ETSI

Organisation type

Other

Organization

Independent Expert

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Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

Contribution to the modification of standards to facilitate their use by manufacturers and writers of associated vertical standards

Standards Development Organisation

CEN/CENELEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Cybersecurity/Network and Information security

Topic (6th Open Call)

Antoine Sciberras

Description of Activities

My work aims to rationalise the resulting compliance efforts through a dedicated Technical Report (TR) under ETSI CYBER. This report will help reduce legal ambiguity, support standardisation across sectors, and ensure proportional and efficient compliance.

Fellow's country

Malta

Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)

This project has significant implications for SMEs across the EU. Many of these companies provide ICT services to regulated entities but may lack the resources to navigate complex, overlapping regulatory regimes. By providing a unified interpretation of NIS2 and DORA obligations, the project reduces uncertainty and helps SMEs avoid redundant compliance efforts.

Impact on society (6th Open Call)

Yes. The initiative is centred on the development of a new Technical Report within ETSI CYBER, aimed at clarifying the joint application of NIS2 and DORA. A formal proposal has been submitted and approved as a work item under ETSI CYBER’s work programme.

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Organisation type

Academia/Research

Organization

University of Malta

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Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

Contributing to the evolution of ICT standards by providing clarity where EU-level legislation currently creates operational ambiguity

Standards Development Organisation

ISO/IEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Cybersecurity/Network and Information security

Topic (6th Open Call)

ETSI Teaching materials

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Dive into the 2nd Edition of the ETSI comprehensive textbook, Understanding ICT Standardization: Principles and Practice. Alongside this, ETSI has crafted an extensive set of over 380 teaching slides designed to support and enrich your learning experience.

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https://www.etsi.org/education/teaching-material

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ETSI eLearning area

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Gain the knowledge needed to actively participate in and contribute to standardisation processes. The videos cover essential topics, helping you understand and implement tech standards crucial for innovation and interoperability.

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https://www.etsi.org/education/learn

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Joachim Koss

Description of Activities

My fellowship contributes to analysing the ICT (IoT) Standards landscape in order to find gaps to be filled by future standardisation work and also to identify existing standards, which manufacturers and service providers of connected products or related services may apply in order for their products being compliant to the new Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 (European Data Act).

Fellow's country

Germany

Open Call Topics

IoT Internet of Things

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

The Data Act applies to the group of holders of data (not only but also SMEs) acting on the European market irrespective of the place of establishment of those manufacturers and providers.

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

Since the addressed existing or to be developed standards enable particularly semantic interoperability across the IoT, they also provide cross domain and cross-vendor IoT semantic interoperability for exchanging data with common understanding of its meaning. This will become increasingly important as greater quantities of data are generated and shared across the IoT. It opens new market opportunities in the domains of e.g. Healthcare, Smart Grid, Smart Metering, Intelligent Transport Systems, Industrial Automated Systems, and Smart Cities, which depend on collecting and processing data. With that, it directly supports the strong European goal of the “digital single market”.

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Technical Committee (TC) Smart Machine-to-Machine Communications (SmartM2M)

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Independent principal consultant, JK Consulting and Projects

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Proposal Title (4th Open Call)

EU Data Act - Evaluation and filling of standardisation gaps to satisfy technical provisions of it

Standards Development Organisation

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (4th Open Call)

IoT Internet of Things

David Artuñedo Guillén

Description of Activities

My contribution has a direct impact in 3GPP Release 19 specifications in the TR 23.946 CAPIF Guidelines.

Open Call Topics

5G and Beyond (6G)

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

By adopting CAPIF, following the guidelines that will be created in SA6, European companies will increase their competitiveness making better products, easier to deploy over 5G Networks, improving their interoperability with commercial solutions from vendors that support CAPIF.

Impact on SMEs (8th Open Call)

The new TR will provide Guidelines for SMEs in Europe to develop Applications and Services based in 3GPP SA6 API frameworks. This alignment of OpenCAPIF to the standard is critical to provide European Developers a consistent framework where the 3GPP CAPIF Guidelines will instruct European Developers on how to use CAPIF, and OpenCAPIF as the practical and open source reference implementation for European Developers to use it for Development, Integration and Testing of European Applications for 5G Networks. European companies do have an Open Source implementation of CAPIF to develop Applications and Services compatible with 5G standard API Exposure making their products more competitive.

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https://www.telefonica.com/es/

OC#8 2026

Organization

Telefónica I+D. S.A.u.

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Proposal Title (4th Open Call)

Participation in SA6 to support CAPIF Guidelines from ETSI OpenCAPIF

Proposal Title (8th Open Call)

Chair of ETSI OpenCAPIF SDG

Cornelis J.M. Lanting

Fellow's country

Belgium

Open Call Topics

ICT Environmental impact

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

These new standards impact directly SMEs and other organisations that are affected as users of ICT equipment. It can also benefit SMEs deploying the potential of the USB-C with PD power supplies and chargers available on the market. Also SMEs are able introduce their own more intelligent and communicative power supplies and chargers

Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)

SMEs encompasses users, service providers and developers of ICT equipment and services
All three categories have an interest in bringing down costs while increasing sustainability, reliablility and economic life time, and need guidelines to help them to suport and achieve this

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

Given the EU choice for the USB-C interface for charging and connection, it is now essential to make its use easy, successful and efficient, and reduce the risk of mismatch, unnecessary negative experiences and safety issues. A wide adoption will support the EU's initiative, and will increase the benefits beyond 'just' the Smartphone and Tablet domain, and enter the general rechargeable domain as the preferred standard.

