OC#9 2026

Cybersecurity/Network and Information security

Organisation type

Academia/Research

Organization

University of Aberdeen

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University of Aberdeen

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Proposal Title (8th Open Call)

Support for IETF transport protocol standardisation at the July 2025 Plenary Meeting

Proposal Title (9th Open Call)

Travel Support for the Montreal Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) plenary meeting

Standards Development Organisation

IETF

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Topic (8th Open Call)

Topic (9th Open Call)

5G and Beyond (6G)

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

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Open Call Topics

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 SMEs (9th Open Call)

European small organisations (SMEs) and very small organisations (VSMEs) do not have the experts or economic resources to hire specialised AI consultants on compliance, so they must postpone the application of AI in their businesses. This generates a new delay in their innovation gap. The main opportunity for SMEs-VSMEs is their incorporation to a future AI-Compliance collectives: sectorial cluster type, laboratory of a City Hall and other potential movements of knowledge collectivisation.
Creating a standard to guide organisations and SMEs to facilitate compliance for AI implementations reduce the risk of sanctions by regulatory authorities and facilitates confidence that the use being made of AI systems is ethical, moral and legal.

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.

Impact on society (9th Open Call)

A new standard supports consolidating, integrating and optimising regulatory requirements and make compliance audits more efficient will be essential for the development of AI in Europe, and thus of European industry and welfare. This new standard will enable European organisations to leverage the full potential of AI while ensuring compliance with the various mandatory requirements. In doing so, this standard will enhance the competitiveness of European organisations.

In this way, the new standard will open the door to the competitiveness of European organisations by making AI compliance more efficient. The pillars of the new guidelines standard are:
Converting different regulations and standards into a cloud of requirements.
Consolidate and integrate these requirements into a specific set.
To make the implementation of requirements more efficient.
Reduce the cost and organisational effort of regulation compliance.
Guidance on the management of specific requirements implementation projects.
Reduce and optimise the number of internal and external audits.
My fellowship also contributed to the development of working methodologies in organisations aligned with the objectives of the European AI Office and its ‘Regulation and Compliance’ Unit.

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Proposal Title (7th Open Call)

AI-Compliance: Artificial Intelligence Compliance Enabler new standard Guidelines and Work Model

Proposal Title (9th Open Call)

AI-Compliance: Proof of Concept and Refinement of the AI compliance guidelines standard

Standards Development Organisation

UNE

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (7th Open Call)

Topic (9th Open Call)

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.

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Open Call Topics

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 SMEs (9th Open Call)

The editorial leadership of EN AI Trustworthiness Framework Part II directly supports European SMEs through Articles 62-63 AI Act provisions for SME assistance. The standard provides SMEs with clear, pre-endorsed technical specifications for meeting AI Act accuracy and robustness requirements, reducing compliance costs and legal uncertainty. The harmonization documentation coordinated through editorial work enables SMEs to achieve presumption of conformity through standardized approaches rather than expensive individual assessments.

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.

Impact on society (9th Open Call)

I can see several societal impacts with the engaged standadisation activities:
AI Accuracy and Robustness Standards: As Editor of EN AI Trustworthiness Framework Part II, my work directly supports European citizens' rights to accurate and robust AI systems. The standard establishes technical requirements ensuring AI systems deployed across the EU meet rigorous accuracy standards and maintain performance across operational conditions, protecting citizens from unreliable algorithmic decision-making in high-risk contexts.
SME Innovation Ecosystem: The editorial leadership through N1106 coordination enables European SMEs to compete effectively in AI markets by providing clear compliance pathways rather than costly regulatory uncertainty. This supports innovation while ensuring responsible AI deployment protecting European citizens.
European Leadership in Global AI Governance: The editorial role positions European values-based approaches to AI accuracy and robustness for global influence. The framework embeds principles of reliability, trustworthiness, and accountability into technical specifications that influence international AI standardization discussions.
Consumer Protection Framework: The cross-WG coordination through N1106 ensures AI standards address consumer concerns around system reliability, performance consistency, and safety while remaining technically implementable. This balance protects European consumers while supporting technological advancement and maintaining Europe's competitive position in global AI markets.

