OC#4 2026

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

ETSI

StandICT.eu Year

2026

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Topic (4th Open Call)

IoT Internet of Things

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 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.

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OC#6 2026

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Lecturer, Atlantic Technological University

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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

Role in SDO

Standards Development Organisation

NSAI

ISO/IEC

IEEE

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (4th Open Call)

Cloud and Edge Computing

Topic (6th Open Call)

Cloud and Edge Computing

Marcello Caleffi

Description of Activities

I contribute to developing new standards on the quantum counterpart of the classical Internet Protocol, defined within IETF RFC 791 standard and following standards.

Fellow's country

Italy

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

The adoption of standardised classical communication protocols significantly accelerates the scalability of quantum networks. As quantum technologies advance, the ability to seamlessly integrate new quantum devices into existing networks becomes crucial. Standardised protocols provide a foundation for the consistent and reliable integration of diverse quantum resources, paving the way for the widespread adoption of quantum technologies across various applications and industries.

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Assistant Professor - University of Naples Federico II

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Proposal Title (4th Open Call)

Standardising the Quantum Internet

David Artuñedo Guillén

Description of Activities

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

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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.

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

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Telefónica I+D. S.A.u.

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Participation in SA6 to support CAPIF Guidelines from ETSI OpenCAPIF

Giovanni Romano

Description of Activities

The priority of my activity is the coordination of the 3GPP activities to update the ITU-R Recommendations on IMT-Advanced and IMT-2020.

Fellow's country

United Kingdom

Open Call Topics

RAN AH1 – TSG RAN ITU-R Ad Hoc

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)

European SMEs started to be quite active in 3GPP with the specification work of 5G, especially on aspects relevant to Verticals. In particular, SMEs are quite active in IMT-2020 satellite aspects and can benefit from the inclusion of 3GPP solutions in global standards defined by ITU.
Novamint as an SME directly benefits from this grant allowing me to attend the 3GPP workshop on 6G during the RAN plenary in March.

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

Satellite communications are a key enabler to provide inclusion by reaching remote areas and ensure safety and communications during disasters. It is important that standardised solutions are made available (e.g., via 3GPP) and then made into ITU Recommendations which provide the Regulatory framework for a large number of countries.

Impact on society (6th Open Call)

Satellite communications are a key enabler to inclusion by reaching remote areas and ensuring safety and communications during disasters. Satellite IoT is another important market allowing low cost monitoring of goods and environment in remote areas, thus fully complementing the terrestrial networks.

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Novamint Ltd

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Novamint Ltd

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3GPP ITU-R Ad-Hoc Convenor

Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

Recommendations M.2012 on IMT-Advanced aka 4G, and M.2150 on IMT-2020 aka 5G and to the new Recommendation on IMT-2020 satellite

Role in SDO

Standards Development Organisation

3GPP

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (4th Open Call)

Topic (6th Open Call)

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

United Kingdom

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 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.

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University of Bath

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University of Bath

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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)

Role in SDO

Standards Development Organisation

ISO/IEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (4th Open Call)

Topic (7th Open Call)

Anita Prinzie

Description of Activities

The AI Act is a European regulation promoting the uptake of human-centric and trustworthy AI, while ensuring protection of health, safety, and fundamental rights. Companies can prove conformity with the AI Act by complying with the 10 harmonised standards drafted by CEN-CENELEC. My fellowship contributes to two harmonised standards supporting the AI Act.

Fellow's country

Belgium

Open Call Topics

CEN-CENELEC JTC 21 ‘Artificial Intelligence’

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

I review and contribute to the prEN AI Trustworthiness Framework and prEN AI Risk Management accounting for the SME inclusiveness of the requirements. I want to enable SMEs to provide and/or deploy trustworthy AI systems while controlling AI risks taking into account their modest resources as compared to enterprises.

Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)

The standards in general enable responsible yet affordable innovation with fast launch to market for all companies including SMEs: ensuring concrete requirements that can be integrated in existing trustworthy AI and risk management processes and day-to-day business operations.

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

The EN AI Trustworthiness Framework and the EN AI Risk Management support European companies, including both SMEs and large enterprises, develop and use trustworthy AI systems that comply with the AI Act in a practical way, while still supporting profitable innovation. Furthermore, I review and contribute to the prEN AI Trustworthiness Framework and prEN AI Risk Management accounting for the SME inclusiveness of the requirements. I want to enable SMEs to provide and/or deploy trustworthy AI systems while controlling AI risks taking into account their modest resources as compared to enterprises.

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

The prEN AI Trustworthiness Framework Standard specifies trustworthiness requirements aligned with European culture and society. Whereas, the prEN AI System Risk Management standard enables to control risks not only on the individual and company level but also on the level of the society.

Impact on society (5th Open Call)

EN AI Trustworthiness Framework provides requirements for trustworthy AI systems that align with European stakeholders and regulation and European values. Enable the design and management of trustworthy AI systems that proactively respect European norms and values and fundamental rights.