Impact on society (6th Open Call)

This technical report (TR) will provide information and guidance on what is required to apply Circular-Economy Principles (CEP) to ICT equipment, services and usage. Applying Circular-Economy Principles is much more than being a bit Green, e.g. some reduction in the operational power consumption of network equipment.All parties involved, including the users, will have to make contributions to the realisation of CEP.Moreover, this TR is intended to be the basis for a set of standards on the implementation of Circular-Economy Principles to ICT equipment, services and usage.

The targeted impact includes:
increased effective economic life time of products
reduced resource consumption, including energy and scarse materials
better management of usage and recycling of materials, including scarse resources

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Organisation type

SMEs

Organization

DATSA Belgium

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Proposal Title (4th Open Call)

Adaptive and multiple output power supplies based on USB Type C connector and USB PD support

Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

Contribution to ICT Standardisation for Sustainability and Energy Management of Multi-Service Digital Environments

Role in SDO

convenor

Standards Development Organisation

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Circular Economy including Digital Product Passport

Topic (4th Open Call)

ICT Environmental impact

Topic (6th Open Call)

ICT Environmental impact

Leandro Navarro

Description of Activities

Within my WG, we address the gap in the link between digitisation and environmental sustainability, and particularly of products and services. Specifically, digital devices and related elements ranging from materials to e-waste are a significant part of our environmental problem.

Fellow's country

Spain

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

It is particularly important that European SMEs find DPPs a way to communicate the sustainability advantages of their products better and that producing a DPP, and digitalising product information becomes an advantage and not an additional obstacle to SMEs. One of the advantages of ITU and ETSI over other standards development organisations is that these standards will be free and more accessible for SMEs.

Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)

Relevant for any size organisation that produces or modifies ICT products that are part, involved in any stage, of the circular economy. Particularly, this is very important for social enterprises in the business of repair, refurbishment and recycling. This is the case, for instance, of the European RReuse.org association that groups social enterprises with more than 100.000 jobs.

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

The digitalisation of product-related information has the aim to contribute to a transition to more environmentally sustainable and circular products.

Impact on society (5th Open Call)

The resulting standard element from this work will support legislative initiatives in the EU for implementing the digital product passport for ICT products in Europe and globally. This work focuses on environmental information for ICT products, and is complementary to other digital standards about the DPP in Europe and globally. Also, this a relevant standard for any size organisation that produces or modifies ICT products that are part, involved in any stage, of the circular economy

Impact on society (6th Open Call)

The resulting standards from the ITU-T L.GPSIM work item will support legislative initiatives in the EU about ecodesign and sustainable products to remove data sanitization as a risk and barrier to the circular economy (reuse and other circular processes to extend product lifespan) and for the implementation and evaluation of circular economy initiatives.

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Organization

Professor, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)

An information model for digital product passport information on sustainability and circularity

Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

DPP standards and ICT products: digital information on sustainability and circularity

Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

Good practices for the sanitisation of the information media in end-of-life ICT devices

ITU-T work programme

Standards Development Organisation

ITU

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Circular Economy including Digital Product Passport

Topic (2nd Open Call)

Topic (5th Open Call)

Circular Economy including Digital Product Passport

Topic (6th Open Call)

Circular Economy including Digital Product Passport

Muslim Elkotob

Description of Activities

With this work, I focus on enabling collaborative ecosystems and models among ICT stakeholders that allow energy saving and a positive environmental and societal footprint, bridging use case workflow and ecosystem design in a way that allows data-driven collaboration and performance increments.

Fellow's country

Germany

Open Call Topics

5G and Beyond (6G)

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

This work fosters an inclusive mindset by opening the floor for smaller players, SMEs, and new entrants into the ecosystem to collaborate with the larger players.

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

The work done in this funded project has societal impacts such as, improving the business ecosystem and its evolution via collaborative models where stakeholders have win-win approaches for energy saving and collective benefit.

Impact on society (8th Open Call)

By interweaving 6G, AI, and sustainability, this project seeks to realize their full potential, driving innovation and progress in a way that isolated efforts cannot achieve. The creation of a collaborative platform and the focus on comprehensive performance metrics will facilitate the effective integration of these megatrends, fostering advancements that are both technologically superior and aligned with global sustainability goals.

