Report

This report summarises the key discussions and outcomes of the 2026 Seminar on Human Rights and ICT Standardisation. It explains why human rights are becoming a core part of ICT standards, showcases concrete initiatives already underway, and highlights the actions still needed to embed fundamental rights into the development of digital technologies.

The CEN/TC 465 Ad hoc Group on Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities and Communities was established to accelerate the integration of sustainability and digitalisation in Europe’s urban areas. Supporting the EU’s 2050 climate-neutrality objective, the group brought together experts from policy, industry, research, and local governments to translate high-level EU ambitions into concrete standardisation pathways.

This report provides an immersion to outcomes of the StandICT.eu 2023 Open Call #7 from the perspective of fellows that were selected and funded under this call. Our team is delighted to showcase the seventh series of StandICT.eu 2023 success stories of the funded fellowships detailing the addressed standards and landscapes, how these will fill in the identified gaps as well as impact the related stakeholders and society.

In the beginning years of the evolution of the semantic web and linked data, ontology engineering made steady progress through academic efforts to support the semantic web stack. The admission of Ontology and Graphs in the “hype cycle” by Gartner’s report in 2020 not only indicated its closeness to maturity but also highlighted that Ontology is finally being accepted as a practical solution for many ICT applications.

This report entitled: “Future Standardisation Education Reflections and Recommendations“ is an outcome of the StandICT.eu online event which took place on the 18th January 2023, which organised this intense 3 hour workshop at a crucial time when the European Green Deal & the New Industrial Strategy for Europe as well as the geopolitical environment call for a strong European presence in international standardisation development.

Policymaking has always revolved around the initiative to solve problems and since the start of more focused research on it, it contained many stages from problem identification and agenda setting to policy formulation, legitimization, implementation and evaluation. As policymaking evolved and societal challenges became more complex, policymakers tried to include more factors into the decision-making process and thus data driven policymaking became an important tool in this field.

We are extremely proud to publish this fourth issue of our ‘Following the Fellows’ series which once more bears testimony to the palpable impact generated by European ICT experts within international Standardisation Developing Organisations’ Working Groups, thanks to financial support provided through the StandICT.eu 2023 Fellowship Programme, to the tune of three million Euro delivered over a set of 9 Open Calls as part of the broader mission of the  StandICT.eu 2023 Coordination and Support Action, funded by the European Commission’

We are extremely proud to publish this fifth issue of our ‘Following the Fellows’ series which once more bears testimony to the palpable impact generated by European ICT experts within international Standardisation Developing Organisations’ Working Groups, thanks to financial support provided through the StandICT.eu 2023 Fellowship Programme, to the tune of three million Euro delivered over a set of 9 Open Calls as part of the broader mission of the  StandICT.eu 2023 Coordination and Support Action, funded by the E

Digital Twins represent one of the most novel and promising  concepts within the general trend of digital transformation. They are a distinctly 21^st century invention. The term is attributed to Prof. Michael Grieves of the University of Michigan in 2002, and the approach was adopted in particular by NASA around 2010. The concept has proved very powerful and has now been universally used across domains, and yet we have only scratched the surface of what they can or should do.

Europeans must find ways to sustain European innovative businesses to seek ways to commercialize standards and bring them into new value chains. Standards allows us to go cross boundaries, to fuse together nature-based solutions, this is why innovation in the climate domain is critical to enable the creation of a genuine design of the ecosystem so profoundly important in today’s digital driven society. Global standardisation has traditionally thrived from open, bottom-up member contributions.

We are extremely proud to publish this third issue of our ‘Following the Fellows’ series which once more bears testimony to the palpable impact generated by European ICT experts within international Standardisation Developing Organisations’ Working Groups, thanks to financial support provided through the StandICT.eu 2023 Fellowship Programme, to the tune of three million Euro delivered over a set of 9 Open Calls as part of the broader mission of the  StandICT.eu 2023 Coordination and Support Action, funded by the European Commission’s