ISO/IEC

ETSI

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (6th Open Call)

Emilia Tantar

Description of Activities

The work I am leading in European Standardisation through the CEN and CENELEC JTC 21 WG 2, answers directly the main operational pillars of the Standardisation request received from the European Commission as to provide technical specifications through standards (candidate for harmonization) in support of the EU AI Act.

Fellow's country

Luxembourg

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)

My work is aims at providing a comprehensive operational framework of standards that enables European SMEs and European societies access the EU market while ensuring compliance with the requirements of the EU AI Act in a cost and resource efficient way.

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Organisation type

CEN/CLC/JTC 21 - Artificial Intelligence

Organization

Chief Data and AI Officer, Standardisation expert, R&D Black Swan Lux S.A.

Personal website

Black Swan LUX

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Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

Progress and lead delivery of EN AI Conformity assessment and supporting operational standards

Role in SDO

convenor

Standards Development Organisation

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (5th Open Call)

Javier Peris

Description of Activities

In this fellowship, the main priority focuses on helping organisations to drive innovation and technological transformation using the Centre of Excellence (CoE) as the best management mechanism in a context of a shortage of professional profiles with expertise in Artificial Intelligence and other disruptive technologies.

Fellow's country

Spain

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)

The main opportunity for SMEs is their incorporation to a future sectorial cluster type and other potential movements of knowledge collectivisation.

Impact on SMEs (8th Open Call)

European small organisations do not have the experts or economic resources to hire specialised AI consultants, so they must postpone the application of AI in their businesses. This generates a new delay in their innovation gap. The main opportunity for SMEs is their incorporation to a future sectorial cluster type, laboratory of a City Hall, and other potential movements of knowledge collectivisation. Creating a standard on how to constitute and manage an AI Center of Excellence enables European small companies to have a higher success rate in AI innovation initiatives, making them easier to realise and reducing risk.

Impact on SMEs (9th Open Call)

Create a standard reference model for AI productivity support and automation that helps ICT professionals, teams, and departments to be more productive, focused on value creation and with better time management .ill impulse SMEs and VSMEs competitiveness opportunities. Achieving high levels of performance in ICT areas will also allow SMEs to accelerate their digital transformation.

Impact on society (9th Open Call)

Currently there are no standards dedicated directly on helping ICT professionals organise their lives. This standard will help professionals to better organise their goals and work, which will improve work-life balance. As professionals improve their organisational and productivity skills in ICT areas, this improvement will spread to other areas of the company and to society in general.

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Organisation type

CTN 71/SC 40 - Gestión de servicios de TI y Gobierno de TI

Organization

Business, Technology & Best Practices, S.L.

Organization website

S.L. Business&Co

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Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

AI-CoE Phase II: Artificial Intelligence for Business powered by Center of Excellence. Model and TS

Proposal Title (8th Open Call)

AI-CoE Phase-III: Proof of Concept of the CoE Reference Model on Artificial Intelligence Adoption

Proposal Title (9th Open Call)

AIxPP: Artificial Intelligence framework to improve Professional Productivity. TS Standard

Role in SDO

chair

Standards Development Organisation

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (5th Open Call)

Topic (9th Open Call)

Alastair Marke

Description of Activities

My fellowship focuses on researching the feasibility of developing an international (e.g. ISO) standard for deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) in climate action, culminating in a Technical Report following consultation with chairs of relevant ISO technical committees.

Fellow's country

Estonia

Open Call Topics

Impact on society (5th Open Call)

Beyond the immediate focus on AI and climate action, the project is expected to have a wide-ranging impact on several broader European interests, including promoting environmental sustainability, addressing cybersecurity and e-privacy challenges, supporting global standards and inclusivity and advancing the digital single market.

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Not for Profit Organisation

Organisation type

Organization

Director General, Blockchain and Climate Institute

Organization website

Blockchain and Climate Institute

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Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

Research for potential PAS development: “Guidance for Climate Action with AI”

Standards Development Organisation

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (5th Open Call)

Sabrina Palme

Description of Activities

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a key component of the Rolling Plan for ICT standardisation, supporting the European Commission’s Standardisation Request issued to back the AI Act. My contribution is aligned with the objectives of the AI Key Enablers, particularly in the areas of Cybersecurity in AI and the Data Economy.