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IT Consultancy/Development

Organisation type

Organization

Piccadilly Labs

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Website

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Proposal Title (7th Open Call)

Technical Contributions to WG2 & WG4's Draft Standards through Annex ZA and hEN Checklists

Proposal Title (9th Open Call)

Co-editing AI Trustworthiness Framework prEN 18229 and coordinating across JTC21 Working Groups

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Standards Development Organisation

CEN/CENELEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (7th Open Call)

Topic (9th Open Call)

Web 4.0 and virtual worlds

Torbjörn Lahrin

Description of Activities

Local Digital Twins will be a fundamental building block for CitiVerse. It will also play a crucial role for anyone in the public sector who wants to fully utilize the usage of AI.
Today, cities, regions and countries all over the world are building Local Digital Twins using various tools and approaches. Game engines, CAD tools, GIS, AR/VR/XR tools, Urban Digital Platforms, CIM and other visualisation tools are used. Thus a wide spread of technologies and standards.
Interoperability for Local Digital Twins (LTD) is crucial. They need to fit horizontally and vertically. Horizontally is to put a LDT of one city next to a LDT of another city and make them align. Vertically, by example, a LDT produced by a city must fit LDT from public transportation and LDT by the energy company for the same geographical area, etc.

European CitiVerse will be built upon Local Digital Twins. If separate Local Digital Twins in Europe don't fit together it will be impossible to create a seamless CitiVerse. It will also be difficult with interoperability between LDT:s. The LDT also needs interoperability versus dataspaces and IoT. For a LDT:s to be useful for officials and others, LDT:s need interoperability with the business operating systems used by officials on a daily basis.

In this sense, in the framework of my fellowship, my JWG has sent a survey to many major LDT projects around the world, and we are now gathering the results and statistics. The result will be a gap analysis and a technical report, which will enable advice to all relevant major SDO:s on how to develop or change their standards to fit better together.

Fellow's country

Sweden

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

Investing in Local Digital Twins and CitiVerse is today rather challenging. All technologies for creating LDT:s or CitiVerse have their strengths and weaknesses. Any investment made today is therefore associated with a rather high degradation of uncertainty. Still, the SME:s and Europe must invest already now in these technologies to have a chance to be “on the train” and ahead in the competition. However, this also comes with a large risk that European SME:s and, in the broader scope, the European societies to some extent might find themselves investing in the “wrong” direction with techniques and methods that will not be long lasting.
To know what other actors are doing all around the world will help stakeholders to navigate and to invest in “right” directions with long term safer investments. Once we get an international reference architecture for LDT:s in place this will give even more security for those parties following the international standard.

Impact on SMEs (9th Open Call)

Investing in Metaverse and CitiVerse is today rather challenging. All technologies for creating Metaverse, CitiVerse and underlaying Local Digital Twins have strengths and weaknesses. Such investments are therefore associated with a rather high degrade of uncertainty. Still, the SME:s and European societies must invest already now in these technologies to have a chance to be “on the train” and ahead in the competition. Also for implementing various parts of CitiVerse related to EU calls. However, this come with a large risk investing in the “wrong” direction with technique and methods that will not be long lasting.
Because of this European SMEs and societies will benefit from the creation and coordination of standards for Metaverse. They will also benefit from gaining knowledge about the international standardization, as such knowledge will help SME:s and societies of Europe to navigate and to invest in “right” directions with long term safer investments.

Impact on society (9th Open Call)

The work is laying the foundation for uniting the world in how to build Local Digital Twins (Urban Digital Twins and City Information Modelling) and how to make these interoperable with each other both horizontal, vertical and towards underlaying data sets and daily operation systems of cities and other authorities. It is also paving the road for how Local Digital Twins can be used as the foundation for building CitiVerse.

