2026

Circular Economy including Digital Product Passport

Paul Lesbre

Description of Activities

Co-founder of a circular economy startup developing infrastructure for DPP-enabled resale in the European textile sector, based in Berlin. Leading business development, regulatory strategy, and product design for a platform that enables verified resale through Digital Product Passports. The startup is incubated at ESCP Blue Factory.

French national with experience in business development and technology. Self-taught technical skills in product prototyping and data systems. Previous experience includes roles in consulting and business analysis.

Beyond this project: Active in the European circular economy ecosystem. Relocating to Paris in May 2026 to continue building at the intersection of sustainability regulation and commerce technology.

Country

France

Fellow's country

France

Open Call Topics

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Paul Lesbre

Open Call

OC#1 2029

Organisation type

CEN/CENELEC JTC 24 Digitalization of Products and Services

Organization

Realign

Organization website

Realign

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Standards Development Organisation

CEN/CENELEC

StandICT.eu Year

2029

Year

Mateusz Zych

Description of Activities

The fellowship addressed key limitations found in version 2.0 of the OASIS Collaborative Automated Course of Action Operations (CACAO) standard. While CACAO v2.0 introduced the first machine-readable format for cybersecurity playbooks, real-world use revealed gaps that limited interoperability and automation. The most critical issues included ambiguous schema elements, unclear execution semantics, and limited support for graphical and modular representations needed to visualize and exchange playbooks. From a European standpoint, these shortcomings directly affected operations. SOCs, CSIRTs, and critical infrastructure operators faced difficulties creating executable playbooks, hindering the coordinated responses envisioned by the NIS2 Directive, the Cyber Solidarity Act, and the EU Cyber Crisis Blueprint.

The fellowship, therefore, focused on three main goals:
1. Consolidating feedback from European and international stakeholders who implemented CACAO v2.0.
2. Designing and drafting CACAO v3.0 — a major revision introducing structural schema improvements, more precise execution semantics, and modular extensibility.
3. Aligning the work with EU cybersecurity policy and operational priorities so that standardized, machine-readable playbooks can support coordinated preparedness and response.

The effort resulted in the ongoing working CACAO v3.0 Draft Specification and accompanying validation outputs, now progressing toward formal adoption within OASIS. By resolving the main technical and semantic issues, the fellowship strengthened Europe’s role in cybersecurity standardization. It established a solid, vendor-neutral foundation for automated, collaborative cyber defense across the EU.

Country

Norway

Impact on SMEs (9th Open Call)

The development of CACAO v3.0 directly benefits European SMEs by reducing technical and financial barriers to adopting advanced cybersecurity practices. The standard’s open and vendor-neutral design allows smaller organizations to integrate automated playbooks into their operations without relying on costly, proprietary tools. This strengthens their incident response capabilities and helps them meet the security and reporting obligations set out in the NIS2 Directive and the Cyber Solidarity Act.
Beyond SMEs, CACAO v3.0 enhances resilience across European digital infrastructure by enabling harmonized, machine-readable playbooks that support faster, coordinated responses to incidents affecting critical services such as energy, healthcare, and public administration.

Impact on society (9th Open Call)

The fellowship directly supports Europe’s goals for cyber resilience, digital sovereignty, and trust in critical infrastructure. By improving CACAO’s technical maturity and usability, the work enables more organizations—especially SMEs and public-sector entities—to adopt standardized, automated cybersecurity playbooks without reliance on proprietary technologies.

The resulting CACAO v3.0, with better schematics and semantics specification, offers easier, more coordinated responses to cyber incidents, reducing disruption to essential services such as healthcare, energy, and transport. It also reinforces cross-border cooperation and preparedness through machine-readable, reusable response procedures, enabling Member States and operators of essential services to collaborate under shared frameworks like NIS2 and the Cyber Solidarity Act.

