from Sunday, 19 October, to Wednesday, 22 October 2025. Please specify your dates on the registration form if you want to stay longer.
Small Print
Payment procedure
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You will receive an electronic invoice by email.
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Payment deadline is 1 September 2025.
Refund policy
If you cancel your participation, the following refund policy applies:
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If you cancel before 1 August 2025, 20% of your payment will be reimbursed.
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If you cancel after 1 August 2025, your payment will not be reimbursed.
The trainers are partners of Mesopartner, a leading consultancy in systemic competitiveness and sustainable development. Mesopartner works within the framework of international development cooperation for the leading support organisations, programmes, and projects focusing on quality and standards (including PTB, ITC, ILO, UNIDO and the World Bank). The relevant consulting experience includes analysing national quality infrastructure systems, designing national quality policies and assessing quality requirements in value chains in a participatory way.
Dr Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke is an economist with a PhD in economics and political science. He is a researcher and expert on quality infrastructure and sustainable development and a founding partner of Mesopartner ParG
(Germany).
Since 2004, he has been providing consultancy services to quality infrastructure actors in many African, Asian, Latin American, and Caribbean countries on behalf of German and international cooperation institutions (PTB, GIZ, ITC, UNIDO, and the World Bank). Within this framework, Dr Ulrich advises governments on national quality policies. He also co-developed the Calidena method, a gap analysis for quality infrastructure services in value chains.
Dr Ulrich is a visiting researcher and lecturer at the Technical University in Berlin and promotes the Global Quality Infrastructure Index (GQII). He is dedicated to creating content with an academic and scientific focus and regularly shares his knowledge on the blog QI4D.
Christian has 30 years of experience in Local and Regional Economy Development, Value Chain Development, Economic Governance and Quality Infrastructure. He has been involved in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating economic development projects in Europe, Africa and Asia for various development organisations and donors. Christian has worked as an intermittent team leader for different development programs in Vietnam and Nepal and has built the capacity of international and national consultants, national project staff and counterparts all over Southeast Asia and South Asia during the last 20 years. Christian has been based in Hanoi, Vietnam, since 2008.
Shawn is a process consultant working in the field of performance and competitiveness improvement of the private sector. He has conducted diagnoses in various industries in more than a dozen countries. His qualifications are mainly in strategic, innovation and technology management, and organizational development, and he has published on topics related to economic development and innovation. He is involved in research into complexity thinking applied to decision making, innovation support and industrialization with different universities.
Testimonials from the QI 2024 event
Ann-Sara Ramkissoon
Development Economist
I'm happy to have participated in Mesopartner's inaugural workshop on Quality Infrastructure in Frankfurt from 30 September - 02 October, 2024. We explored different approaches and methods to pick up new trends and contribute to the future-oriented development of QI. The workshop helped me to deepen my own understanding of Ql and learn how to better explain this very niche field to others.