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Jessica Illiano

Fellow's country
Italy
Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)
A clearer framework for quantum network switching lowers the complexity barrier for smaller companies entering the quantum technology space. By harmonising terminology and defining core functions such as entanglement management, the project removes ambiguity that slows down development and increases costs. SMEs gain access to a shared reference point—state-of-the-art analysis, identified gaps, and actionable definitions—which helps them build interoperable solutions, align with emerging global standards, and participate in early-stage quantum markets with greater confidence and reduced risk.
Impact on society (7th Open Call)
Clearer standards and shared understanding in quantum networking accelerate the development of the future quantum internet, bringing long-term benefits such as ultra-secure communications and new scientific and industrial applications. By ensuring European perspectives shape early global discussions, the project supports technological sovereignty and reduces reliance on foreign frameworks for critical infrastructure. The resulting knowledge and standardisation inputs help create a trusted, resilient foundation for future innovation—supporting economic growth, high-value job creation, and Europe’s leadership in advanced technologies that will ultimately benefit citizens and public services.
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Jessica Illiano
Open Call
OC#7 2026
Organisation type
Academia/Research
Organization
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Organization website
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
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Jessica Illiano
Proposal Title (7th Open Call)
Quantum Network Switching
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Topic (7th Open Call)
Quantum Technologies

Emilia Tantar

Fellow's country
Luxembourg
Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)
A clear, actionable EN AI Conformity Assessment standard makes compliance with the EU AI Act far easier and less costly for smaller companies. With a coordinated set of standards instead of a fragmented landscape, SMEs save time, reduce legal uncertainty, and avoid investing in multiple overlapping compliance tools. This streamlined approach supports faster product deployment, lowers administrative burden, and enables SMEs to build trustworthy AI solutions that meet European requirements from day one.
Impact on society (7th Open Call)
A unified set of AI conformity standards strengthens public trust in how AI systems are developed, assessed, and deployed. By making risk management transparent and consistent, these standards help ensure that AI used in critical domains is safe, fair, and reliable. A coordinated framework also enables early detection and mitigation of societal risks, fostering a resilient AI ecosystem where innovation happens responsibly and benefits reach citizens, public services, and the broader European economy.
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Emilia Tantar, PhD
Open Call
OC#7 2026
Organisation type
SMEs
Organization
Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity
Organization website
Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity
Personal website
ORCID
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Emilia Tantar
Proposal Title (7th Open Call)
Progress and lead deliver to enquiry of EN AI Conformity assessment and supporting standards
Role in SDO
convenor
Standards Development Organisation
CEN/CENELEC
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Topic (7th Open Call)
Artificial Intelligence

Noel Harrison

Fellow's country
Ireland
Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)
Simulation standards make additive manufacturing easier to adopt and more affordable for smaller companies. Clear guidelines reduce the learning curve, cut costly trial-and-error, and help SMEs achieve consistent part quality from the start. With access to reliable, standardised simulation tools, SMEs can optimise designs, prevent defects before production, and innovate without the heavy investment normally required. This levels the playing field and allows smaller firms to compete more effectively with larger industry players.
Impact on society (7th Open Call)
Standardised simulation improves the safety, reliability, and sustainability of 3D-printed products used across sectors such as healthcare, transport, and energy. More accurate predictions of material behaviour and part performance reduce waste, lower environmental impact, and increase confidence in AM-based solutions. As these standards accelerate responsible innovation, society benefits from cleaner production methods, safer components, and wider access to advanced manufacturing technologies.
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Noel Harrison
Open Call
OC#7 2026
Organisation type
Academia/Research
Organization
University of Galway
Organization website
University of Galway
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ORCID
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Noel Harrison
Proposal Title (7th Open Call)
Simulation in Additive Manufacturing- Guidance on computational methods for the manufacturing industry
Standards Development Organisation
ISO
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Topic (7th Open Call)
Digitisation of European Industry

Monika Heyder

Fellow's country
Germany
Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)
The work supports the better integration and alignment of two key European ambitions under the Green Deal: becoming climate-neutral and advancing digital transformation. Our local and regional governments (LRG) are at the heart of this transformation. LRGs are responsible for organizing the topic of smart cities in spin-offs, and LRGs are the places that use our society.Also, our goal is to build and consolidate synergies with existing European initiatives, programs, and platforms focused on advancing climate-neutral and smart cities.Such as , engagement with ClimateView that is a Stockholm-based climate tech SME founded in 2018. The company provides ClimateOS, a software platform that supports municipal governments in planning, modeling, monitoring, and financing climate-neutral and smart city transitions.
Impact on society (7th Open Call)
The work supported the societal impact of standardisation by helping to anchor the twin transitions, digital and climate, in the real needs of cities and communities, where societal change is most visible and immediate. Cities are the spaces where challenges are experienced firsthand and where solutions must be effectively implemented. By strengthening their involvement in the standardisation process, we ensure that the resulting standards are not only technically sound but also socially relevant and fit for purpose. Local knowledge is essential for identifying practical needs and streamlining resources, enabling standards that deliver real value and promote efficiency. This approach also strengthens Europe’s global leadership by aligning strategic innovation with on-the-ground implementation.

