United Kingdom

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

Effective IP rights management in the digital environment is key to support the competitiveness of creative SMEs. Thus, creative SMEs need to be empowered to make better decisions and deploy more advanced solutions based on insights gleaned from data.

Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)

EU Digital Single Market Copyright Directive aims to facilitate a fairer marketplace for rights holders. Effective IP rights management in the digital environment is key to support the competitiveness of creative SMEs. ISO/IEC 21000-23 Smart Contracts for Media supported by rich semantic copyright models can be handy when data-based decisions need to be derived by evidence and logic, leading to new business models that can be efficiently deployed on decentralised digital media platforms. Moreover, the interoperability of such platforms is addressed by ISO/IEC 23000-23 Decentralised Media Rights Application Format which building around DLT-agnostic ISO/IEC 21000-23 Smart Contracts for Media has the potential to unlock the Semantic Web and in turn the creative economy. The latter is not only one of the most rapidly growing sectors of the world economy, but also a highly transformative one in terms of income-generation, job creation, export earnings, quality of life and social cohesion.

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

ISO/IEC 23000-23 Decentralised Media Rights Application Format building around DLT-agnostic ISO/IEC 21000-23 Smart Contracts for Media has the potential to unlock both the Semantic Web and in turn the creative economy.

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IT Consultancy/Development

OC#6 2026

Organisation type

Organization

Senior Advisor, Independent Consultant

Organization website

Senior Advisor, Independent Consultant

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Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)

Advancing ISO/IEC 23000-23 Decentralised Media Rights Application Format

Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

ISO/IEC 21000-23 and 23000-23: New Standards for Interoperability and Transparency of Rights in Digital Media

Working Draft of ISO/IEC 23000-23

https://www.iso.org/committee/45316.html

Role in SDO

chair

Standards Development Organisation

ISO/IEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (2nd Open Call)

Topic (6th Open Call)

Geoffrey Goodell

Description of Activities

Through this fellowship project, I am directly pursuing the development, approval, and publication of the following standards: ISO 22739:2024 ‘Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies – Vocabulary’, ISO/TR 24332 ‘Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology in relation to authoritative records, records systems, and records management’ and ISO/NP 24982 ‘Digital currencies – Vocabulary’.

Fellow's country

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

These applications facilitate and enhance a wide variety of commercial activities among European businesses and feature prominently in active development of European regulations, including but not limited to eIDAS, EBSI, and some ECB initiatives on the development of a digital euro.

Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)

DLT can facilitate and enhance a wide variety of commercial activities among European businesses and feature prominently in active development of European regulations, including but not limited to eIDAS and EBSI.

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

Distributed ledger technology offers an opportunity to promote better management of data within public services, including for accounting and records management, as well as for electronic payments, particularly in the context of digital currencies, which represent an opportunity for central banks and financial regulators to provide a public payment mechanism that citizen-consumers can use independently of potentially exclusive custodial relationships.

Impact on society (5th Open Call)

Open Call

Lecturer, University College London

OC#5 2026

Organisation type

Academia/Research

Organization

Lecturer, University College London

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Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)

Core Standards for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology and Digital Currencies

Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

Core Standards for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology and Digital Currencies

ISO/TC 307

Role in SDO

convenor

Standards Development Organisation

ISO

CEN/CENELEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (2nd Open Call)

Topic (5th Open Call)

Kate Grant

Description of Activities

Identifying standardisation gaps and creating road maps is essential for ensuring technology development addresses key problem areas.

Fellow's country

Open Call Topics

IoT Internet of Things

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

Elaboration of use cases for technology and emerging technology can help SMEs exploit their work in multiple application areas and help ensure that their products are interoperable and accessible.

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

IoT is a pervasive technology used across many industries and increasingly it is benefitting consumers by providing access to many systems and facilities from home. It is important that the current moves to online government, banking, shopping etc does not create a digital divide but includes all people.

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IT Consultancy/Development

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Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)

Study of IEC System committee use cases and their relevance to JTC 1 standardisation

IEC Academy webinar series

Role in SDO

convenor

Standards Development Organisation

IEC

ISO/IEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (2nd Open Call)

IoT Internet of Things

Karim Tobich

Description of Activities

This fellowship is meant to increase confidence in cybersecurity through the convergence of international SDOs and the alignment behind a common international standard which relates both to the market and society.

Country

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Fellow's country

IT Consultancy/Development

Open Call Topics

Cloud and Edge Computing

Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)

Organisations willing to achieve a resilient cybersecurity system will have to implement an information security management system. The standards developed through this contribution will provide SME and European societies with a comprehensive guidance on how to use ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27002. Moreover, ISO/IEC 27017 will provide SMEs working as Could service providers with a comprehensive list of guidelines to implement when providing services to Could service customers.

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

Organisations willing to achieve a resilient cybersecurity system will have to implement an information security management system. Within that context, this contribution helps organisations of any size including SMEs to achieve better security and cybersecurity through the use of standards like ISO/IEC 27003, ISO/IEC 27028, and ISO/IEC 27004 that will be revised and developed through this work. In addition, this contribution provides technology organisations with a framework to develop and use secure cloud systems ISO/IEC 27017, edge computing systems ISO/IEC 25545 and raise awareness about security and privacy aspects of digital twin systems ISO/IEC 27568 so those concerns can be integrated at an early stage and achieve security and privacy by design when developing such innovative technology.

Impact on society (5th Open Call)

Developing and providing such standards to organisations allow them to implement the EU values and policies in an easy manner.

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Open Call

OC#1 2026

OC#5 2026

OC#7 2026

Organisation type

Organization

Director - Cybersecurity & Technology Consultancy

Organization website

CST Consulting

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Proposal Title (1st Open Call)

Standards for Information security and cloud service providers

Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

Standards for Information security management, cloud service providers, and digital twins

Proposal Title (7th Open Call)

Standards for Information security management, cloud, edge and digital twin technologies

Online references related to the fellowship work

Role in SDO

moderator

Standards Development Organisation

ISO/IEC

Topic

Cybersecurity / Cloud Computing

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

2023

Cybersecurity/Network and Information security

2025

Topic (1st Open Call)

Cloud and Edge Computing

Topic (5th Open Call)

Topic (7th Open Call)

Cybersecurity/Network and Information security

Alex Cadzow

Description of Activities

In addressing secure AI with the broad interpretation of security to include safety and societal aspects as above TC SAI will engage with EU and other regulatory bodies to ensure that the output supports relevant global, regional, and national requirements.

Country

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Fellow's country

Broadband infrastructure mapping

Open Call Topics

Artificial Intelligence

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Open Call

OC#1 2026