Ultimately, this work enhances Europe’s capacity to defend against complex threats while fostering open collaboration, transparency, and interoperability—key enablers of a secure and digitally independent European society

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Organisation type

Organization

University of Oslo

Organization website

University of Oslo

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Proposal Title (9th Open Call)

CACAO v3.0: Enhancing Interoperable Cybersecurity Playbooks for EU-wide Response

OASIS TCS CACAO

Standards Development Organisation

OASIS

StandICT.eu Year

2026

2029

Year

Topic (9th Open Call)

Jan Veneman

Country

Switzerland

Open Call Topics

Robotics and autonomous systems

Impact on SMEs (8th Open Call)

Europe hosts a vibrant ecosystem of start-ups and SMEs developing rehabilitation robots - systems that support relearning functional movement after neurological injury or disease. Under the EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR), manufacturers must demonstrate compliance with the state of the art for safety and performance. For devices within scope, IEC 80601-2-78 has become the key benchmark for basic safety and essential performance of rehabilitation robots. Following publication of the first edition (2019), the joint working group initiated a second edition revision to incorporate early implementation feedback and advances in technology. As this revision progresses toward Committee Draft closure, small manufacturers can expect clearer, more practicable requirements, reducing ambiguity in design inputs, verification planning, and conformity assessment. In parallel, IEC 60601-4-1 (Technical Report) provides a shared framework to characterize and manage degrees of autonomy in medical electrical equipment and systems. current development practices with where general safety requirements are heading.
Overall, these initiatives close critical gaps for European SMEs by clarifying expectations around robotic and AI-enabled rehabilitation devices, helping them accelerate safe market access, contain compliance costs, and remain competitive across EU and global markets.

Impact on society (8th Open Call)

Rehabilitation robotics are among the earliest real-world uses of medical robots and have paved the way for broader adoption of robotics and AI in healthcare and daily living environments with vulnerable users. Clear, harmonised safety requirements and reproducible test methods
are essential - not only to protect patients and clinicians, but also to give manufacturers and providers the confidence to deploy these technologies responsibly. By codifying “state-of the-art” expectations, the standards framework enables innovation while safeguarding users.
Societal benefits enabled by robust standards include:
Patient safety and dignity: Defined limits, fail-safe behaviours, and human–robot interaction requirements reduce the risk of harm and ensure predictable performance in rehabilitation settings.
Healthcare access: Standardised safety/performance criteria help scale high-quality therapy beyond specialised centres, supporting adoption in regional hospitals and community care.
Clinician support and quality of care: Reliable, well-tested systems can deliver high-dose, repeatable training while reducing therapist physical strain, freeing time for complex clinical tasks.
Public trust and uptake: Transparent, consensus-based requirements underpin procurement, reimbursement, and clinical guidelines—building societal confidence in robotic care.
Innovation with accountability: Clear targets shorten development cycles, lower compliance ambiguity for SMEs, and focus competition on outcomes and usability rather than ad-hoc safety interpretations.
The degree-of-autonomy guidance further generalises these protections to any medical product using robotic or AI technologies. By providing a common language for autonomy levels and the associated safety controls and human oversight, it supports ethically aligned, trustworthy deployment of AI-enabled medical devices across care pathways, from clinics to homes.

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Open Call

OC#8 2026

OC#1 2029

Organisation type

SMEs

Organization

Hocoma Medical GmbH

Organization website

Hocoma Medical GmbH

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Proposal Title (8th Open Call)

Participation in IEC TC 62/SC 62D/JWG 35/36 and TC 62/SC 62A/JWG 9 (Medical Robots and Medical AI)

Standards Development Organisation

IEC

StandICT.eu Year

2029

Year

Topic (8th Open Call)

Daniel Waszkiewicz

Description of Activities

My work aims to develop robust frameworks for the verification of cryptographic protocols within the security of ICT products, services, and processes, thereby enhancing resilience against cyber threats.

Fellow's country

Poland

Open Call Topics

Government/Public Services

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

Ensuring that protocols are rigorously verified according to standardised methodologies could, at least partly, lower the financial barriers for SMEs to enter the certification market, as the consistent and reliable verification of protocols would streamline the certification of more complex systems.

Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)

By implementing rigorous, standardized verification methods, the overall efficiency of the certification process would improve. This would, to some extent, lower financial entry barriers for SMEs in the certification market, as consistent and dependable protocol verification would simplify the certification of more intricate systems.

Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)

A unified approach to the verification of cryptographic protocols within cybersecurity certification schemes could significantly reduce the costs and workload associated with certifying composite products or services. By ensuring that protocols are rigorously verified using standardized methodologies, the overall efficiency of the certification process would improve. This could, at least in part, lower the financial barriers for SMEs to enter the certification market, as consistent and reliable verification of protocols would streamline the certification of more complex systems.

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

My work is centred on creating robust frameworks for verifying cryptographic protocols within ICT products, services, and processes, ultimately strengthening resilience against cyber threats.

Impact on society (5th Open Call)

In the broader European context, my fellowship is poised to have a significant impact on cybersecurity practices, aligning with the objectives set forth by the Cybersecurity Act (CSA) and advancing European interests in bolstering digital security.

Impact on society (6th Open Call)

My primary focus is on developing standardized verification methodologies for cryptographic protocols, which play a key role in enhancing cybersecurity practices across Europe. I am working on creating robust frameworks for verifying these protocols within ICT products, services, and processes, ultimately contributing to greater resilience against cyber threats.
The Cybersecurity Act (CSA) promotes the use of certification as an effective cybersecurity tool that can be applied consistently across Member States without creating unnecessary administrative burdens. Previously, products or services certified in one country often had to undergo similar procedures again when different national requirements were in place.
With the introduction of the European Cybersecurity Certification (EUCC) scheme, however, certificates issued under this framework will be legally recognized across all Member States once the corresponding Implementing Act is in force. This harmonization is essential for reducing duplicated efforts, saving time and resources, and ensuring consistent cybersecurity standards throughout Europe.

Impact on society (7th Open Call)

Open Call

Organisation type

Organization

Cryptography specialist, National Institute of Telecommunications

Organization website

Cryptography specialist, National Institute of Telecommunications

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Proposal Title (4th Open Call)

Developing ISO/IEC 29128 parts 2 and 3

Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

Progressing ISO/IEC 29128 parts 2 and 3

Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

Advancing ISO/IEC 29128 parts 2 and 3

Proposal Title (7th Open Call)

Advancing ISO/IEC 29128 parts 2 and 3

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection

Standards Development Organisation

ISO/IEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

2029

Year

2025

Topic (4th Open Call)

Topic (5th Open Call)

Topic (7th Open Call)

Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies

Panos Kudumakis

Description of Activities

This project, towards enabling a fairer marketplace for rights holders and remuneration of authors and performers, initiated work on a new standard ISO/IEC 23000-23 Decentralised Media Rights Application Format currently at the Working Draft (WD) stage.

Fellow's country

United Kingdom

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (2nd Open Call)

Effective IP rights management in the digital environment is key to support the competitiveness of creative SMEs. Thus, creative SMEs need to be empowered to make better decisions and deploy more advanced solutions based on insights gleaned from data.

Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)

EU Digital Single Market Copyright Directive aims to facilitate a fairer marketplace for rights holders. Effective IP rights management in the digital environment is key to support the competitiveness of creative SMEs. ISO/IEC 21000-23 Smart Contracts for Media supported by rich semantic copyright models can be handy when data-based decisions need to be derived by evidence and logic, leading to new business models that can be efficiently deployed on decentralised digital media platforms. Moreover, the interoperability of such platforms is addressed by ISO/IEC 23000-23 Decentralised Media Rights Application Format which building around DLT-agnostic ISO/IEC 21000-23 Smart Contracts for Media has the potential to unlock the Semantic Web and in turn the creative economy. The latter is not only one of the most rapidly growing sectors of the world economy, but also a highly transformative one in terms of income-generation, job creation, export earnings, quality of life and social cohesion.