The continued and active participation of representatives from associations, cities, and communities underscored the strong interest in and perceived relevance of this work to address pressing challenges. Beyond the core topics of digitalisation and climate change, we also addressed issues such as procurement, nature-based solutions, and the nature-positive economy. A representative from the Tiliria Region (Cyprus) highlighted the importance of recognising and integrating historical knowledge as a distinct asset for addressing energy and water shortages and building more resilient societies. Inspired by these debates, the Cypriot Mirror Committee will launch a new standardisation project to develop a standardised Climate City Contract for Cyprus, which will serve cities and communities in creating broad coalitions and help address climate change more systematically.
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Monika Heyder
Open Call
OC#7 2026
Organisation type
Not for Profit Organisation
Organization
ICLEI Europe
Organization website
ICLEI Europe
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Monika Heyder
Proposal Title (7th Open Call)
CEN/TC 465 Ad hoc Group “Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities
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www.iso.org/committee/656906.html
Role in SDO
chair
convenor
Standards Development Organisation
CEN
ISO
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Topic (7th Open Call)
Smart and Sustainable Cities

Angela Sara Cacciapuoti

Fellow's country
Italy
Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)
A key challenge in building the Quantum Internet is integrating different qubit technologies, each with its own strengths and limitations, since no single qubit platform can fulfill all the requirements for storage, processing, and communication simultaneously. Indeed, both the scientific and industrial communities widely agree that the Quantum Internet will likely rely on superconducting qubits for information processing while flying qubits will be used to distribute entangled states across network nodes.
Indeed, on one hand, superconducting circuits are adopted for quantum computation because of their capabilities to realize fast gates and their high scalability. These benefits come at the price of operating at cryogenic temperatures, which in turn challenge the development of large-scale quantum networks. On the other hand, optical photons are recognized as quantum carriers to fulfill communication needs, as they enable high-rate, low-loss transmission and can be easily controlled using standard optical components. However, the main challenge underlining the interaction between these two technologies lies in the huge gap between their operating frequencies: optical photons work at hundreds of terahertz while superconducting circuits at a few GHz.
Therefore, it is mandatory to realize a matter-flying interface, namely a quantum transducer, performing quantum transduction to enable the interaction among different qubit platforms. This interface must convert one type of qubit to another and be compatible with the characteristics of the physical channels used for flying qubits, including optical fibers and free-space optical links.
In this project, we present quantum transduction from a communication perspective, by shedding the light on its fundamental role within quantum network design and deployment.
Impact on society (7th Open Call)
From a European perspective, the expected impact is twofold. Firstly, it aims at catalyzing innovation by providing a foundational framework upon which diverse quantum technologies can be developed and integrated. Secondly, it will reinforce Europe’s strategic position in the global quantum race, ensuring that European standards and best practices shape the future of quantum communications. This will facilitate ensuring that its values and regulations are embedded in the next generation of Internet infrastructure.
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Angela Sara Cacciapuoti
Open Call
OC#7 2026
Organisation type
Academia/Research
Organization
University of Naples Federico II
Organization website
University of Naples Federico II
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Angela Sara Cacciapuoti
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Angela Sara Cacciapuoti
Proposal Title (7th Open Call)
Enabling Interfaces: Towards the Standardization of matter-flying Transducers
Topic (7th Open Call)
Quantum Technologies

