IT Consultancy/Development

OC#5 2026

OC#7 2026

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Online references related to the fellowship work

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

Role in SDO

moderator

Standards Development Organisation

Topic

Cybersecurity / Cloud Computing

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

2025

Topic (1st Open Call)

Cloud and Edge Computing

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Topic (7th Open Call)

Julien Bringer

Description of Activities

I estimate that digital identities, and the way to ensure appropriate levels of assurance and handling of corresponding credentials, are key for the digital society.

Country

France

Fellow's country

France

Open Call Topics

Impact on society (5th Open Call)

Toward the development of EU-friendly solutions for biometrics-based services, employing strong privacy enhancing technologies, thus going further contractual/organisational requirements, to ensure privacy and security by design. Promoting the use of the newest privacy enhancing technologies is in particular very important (biometric technologies are more and more seen as a way to fight against authentication/identification threats in our digital lives) as sharing or leaking biometric information without appropriate protection can be very critical.

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OC#3 2026

OC#5 2026

Organisation type

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

Organization

CEO - Kallistech

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Proposal Title (1st Open Call)

Towards standards convergence for digital identity wallets

Security and privacy of biometrics for remote authentication

Proposal Title (3rd Open Call)

Strengthening security and privacy of biometrics applications through standards

Towards standards convergence for digital identity

Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

Strengthening security and privacy of biometrics applications through standards

CEN/CLC/JTC 13 - Cybersecurity and Data Protection

Standards Development Organisation

Topic

Electronic Identification

StandICT.eu Year

2026

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Thomas Frisendal

Description of Activities

Since graph database technology is a key for meaningful and explainable machine learning and generative AI, it is evident that the GQL standard will have positive impact on applications in our societies.

Country

Denmark

Fellow's country

Denmark

Open Call Topics

Big Data & Open data

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Organization

Expert in the ISO 39075 - TF Informatik

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About

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Proposal Title (1st Open Call)

Danish participation in the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 WG 3 Database languages (SQL and GQL)

Standards Development Organisation

Topic

Big Data / Open Data / Public Sector Information

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (1st Open Call)

Big Data & Open data

Adam Smith

Description of Activities

The draft EU AI Act (including both sets of amendments) lays down significant requirements for logging and record keeping in AI systems.

Country

Spain

Fellow's country

Spain

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (1st Open Call)

Providing technical clarity on the right information elements to log is key to supporting the AI Act, and the more clarity that is available, the cheaper it will be for SMEs to comply. There are also many SMEs providing tools to support AI governance, which could receive a significant boost by aligning with the resulting standardised log files.

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

All three projects are likely to be relevant to the AI Act. SMEs will benefit from clear guidance and societal stakeholders have a voice in the projects. If these projects did not exist, then SMEs would need to rely on lawyers, analysis and academic literature to be compliant.

Impact on society (1st Open Call)

The AI Act envisages that logging can enable post-market monitoring. In future, these standardised logs may provide the ability to have a “black-box” associated with high-risk AI systems, potentially monitored in real-time, reducing the manifestation of risks that have an impact on society.

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OC#4 2026

Organisation type

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

Organization

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

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Proposal Title (1st Open Call)

Progress projects on logging and record keeping to support the AI Act

Proposal Title (4th Open Call)

AI standardisation in ISO/IEC and CEN/CENELEC on AI verification and validation

Standards Development Organisation

Topic

Artificial Intelligence

StandICT.eu Year

2026

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Francisco Medeiros-Filho

Description of Activities

Harmonised cybersecurity standards for AI systems need to be developed and adopted, as a matter of urgency, for the benefit of the European industry, including SMEs and startups, as well as European users and consumers.

Country

Belgium

Fellow's country

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

Harmonised cybersecurity standards for AI systems need to be developed and adopted, as a matter of urgency, for the benefit of the European industry, including SMEs and startups, as well as users and consumers. In this context, it is necessary to demonstrate the trustworthiness of AI systems. Cybersecurity is one of the many aspects of trustworthiness.

Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)

The AI Act highlights the importance of EU harmonised standards and conformity assessment (based on such harmonised standards) for industrial stakeholders (providers and deployers) and also for users of AI systems. Harmonised cybersecurity standards for AI systems need to be developed and adopted as a matter of urgency, for the benefit of the European industry, including SMEs and startups, as well as users of AI systems. In this context, it is necessary to demonstrate the trustworthiness of AI systems. Cybersecurity is just one of the many aspects of trustworthiness.
A balanced representation of interests involving all relevant stakeholders in the development of standards, contributions from SMEs, consumer organisations and environmental and social stakeholders are therefore welcome. FM Tech Consult BV is a Belgium-based SME.

