OC#7 2026

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)

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)

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Organisation type

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 17 Cards and security devices for personal identification

Organization

Technical expert contributor; Standard Norge

Organization website

Standard Norge

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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

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2024

2025

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Topic (4th Open Call)

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Topic (7th Open Call)

Web 4.0 and virtual worlds

Marius Preda

Description of Activities

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

Country

France

Fellow's country

France

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

The proposed standardisation of Gaussian Splat Representations will benefit European SMEs by enabling access to an open, efficient, and high-quality 3D format that can be easily integrated into applications such as virtual product visualization, immersive retail, cultural heritage, and training platforms. By reducing the technical and financial barriers associated with 3D content production, the project fosters innovation in creative industries, education, and digital services.

Impact on society (7th Open Call)

For European society, it supports broader adoption of interoperable and transparent digital tools aligned with the Metaverse and Digital Product Passport strategies.It reinforces MPEG’s strategic role in immersive media representation and supports the creation of open and interoperable formats aligned with European values.

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OC#1 2026

OC#7 2026

Organisation type

Academia/Research

Organization

Associate Professor, Telecom SudParis - Institute Mines Telecom

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Telecom SudParis

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Proposal Title (1st Open Call)

Media Coding and API for Metaverse Interoperability

Proposal Title (7th Open Call)

Next-generation 3D representation for realistic content and interoperability

Standards Development Organisation

Web 4.0 and virtual worlds

Topic

Media Coding and Metaverse

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

2023

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Topic (7th Open Call)

Circular Economy including Digital Product Passport

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

United Kingdom

Open Call Topics

Cloud and Edge Computing

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.

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OC#5 2026

OC#7 2026

Organisation type

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

2023

2024

2025

Topic (1st Open Call)

Cloud and Edge Computing

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Topic (7th 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 SMEs (7th 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. 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)

Impact on society (7th Open Call)

Technology for Biometric System-on-Card (BSoC) has advanced significantly since the first publication of the ISO/IEC 17839 series from 2014-2016. This made an amendment of part 2 necessary in 2021 and a revision started 2022/2023. The major gaps are that the currently published standards partially refer to outdated technology and do not cover many recent industry developments in the field of BSoC. This includes enrolment methodologies, sensor and card manufacturing, but also processes and usage of biometric cards. The priority is to consider all inputs from national bodies, come to a consensus and progress the standard series according to the ISO business plan. Challenges are divers inputs from industry delegates targeting different solutions. It is important to include all contributions from national bodies while keeping the timeline mandated by the ISO business plan.

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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

Proposal Title (7th Open Call)

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

ISO/IEC 39794-2:2023

Standards Development Organisation

ISO

Topic

Cybersecurity

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

2023

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)

Electronic identification and trust services (including e-signature)

Topic (7th 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

Belgium

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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