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https://www.iec.ch/dyn/www/f?p=103%3A14%3A2726994331173%3A%3A%3A%3AFSP_ORG_ID%2…

Organization

Lahrin i Hajstorp AB

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Proposal Title (7th Open Call)

GAP Analysis, Reference Architecture and Ontology for Local Digital Twins

Proposal Title (9th Open Call)

JTC1 CG2 - Strategic Coordination Group on Metaverse

Gap analysis, reference architecture and ontology for local digital twins

Role in SDO

convenor

Standards Development Organisation

ISO/IEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Web 4.0 and virtual worlds

Topic (7th Open Call)

Topic (9th Open Call)

Web 4.0 and virtual worlds

Caroline Thomas

Description of Activities

The priority aims to support the development of European and international standards for DLT/blockchain technologies to ensure transparency in sustainable financing. This contribution brings together the financial, reporting and new technologies to address the gaps between these three sectors.
The challenge for sustainable finance is to minimise the risk of 'greenwashing’ and provide better reporting for the Sustainability sector, ESG investment and Net Zero climate goals and new EU Reporting regulations.
It includes standards development to combine blockchain/DLT Use Cases reflecting sustainable solutions, while the sustainable finance standards cover Terminology and reporting guidelines, and the financial services consider digital currencies and tokenisation.

This contribution aligns with the European Standardisation initiatives, including the effective delivery of ESG investment strategy and Net Zero climate goals, along with the new EU Climate and Sustainable Reporting legislation in 2024 /2025.

Fellow's country

Greece

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

This contribution brings together the financial, reporting and new technologies that impact European societies, and bring opportunities for SME innovation. Examples include:
Climate resilience: Extreme weather events across Europe and globally in 2024/25 saw a seismic shift in climate impacts on societies. B/DLT technologies provides a track record of immutable data sources to help historical measures and help European societies and governments to plan for future climate resilience.
New technologies: The accelerating shift in global tech eg: AI and crypto-currencies, is setting revolutionary opportunities and challenges to European laws, ethics and societies. B/DLT enables immutability, trust in distributed systems and change management in mass data storage.
New Regulations: New standards in Terminology and B/DLT technologies contribute to the new EU Sustainable Reporting legislations, by providing ESG traceability eg: accurate carbon emissions for businesses.

Impact on society (9th Open Call)

This new work is necessary to address the urgent shift in international technology advances, such as AI. tokenisation and crypto-currencies, that may provide potential challenges to European laws, ethics and societies. Standards can provide trust in an environment of AI-generated fake news.
For example, the work on ISO/AWI 24982 Digital currencies — Vocabulary helps define a common international language for business and societies, to create an interoperable financial system in digital currencies. Or the work on — ISO/WD TS 32219 Sustainable Finance — Terminology helps define a common international language for business and societies, across these regulations and business reporting.
This Standards work in blockchain and DLT can help inform businesses, SMEs and societies by providing insights in guidelines to enable adoption, trust and scale in their businesses and networks.

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Organization

ISO

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Proposal Title (7th Open Call)

Standards development in blockchain and DLT that contribute to Sustainability

Proposal Title (9th Open Call)

Standards development in blockchain and DLT and finance that contribute to Sustainability

Role in SDO

convenor

Standards Development Organisation

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (7th Open Call)

Topic (9th Open Call)

Limara Haque

Description of Activities

My fellowship focuses on standardizing Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) for sustainable asset management, addressing gaps in digital asset representation, regulatory clarity, and ESG alignment. It supports innovation, transparency, and interoperability in tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), in line with EU priorities.
Current NFT-based RWA systems lack harmonised frameworks, causing fragmentation in asset tracking, legal recognition, and compliance. This hinders adoption across supply chains, carbon markets, and IP management. My project proposes a cross-industry standard to ensure interoperability, regulatory alignment, and lifecycle transparency.
In this sense, the there are two major priorities for this action, including:
Standardized Multi-Asset Tokenization that enables NFT-based tracking of physical, environmental, and intangible assets. It also enhances lifecycle transparency, supports the circular economy, and ensures blockchain interoperability.
Digital Product Passport (DPP) to align NFTs with DPP for end-to-end traceability, compliance, and ESG reporting.This strengthens supply chain transparency and EU circular economy goals.

The key Challenges related to my activity are:
Regulatory Uncertainty: Lack of clear NFT standards impedes legal and policy alignment. This initiative ensures conformity with EU law and ISO.
Adoption Barriers: Fragmented governance limits integration. Standardisation enhances technical and regulatory trust.
Sustainability Concerns: Energy-intensive DLTs are problematic. This activity promotes efficient models aligned with the Green Deal.