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

It is essential to demonstrate the trustworthiness of AI systems, hence providing assurance to users and consumers (societal impact).

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

Cybersecurity for AI systems, although being just one of the aspects, is essential to demonstrate the trustworthiness of AI systems, hence providing assurance and trust to users and consumers leading to great societal impact.

Impact on society (6th Open Call)

It is well known that the widespread use of AI systems in many different sectors of the economy is bound to have a significant impact on society. This subject has been debated at length by different academic, industrial, and governmental organisations. Cybersecurity for AI systems, although being just one of these aspects, is essential to demonstrate the trustworthiness of AI systems, hence providing assurance and trust to users and consumers leading to great societal impact.

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Organization

Independent expert - FM Tech Consult BV

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Proposal Title (1st Open Call)

Harmonised AI cybersecurity standards in response to the EC AI standardisation request

Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)

Cybersecurity standards for AI systems in response to the EC standardisation request

Proposal Title (4th Open Call)

Cybersecurity standards for AI systems in response to the EC standardisation request (AI Act)

Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

Guidance for addressing security threats to artificial intelligence systems

Role in SDO

convenor

chair

Standards Development Organisation

Topic

Artificial Intelligence

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

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Agnieszka Rządkowska

Description of Activities

By optimising design, production, deployment and operation of PV, AI can maximise energy generation, leading to increased renewable energy adoption, reducing reliance on fossil fuels.

Country

Belgium

Fellow's country

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)

The smart energy is currently not only an important market trend of a dynamic growth and rapid technological development, but also a central axis in the EU's Green Deal strategy joining ICT and energy sectors as main pillars for the EU development facing serious energy challenges. Furthermore the green transformation is currently considered to be an important aspect of the European energy security, especially in view of the international situation, the Russian invasion on Ukraine and the scaling energy crisis concerning hydrocarbons. In regard to these challenges the European Commission strategically plans to secure advancing renewable energy technologies further enabled by ICT and a leading global position of the EU in smart energy, transforming the global warming and the international situation challanges into a growth opportunity for EU SMEs driving European innovation with a focus on smart energy. Action's efforts in driving international smart PV standardisation supports EU SMEs.

Impact on society (6th Open Call)

Extending AI enabled PV concepts, systems definitions, architectures, use cases and technical specifications of processes and devices under the EITCI SESG (Smart Energy Standards Group hosted under EITCI Institute) AIPV WG, as well as in a dissemination combined with seeking a liason in cooperation with experts joining the CENELEC / IEC-TC CLC/TC-82 (Solar photovoltaic energy systems) and the CLC/TC-57 (Power systems management and associated information exchange) for power systems control equipment and systems including EMS (Energy Management Systems) and SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition).

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OC#3 2026

OC#6 2026

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Organization

European Solar Network, International Solar Society, Smart Energy Systems, European IT Certification Insitute

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Proposal Title (1st Open Call)

Development of standards for AI enabled Photovoltaics

Proposal Title (3rd Open Call)

Deploying standards for AI enabled Photovoltaics (AIPV)

Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

Promoting cooperation in drafting and disseminating smart PV standards for the future

Role in SDO

chair

Standards Development Organisation

CENELEC

Topic

Artificial Intelligence

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (1st Open Call)

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Topic (6th Open Call)

Broadband infrastructure mapping

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

United Kingdom

Open Call Topics

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OC#2 2026

Organisation type

Organization

Senior Cybersecurity and Human Factors Researcher - Cadzow Communications Consulting Ltd

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Proposal Title (1st Open Call)

Support as Secretary for ETSI ISG SAI

Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)

Support to publication ETSI CYBER WI: Design practices against technology-enabled coercive control

Proposal Title (9th Open Call)

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https://standict.eu

Standards Development Organisation

ETSI

Topic

Artificial Intelligence

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (1st Open Call)

Broadband infrastructure mapping

Topic (2nd Open Call)

Topic (9th Open Call)

U-Space

Ranganai Chaparadza

Description of Activities

The main challenge is related to addressing 5G security challenges towards Resilience to Attacks in 5G Networks.

Country

Germany

Fellow's country

Germany

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)

This NIST MDKP PWG GAFB Standard being developed for the New Ecosystem on Multi-Domain Knowledge Planes Driven Networking Era in 5G & 6G presents a tremendous opportunity for the adoption and use of global standards developed in Europe by ETSI in the USA market to steer commerce and open up new collaborations opportunities between USA and Europe stakeholders for commerce and innovation of services and GANA KP Platforms products by industrial players in these markets. This also has the effect of strengthening Europe's position in global standardisation initiatives thanks to the adoption of ETSI standards in the US for global reach and use outside Europe. Stakeholders benefit as follows: Telecommunications network operators/CSPs, Private Enterprises, Government Institutes, SMEs, or Research Institutes can expose network capabilities for use by other authorised parties when available within certain times for specific incentives (e.g., monetisation of the resources usage).