Ben Francis

Fellow's country
United Kingdom
Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)
The standards developed through this project will enable SMEs to create products and services that participate in the open Web of Things ecosystem by enabling out-of-the-box interoperability between IoT implementations created by different vendors.
For example, Krellian intends to use these standards in the Krellian Hub Edge Computing product which consolidates multi-vendor building management (IoT) systems into a single standardised Data Interoperability interface, with data streamed in real-time to the Krellian Cloud Cloud Computing service which provides smart building analytics. Together these products help make commercial buildings smarter and more sustainable.
Impact on Society
The above is just one example of how the resulting standards could contribute to the wider EU goal of cutting greenhouse emissions by 90% by 2040. A recent study by Siemens revealed that 67% of businesses think net zero will be impossible without digitalisation, 63% think they're behind on digitalisation, and only 31% say they're making full use of the data they already have available. Data Interoperability on the Internet of Things is crucial to solving these problems.
Impact on society (7th Open Call)
The Internet of Things (IoT) is considered a "key enabler" standards development activity, but today's IoT is highly fragmented. There are hundreds of different IoT protocols and vendor-specific platforms which don't interoperate with each other. This lack of Data Interoperability makes it very hard to build integrated Cloud and Edge Computing solutions to create Smart and Sustainable Cities.
The Web of Things (WoT) seeks to counter the fragmentation of the Internet of Things (IoT) by using and extending existing, standardised Web technologies. By providing standardised metadata and other re-usable technological building blocks, W3C WoT enables easy integration across IoT platforms and application domains by improving Data Interoperability.
I support the standardisation of the essential building blocks needed to create an open ecosystem of multi-vendor web services, seamlessly linking together the current fragmented IoT systems which span the residential, commercial and industrial sectors that make up modern European cities. A more integrated Internet of Things could make a significant contribution to making our built environment smarter, safer and more sustainable.
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Ben Francis
Open Call
OC#7 2026
Organisation type
SMEs
Organization
Krellian
Organization website
Krellian
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Ben Francis
Proposal Title (7th Open Call)
Out-of-the-box Interoperability on the Web of Things
Read more
W3C Web of Things website
W3C Web of Things (WoT) Profiles Editor’s Draft
W3C Web Thing Protocol Community Group Draft Report
Role in SDO
chair
Standards Development Organisation
W3C
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Topic (7th Open Call)
IoT Internet of Things

Debora Comparin

Fellow's country
France
Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)
This standard responds to some requirements outlined in the European Union eIDAS2 regulation and will be implemented by European SMEs and societies active in the EU digital ID wallet ecosystem regulated by eIDAS.
Impact on society (7th Open Call)
The primary gap being addressed is the lack of standardized interfaces for Authentic Sources in the European Digital Identity (EUDI) ecosystem. Despite the legal requirement set out in eIDAS 2.0 (Article 45e) for Authentic Sources to provide such interfaces, there is currently no available specification that defines how these interfaces should be designed or implemented. This gap has been officially recognized in the CEN TC224 WG20 “European Digital Identity Wallets Standards Gap Analysis” and significantly impedes interoperability across Member States.

This fellowship contributes to the enhancement of the ITU-T X.1281 standard, the project supports the creation of secure, trusted, and interoperable mechanisms for verifying attributes from Authentic Sources. This is crucial for the deployment of the EUDI Wallet, a flagship initiative under the Digital Single Market strategy aiming to be available to all EU citizens and residents by 2026.
The key challenges are related to:
Interoperability: The lack of standardization leads to fragmented implementations across Member States, impeding seamless cross-border operations.
Security and Trust: Verifying sensitive personal attributes (like diplomas or driving licenses) requires secure, privacy-preserving, and auditable mechanisms that are hard to implement consistently without a shared standard.
Legal and Technical Fragmentation: Authentic Sources vary widely across jurisdictions in terms of legal frameworks, data models, and technical capacities. A harmonized standard must respect these national differences while ensuring a unified operational framework at the EU level.
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Debora Comparin
Open Call
OC#7 2026
Organisation type
Not for Profit Organisation
Organization
Secure Identity Alliance
Organization website
Secure Identity Alliance
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Debora Comparin
Proposal Title (7th Open Call)
Developing Standardized Interfaces for Authentic Sources in the European Digital Identity Ecosystem
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https://secureidentityalliance.org/news-events/news/osia-becomes-an-official-in…
Standards Development Organisation
ITU-T
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Topic (7th Open Call)
Electronic identification and trust services (including e-signature)