Consequently, this project positions Europe as a leader in NFT standardisation, fostering secure, compliant, and sustainable digital ecosystems.

Fellow's country

United Kingdom

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

My contribution to standardising NFTs for sustainable asset management directly benefits European SMEs and societies by enabling trustworthy, interoperable, and regulatory-compliant tokenisation of real-world assets. For SMEs, this ensures more straightforward access to tokenisation frameworks, reducing costs, risks, and compliance barriers when integrating NFTs into supply chains, intellectual property, and sustainability tracking. Standardisation also enhances digital product traceability, supporting SME participation in the EU’s Digital Product Passport (DPP) initiative.
This standard actively enhances SME inclusion and access to innovation. By creating standardised, easy-to-adopt models for NFT-based asset tracking and DPP compliance, I help lower barriers for SMEs to engage in the green and digital transition. These tools enable them to demonstrate environmental accountability, meet regulatory requirements, and participate in new markets with confidence.

Impact on SMEs (9th Open Call)

My contribution directly supports European SMEs by lowering the barriers to adoption of trusted digital tools for sustainability, traceability, and compliance. Through the standardisation of tokenisation frameworks (ISO PWI 25315), SMEs can more easily issue verifiable digital representations of their products and services, aligned with EU regulations such as the Digital Product Passport (DPP), CSRD, ESPR, and MiCA.
This enables SMEs to participate in data-driven value chains, prove ESG performance, access impact finance, and engage with global supply networks, without relying on costly proprietary platforms. The work promotes interoperability, inclusion, and compliance-by-design, giving SMEs a scalable way to enter the digital economy while staying aligned with European values of fair access, innovation, and transparency.

Impact on society (7th Open Call)

This work has a range of societal impacts by embedding ethical, inclusive, and sustainability-driven principles into the standardisation of NFT-based tokenisation. By advancing a modular framework for the tokenisation of multi-asset classes, including physical goods, environmental assets, and digital identity, I am contributing to a future where transparency, accountability, and accessibility are foundational features of digital economies.
One major societal impact is the promotion of climate-conscious digital infrastructure. Through my alignment with the EU Green Deal, ISO 14097, and CIRPASS2, I have advanced tokenisation models that enable lifecycle tracking, ESG reporting, and carbon footprint disclosures, empowering organisations and communities to make data-driven, sustainable choices.
Second, the integration of semantic interoperability and decentralised identity contributes to human-centred, rights-respecting digital governance. It allows individuals and communities to verify data, control asset provenance, and participate in decentralised systems with greater security and agency.
Finally, through my role in INATBA and ISO, I have championed cross-sector collaboration on social impact tokenisation, bridging technology with policy to ensure that standards reflect public interest and global equity. These efforts strengthen citizen trust, digital sovereignty, and the ethical deployment of blockchain infrastructure at scale.

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Organization

COO, Kron World S.L.

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Proposal Title (7th Open Call)

Standardizing NFTs for Sustainable Asset Management

Proposal Title (9th Open Call)

Tokenisation Standards for Sustainable Assets Management

Standards Development Organisation

CEN/CENELEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (7th Open Call)

Circular Economy including Digital Product Passport

Topic (9th Open Call)

Sergi Udina

Description of Activities

Regarding CEN/TC264/WG41, we are making hasty progress to a draft document early 2026 with the aim to issue a standard.

Fellow's country

E-Health, Healthy living and ageing

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (9th Open Call)

There are many European SMEs trying to tackle the challenge of air quality in different ways and environments. In general, SMEs have a harder time generating trust than large companies due to fewer resources in communication, the availability of reliable protocols, metrics and institutions to establish the quality of sensor systems is paramount to aid SMEs in building trust in their products. The trust wheel starts spinning with good protocols and standards, and this is what this work aims to do in both aspects for air pollutants and olfactory nuisances.