Impact on society (6th Open Call)

The following objectives of the NIST MDKP GAFB Specification provide unique Use Cases for 5G, 6G and Future Networks:
“Requirements for Enablers for Cross-Industry Sectors End-to-End (E2E) Services Innovation and Delivery Agility” that facilitate the leveraging of dynamic resources and assets availability in various sector domains when they are discoverable for use in dynamic on-demand network(s) and differentiated connectivity services formations; and/or application-layer service innovation, composition and delivery using the newly formed networks and connectivity services or ones already available such that they can serve the needs of the targeted application layer service(s).
New ecosystem on Cross-Industry Sectors End-to-End (E2E) Services Innovation and Delivery Agility (i.e., coined the “MD_KPs_Feds_For_5GnB ” Ecosystem) in which ETSI GANA Knowledge Plane (KP) Platforms (based on the ETSI TS 103 195-2) as Distributed Open Platforms (DOPs) that enable federated Autonomic/Autonomous Networking (ANs) should play role as anchors for the ecosystem, together with DOPs on the higher level, namely: Service Federation Orchestration & Autonomic Management & Control Platforms that dynamically place demands for differentiated and federated network connectivity services on the GANA (KP) Platforms.

This NIST MDKP PWG initiative presents a tremendous opportunity for the adoption and use of global standards developed in Europe by ETSI in the USA market to steer commerce and open up new collaborations opportunities between USA and Europe stakeholders for commerce and innovation of services and GANA KP Platforms products by industrial players in these markets. This also has an effect of strengthening Europe's position in global standardisation initiatives thanks to the adoption of ETSI standards in US for global reach and use outside Europe. A New Ecosystem is emerging from the NIST Specifications which have potential to reduce Carbon Emissions, thanks to Nework Sharing.

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OC#3 2026

OC#6 2026

Organisation type

https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/multi-domain-knowledge-planes-service-fe…

Organization

Senior Advanced ICT Technologies Consultant and Standardisation Expert on Evolving and Future Network Technologies, Altran Capgemini

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Proposal Title (1st Open Call)

Phase-2: STD Gen Framework: X-Dom Federated ETSI GANA KPs for 5G E2E Autonomic Security Man &Control

Proposal Title (3rd Open Call)

ITU-T FG-TBFxG Testbeds Federations Reference Model APIs Invocations Framework & Security Framework

Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

Specifications by the NIST MDKP PWG

Standards Development Organisation

ETSI

IEEE

ITU

Topic

5G & beyond 6G

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

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Octavian Popescu

Description of Activities

Clarifying for the EU SMEs and European societies the direction they would have to take to evolve and change their product, ensuring their compliance with the regulatory obligations activated in the RED Delegated Act.

Country

Belgium

Fellow's country

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

I am contributing to work on cybersecurity evaluation industry protocols, and it is important for SMEs that protocols are based on published harmonised EN standards, so that they can be used by the radio communications equipment manufacturers and all other stakeholders to evaluate their equipment for the purpose of legal compliance to the cybersecurity requirements and therefore ultimately to improve their response to threats.

Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)

By its nature, the CRA covers all products with digital elements, and therefore, all supply chain segments are in it, including SMEs, and the European SMEs and societies are at the forefront. A successful and clear standardisation deliverable is the outcome of this standardisation process.

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

While the society at large is not aware of the work done in this or most fields of expertise, the overall objective is to improve the way end-users communicate via their internet connected devices.

Impact on society (5th Open Call)

In this spirit, the CRA-related standardisation work produces instructions for manufacturers of devices with digital elements explaining that they will now have to include technical features to improve the level of cybersecurity of such devices before placing them on the European market.

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OC#2 2026

OC#5 2026

Organisation type

Organization

Consultant, Reseacher - EUCOMREG

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Proposal Title (1st Open Call)

Proposal for requirement regarding the elimination of publicly known exploitable vulnerabilities

Participation in the development of standardisation work in support of RED Articles 3(3) (d/e/f)Participation in the development of standardisation work in support of RED Articles 3(3) (d/e/f)

Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)

Participation in the standardisation work at the ESOs for the Cyber Resilience Act proposal

Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

Participation in the standardisation work at the ESOs for the Cyber Resilience Act proposal

Standards Development Organisation

ETSI

Topic

Network and Information Security

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

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Topic (5th Open Call)

Electronic identification and trust services (including e-signature)

Robert Mueller

Description of Activities

The main challenge is that some industry players dominate national bodies and want to promote their own product by making contributions to the industry standard.

