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Sandra Feliciano

Description of Activities

My fellowship focuses on several priorities and key gaps related to AI and cybersecurity standards applied in education.

Fellow's country
Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)
It impacts educational organisations in any country and of all legal forms and sizes (including SME) and also includes training departments of SMEs from other economic sectors.
Impact on society (5th Open Call)
Moreover, by tailoring ISO 42001 and ISO 27001 to the education sector, the project directly strengthens the cybersecurity posture of educational institutions across Europe. This includes safeguarding sensitive student data and protecting educational infrastructures from cyber threats. Also, the development of specific guidelines ensures a harmonized approach to cybersecurity across European educational systems, fostering a more secure and resilient digital education environment.
Open Call
Organisation type
Organization
Invited Adjunct Professor, AESTAS INSIGNIS - Investigação e Suportes de Apoio à Gestão, Unipessoal, Lda.
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feliciano
Proposal Title (3rd Open Call)
AI & Cybersecurity Standards in Education: A Collaborative approach for Safer Learning Environments
Proposal Title (5th Open Call)
AI & Cybersecurity Standards in Education II (Project Continuation)
Blockchain for a Sustainable Future: Dual-Impact Standards for ESG and SDGs
Standards Development Organisation
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year

Samia Oukemeni

Description of Activities

By integrating ZTA, the project allows for more secure, scalable, and flexible access control mechanisms, which are crucial for the protection of sensitive data and systems against evolving cyber threats.

Fellow's country
Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)
This fellowship project significantly impacts European SMEs and societies by enhancing cybersecurity in critical infrastructures through the standardisation of ACaaS. By integrating ZTA, the project allows for more secure, scalable, and flexible access control mechanisms, which are crucial for the protection of sensitive data and systems against evolving cyber threats. This approach reduces potential data breaches and security incidents, promoting a safer digital environment.
Impact on society (5th Open Call)
My project aligns with the EU's ICT Rolling Plan, emphasising the enhancement of cybersecurity and the development of a resilient, secure digital infrastructure. By focusing on advanced AC techniques rooted in ZTA, the project supports the EU's commitment to integrating ZTA principles into critical infrastructure.
Open Call
Organisation type
Organization
Standarisation Expert, Vodafone
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Samia
Proposal Title (3rd Open Call)
Adaptive Context-Based Access Management for Critical Infrastructure
Proposal Title (5th Open Call)
Enhancing and Evolving Adaptive Context-Based Access Management for Critical Infrastructure
Standards Development Organisation
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year

Pavel Cuchriajev

Description of Activities

My fellowship significantly contributes to the ICT standards landscape by advancing the Biometric System-on-Card (BSoC) standards, particularly within the ISO/IEC 17839 series.

Fellow's country
Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)
My contribution impacts European SMEs by providing clear guidelines for implementing Biometric System-on-Card (BSoC) technology. Standards promote interoperability, reduce costs, enhance trust, and foster innovation, enabling SMEs to compete effectively, access markets, and build credibility.
Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)
My contribution impacts European SMEs by providing clear guidelines for implementing Biometric System-on-Card (BSoC) technology. Standards promote interoperability, reduce costs, enhance trust, and foster innovation, enabling SMEs to compete effectively, access markets, and build credibility.
Impact on society (4th Open Call)
The work supported societal impacts by enhancing security and privacy, facilitating access to services, supporting digital transformation, promoting innovation and economic growth, and protecting individual rights in the digital age.
Impact on society (7th Open Call)
The work supported societal impacts by enhancing security and privacy, facilitating access to services, supporting digital transformation, promoting innovation and economic growth, and protecting individual rights in the digital age.
Organisation type
Organization
Technical expert contributor; Standard Norge
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cuchriajev
Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)
Advance Biometric System-On-Card (ISO/IEC 17839) Standard improvement
Proposal Title (4th Open Call)
Advance Biometric System-On-Card (ISO/IEC 17839) Standard improvement
Proposal Title (5th Open Call)
Advance Biometric System-On-Card (ISO/IEC 17839) Standard improvement
Proposal Title (7th Open Call)
Advance Biometric System-On-Card (ISO/IEC 17839) Standard improvement
Standards Development Organisation
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year

Michele Amoretti

Description of Activities

Quantum simulation will have a huge impact on the study of new materials and new drugs, as well as finding chemical catalysts to remove CO2 from the atmosphere or reduce the amount of energy to produce fertilizers.

Country
Italy
Fellow's country
Open Call Topics
Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)
My contributions in JTC22/WG3 are mostly related to quantum software, i.e., software that is executed on quantum computers but also software that is executed on classical computers for enabling/supporting quantum computations. In Europe, new SMEs are growing around the quantum software topic. Therefore, I feel that the activity I am carrying out in the context of JTC22/WG3 will be beneficial for those companies.
Impact on society (5th Open Call)
Quantum application benchmarking will benefit industrial end-users, quantum computing manufacturers (hardware and software) and Governments. The general intent is to fulfil their needs for objective performance comparison of emerging quantum processors, providing application benchmarks with specific metrics and methodologies.
Open Call
Organisation type
Organization
Associate Professor - University of Parma
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Amoretti
Proposal Title (1st Open Call)
Effective Characterisation of Quantum Computing Systems
Proposal Title (5th Open Call)
Application Benchmarks for Quantum Computers
Standards Development Organisation
Topic
Quantum Technology
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year
Topic (1st Open Call)
Topic (5th Open Call)

Karim Tobich

Description of Activities

This fellowship is meant to increase confidence in cybersecurity through the convergence of international SDOs and the alignment behind a common international standard which relates both to the market and society.

