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Identification Link - Part 1: General requirements

IEC 61406-1:2022 specifies minimum requirements for a globally unique identification of physical objects which also constitutes a link to its related digital information. This identification is designated hereinafter as "Identification Link" (IL), with the encoded data designated as IL string. The IL string has the data-format of a link (URL). The IL is machine-readable and is attached to the physical object in a 2D symbol or NFC tag. The requirements in this standard apply to physical objects: - that are provided by the manufacturer as an individual unit, - and that have already been given a unique identity by the manufacturer. This document does not specify any requirements on the content and the layout of nameplates/typeplates (e.g. spatial arrangement, content of the plain texts, approval symbols etc.).

EN IEC 61406-1

Limara Haque

Description of Activities

My fellowship focuses on standardizing Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) for sustainable asset management, addressing gaps in digital asset representation, regulatory clarity, and ESG alignment. It supports innovation, transparency, and interoperability in tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), in line with EU priorities.
Current NFT-based RWA systems lack harmonised frameworks, causing fragmentation in asset tracking, legal recognition, and compliance. This hinders adoption across supply chains, carbon markets, and IP management. My project proposes a cross-industry standard to ensure interoperability, regulatory alignment, and lifecycle transparency.
In this sense, the there are two major priorities for this action, including: 
Standardized Multi-Asset Tokenization that enables NFT-based tracking of physical, environmental, and intangible assets. It also enhances lifecycle transparency, supports the circular economy, and ensures blockchain interoperability.
Digital Product Passport (DPP) to align NFTs with DPP for end-to-end traceability, compliance, and ESG reporting.This strengthens supply chain transparency and EU circular economy goals.

The key Challenges related to my activity are: 
Regulatory Uncertainty: Lack of clear NFT standards impedes legal and policy alignment. This initiative ensures conformity with EU law and ISO.
Adoption Barriers: Fragmented governance limits integration. Standardisation enhances technical and regulatory trust.
Sustainability Concerns: Energy-intensive DLTs are problematic. This activity promotes efficient models aligned with the Green Deal.

Consequently, this project positions Europe as a leader in NFT standardisation, fostering secure, compliant, and sustainable digital ecosystems.
 

Fellow's country
Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)
My contribution to standardising NFTs for sustainable asset management directly benefits European SMEs and societies by enabling trustworthy, interoperable, and regulatory-compliant tokenisation of real-world assets. For SMEs, this ensures more straightforward access to tokenisation frameworks, reducing costs, risks, and compliance barriers when integrating NFTs into supply chains, intellectual property, and sustainability tracking. Standardisation also enhances digital product traceability, supporting SME participation in the EU’s Digital Product Passport (DPP) initiative.
This standard actively enhances SME inclusion and access to innovation. By creating standardised, easy-to-adopt models for NFT-based asset tracking and DPP compliance, I help lower barriers for SMEs to engage in the green and digital transition. These tools enable them to demonstrate environmental accountability, meet regulatory requirements, and participate in new markets with confidence.
Impact on SMEs (9th Open Call)
My contribution directly supports European SMEs by lowering the barriers to adoption of trusted digital tools for sustainability, traceability, and compliance. Through the standardisation of tokenisation frameworks (ISO PWI 25315), SMEs can more easily issue verifiable digital representations of their products and services, aligned with EU regulations such as the Digital Product Passport (DPP), CSRD, ESPR, and MiCA.
This enables SMEs to participate in data-driven value chains, prove ESG performance, access impact finance, and engage with global supply networks, without relying on costly proprietary platforms. The work promotes interoperability, inclusion, and compliance-by-design, giving SMEs a scalable way to enter the digital economy while staying aligned with European values of fair access, innovation, and transparency.
Impact on society (7th Open Call)
This work has a range of societal impacts by embedding ethical, inclusive, and sustainability-driven principles into the standardisation of NFT-based tokenisation. By advancing a modular framework for the tokenisation of multi-asset classes, including physical goods, environmental assets, and digital identity, I am contributing to a future where transparency, accountability, and accessibility are foundational features of digital economies.
One major societal impact is the promotion of climate-conscious digital infrastructure. Through my alignment with the EU Green Deal, ISO 14097, and CIRPASS2, I have advanced tokenisation models that enable lifecycle tracking, ESG reporting, and carbon footprint disclosures, empowering organisations and communities to make data-driven, sustainable choices.
Second, the integration of semantic interoperability and decentralised identity contributes to human-centred, rights-respecting digital governance. It allows individuals and communities to verify data, control asset provenance, and participate in decentralised systems with greater security and agency.
Finally, through my role in INATBA and ISO, I have championed cross-sector collaboration on social impact tokenisation, bridging technology with policy to ensure that standards reflect public interest and global equity. These efforts strengthen citizen trust, digital sovereignty, and the ethical deployment of blockchain infrastructure at scale.
Organization
COO, Kron World S.L.
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Proposal Title (7th Open Call)
Standardizing NFTs for Sustainable Asset Management
Proposal Title (9th Open Call)
Tokenisation Standards for Sustainable Assets Management
Standards Development Organisation
StandICT.eu Year
2026
2029
Year

Rembrandt Koppelaar

Fellow's country
Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)
The project contribution in terms of the CWA under development will support SMEs that want to or are required legally to have a DPP for their products, which is a majority of SMEs in Europe. Close to 30 product categories are expected to be mandated to have a DPP in the mid-term future. To ensure the CWA effort is impactful for SMEs consideration is made of CEN-CENELEC GUIDE 17: Guidance for writing standards taking into account SME needs (2010). The impact on these SMEs is expected in terms of accelerating their journey to develop and set up their Digital Product Passport. By providing a concise guidance document that has been developed as a CWA pre-standard for understanding the scope, context, potentials and design and implementation decisions for Digital product passports.
Impact on society (4th Open Call)
The CWA will also benefit European society by supporting economic actors to understand how DPPs can support their activities by enabling new information generation mechanisms and sharing for a circular economy.
Open Call
Organisation type
Organization
CWA EcoWise Ekodenge Ltd
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Proposal Title (4th Open Call)
Guidelines to create a Digital Product Passport (CWA)
Role in SDO
Standards Development Organisation
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year

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
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.
Organisation type
Organization
Professor, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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navarro
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
Standards Development Organisation
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year

Julian Lauten-Weiss

Description of Activities

In my role as a circular economy expert, I actively contribute to the advancement of Smart Circular Economy Standards for Europe. I ensure that standards align with EU policies like the European Green Deal, advocating for their integration into standardisation efforts. 

