Leveraging standardisation in Digital Technologies (CSA) -

Expected Outcome:

Connecting European stakeholders ecosystems, including SMEs, with European and International standardisation bodies and other relevant actors. Identification of standardisation areas, amongst others within the field of Internet standardisation, which need European intervention and proposal of actions to address them.

Projects are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

• Engagement of required stakeholders and experts to ensure lasting impact;
• Increase the influence of Europe into ICT standardisation, ensuring promotion of European requirements, values and interests;
• Set-up of a facility to support participation of European specialists in international ICT Standard Developing Organisations and global fora and consortia;
• Increase the participation of European specialists in international ICT Standardisation activities to support European values and interests, including in leadership positions;
• Synergies with other similar initiatives or European players including from EU (and national) funded R&I projects;
• Increase awareness and education on sustainability and ICT standardisation;
• Support standardisation meetings in Europe, so that European players have easier conditions for participation.

Scope:

This action will involve and empower European stakeholders participating at the development of open technical specifications and standards with the aim to representing European values and ethics, strengthen the take-up, scalability cross-border and cross-sector interoperability of their technological solutions.

The aim is to reinforce the presence of EU and associated states experts in the international ICT standardisation scene, by setting up a ICT standardisation observatory and a facility supporting the participation of key European specialists (especially from SMEs and Academia) in key international and global Standard Developing Organisations.

Key tasks to be carried out are:

• Mapping of the relevant activities in international ICT standardisation, including identification of sectors and areas, especially within the field of internet standardisation, where additional presence of EU and Associated Country experts may be needed. When relevant hosting standardisation meetings and workshops in Europe;
• Setting up of a management facility to support participation and leadership (e.g. chairing of technical committees) of key European specialists (incl. from SMEs and academia) in those organisations and technical bodies identified. The aim should be to achieve critical mass from industry, including SMEs and Startups, and academia for emerging standardisation activities;
• Liaise with relevant on-going developments in EU and national funded R&I projects, in particular with projects having identified standardisation output or with potential relevant results, including as well other coordination and support actions, and relevant European Partnerships;
• The consortium will define the process for an open call allowing the funding of the key European specialists to participate in global ICT standardisation activities to fulfil the scope of the call. The consortium will also define the process for an open call that will lead to a selection of an additional pool of specialist experts that may be needed to evaluate the applications for funding specialists to fulfil the scope of the proposal. In addition ad-hoc selection processes may be required. Financial support for these specialists will be typically in the order of EUR 1.000 – 10.000 per action by third party;
• Promotion of the relevance and benefits of ICT standardisation, especially for European industry competitiveness, driving sustainability, sovereignty, green deal, values and ethics. The proposal will also include actions, including development of tools and materials, to promote education on ICT standardisation;
• The proposal should take into account the previous activities carried out the observatory and facilities for funding experts within the topic ICT-40-2017 implemented by the StandICT.eu project and under ICT-45-2020 implemented under StandICT.eu2023 project under (see http://www.standict.eu).

In this topic the integration of the gender dimension (sex and gender analysis) in research and innovation content is not a mandatory requirement

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