Maxime Lefrançois

Fellow's country
France
Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)
The contribution may have an indirect but positive impact on both European SMEs and societies. For SMEs, especially those in IoT or data interoperability, improvements to the SAREF framework and tools could simplify the reuse of standards and reduce the effort to contribute new domain-specific content. By streamlining documentation and validation workflows, the project may lower technical barriers and help smaller organizations align with semantic standards. For European societies, SAREF is used in domains of public interest—such as energy efficiency, smart cities, and environmental monitoring. Enhancing its quality and maintainability may support more interoperable and sustainable digital solutions over time. Though effects are not immediate, the project strengthens infrastructure that can benefit societal initiatives based on interoperable data.
Impact on society (7th Open Call)
The SAREF ontology suite suffers from inconsistencies across extensions, due to historically parallel development efforts. While recent STFs (641, 653) addressed these through new ontology patterns and a revised framework, important steps remain unfunded: publication of updated documentation, integration of conformance checks, and automation of ETSI specification generation.
With this fellowship, I directly support the ICT Rolling Plan's "Key Enablers – Data Interoperability" priority. This activity enhances semantic interoperability in IoT contexts, ensuring continuity in the evolution of a foundational European ontology standard (SAREF). It also aligns with EC expectations for faster standard evolution and broader stakeholder involvement, notably in sectors such as smart cities, energy, and digital twins.
The main challenge is sustainability: reducing the manual effort needed to maintain and extend SAREF. The current publication workflow lacks automation and centralization, leading to delays and fragmentation. The revision of the SAREF Pipeline software and the automation of specification generation are technically complex due to the lack of existing tools for parsing OWL ontologies into ETSI-compliant documents. This proposal addresses these challenges through targeted, expert-driven development efforts, based on proven tools and methods already piloted in past STFs.
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Maxime Lefrançois
Open Call
OC#7 2026
Organisation type
Academia/Research
Organization
MINES Saint-Étienne
Organization website
MINES Saint-Étienne
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Maxime Lefrançois
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Maxime Lefrançois
Proposal Title (7th Open Call)
Improving the ETSI TC SmartM2M SAREF publication framework and workflow
Read more
www.etsi.org/committee/smartm2m
Role in SDO
convenor
Standards Development Organisation
ETSI
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Topic (7th Open Call)
Data Economy

Joanna Olszewska

Fellow's country
United Kingdom
Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)
The work undertaken in this Fellowship intends to help clarifying for the EU SMEs and overall European Industry the direction they would have to take to ensure their autonomous systems are compliant with the guidelines developed in these IEEE and ISO/IEC/IEEE standardization efforts.The delivered and planned events/talks/tutorials intend to increase interactions and knowledge sharing of challenges and guidelines for the European SMEs and Industry to prepare Europe to be ready for the next-generation of trustworthy autonomous systems.
Indeed, providing a clear overview of the topic and of the ongoing standardization effort in the field of trustworthy autonomous systems aim to support European standardisation activities in order to set adequate guidelines for European SMEs to help the design and manufacturing of trustworthy autonomous systems which in turn are key enablers for both the economic growth and people well-being.
Impact on society (7th Open Call)
New technologies such as autonomous systems are aimed to both bring economic growth and increase people's well-being. However, trustworthiness is a key aspect for people to use these systems. To produce and deploy such trustworthy autonomous systems, industry and governmental bodies need standards and guidelines. At the moment, there are no IEEE standards directly focused on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems.
One of the main challenges is that the study of trustworthy autonomous systems is intrinsically multi-disciplinary, spanning across fields such as robotics, systems engineering, software engineering, artificial intelligence, as well as safety, transparency, and ethics. Currently, the related standardization efforts are occurring separately in the different scientific communities and they are not specific to trustworthy autonomous systems.
Therefore, this project aims to address this gap by bridging the different standardisation efforts and by paving the way towards a standard on trustworthy autonomous systems.
Open Call
OC#7 2026
Organisation type
Academia/Research
Organization
University of the West of Scotland
Organization website
University of the West of Scotland
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Joanna Olszewska
Proposal Title (7th Open Call)
Towards Trustworthy Autonomous Systems: Bridging Societal Expectations and Technical Advances
Read more
www.ieee-ras.org/verification-of-autonomous-systems
Role in SDO
chair
Standards Development Organisation
IEEE
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Topic (7th Open Call)
Robotics and autonomous systems

Luis Moran Abad

Description of Activities

I focus on the development of a new standard Work Model type (Technical Specification) that facilitates the consolidation, integration, and implementation of requirements, helping organisations comply with AI laws, regulations, and standards more effectively. The objective is to guide and support organisations on how to meet the multiple requirements imposed by laws, regulations, and standards on AI-based systems. The initiative will not create new requirements but will provide assistance and guidance to organisations on how to consolidate, integrate, implement and audit different sources of requirements

Fellow's country
Spain
Open Call Topics
Artificial Intelligence
Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)
The AI-Compliance initiative aims to develop a new standard to help European organisations, especially SMEs, comply with complex AI-related laws, regulations and standards. This new standard will be especially valuable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) because these organisations often lack the internal resources, specialised staff, and structured processes necessary to implement regulatory environments.
SMEs frequently struggle to interpret legal and technical requirements, allocate time for implementation, and ensure ongoing adherence. A practical standard would provide a clear framework for implementation reducing the cost and effort of compliance.
Impact on society (7th Open Call)
The European Union can push its values and ethics in AI without fear of crippling economic development by having a new standard to help with regulatory compliance. For the EU, it is primarily about finding ways to seize the opportunities offered by AI in a way that is human-centred, ethical, safe and consistent with our core values as Europeans.
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Open Call
OC#7 2026
Organisation type
Other
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Luis Moran
Proposal Title (7th Open Call)
AI-Compliance: Artificial Intelligence Compliance Enabler new standard Guidelines and Work Model
Standards Development Organisation
UNE
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year
2025
Topic (7th Open Call)
Artificial Intelligence