Impact on society (2nd Open Call)

ISO/IEC 23000-23 Decentralised Media Rights Application Format building around DLT-agnostic ISO/IEC 21000-23 Smart Contracts for Media has the potential to unlock both the Semantic Web and in turn the creative economy.

Impact on society (8th Open Call)

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Organisation type

Senior Advisor, Independent Consultant

Organization

Senior Advisor, Independent Consultant

Organization website

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Proposal Title (2nd Open Call)

Advancing ISO/IEC 23000-23 Decentralised Media Rights Application Format

Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

ISO/IEC 21000-23 and 23000-23: New Standards for Interoperability and Transparency of Rights in Digital Media

Proposal Title (8th Open Call)

The challenge of rewarding human creativity in the AI era

Working Draft of ISO/IEC 23000-23

https://www.iso.org/committee/45316.html

Role in SDO

chair

Standards Development Organisation

ISO/IEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies

Topic (2nd Open Call)

Topic (6th Open Call)

Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies

Amelie Gyrard

Description of Activities

The objective of this fellowship is to include European contributions on viable methodologies on semantic interoperability in ISO standards: ISO SC41 IoT and Digital Twin, with a focus on practical use cases in the domains of health/well-being.

Fellow's country

France

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

Trialog is a SME so we are directly impacted by my contribution. Trialog was the coordinator of the ACCRA H2020 project (robots for ageing), which is now finished. We follow up with standard activities on robotics. In addition, the standards under consideration will benefit all the Smart Robotics and Internet of Robotic Things ecosystem, including SMEs. SME can develop tools and applications compliant with those standards.

Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)

Trialog is a SME so we are directly impacted by my contribution. Trialog was the coordinator of the ACCRA H2020 project (robots for ageing) which is now finished. We follow up with standard activities on robotics. In addition, the standards under consideration will benefit all the Smart Robotics and Internet of Robotic Things ecosystem, including SMEs. SME can develop tools, applications compliant with those standards.

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

Trialog is a SME so we are directly impacted by my contribution. In addition, the standards under consideration will benefit all the Smart Health and IoT ecosystem, including SMEs. SME can develop tools, applications compliant with those standards.

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

Accelerating the use of digital twins, as the existence of the semantic repository allows the digital twin to manage semantics while the physical twin is managing data. This methodology will ensure a consistent continuum between the physical twin and the digital twin.

Impact on society (6th Open Call)

The following impacts are identified at a general level:
The Internet of Things (IoT) addresses many societal challenges including climate change, resource and energy efficiency and ageing.
In the emerging IoT economy, voluntary global standards can accelerate adoption, drive competition, and enable cost-effective introduction of new technologies.
Standardisation facilitates the interoperability, compatibility, reliability, security and efficiency of operations on a global scale among different technical solutions, stimulating industry innovation and providing greater clarity to technology evolution.
Interoperability between IoT networks operated by different companies along the value chain opens up opportunities to address EU Policy objectives, e.g. greater resource efficiency for a more circular economy, sustainable and responsible supply chains through transparency and traceability, and others

Impact on society (7th Open Call)

The number of connected devices is expected to exceed 20 billion by 2020. This market will be fostered by proper interoperability standards. Europe is strong in IoT innovation and has made significant technical contributions (AIOTI) including in some specific standardization contexts. AIOTI now has a recognized presence at the ISO level, and it is now key to concretize this presence so that European innovation is well represented.

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Organisation type

Standard for Ontology Reasoning on Multiple Robots

Organization

Principal Research & Innovation Consultant, Trialog

Organization website

Trialog

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Proposal Title (3rd Open Call)

IoT Semantic Interoperability for stress management, good health and well-being

Proposal Title (4th Open Call)

IoT Semantic Interoperability for Internet of Robotic Things

Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

IoT Semantic Interoperability for Active Assisted Living with robots for enhanced well-being

Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

Contribution to the standardization of IoT Interoperability by ensuring integration of SAREF

Proposal Title (7th Open Call)