Fellow's country

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)

A key impact of this work is the inclusion of startup and SME perspectives in the standardisation process. As a startup founder, I am committed to ensuring that the standards developed are not only aligned with regulatory requirements but also practical and applicable for smaller businesses. This consideration is essential for creating standards that are relevant across different business sizes and sectors.

Impact on society (5th Open Call)

This activity will support the parallel development of AI logging and monitoring standards at both CEN/CLC and ISO/IEC levels. By contributing to these efforts, the activity will help to ensure that European standards are consistent with international developments, promoting alignment and interoperability.

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Organisation type

CEO & Co-Founder, Palqee Technologies

Organization

CEO & Co-Founder, Palqee Technologies

Organization website

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Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

AI logging and monitoring expert contributions for hEN AI standards

CEN/CLC/JTC 21 - Artificial Intelligence

Standards Development Organisation

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (5th Open Call)

Denis Pinkas

Description of Activities

The use of digital identity wallets is foreseen to be the best appropriate solution to support an age verification method, which uses the date of birth of the individual without disclosing it.

Fellow's country

France

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)

If successful, the impact will not be restricted to European SMEs and/or European societies.
As my contributions are both for ISO and the IETF, the impact can be worldwide. However, I have not observed the presence of another European expert motivated by the topic of Age assurance systems that participates both in ISO JTC1 SC 27 and in the IETF.

Impact on society (5th Open Call)

The societal impacts can be important. Age assurance which entails age verification, age estimation and age inference is applicable for a large variety of use cases. Protection of children is the most prominent use case.

Impact on society (8th Open Call)

Access to pornographic content and age-restricted services or products available online, like alcohol, diets, self-harm or suicide information, needs to be better controlled. Legislation is necessar,y but will not be sufficient: efficient methods need to be put in place. Two main categories of solutions are promising: age estimation using AI facial analysis and digital identity wallets. The AI Act published in the Official Journal (OJ) of the European Union on 12 July 2024 considers applications using AI for age estimation as “high-risk applications”. The EUDIW (EU Digital Identity Wallet) is expected to be usable for performing age verification in both online and proximity modes. Besides these usages, age verification, estimation, or inference will be useful in other areas, such as controlling the age of teenagers or elderly people, so that they can obtain rebates. This will speed up controls and avoid the presentation of physical identity documents.

Open Call

OC#8 2026

Organization

CEO, DP Security Consulting SAS

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Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

Age-restricted accesses to services while preserving the privacy of individuals

Proposal Title (8th Open Call)

Privacy preserving age assurance systems for online or in-person access to services or goods

Standards Development Organisation

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (5th Open Call)

Ruth Lennon

Description of Activities

A strong priority for this work is to contribute to standards to enable consideration of the support for data management in the cloud. Data spaces can only be fully realised with the application of strong quality management controls through standardisation at multiple levels.

Fellow's country

Ireland

Open Call Topics

Cloud and Edge Computing

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

Contribution to the national body position through discussions with our members provides a voice to the concerns or challenges of our SMEs as well as to larger organisations.

Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)

It is critical to establish common European standards linking hardware and software particularly in new areas of technology and standardization. Example use cases include the improvement of reliability of edge and cloud computing where processing of personal data, or highly regulated data is concerned. This is even more important when considering the complexities of combining (even anonymized) data sets and processing that data in cloud hosted environments. With the impact of layered approaches to address these complexities the necessity to harmonize software and cloud-based techniques is essential.

Impact on SMEs (8th Open Call)

This preliminary work item has been proposed so that we can separate out the concepts involved in observability. Observability can occur across cloud computing, mutli-cloud, distributed platforms and other areas. From early discussions with national bodies on the proposed preliminary work item was created to ensure a clear separation between the standards that are anticipated to come out of the work. Work on dataspaces with the CEN/CENELEC JTC 25 group have also indicated a need for greater quality management which can be enhanced through the application of observability. With these potential work items delineated more clearly we can aid growing organizations to improve their quality management in a scalable manner. This is essential for companies expanding across a European or wider market.