Impact on society (6th Open Call)

This activity contributes to the several societal changes, icnluding:
Improved evidence-based policy making by ensuring sensor data reliability.
Environmental awareness as a motor for environmental behaviour change by making air quality measurements affordable to a larger community.
At a large scale, healthier living in cities by improving the common awareness of the air quality of cities and possible mitigation actions.
More sustainable industrial activity by improving the knowledge about generated pollution and odour nuisances.
Improved data availability for scientific models, early warning and forecasting by ensuring larger availability with lower cost systems, with sufficient data quality and accuracy.
The possibility to enforce effective compliance regarding odorous emissions with improved, cost-effective methods.

Impact on society (8th Open Call)

This standardisation effort on air quality has several societal key impacts, including:
Improved evidence-based policy making by ensuring sensor data reliability.
Environmental awareness as a motor for environmental behaviour change by making air quality measurements affordable to a larger community.
At a large scale, healthier living in cities by improving the common awareness of the air quality of cities and possible mitigation actions.
More sustainable industrial activity by improving the knowledge about generated pollution and odour nuisances.
Improved data availability for scientific models, early warning and forecasting by ensuring larger availability with lower cost systems, with sufficient data quality and accuracy.
The possibility to enforce effective compliance regarding odorous emissions with improved, cost-effective methods.

Impact on society (9th Open Call)

These targeted standards enable improved evidence-based policy making by ensuring sensor data reliability. Environmental awareness as a motor for environmental behaviour change by making air quality measurements affordable to a larger community. At a large scale, healthier living in cities by improving the common awareness of the air quality of cities and possible mitigation actions.
Also, these standards prone more sustainable industrial activity by improving the knowledge about generated pollution and odour nuisances. On the other hand improved data availability for scientific models, early warning and forecasting, contribute to larger availability with lower cost systems, with sufficient data quality and accuracy.

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Organization

Bettair Cities

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Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

Contributions to QA/QC Standards for Air Quality Monitoring within CEN/TC264 Working Groups

Proposal Title (8th Open Call)

Towards standardization of air quality sensor systems

Proposal Title (9th Open Call)

Towards standardisation of air quality sensor systems

https://standards.cencenelec.eu/dyn/www/f?p=205%3A29%3A0%3A%3A%3A%3AFSP_ORG_ID%…

Standards Development Organisation

CEN

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

E-Health, Healthy living and ageing

Topic (6th Open Call)

Topic (9th Open Call)

E-Health

Antonio Pinheiro

Description of Activities

The quality evaluation has been instrumental for the success of JPEG standards, notably its first standard JPEG 1, JPEG 2000, or more recently JPEG XL.

Fellow's country

Portugal

Impact on SMEs (9th Open Call)

The JPEG standardisation on quality evaluation will have strong impact in the definition of future JPEG standardized solutions, also these standards are iinstrumental for Europeans SMEs in the field, like intoPIX. Also, JPEG is developing Standardised solutions with Prophese and Omnnivision.
In consequence, the development of this new standard is creating new business possibilities in the multimedia and its applications technological market based on the advances that result from the development. Notably, it is important to emphasise that the most active teams in the development of the JPEG standards are European groups that have been collaborating for its development.

Impact on society (6th Open Call)

The work carried out in our working group, has several direct societal impact,including:
Sustainable Growth - Digitisation of European Industry: As these techniques are very important for the future evolution of multimedia technology. Even if this models do not reach the general public, they are already used in specialized markets, like maintenance and health applications.
Sustainable Growth - Robotics and autonomous systems: Plenoptic models have been considered for instance for autonomous driving. Radiance Fields are technologies developed for robotic applications.
Key Enablers - Artificial Intelligence: Learning based solutions are currently being researched for data representation. JPEG AI and JPEG Pleno Learning based Point Cloud Coding are already two projects that use Learning based technology to enable data representation with very low bit rates . and also for Internet of Things (IoT): These models will provide reliable formats for the 3D description of the environment, which by its nature is of special importance fro IoT technology.

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Organization

niversidade da Beira Interior & Instituto de Telecomunicacoes

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Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

Contributions to JPEG Pleno and AIC Standardisation for Light and Radiance Fields

Proposal Title (9th Open Call)

Support of JPEG Calls for Proposals responses on Objectives Quality Assessment Evaluation

Standards Development Organisation

ISO/IEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Digitisation of European Industry

Topic (6th Open Call)

Topic (9th Open Call)

Digitisation of European Industry

Marzia Bolpagni

Description of Activities

CEN/TC 442 is leading the publication of standards on digital construction, also referred as “building information modelling” BIM.

