Standards Body

The IEC is the world's leading organization that prepares and publishes globally relevant International Standards for the whole energy chain, including all electrical, electronic and related technologies, devices and systems. The IEC also supports all forms of conformity assessment and administers four Conformity Assessment Systems that certify that components, equipment and systems used in homes, offices, healthcare facilities, public spaces, transportation, manufacturing, explosive environments and energy generation conform to them.

StandICT.eu 2026 has funded fellowships across 12 different standardisation organisations, and this number will expand with the forthcoming funding batches. Beyond, it has also established synergies with 6 different National Standards Bodies.

IEC representatives participated in some webinars organised by StandICT as speakers. In particular at the 24 October 2023 webinar ‘Navigating the Citiverse’ and the 7 March 2024 Webinar ‘Women in ICT Standardisation’

ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation) is an independent, non-governmental international organisation that develops and publishes global standards to ensure quality, safety, efficiency and interoperability in various sectors. ISO standards help companies improve their processes, increase customer confidence and facilitate international trade.

Several ISO representatives participated in a number of webinars organised by StandICT as speakers. In particular at the 24 October 2023 webinar ‘Navigating the Citiverse’ and the 7 March 2024 Webinar ‘Women in ICT Standardisation’.

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) unites telecommunications standard development organizations (ARIB, ATIS, CCSA, ETSI, TSDSI, TTA, TTC), known as “Organizational Partners” and provides their members with a stable environment to produce the Reports and Specifications that define 3GPP technologies.

The project covers cellular telecommunications network technologies, including radio access, the core transport network, and service capabilities - including work on codecs, security, quality of service - and thus provides complete system specifications. The specifications also provide hooks for non-radio access to the core network, and for interworking with Wi-Fi networks.

3GPP shares with StandICT the goal of creating standards for ICT and in particular for communication technologies. therefore, the two projects exchange useful information for stakeholders.

O-RAN ALLIANCE is a world-wide community of mobile operators, vendors, and research & academic institutions with the mission to re-shape Radio Access Networks to be more intelligent, open, virtualized and fully interoperable.

The British Standards Institution (BSI) is the national standards body of the United Kingdom. BSI produces technical standards on a wide range of products and services and also supplies standards certification services for business and personnel.

Panos Kudumakis is Head of UK Delegation of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 sub-committee on 'Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information' (aka MPEG & JPEG) and Chair of British Standards Institute (BSI) IST/37 national mirror committee (2016). He is also Member of the StandICT.eu's Forum for European Strategy on ICT Standards (FOREST).

As Ireland’s official standards body, the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) aims to inspire consumer confidence and create the infrastructure for products and services to be recognised and relied on, all over the world. NSAI is the state agency is responsible for standardisation, conformity assessment and measurement, and was established under the National Standards Authority of Ireland Act 1996. NSAI reports to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

Dave Lewis, Member of the NSAI Mirror Committee on AI, is also a Member of the StandICT.eu's Forum for European Strategy on ICT Standards (FOREST). NSAI Working Group members are also funded through the StandICT.eu Fellowship Programme. StandICT.eu's EAG member Harshvardhan Pandit is a member of the National Standards Authority of Ireland and contributes to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27 standardisation activities regarding privacy and consent.

Austrian Standards is the Austrian organisation for standardisation and innovation. We provide the platform for the development of standards, bring expertise from all over the world to Austria through our network and strengthen organisations when it comes to the effective application of standards.

Karl Gruen, Director at Austrian Standards, is Member of the StandICT.eu's External Advisory Group.

Dansk Standard is the national standardisation organisation in Denmark. We contribute to the work of the European organisations CEN, CENELEC and ETSI, and the international standardisation organisations ISO and IEC. Danish Standards chooses to implement most of the standards from these organisations in Denmark. When a European or international standard has been implemented in Denmark, this is reflected in the title, e.g. DS/EN or DS/ISO. 

DS' Annete Bogh has been invited to and joined as speaker the Standards Academy Training Insights from the European Standardisation Panel Survey’ on 21 May 2024.

The Spanish Association for Standardisation-UNE is the organisation legally responsible for developing and disseminating technical standards in Spain. Standards indicate what a product should be like or how a service should work so that it is safe and comes up to the consumer's expectations. UNE offers one of the most comprehensive catalogues available, with more than 31,500 standards documents all containing effective solutions. UNE offers a proven track record and knowledge of standards, as well as products and services connected with organisations from all over the world, performing major work in the field of international cooperation.

StandICT.eu 2026 was invites to contribute to the UNE Information Day on the Digital Product Passport on 11 September 2023.

DIN Standards are the results of work at national, European and/or international level. Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (DIN; in English, the German Institute for Standardisation) is a German non-profit organization and acting as national organization for standardization. DIN is the German ISO member body. DIN is headquartered in Berlin. There are around thirty thousand DIN Standards, covering nearly every field of technology.

DIN's Benjamin Helfritz joined as panellist the StandICT.eu Webinar ‘Digital Product Passport’ on 28 April 2023. DIN's Christian Goroncy took part in the Standards Academy Training ‘Standardisation in practice: When is the right time for standardisation in research processes?’ on 1 February 2024, whilst Daniel Haack contributed to the Standards Academy Training ‘Open Source and Standardisation’ on 18 March 2024.

Stephan Weisgerber - DIN Head of Digital Platforms - is a Member of External Advisory Group. 

DIN's Daniel Haack was interviewed for the StandICT.eu 2026 Research Report (‘Europe’s place in a changing ICT standardisation landscape’).

OASIS Open is where individuals, organizations, and governments come together to solve some of the world’s biggest technical challenges through the development of open code and open standards. On 14 March 2024, Jamie Clark took part as a panellist in the Webinar ‘Legal Challenges and Innovation for OSS and Standardisation Collaboration’. The same expert was interviewed for the StandICT.eu 2026 Research Report ‘Europe’s place in a changing ICT standardisation landscape’.

IEEE is a leading developer of international standards that underpin many of today's telecommunications, information technology, and power-generation products and services. 

StandICT.eu 2026 has funded fellowships across 12 different standardisation organisations, including IEEE, and this number will expand with the forthcoming funding batches. Beyond, it has also established synergies with 6 different National Standards Bodies.

Besides funding experts who contributes to the activities of IEEE, other synergies and engagement activities in the framework of StandICT.eu have been carried out, such as:

• Speaker slot (Adriana Nugter) - 29 February 2024 Webinar ‘Open Source & the AI Act’. 
• StandICT.eu 2026 participation at IEEE COMPSAC 2023 (27-28 June 2023). 
• Member of External Advisory Group (Silona Bonewald - Executive Director of IEEE SA OPEN).
• Interviewed expert in StandICT.eu 2026 Research Report (‘Europe’s place in a changing ICT standardisation landscape’) (Konstantinos Karachalios).