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

As a national body we have members contributing to the CEN Focus Group on 'Data, Dataspaces, Cloud and Edge'. We feel this is important as the cloud supports data and dataspaces whilst at the same time data is utilised in supporting the cloud. This could have a large impact on standards created in the near future. Obtaining expert advice from many areas is important in this early stage of these standards.

Impact on society (8th Open Call)

Europe needs to continue the harmonisation of standards across standards bodies in evolving areas such of software development for cloud hosted or cloud enabled technologies. The key areas of Cloud computing and distributed platforms, and software development are essential supports for dataspaces, data management in Big Data and AI.

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OC#4 2026

OC#6 2026

OC#8 2026

Organization

Lecturer, Atlantic Technological University

Organization website

Organisation

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Proposal Title (4th Open Call)

Actively contribute to ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SC38 and IEEE S2ESC to harmonize Cloud and DevOps standards

Proposal Title (8th Open Call)

Actively contribute to ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SC38 and IEEE S2ESC to harmonize standards across observability

Role in SDO

Standards Development Organisation

NSAI

IEEE

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (4th Open Call)

Cloud and Edge Computing

Topic (6th Open Call)

Cloud and Edge Computing

James Davenport

Description of Activities

There is currently no standard addressing the cybersecurity of AI systems. In ISO/IEC JTC1 SC27 WG4 27090 is under development; and I contribute directly to this work.

Fellow's country

Open Call Topics

CEN-CENELEC JTC 21 ‘Artificial Intelligence’

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

Many of these standards, e.g. Bias, impact society. In terms of SMEs, I have been closely associated with a software SME, and always ask myself how this SME would be impacted.

Impact on SMEs (9th Open Call)

Many of these standards, e.g. Bias, impact society. In terms of SMEs, I have been closely associated with a software SME, and always ask myself how this SME would be impacted. I am also sensitive to the views of one of my editors who is CTO of an Austrian SME.

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

The EU AI Act places high importance on cybersecurity of AI systems and products, but there is comparatively little work done on this, and none that has reached the level of mature standards. Hence it is important to develop these standards, and ensure that they reflect both the cybersecurity point of view and the specific difficulties of AI, as in the ETSI list , and possibly wider.

Impact on society (7th Open Call)

Europe has already seen many cybersecurity attacks, whether by hostile nation states or by criminal gangs, even before AI becomes widely deployed. The impact of these has already led to at least one death, as well as much damage and distress. As AI becomes more widely deployed, these risks will only grow, and need effective standards-driven mitigations. The impact of my work will be coherence between the developing European standards in ISO-IEC JTC/1 SC27 and the current international draft standards in the area of cybersecurity. In addition, I will feed in research from the cybersecurity community as it affects AI-specific attack methods.

Impact on society (9th Open Call)

Artificial Intelligence has numerous societal implications, particularly around implicit biases. Machine Learning learns from data which reflects the society we have (or had if the data is historic) rather than the society we believe we have, or wish we have. Hence my WG is working on a Bias standard, dealing operationally with detection and mitigation, to build on the excellent work does in ISO-IEC, to which I have contributed. Furthermore, I frequently give interviews with media (typically UK media) on AI. I have also spoken on AI standardisation at relevant subject-matter conferences (on Natural Language Processing and Symbolic Methods)

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Organisation type

Organization

University of Bath

Organization website

University of Bath

Personal website

ORCID

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Proposal Title (4th Open Call)

Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Standardisation

Proposal Title (7th Open Call)

Artificial Intelligence Standardisation (including Cybersecurity)

Proposal Title (9th Open Call)

Artificial Intelligence Standardisation (Accuracy, Cybersecurity and other topics)

Role in SDO

convenor

Standards Development Organisation

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (4th Open Call)

Topic (7th Open Call)

Topic (9th Open Call)

Accessibility of ICT products and services

Annegrit Seyerlein-Klug

Description of Activities

Annegrit's priority is the Convenorship of CEN CENELEC JTC21 WG 5, the organisation and project support to work on the AI Act standardisation request for Cybersecurity. This includes a close collaboration with other groups within JTC 21, JTC 13, ISO IEC SC 42 and SC 27 to collect all information of existing and work under development. The main challenge is that JTC 21 and also our WG5 has a diverse structure of experts and knowledge, which makes the work, the effort and efficiency very difficult. In this case, the challenge in addition is the collaboration with other existing standardisation groups within JTC 21 as well as with JTC 13 for Cyber Resilience Act, with ETSI and their view, with ISO IEC SC 27 and SC 42.