Fellow's country
Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)
Especially SMEs lack sufficient funds to develop the internal capabilities to transition to circular business models. Bringing the ISO 59000 family of standards in line with European policies and regulations makes it not just easier to fulfil legal requirements but to also go beyond short-term requirements and gain a competitive advantage by transitioning to circular business models.
Impact on SMEs (8th Open Call)
In particular, SMEs often lack sufficient funds to develop the internal capabilities necessary for transitioning to circular business models. Harmonizing the work in CEN/TC WG 2 and WG 4 and ensuring compatibility with European policies and regulations makes it easier to not just fulfil legal requirements but to also go beyond short-term requirements and gain a competitive advantage by transitioning to circular business models.
Impact on society (6th Open Call)
Transitioning to a circular economy has profound societal impacts by promoting sustainability, resource efficiency, and economic resilience. It fosters a reduction in waste and pollution, which enhances environmental quality and public health. By encouraging businesses to design for longevity, repairability, and recyclability, it creates new job opportunities and stimulates innovation across industries. Additionally, it empowers communities to engage in sustainable practices and reduces dependency on finite resources. Overall, a circular economy nurtures a more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient society, aligning economic activities with long-term environmental and social well-being.
Impact on society (8th Open Call)
Transitioning to a circular economy has profound societal impacts by promoting sustainability, resource efficiency, and economic resilience. It promotes a reduction in waste and pollution, thereby enhancing environmental quality and public health. Encouraging businesses to design for longevity, repairability, and recyclability creates new job opportunities and stimulates innovation across industries. Additionally, it empowers communities to adopt sustainable practices and reduces their dependency on finite resources. Overall, a circular economy nurtures a more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient society, aligning economic activities with long-term environmental and social well-being.
Organisation type
Organization
Circular Economy Researcher, Lecturer and Consultant, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
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Lauten
Proposal Title (3rd Open Call)
Smart Circular Economy Standards for Europe
Proposal Title (6th Open Call)
Contribution to ICT Circular Economy Standardisation: Interoperable DPPs and E-Waste Management
Proposal Title (8th Open Call)
Harmonizing Digital Product Passports and Circular Business Models
Role in SDO
Standards Development Organisation
StandICT.eu Year
2026
2029
Year

Marius Preda

Description of Activities

Interoperability ensures that users can seamlessly navigate and interact within the Metaverse, breaking down barriers between different platforms and ecosystems.

Country
France
Fellow's country
Open Call Topics
Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)
The proposed standardisation of Gaussian Splat Representations will benefit European SMEs by enabling access to an open, efficient, and high-quality 3D format that can be easily integrated into applications such as virtual product visualization, immersive retail, cultural heritage, and training platforms. By reducing the technical and financial barriers associated with 3D content production, the project fosters innovation in creative industries, education, and digital services.
Impact on society (7th Open Call)
For European society, it supports broader adoption of interoperable and transparent digital tools aligned with the Metaverse and Digital Product Passport strategies.It reinforces MPEG’s strategic role in immersive media representation and supports the creation of open and interoperable formats aligned with European values.
Open Call
Organisation type
Organization
Associate Professor, Telecom SudParis - Institute Mines Telecom
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Preda
Proposal Title (1st Open Call)
Media Coding and API for Metaverse Interoperability
Proposal Title (7th Open Call)
Next-generation 3D representation for realistic content and interoperability
Standards Development Organisation
Topic
Media Coding and Metaverse
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year
Topic (1st Open Call)

Belen Suarez

Description of Activities

At the high level, ICT standards must establish a framework for ensuring trust, interoperability and interoperation via secure and reliable applications, as well as facilitate the stakeholder ́s engagement.

Country
Spain
Fellow's country
Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)
Despite the fact that 95% of industries are composed of SMEs, there is a significant underrepresentation of this organisation's viewpoint on standards development. I am the liaison officer of the Small Business Standards in all the TCs at ISO. I contribute to giving a voice to European SMEs in standardisation at the European and international levels. In addition, to provide comments in the meetings I promote the use of the compatibility test of the SBS and collaborate in the workshops to facilitate the mutual understanding among the industry and the SDOs.
Impact on society (4th Open Call)
These standardisation efforts support the achievement of the objectives of the Green Deal and the SDGs, as well as the political objectives of the European Commission and support for the New European Standardization Strategy. As a convenor position of a key working group at the ISO level, I am able to promote the European values in standards development. In addition, this action promotes the improvement in the efficiency of public services with the use of reliable applications and technologies that contribute to sustainable development.
Open Call
Organisation type
Organization
Go To Innovation CEO, Reaccion Economica
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suarez
Proposal Title (1st Open Call)
Environmental Sustainability for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies
Proposal Title (4th Open Call)
ISO TC 307 Working Group 5 - Governance
Role in SDO
Standards Development Organisation
Topic
Digital Product Passport
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year