IoT Semantic Interoperability for health informatics and well-being

ISO/IEC AWI 30197

https://www.iec.ch/ords/f?p=103%3A194%3A81398259398%3A%3A%3A%3AFSP_ORG_ID%2CFSP…

ISO/IEC JTC1 Information technology/WG11 Smart cities

Standards Development Organisation

ISO

IEEE

IEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (3rd Open Call)

IoT Internet of Things

Topic (4th Open Call)

IoT Internet of Things

Topic (5th Open Call)

Topic (6th Open Call)

IoT Internet of Things

Topic (7th Open Call)

Data Economy

Piercosma Bisconti Lucidi

Description of Activities

With this fellowship, I am addressing the standardisation of AI systems, with particular focus on the standardisation request of the EU Commission in relation to the AI Act.

Fellow's country

Italy

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (3rd Open Call)

The AI Trustworthiness Framework will serve as an entry point for industries and SMEs in order to facilitate this process, fostering conformity and facilitating industry competitiveness.

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

The AI Trustworthiness Framework will serve as an entry point for industries and SMEs in order to facilitate this process, fostering conformity and facilitating industry competitiveness.

Impact on SMEs (5th Open Call)

Industries and SMEs in the EU are facilitated in adopting standards. One of the main barriers for standard adoption is the complexity of the standardisation processes. In order to claim conformity, multiple requirements coming from multiple standards should be met. The AI Trustworthiness Framework will serve as an entry point for industries and SMEs in order to facilitate this process, fostering conformity and facilitating industry competitiveness.

Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)

The framework simplifies compliance by serving as a single reference point for multiple obligations under the AI Act. This helps SMEs adopt standards more easily, reducing barriers and supporting competitiveness through clearer, harmonized guidance.

Impact on society (3rd Open Call)

The AI Trustworthiness Framework will reinforce social trust in AI systems, by providing companies, consumers and ultimately citizens with a clear understanding of the fundamental requirements for trustworthy AI.

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

Impact on society (5th Open Call)

Trustworthiness fosters social acceptance. One of the outstanding barriers in the deployment of innovative technologies is social acceptance. This barrier damages both the economic benefits and the social benefits of designing innovative AI systems. The AI Trustworthiness Framework will reinforce social trust in AI systems, by providing companies, consumers and ultimately citizens with a clear understanding of the fundamental requirements for trustworthy AI.

Impact on society (6th Open Call)

By clarifying what makes AI trustworthy and aligning it with EU values, the project increases public trust and supports responsible innovation. It also helps make ethics a professional role, reinforcing societal oversight over AI technologies.

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Organisation type

Organization

Researcher in AI Ethics, Co-Founder of DEXAI – Artificial Ethics, Italian Interuniversity Consortium for Computer Science

Organization website

DEXAI

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Proposal Title (3rd Open Call)

Building trustworthiness for artificial intelligence

Proposal Title (4th Open Call)

Building trustworthiness for artificial intelligence

Proposal Title (5th Open Call)

The AI Trustworthiness Framework - delivering a harmonized standard for the EU AI Act

Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

development of the AI Trustworthiness Framework within CEN-CENELEC JTC21 WG4 and supports ISO/IEC work on human oversight.

Role in SDO

chair

Standards Development Organisation

CEN/CENELEC

ISO/IEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

2029

Year

Topic (3rd Open Call)

Topic (5th Open Call)

Topic (6th Open Call)

Karim Tobich

Description of Activities

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

Country

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Fellow's country

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 SMEs (8th Open Call)

Semiconductor and chip technologies are usually defined and created by large organizations. Nevertheless, European SMEs can be also impacted as those are usually the incubators for new technologies before expanding or getting bought by large organizations.

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.

Impact on society (8th Open Call)

The fellowship enables meeting the European strategy on Chips act and bolster Europe’s competitiveness and resilience in semiconductor technologies and applications, and help achieve both the digital and green transition. In addition it allows for increased convergence of standardisation makers’ efforts achieving EU policy goals by providing a common standard when it comes to EU and international SDO and reducing time for adoption. Developing and providing such standards to organisations allow them to implement the EU values and policies in an easy manner

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