Impact on society (7th Open Call)

My fellowship contributes to the following societal impact within the two standardisation projects:
Firstly, EN AI Trustworthiness Framework provides requirements for trustworthy AI systems that align with European stakeholders and regulation and European values. Enable the design and management of trustworthy AI systems that proactively respect European norms and values and fundamental rights. It also indicates the need for holistic risk management taking into account the risks to users and society. The requirements for logging, transparency, human oversight, accuracy and robustness account for managing the risks to affected users and society at large.
Secondly, The EN AI Risk Management standard enables us to control risks not only on the individual level but also on the level of the society (e.g., misinformation and disinformation risks, risks to democratic processes, …). The scope of the standard indicates that risks covered include both risks to health and safety and risks to fundamental rights which can arise from AI systems, with impact for individuals, organisations, market and society. The risk policy (section 5.1.2), the risk management plan (section 5.1.4), the risk evaluation (section 5.2.1.4) specify requirements on consultation with potentially affected stakeholders (or their proxies, including civil society organisations). The implementation and verification of risk control measures (section 5.2.2.2) and the evaluation of residual risk (section 5.2.3) refer to the test of necessity and proportionality in a democratic society, for risks pertaining to a potential interference with a fundamental right that permits qualifications.

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Omina Technologies

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Omina Technologies

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Proposal Title (4th Open Call)

Trustworthy AI and AI Risk Management expertise for EU AI Act harmonized standards

Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

Contribution to AI Trustworthiness Framework and AI System Risk Management EN standards for AI Act

Proposal Title (7th Open Call)

Full AI Act harmonization of AI Trustworthiness Framework and AI System Risk Management standards

EN AI Trustworthiness Framework

EN AI Risk Management standard

Standards Development Organisation

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (5th Open Call)

Topic (7th Open Call)

Digitisation of European Industry

Sabine Mahr

Description of Activities

Incorporation of at least two sensory channels for information consumption is required by the European Accessibility Act, but currently not widely realized in technical communication. With its structured semantic approach, the proposed standard seeks to help eliminate this shortcoming.

Fellow's country

Germany

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

A Digital Product Passport (DPP) will be required for almost any physical product, starting in 2026 for some product groups and then subsequently widening its application range. This means that all manufacturers are required to provide various sustainability-related data on their products, once they enter the European market.
With the advent of the DPP, technical communication will most probably either be part of the DPP or strongly intertwined with the information provided through it. Technical communicators who are capable of providing product information arranged into a machine-readable concept model of the product and its context of use are in high demand on the labour market and in the freelance consultant market. Approaching the modeling task in accordance with the principles that will be laid out in the NWIP will help them to perform their work more easily and in a well-structured manner.

Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)

Digital representations of assets can be found not only in models, simulations and Asset Administration Shells of products, but also in the associated technical documentation that becomes increasingly modular and context-specific. The appropriateness of its semiotic modes, combination of multimodal elements and choice of output media highly depends on the product’s context of use, incorporating users’ capabilities, tasks and goals, physical, technical and organizational environments, and available resources.
The proposed standard supports technical communicators and similar roles in designing, structuring and delivering product-related information to users of that product. It provides advice on how to set up a style guide that determines what modes, multimodal elements and media are appropriate for specified contexts of product use. In SMEs, which cannot afford large technical communication departments with employees covering a broad range of expertise, this approach is essential for streamlining processes and adhering to legal requirements.

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

The information chunks that convey conceptual information will conform to the “Intelligent information for use” metadata scheme, so that they provide meta-information about their semantics and hence become machine-readable and semantically interoperable with other information, e.g., in other submodels of the AAS. Which is, on the other hand, a prerequisite for their accessibility via differing sensory modalities in humans and therefore for barrier-free communication. This aspect has gained in importance with the imminent entry into force of the European Accessibility Act in June 2025.

Impact on society (6th Open Call)

Technical documentation increasingly turns into a set of fine-grained technical information assets featuring semantics via metadata on context of use parameters. These information assets hence become machine-readable and semantically interoperable with other information, e.g., AAS or DPP submodels. Which is, on the other hand, a prerequisite for their accessibility via differing sensory modalities in humans and therefore for barrier-free communication. This aspect has gained in importance with the imminent entry into force of the European Accessibility Act in June 2025.

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The impact of ISO/TC 37 standards on technical communication

OC#6 2026

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SMEs

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word b sign Sabine Mahr

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Proposal Title (4th Open Call)

Representation of domain-specific concepts in digital twins and other technical information assets

Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

Contribution to the Standardisation of Digital Technical Documentation and User Information Models

Role in SDO

Standards Development Organisation

ISO

IEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Digitisation of European Industry

Topic (4th Open Call)

Topic (6th Open Call)

Digitisation of European Industry

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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OC#6 2026

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SMEs

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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

Standards Development Organisation

ETSI

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

Rembrandt Koppelaar

Fellow's country

United Kingdom

Open Call Topics

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.

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SMEs

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CWA EcoWise Ekodenge Ltd

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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

CEN

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Circular Economy including Digital Product Passport

Topic (4th Open Call)

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

Accessibility of ICT products and services

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 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.

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Organization

neurocat GmbH

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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

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27

Role in SDO

Standards Development Organisation

ISO/IEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

2025

Topic (4th Open Call)

Accessibility of ICT products and services

Topic (7th Open Call)

Markus Sabadello

Description of Activities

The standards I am dealing with are the W3C Verifiable Credential Data Model (VCDM) 2.0 in conjunction with the W3C Verifiable Credential Data Integrity 1.0 specification for securing VCs. The contribution of this project will be a specification for a new W3C VC Data Integrity suite, i.e. a mechanism for securing Verifiable Credentials (VCs).

Fellow's country

Austria

Open Call Topics

Electronic identification and trust services (including e-signature)

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

There will also be various opportunities for SMEs to participate in a European digital identity ecosystem, for example by providing software and consulting services.

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

In the coming years, the eIDAS 2.0 regulation and associated EU Digital Identity Wallet will become available to all EU citizens and are expected to have a major impact on various parts of our (digital) societies.

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