Fellow's country

Italy

Open Call Topics

Construction building information modelling

Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)

The EU stakeholders will benefit from using a consistent application in projects to avoid waste of efforts. It will be a reference for EU manufactures in their product libraries to reach the right specification level of their products. EU SMEs will reduce time in creating their own specification as they can use something already available in the industry. In this way, they will be able to work across different countries, projects, and clients.
EU Private and public clients will more easily be able to define what information they require in a repeatable way. The EU supply chain will be facilitated in producing better quality information thanks to software applications that allow automated information delivery, including checking and validation of information delivered. With the vendor-neutral, interoperable data exchange standard, software developers are provided with equal access to the market, reducing vendor lock in and enabling fair competition.

Impact on SMEs (9th Open Call)

The EU stakeholders will benefit from using a consistent process in projects to avoid waste of efforts. European SMEs will reduce time in creating their own processes and specification as they can use something already available in the industry internationally, as the standards I contributed to are developed at CEN and ISO levels. In this way, they will be able to work across different countries, projects, and clients.
Furthermore, European private and public clients will more easily be able to identify who is responsible for information management in their organisation and to set requirements in a digital way for transparent and more effective processes. The EU supply chain will be facilitated in producing better quality information thanks to software applications that follow standardised procedures included in ISO 19650 standards during the entire project lifecycle.

Impact on society (9th Open Call)

While the construction sector is a key driver of the overall economy, it faces numerous challenges relating to, inter alia, competitiveness, labor shortage, resource efficiency and especially productivity. Digitalisation in construction is increasingly recognised as a game changer, which could contribute significantly to sustainable development within the European Green Deal and the ”Europe fit for digital age” priorities. My work dealt with BIM that is seen by the European Commission as the main solution to digitalization of the construction ecosystem, for all phases of the asset lifecycle: procurement, design, construction (including assembly), operation and maintenance

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Organization

BIMInternational, Mace

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Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

contribution to the development of the following three ICT standards: prCEN ISO/TS 7817-2, prEN ISO 7817-3 and UNI 11334-4 on the framework of the level of information needs when it comes to building information modelling (BIM)

Proposal Title (9th Open Call)

Information Management in Construction

https://standards.cencenelec.eu/dyn/www/f?p=205%3A7%3A0%3A%3A%3A%3AFSP_ORG_ID%3…

Role in SDO

chair

Standards Development Organisation

CEN

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Construction building information modelling

Topic (6th Open Call)

Topic (9th Open Call)

Construction building information modelling

Gill Whitney

Description of Activities

The standards being developed should cover the requirements of the full range of stakeholders (including users, affected bystanders and manufacturers etc) over the complete lifetime of the product.

Fellow's country

United Kingdom

Impact on SMEs (9th Open Call)

My contribution impacts in SMEs in a small but important way. The requirements of consumers with respect to how security information (such as updates or warnings) needs to be presented to end users in a clear, easy to understand and timely manner, without the use of unnecessary, unfamiliar terminology. Many SMEs will have access to or employ Cyber Security experts. They will therefore have similar requirements for information to be presented in a clear, useable, timely and concise way. I have referred to the issue of information to be presented in a useable way in a number of meetings. This is particularly relevant with respect to information impacting purchasing decisions or with reference to security updates.

Impact on society (6th Open Call)

Cybersecurity standards have traditionally focused on the operation of the hardware, software and firmware of the systems. The needs of the human elements have often not been fully considered and negative viewpoints are sometimes heard in cybersecurity standards meeting with respect to untrained and/or vulnerable consumers/end users. By considering and supporting the `human element’ in products with digital elements (an essential element), it is hoped to reduce the potential for harm to the system and also to reduce the harm to the end user. In particular improved communication should reduce the physiological harm caused to the end user when something goes wrong and they think it is their fault. Cybersecurity standards for digital systems can thus be seen to support vulnerable users and to acknowledge that all end users can be vulnerable in specific circumstances

Impact on society (9th Open Call)