Fellow's country

Germany

Open Call Topics

CEN-CENELEC JTC 21 ‘Artificial Intelligence’

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

Contributing activity for a new work item NWIP within CEN CENELEC JTC 21 WG5 “Artificial Intelligence - Cybersecurity specifications for AI systems” and developing the standard on the basis of the gap report.

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

A lot of European SME and/or European societies will be affected in the one or other way from AI-systems in the future in all areas of our living environment, from AI in medical devices, in personal equipment over autonomous driving until general purpose AI systems like chat gpt or Metaverse platforms. The challenge is to align the standards with the regulation but also with the needs of SME and European values. For this reason, the AI Act asked for standards, which CEN/CENELEC is developing.

Impact on SMEs (9th Open Call)

European SMEs , which are providing risk or high risk AI systems in the European market are effected by the AI Act and in that case also from the standard I work for and contribute: Cybersecurity Specifications for AI- Systems.

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

Cybersecurity is elementary for every digital asset and very important also for AI-Systems as a digital asset to be secure, safe, healthy and respecting fundamental rights.

Impact on society (7th Open Call)

The proposed activity aims to answer the official EU standardization request for the EU AI Act and specifically No. 8 Cybersecurity. Thrustworthy Metaverse solutions are based on trustworthy AI solutions. Trust and cybersecurity of AI and Metaverse can be ensured with well developed standards from cybersecurity and AI experts with business background. In case of the European Union harmonized standards as presumption of conformity to the EU Regulation are requested, in this case the request is for the AI Act and CRA as an essential fundament for a trustworthy and secure web 4.0 with virtual world and Metaverse with the specific EU focus on safety, fundamental rights, health and data protection.

Impact on society (9th Open Call)

The AI Act has the goal to avoid or mitigate negative impact on people and society regarding Fundamental Rights, Health and Safety. All harmonized standards for the AI Act support this goal and request of the AI Act including the standard for Cybersecurity specifications for AI Systems.

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Organisation type

Organization

neurocat GmbH

Organization website

neurocat

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Proposal Title (4th Open Call)

Convenorship for AI Act Standardization Request CEN CENELEC JTC 21 WG Cybersecurity

Proposal Title (7th Open Call)

Secure Metaverse by using EU harmonized standard for Cybersecurity for Artificial Intelligence

Proposal Title (9th Open Call)

Cybersecurity for AI Systems in Standardisation under the EU AI Act for a secure digital fundament

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27

Role in SDO

convenor

Standards Development Organisation

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

2025

Topic (4th Open Call)

Accessibility of ICT products and services

Topic (7th Open Call)

Topic (9th Open Call)

Daniel Waszkiewicz

Description of Activities

My work aims to develop robust frameworks for the verification of cryptographic protocols within the security of ICT products, services, and processes, thereby enhancing resilience against cyber threats.

Fellow's country

Poland

Open Call Topics

Cryptography specialist, National Institute of Telecommunications

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

Ensuring that protocols are rigorously verified according to standardised methodologies could, at least partly, lower the financial barriers for SMEs to enter the certification market, as the consistent and reliable verification of protocols would streamline the certification of more complex systems.

Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)

By implementing rigorous, standardized verification methods, the overall efficiency of the certification process would improve. This would, to some extent, lower financial entry barriers for SMEs in the certification market, as consistent and dependable protocol verification would simplify the certification of more intricate systems.

Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)

A unified approach to the verification of cryptographic protocols within cybersecurity certification schemes could significantly reduce the costs and workload associated with certifying composite products or services. By ensuring that protocols are rigorously verified using standardized methodologies, the overall efficiency of the certification process would improve. This could, at least in part, lower the financial barriers for SMEs to enter the certification market, as consistent and reliable verification of protocols would streamline the certification of more complex systems.

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

My work is centred on creating robust frameworks for verifying cryptographic protocols within ICT products, services, and processes, ultimately strengthening resilience against cyber threats.

Impact on society (5th Open Call)

In the broader European context, my fellowship is poised to have a significant impact on cybersecurity practices, aligning with the objectives set forth by the Cybersecurity Act (CSA) and advancing European interests in bolstering digital security.

Impact on society (6th Open Call)

My primary focus is on developing standardized verification methodologies for cryptographic protocols, which play a key role in enhancing cybersecurity practices across Europe. I am working on creating robust frameworks for verifying these protocols within ICT products, services, and processes, ultimately contributing to greater resilience against cyber threats.
The Cybersecurity Act (CSA) promotes the use of certification as an effective cybersecurity tool that can be applied consistently across Member States without creating unnecessary administrative burdens. Previously, products or services certified in one country often had to undergo similar procedures again when different national requirements were in place.
With the introduction of the European Cybersecurity Certification (EUCC) scheme, however, certificates issued under this framework will be legally recognized across all Member States once the corresponding Implementing Act is in force. This harmonization is essential for reducing duplicated efforts, saving time and resources, and ensuring consistent cybersecurity standards throughout Europe.

Impact on society (7th Open Call)

Open Call

Organization

Cryptography specialist, National Institute of Telecommunications

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Proposal Title (4th Open Call)

Developing ISO/IEC 29128 parts 2 and 3

Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

Progressing ISO/IEC 29128 parts 2 and 3

Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

Advancing ISO/IEC 29128 parts 2 and 3

Proposal Title (7th Open Call)

Advancing ISO/IEC 29128 parts 2 and 3

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection

Standards Development Organisation

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

2025

Topic (4th Open Call)

Topic (5th Open Call)

Topic (7th Open Call)

Tony Allen

Description of Activities

This is a project with ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27/WG 5 addressing Identity Management and Privacy Technologies. It feeds into broader standardisation activity around digital identity (including the EUDI Wallet), child protection, prevention of exploitation and abuse, data minimisation, privacy preservation and security objectives.

Fellow's country

FinTech & RegTech Standardisation

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

European SMEs have been involved in European iterations of the IEEE 2089 project on age-appropriate design through a CEN/CENELEC working group.

Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)

This work benefits European SMEs by creating a uniform framework for age verification that aligns with EU regulatory standards like GDPR and the Digital Services Act.

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

The development of international standards on age assurance ensures uniformity in verifying age across borders, fostering trust in various sectors like healthcare, education, and online services. This consistency enhances child protection measures, promotes safer online environments, facilitates age-appropriate content access, and strengthens accountability in age-sensitive industries, benefiting society globally.

Impact on society (5th Open Call)

The societal impact includes fostering safer online environments, protecting children from exploitation, and promoting accountability in industries like healthcare, education, and digital content.

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OC#2 2026

Chief Executive, AVID Certification Services Ltd

Organisation type

Other

Organization

Chief Executive, AVID Certification Services Ltd

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Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)

Technical Editor ISO/IEC 27566 Age Assurance Systems - Framework

Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

Technical Editor ISO/IEC 27566 Age Assurance Systems - Framework

Global Age Assurance Standards Summit

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection

Standards Development Organisation

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

FinTech & RegTech Standardisation

Topic (2nd Open Call)

Topic (5th Open Call)

FinTech & RegTech Standardisation

Panos Kudumakis

Description of Activities

This project, towards enabling a fairer marketplace for rights holders and remuneration of authors and performers, initiated work on a new standard ISO/IEC 23000-23 Decentralised Media Rights Application Format currently at the Working Draft (WD) stage.

Fellow's country

Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies

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.

Impact on society (8th Open Call)

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OC#2 2026

OC#6 2026

OC#8 2026

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