QUEST
Regulatory sandbox of PTB for administrative digitisation (Open Desk)
QUEST (Centre for Quantum Engineering and Space-Time Research) was founded in November 2007 as a cluster of excellence with the participation of the PTB.
In 2009 a QUEST institute at PTB was founded in order to cooperate with six other institutes - Leibniz University Hannover, the Laser Centre Hannover, the GEO600 gravitational wave detector in Ruthe, the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute/AEI) and the Centre for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) in Bremen - in order to contribute PTB's unique measurement capabilities in the cooperation.
Today's name of QUEST is Institute for Experimental Quantum Metrology (QUEST).
Currently, it is the testing ground for Open Desk, an open source application within the realm of administrative digitisation, consisting of two parts:
- an Office and collaboration suite developed specifically for the needs of public administration (application level).
- and the associated operating system Linux.
Open Desk was developed by Zentrum für Digitale Souveränität der Öffentlichen Verwaltung (ZenDiS) GmbH on behalf of the Federal Ministry of the Interior as part of the digital sovereignty endeavours of public administration in Germany.