My work supports ICT accessibility and digital skills. It did this by promoting the requirements of end users when these people were acting as part of a system involving the use of products with digital elements. These end users will include vulnerable end users. In these systems the end users will be involved in a range of set up and management activities with respect to the digital elements including choosing the products and their application, selecting and maintaining levels of Cybersecurity and making decisions on when the product has reached its end of life.
Products with digital elements include health monitoring and quality of life products which can improve the life and health of the end user, if they fail or become unsafe, they may impact the physical, sensory or cognitive health of the end user. If their operation becomes uncertain, they may cause stress, which impacts the cognitive health of the end user.
By supporting the end users to make sensible decisions when selecting or maintaining a product with digital elements, the followers of the relevant CRA standard will increase the digital skills of the end users. This can be achieved by enabling standards writers to create standards which consider the needs of all end users. The aim of this project was to assist the standard writers to do this.

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Organisation type

Organization

Independent Expert

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Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

Contribution to the modification of standards to facilitate their use by manufacturers and writers of associated vertical standards

Proposal Title (9th Open Call)

Using accessibility standards to increase the cybersecurity of the full range of consumers

Standards Development Organisation

ETSI

CEN/CENELEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Cybersecurity/Network and Information security

Topic (6th Open Call)

Topic (9th Open Call)

Accessibility of ICT products and services

Marios Angelopoulos

Description of Activities

My work in ITU addresses the priorities of the call pertaining to smart cities and communities, technologies and services for smart and efficient energy use, and citizen centric digital public services and EMC radiation.

Fellow's country

United Kingdom

Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)

The development of international standards will help provide SMEs, policy makers and regulators with common references thus helping overcome market barriers such as technology fragmentation, thus promoting market growth.

Impact on SMEs (9th Open Call)

ITU-T Q5/20 studies emerging technologies and active work items include topics of high-relevance to European market, such as Digital Product Passports. The development of international standards will help provide European SMEs, policy makers and regulators with common references thus helping overcome market barriers such as technology fragmentation, thus promoting market growth.

Impact on society (5th Open Call)

A clear trend is being formed of moving from vertical energy management that distributes energy in a wired, centralized manner towards more open and distributed architectures adopted close to the edge of the population networks, which among other technologies also utilize the wireless power potential. In this new paradigm, energy will be distributed, shared and managed locally, thus closing the distance between citizens and the available energy sources.

Impact on society (9th Open Call)

The work items of Question 5 of ITU-T Study Group 20 collectively support significant societal impact by advancing the integration of intelligent, sustainable, and transparent digital systems. The development of standards such as the Digital Product Passport for ICT goods (Y.DPP-ICT and YSTR.OS-DPP-ICT) promotes circular economy practices, enabling traceability, sustainability, and responsible consumption. Initiatives like Y.CIP enhance public safety through metaverse-based emergency response systems for chemical industrial parks, leveraging immersive technologies for disaster preparedness and risk management. Frameworks for distributed intelligent computing (YSTR.DIC) and embodied artificial intelligence (YSTR.EAI) contribute to the evolution of smart sustainable cities by enabling efficient resource utilization and human-centric automation. Meanwhile, the Hybrid AI-based Oral Assessment Platform (YSTR.AIOAP) reflects the application of ethical AI in education and skills evaluation. Together, these efforts foster safer, smarter, and more sustainable digital societies aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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Open Call

OC#5 2026

Government/Public Services

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Organization

Professor of Networked and Sensing Systems, Bournemouth University

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ANVUR

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Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

Leading the development of ITU standards for IoT and Metaverse in smart cities and communities

Proposal Title (9th Open Call)

Leading the development of ITU standards for IoT and Metaverse in smart cities and communities

Role in SDO

vice-chair

Standards Development Organisation

ITU-T

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Smart and Sustainable Cities

Topic (5th Open Call)

Topic (9th Open Call)

IoT Internet of Things

Javier Peris

Description of Activities

In this fellowship, the main priority focuses on helping organisations to drive innovation and technological transformation using the Centre of Excellence (CoE) as the best management mechanism in a context of a shortage of professional profiles with expertise in Artificial Intelligence and other disruptive technologies.

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