 

Country
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)
Fellow's country
Open Call Topics
Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)
Organisations willing to achieve a resilient cybersecurity system will have to implement an information security management system. The standards developed through this contribution will provide SME and European societies with a comprehensive guidance on how to use ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27002. Moreover, ISO/IEC 27017 will provide SMEs working as Could service providers with a comprehensive list of guidelines to implement when providing services to Could service customers.
Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)
Organisations willing to achieve a resilient cybersecurity system will have to implement an information security management system. Within that context, this contribution helps organisations of any size including SMEs to achieve better security and cybersecurity through the use of standards like ISO/IEC 27003, ISO/IEC 27028, and ISO/IEC 27004 that will be revised and developed through this work. In addition, this contribution provides technology organisations with a framework to develop and use secure cloud systems ISO/IEC 27017, edge computing systems ISO/IEC 25545 and raise awareness about security and privacy aspects of digital twin systems ISO/IEC 27568 so those concerns can be integrated at an early stage and achieve security and privacy by design when developing such innovative technology.
Impact on society (5th Open Call)
Developing and providing such standards to organisations allow them to implement the EU values and policies in an easy manner.
Organisation type
Organization
Director - Cybersecurity & Technology Consultancy
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karim
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
Standards Development Organisation
Topic
Cybersecurity / Cloud Computing
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year
Topic (1st 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
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.
Organisation type
Organization
CEO - Kallistech
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Bringer
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
Standards Development Organisation
Topic
Electronic Identification
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year
Topic (1st Open Call)
Topic (3rd Open Call)
Topic (5th Open Call)

Alessio Tartaro

Description of Activities

While there are standards describing processes for considering ethical and social concerns in product and service development, such as AI systems, no standard currently addresses the competencies of individuals tasked with implementing these processes in various organisational types.

Country
Italy
Fellow's country
Open Call Topics
Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)
This project directly benefits European SMEs operating in the AI sector by streamlining their approach to compliance with the AI Act, particularly concerning the protection of children’s rights.
Impact on society (5th Open Call)
This project significantly contributes to several societal impacts, aligning with European values and the growing need for responsible and trustworthy AI, especially concerning vulnerable populations like children.
Organisation type
Organization
PhD candidate, the University of Sassari
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tartaro
Proposal Title (1st Open Call)
Advancing the PWI on Competence Requirements for AI Ethics Professionals to the NWIP stage
Proposal Title (3rd Open Call)
Progressing the "Competence Requirements for AI Ethicists Professionals" to the Working Draft stage
Proposal Title (5th Open Call)
Enhancing EN AI Risk Management with Fundamental Rights and Children's Protection
Standards Development Organisation
Topic
Artificial Intelligence
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year
Topic (1st Open Call)
Topic (3rd Open Call)
Topic (5th Open Call)

Thomas Loruenser

Description of Activities

The proposal at hand is expected to directly contribute to increasing the real-world take up of advanced privacy-enhancing technologies, thereby advancing the technical state of the art in this domain and helping to maintain the privacy and data sovereignty of European SMEs and ultimately also citizens.

Country
Austria
Fellow's country
Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)
In addition, a significant number of European SMEs working on the commercialisation of MPC and PETs in general will benefit from the results of the project.
Impact on society (5th Open Call)
The work is expected to directly contribute to increasing the real-world uptake of advanced privacy-enhancing technologies, thereby advancing the state of the art in this area and helping to preserve the privacy and data sovereignty of European SMEs and ultimately citizens.
Open Call
Organisation type
Organization
Independent Expert
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Loruenser
Proposal Title (1st Open Call)
Standardisation of multiparty computation in ISO/IEC JTC1 SC27 WG2
Proposal Title (5th Open Call)
Support for Standardization of Secure Computing Methods
Standards Development Organisation
Topic
Network and Information Security
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year

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
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.
Organisation type
Organization
Consultant, Reseacher - EUCOMREG
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Popescu
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
Topic
Network and Information Security
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year

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
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.
Organisation type
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
Standards Development Organisation
Topic
Cybersecurity
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year

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
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)
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 matters yesterday far from SMEs' concerns.
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.
Organisation type
Organization
Viewconcept.be
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stenuit
Proposal Title (1st Open Call)
Contribution to e-identification and e-authentication at CEN/CLC/JTC 13 and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 27 WG5’s
Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)
ntribution to e-identification and e-authentication at CEN/CLC/JTC 13 & ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 27 WG5’s
Proposal Title (3rd Open Call)
Contribution to e-identification and e-authentication at CEN/CLC/JTC 13 & ISO/ IEC JTC1/SC 27 WG5’s
Proposal Title (5th Open Call)
Contribution to e-identification and e-authentication at CEN/CLC/JTC 13 & ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 27 WG5’s
Proposal Title (6th Open Call)
contribute to a better harmonization of e-identity and privacy protection standardization support in Europe
Establishment of a Liaison Statement of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 WG 5 to CEN-CENELEC JTC13.
Contribution to the definition of AG5 on strategy as part of the ISO JTC1 SC27 WG5
Proposal Title (7th Open Call)
Contribution to e-identification and e-authentication at CEN/CLC/JTC 13 & ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 27 WG5’s
Standards Development Organisation
Topic
Cybersecurity
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year