Luca Nannini

Description of Activities

My fellowship addresses three critical gaps in the European AI standardization landscape: The first gap concerns the harmonisation of Documentation Development, as there is an urgent need for technical documentation (Annex ZA, HAS checklists) to connect developing standards with AI Act requirements following the M/593 request. Without this work, standards risk delayed OJEU citation, creating regulatory uncertainty. I've worked on developing preliminary harmonization documents for JT021008 (Trustworthiness), JT021039 (QMS), and JT021024 (Risk Management). The second gap is related to cross-Standard Technical Coherence. As multiple AI standards are developed simultaneously, it creates potential inconsistencies in terminology, requirements, and implementation approaches. I've created mapping documents highlighting interconnections between standards, particularly focusing on how QMS requirements interface with other M/593 standards, to ensure a coherent framework. The third gap focuses on the alignment with EU AI Act Articles, as technical specifications in draft standards must precisely align with AI Act articles to support regulatory compliance. I have contributed targeted technical refinements to clauses 6.4 (transparency) and 6.5 (human oversight) in the Trustworthiness Framework to strengthen alignment with Articles 13 and 14 of the AI Act.

Fellow's country
Spain
Open Call Topics
Artificial Intelligence
Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)
I believe that this work helps reduce compliance uncertainty and costs for SMEs. Technical coherence across the standards framework simplifies implementation for organizations with limited resources. My contributions to the QMS standard particularly focus on ensuring requirements are scalable and accessible to SMEs developing AI systems (i.e. being able to show SMEs how standard interrelating is valuable and would solve burdens related to understanding how requirements across different standards flow).
Impact on society (7th Open Call)
The work on the AI Trustworthiness Framework (particularly enhancing requirements for transparency and human oversight) ensures standards effectively support the protection of fundamental rights as required by the AI Act. This strengthens societal safeguards against potential harms from AI systems.
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Open Call
OC#7 2026
Organisation type
IT Consultancy/Development
Organization
Piccadilly Labs
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Luca Nannini
Proposal Title (7th Open Call)
Technical Contributions to WG2 & WG4's Draft Standards through Annex ZA and hEN Checklists
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Standards Development Organisation
CEN/CENELEC
ISO
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year
2025
Topic (7th Open Call)
Artificial Intelligence

Titusz Pan

Description of Activities

I addressed priorities and gaps on three specific AI areas, including: 

  • Metadata Persistence in Dynamic Content Environments: Addressing the gap of traditional identification systems when metadata bindings are disrupted as content is altered. ISCC-soft binding techniques create resilient content-metadata bonds without centralized registries, maintaining reference integrity along numerous axes of change using similarity-preserving identification algorithms.
  • Cross-Domain Identification Interoperability: Resolving constraints of isolated content recognition systems. ISCC's composability enables standardized cross-format identification across text, image, audio and video content formats, enabling metadata discovery across previously disparate identification ecosystems without relying on proprietary integration methods.
  • Decentralized Authentication Systems: Developing technological infrastructure for decentralized content provenance verification. Classical authentication mechanisms create single points of failure and privacy problems. This project evaluates soft binding methods that enable verifiable content provenance while maintaining compatibility with European digital sovereignty principles and facilitating transparent content verification without trusted centralized authorities.
Fellow's country
Germany
Open Call Topics
Artificial Intelligence
Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)
My soft binding standardization initiative benefits European digital ecosystems by reducing implementation costs by using open identification standards, enhancing competitiveness through interoperable content management and freeing from proprietary identification systems.
Impact on society (7th Open Call)
Also it impacts the society by enhancing digital sovereignty through decentralized verification, improving trust infrastructure resilience to misinformation and improving content provenance verification. This establishes foundational technological infrastructure for content authenticity in generative AI without compromising on European values of transparency and centralized control structures.
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Open Call
OC#7 2026
Organisation type
Not for Profit Organisation
Organization
ISCC Foundation
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Titusz Pan
Proposal Title (7th Open Call)
ISCC - TR on Soft Bindings
Standards Development Organisation
ISO
StandICT.eu Year
2026
Year
2025
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