Country

Germany

Fellow's country

Germany

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

Standardised biometric data formats enable interoperability and exchanging system components like biometric capture devices, algorithms, storage systems. This is of relevance for SMEs who typically provide only a single component rather than an entire solution like industry leading large corporations – which sometimes may rely on proprietary data formats.

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

SMEs who typically provide only a single component rather than an entire solution like industry leading large corporations – which sometimes may rely on proprietary data formats.

Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)

The interoperability achieved with this standard helps particularly SMEs who typically provide only a single component to a BSoC while larger corporations could provide an entire solution which may be proprietary.

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

Biometric user authentication is present in many applications, including not only smartphone usage but also banking, national ID, healthcare and border management. Citizens in Europe and beyond benefit from the use of open standards in civil and governmental applications allowing transparency, privacy and guaranteed level of service.

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

Standardised biometric data formats enable interoperability and exchanging system components like biometric capture devices, algorithms, storage systems

Impact on society (5th Open Call)

The standard promotes Biometric System-on-Card architecture, characteristics and interfaces. It is a technology that improves security and privacy for citizens in Europe and beyond, because personal data remains on a personal card.

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Organisation type

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 Biometrics

Organization

Dr. Robert Mueller IT Consulting

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Proposal Title (1st Open Call)

Advance Biometric System-on-Card standard series ISO/IEC 17839

Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)

Progress Extensible Minuitiae Standard ISO/IEC 39794-2

Proposal Title (3rd Open Call)

Advance Biometric System-on-Card standard series ISO/IEC 17839

Proposal Title (4th Open Call)

Develop Amendment to extensible minutiae standard ISO/IEC 39794-2

Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

Advance Biometric System-onCard standard series

ISO/IEC 39794-2:2023

Standards Development Organisation

ISO

Topic

Cybersecurity

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (1st Open Call)

Electronic identification and trust services (including e-signature)

Topic (2nd Open Call)

Topic (3rd Open Call)

Electronic identification and trust services (including e-signature)

Topic (4th Open Call)

Electronic identification and trust services (including e-signature)

Topic (5th Open Call)

Christophe Stenuit

Description of Activities

I am to positively influence the European market and its infrastructures by benefiting from international contributions (e.g. ISO/IEC) in the controlling of civil security and the protecting of e-identity and e-privacy.

Country

Belgium

Fellow's country

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

Recent EU GDPR, eIDA2 regulations and NIS-2 directives developments impose a different view on IT risks, information security, data privacy protection and identity management controls, and by this a different awareness of the consequences that may fall improper compliance to good practices. Therefore, good standard references help establish confidence and maturity improvement in yesterday's matters.

Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)

SME are better aware of risks and of controls required in IT and information protection. Recent EU GDPR, eIDA2 regulation, DORA, and NIS-2 directives developments impose a different view on IT risks, information security, data privacy protection and identity management controls, and by this a different awareness of the consequences that may fall down improper compliance to good practices. Good standard references help confidence establishment and maturity improvement in matter yesterday far from SMEs' concerns.

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

Christophe's Fellowship protects freedom and security of Europe and its citizens. Standards on reference architectures around e-identity and e-privacy management ensure protocols are in place to protect citizens and societies from cybersecurity and network threats. Finally, data protection good practice ensures any risk on identity information is mitigated uduring information processing.

Impact on society (6th Open Call)

This activity impacts the societal challenges in three key areas:
Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens: Supporting standards on e-identity and e-privacy information management ensures identity information lifecycle, identification, bound proofed identity information and authentication of citizen and societies are in place before authorized accesses to services is provided without compromising their privacy;
Cybersecurity, network and identity information security: Standards on reference architectures around e-identity and e-privacy management ensure information infrastructure has the required controls in place to protect citizen and societies while accessing and using provided services;
ePrivacy protection: Data protection good practice ensures any risk on identity information is mitigate during the processing of the information.

Impact on society (7th Open Call)

This work has societal impact at least on three axes, including:
Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens: Supporting standards on e-identity and e-privacy information management ensures identity information lifecycle, identification, bound proofed identity information and authentication of citizens and societies are in place before authorized accesses to services is provided without compromising their privacy;
Cybersecurity, network and identity information security: Standards on reference architectures around e-identity and e-privacy management ensure information infrastructure has the required controls in place to protect citizens and societies while accessing and using provided services;
ePrivacy protection: Data protection good practice ensures any risk on identity information is mitigated during the processing of the information.

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