Open Call 1

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In StandICT.eu 2029, supporting and promoting the involvement of ICT standardisation experts in SDOs at a global level is pivotal. 
For this reason, standICT will recruit and enroll experts through 6 different Open Calls, each one running for 60 days. 

Possible topics

Applications should focus on the topics taken from the Multi-Stakeholder Platform Rolling Plan for ICT Standardisation, namely:

FOUNDATIONAL DRIVERS
  • Data economy
  • Cybersecurity / network and information security
  • ePrivacy
KEY ENABLERS
  • 5G and beyond
  • Cloud and edge computing
  • Data interoperability
  • Internet of Things
  • Electronic identification and trust services including e-signatures
  • e-Infrastructures for data and computing intensive science and the European Open Science Cloud
  • Broadband infrastructure mapping
  • Accessibility of ICT products and services
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • European Global Navigation Satellite System (EGNSS)
  • Quantum Technologies
SOCIETAL CHALLENGES    
  • Digital health, healthy living and ageing
  • Digital skills
  • Digital learning
  • eGovernment
  • eCall
  • Pandemic preparedness
  • Safety, transparency and due process online
  • Emergency communications and public warning systems
INNOVATION FOR THE DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET
  • e-Procurement – pre- and post award
  • e-Invoicing
  • Retail Payments
  • Preservation of digital cinema
  • Fintech and Regtech Standardisation
  • Blockchain and Distributed Digital Ledger Technologies
  • Web 4.0 and virtual worlds
  • Media        
SUSTAINABLE GROWTH 
  • Smart grids and smart metering
  • Smart and sustainable cities and communities
  • ICT Environmental impact
  • European Electronic Toll Service (EETS)
  • Intelligent Transport Systems - Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (ITS-CCAM) and Electromobility
  • Digitisation of European Industry
  • Robotics and autonomous systems
  • Construction - building information modelling
  • Water Management Digitalisation
  • Single European Sky
  • U-space
  • Circular economy and sustainability
Application guidelines

Check the guidelines here

 

 

17 November 2025 08:00 CET
16 January 2026 16:00 CET
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