Open Call

OC#2 2026

OC#8 2026

Organisation type

Other

Organization

Principal Solutions Architect and Standardisation Expert, Vodafone

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Vodafone

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Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)

Multi-Criteria Intelligent Resource Allocation for Sustainable Poly-CSP Environments

Proposal Title (8th Open Call)

First Steps in Measurable Sustainability Modelling Standardization for AI-Enriched 6G

Role in SDO

chair

vice-chair

Standards Development Organisation

ITU

IEEE

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (2nd Open Call)

5G and Beyond (6G)

Mauro Dragoni

Description of Activities

In this fellowship, I work on the analysis of the Digital Twins (DT) landscape with a focus on the urban domain. We focused on two priority gaps that, once solved, may enable the modelling of complex DT through the exclusive use of the SAREF suite to enhance the interoperable communication between entities composing a DT; and to enable the modelling of time series to represent how a DT evolves through time.

Fellow's country

Italy

Open Call Topics

Artificial Intelligence

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

This proposal will amplify the SAREF impact on the standard ontology's general usability.
It would be possible to empower the EU know-how and leadership in this sector, especially in the ontology-AI-Digital Twins integration.

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

The increased quality of the outcomes of the industrial sector will contribute to increase the quality of life of citizens.

Impact on society (6th Open Call)

The ACT4ALL activities will work as enablers to create a standard that could have a market impact and be suitable for direct follow-up within ETSI. A novel ACT fully-fledged standard will open the development of a breakthrough global detection and communication network focused on rapid response to bio-eco-emergencies. This will radically change the current services already deployed by the European and National Public Health Institutes to monitor, alert, and advise Political decision-makers, Public Organizations, Environmental Institutes, and citizens by implementing new adaptable and modular automated diagnostic solutions for future pandemics combined with innovative technological solutions based on the concepts of inter-connected IoT.

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OC#2 2026

https://www.etsi.org/newsroom/press-releases/2496-etsi-launches-a-technical-com…

Organisation type

Academia/Research

Organization

Head of the Intelligent Digital Agents research unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)

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FBK

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Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)

DT-COOP: Standardising Digital Twins Cooperation

Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

Sviluppo dello Standard ACT per la Sorveglianza Pan-Europea e la Gestione delle Emergenze Sanitarie e Ambientali

TC Smart M2M

Standards Development Organisation

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Electronic identification and trust services (including e-signature)

Topic (2nd Open Call)

Artificial Intelligence

Topic (6th Open Call)

Pandemic Preparedness

Michal Tabor

Description of Activities

The targeted ICT standards development activity aims to address the dynamic changes in the European Union's financial services landscape, driven by the Payment Services Directive (PSD3), Payment Services Regulation (PSR), and financial data access (FIDA). The objective is to adapt and enhance existing standards to align with the regulatory updates introduced by PSD3, PSR, and FIDA.

Fellow's country

Poland

Open Call Topics

Impact on society (5th Open Call)

By stating that the priority is electronic identification and trust services, this work directly impacts both electronic identification and trust services. Specifically, the ETSI Standard 119 462 (Wallet Interfaces) influences identification and trust services in the following ways:
it establishes a standardised mechanism for identification from the wallet to trust service providers, it creates a standardised mechanism for trust service providers to issue attributes that are used for identification, it sets up a mechanism for collaboration with trust service providers in the process of creating electronic signatures.

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OC#3 2026

OC#5 2026

Organisation type

IT Consultancy/Development

Organization

Expert, Technologie Informacyjne

Organization website

Technologie Informacyjne

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Proposal Title (3rd Open Call)

Digital Certificates supporting Open Finance and PSD3

Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

Standards supporting European Digital Identity Wallet and Relying Parties

Details of 'DTS/ESI-0019462' Work Item

Relying party authorisations for access to EUDI Wallet

Standards Development Organisation

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Electronic identification and trust services (including e-signature)

Topic (3rd Open Call)

Topic (5th Open Call)

Electronic identification and trust services (including e-signature)

Josef Preishuber-Pflügl

Description of Activities

This work is addressing the demand of harmonised standards for radio regulations certification. In particular it is addressing RFID in the UHF frequency bands 865-868 and 915-921 MHz.

Fellow's country

Austria

Open Call Topics

IoT Internet of Things

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

SMEs are major contributors in the RFID industry, contributing to in particular tags, readers and system integration. All of them require harmonised standards. Therefore, the work and content of ISO/IEC 18000-63 is very important to them.

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

This activity is the continuation of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC31 WG4 "Radio communications" work to serve the international and European industry and society to enhance standards to better serve the needs of Europe and the whole world and in particular to provide standards that are in particular relevant for IoT and DPP.
RFID (UHF RFID, RAIN RFID) are a major used technology for the supply chain and production to reduce overproduction and waste. Furthermore, it is a technology for the Digital Product Passport, which is strongly supported by the European Commission for sustainable product regulations.

Impact on society (8th Open Call)

The resulting harmonised standard will benefit SMEs, other industry players and European societies through the availability of provide and use certified products according the RED. RFID (UHF RFID, RAIN RFID) is a major used technology for the supply chain and production to reduce overproduction and waste. Furthermore, it is a technology for the Digitial Product Passport, which is strongly supported by the European Commission for sustainable product regulations.

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OC#3 2026