Periodic Reporting for period 2 - HSbooster.eu (Standardisation Booster for H2020 & HE research results)
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2023-04-01 al 2025-03-31
HSbooster.eu is a 36-month Coordination and Support Action that provided the European Standardisation Booster. The booster provided expert services to ongoing and completed H2020 and Horizon Europe projects to help them to increase and valorise project results by contributing to the creation or revision of standards.
Contributing to standards is often an objective of R&I projects. However, actually navigating the path to engage with standardisation working groups and technical committees can be complex and costly. This is where HSbooster.eu comes in. HSbooster.eu provided consultancy services to guide and support beneficiaries and consortia of R&I projects to make sure they take the right strategic approach and contribute efficiently to the standardisation process.
Services are delivered by 100 experts from the European and international standardisation community who are recruited by HSbooster.eu. They provided one-on-one guidance and support to projects to ensure they approach standardisation in the most strategic way.
Projects could apply quickly and simply through a continuously open call which addresses priority topics highlighted in the EC’s Standardisation Strategy including 5 high-level topics: Health, Reslience, Sustainable digitalization, Green transition, Smart cities and circular economy in buildings.
With standardisation so embedded in the EU single market and an essential ingredient of industrial competitiveness, HSbooster.eu can support European standardisation experts and projects to play their part in meeting the objectives of the EU Standardisation Strategy to make the EU standardisation system more functional, agile and effective.
Contributing to standards is often an objective of R&I projects. However, actually navigating the path to engage with standardisation working groups and technical committees can be complex and costly. This is where HSbooster.eu comes in. HSbooster.eu provided consultancy services to guide and support beneficiaries and consortia of R&I projects to make sure they take the right strategic approach and contribute efficiently to the standardisation process.
Services are delivered by 100 experts from the European and international standardisation community who are recruited by HSbooster.eu. They provided one-on-one guidance and support to projects to ensure they approach standardisation in the most strategic way.
Projects could apply quickly and simply through a continuously open call which addresses priority topics highlighted in the EC’s Standardisation Strategy including 5 high-level topics: Health, Reslience, Sustainable digitalization, Green transition, Smart cities and circular economy in buildings.
With standardisation so embedded in the EU single market and an essential ingredient of industrial competitiveness, HSbooster.eu can support European standardisation experts and projects to play their part in meeting the objectives of the EU Standardisation Strategy to make the EU standardisation system more functional, agile and effective.
HSbooster.eu piloted the first European Standardisation Booster. The booster has mobilised standardisation experts to guide hundreds of EU-funded projects and beneficiaries to valorise their results by contributing to the creation or revision of standards.
HSbooster.eu has worked to raise awareness of how contributing to standardisation can increase value of research results across different areas the EU's Work Programme. Through over 30 webinars and events, the publication of online resources such as the Standardisation Orientation Tool and a matrix of support services for projects at different stages of their lifecycle and with different levels of knowledge and expertise in standardisation, the project has helped shift the mindset of researchers and helped them to plan project standardisation strategies more efficiently.
Main achievements include:
Awareness: HSbooster.eu has provided 30+ awareness raising events and published 3 online tools This includes the Standards Orientation Tool for designing a standardisation strategy.
Mentoring: 300+ projects have received one-to-one/many mentoring from a community of 90+ approved standardised experts. Experts analyse needs, assess the landscape and provide practical advice on contributing to standardisation.
Funding: €30,000 has been distributed to projects to contribute to standardisation development and adoption. This includes the development of CEN Workshop Agreements.
Training: Our Standardisation Academy boasts 25 online modules, 15 webinars and even the Serious Smiley Game, a role-play game on participating at a standardisation meeting. All materials have been designed specifically for the EU project community.
Standards Catalogue HSBooster.eu contributes to various key areas with significant engagement: Smart Cities and Circular Economy in Buildings: 48, Resilience: 79, Health: 83, Green Transition in Europe: 115, Sustainable Digitalisation: 264, and Featuring top-level representation from leading Standards SDOs, including ISO, CEN, CENELEC, and ETSI, providing 700 standardisation resources to support projects.
The Future: As the pilot comes to an end in March 2025, HSbooster.eu provides a tried and tested framework of services, a community of approved experts and a range of tools and resources and training material to scale up the support to EU-projects to sustain and enhance the link between research and standardisation domains in Europe and a growing community of experienced experts
HSbooster.eu has worked to raise awareness of how contributing to standardisation can increase value of research results across different areas the EU's Work Programme. Through over 30 webinars and events, the publication of online resources such as the Standardisation Orientation Tool and a matrix of support services for projects at different stages of their lifecycle and with different levels of knowledge and expertise in standardisation, the project has helped shift the mindset of researchers and helped them to plan project standardisation strategies more efficiently.
Main achievements include:
Awareness: HSbooster.eu has provided 30+ awareness raising events and published 3 online tools This includes the Standards Orientation Tool for designing a standardisation strategy.
Mentoring: 300+ projects have received one-to-one/many mentoring from a community of 90+ approved standardised experts. Experts analyse needs, assess the landscape and provide practical advice on contributing to standardisation.
Funding: €30,000 has been distributed to projects to contribute to standardisation development and adoption. This includes the development of CEN Workshop Agreements.
Training: Our Standardisation Academy boasts 25 online modules, 15 webinars and even the Serious Smiley Game, a role-play game on participating at a standardisation meeting. All materials have been designed specifically for the EU project community.
Standards Catalogue HSBooster.eu contributes to various key areas with significant engagement: Smart Cities and Circular Economy in Buildings: 48, Resilience: 79, Health: 83, Green Transition in Europe: 115, Sustainable Digitalisation: 264, and Featuring top-level representation from leading Standards SDOs, including ISO, CEN, CENELEC, and ETSI, providing 700 standardisation resources to support projects.
The Future: As the pilot comes to an end in March 2025, HSbooster.eu provides a tried and tested framework of services, a community of approved experts and a range of tools and resources and training material to scale up the support to EU-projects to sustain and enhance the link between research and standardisation domains in Europe and a growing community of experienced experts
As a summary the project can supply the following statistics and show the impact it has had across a number of services, demonstrating the vast amount of work and involvement it had during its three years : 250+ automated services, 118 proactive services, and 196 premium services including longer one-to-one consultancies, deep dive workshop services (8) and CWA agreement services (3). The project has engaged 204 experts, 92 of whom have successfully delivered services, and attracted 600+ participants across five proactive webinars. Additionally, the online training academy has recorded 5,226 page views, with 15 expert contributions in collaboration with 6 SDOs through a series of webinars. Registered experts are linked with participating projects to provide tailored guidance on standards within their specific domains, while the projects benefit from fast, free, and automated online standards information services.
HSbooster.eu has identified eight exploitable results that are considered in this exploitation and sustainability report:
• HSbooster.eu platform (website & SOP)
• Premium Services
• Deep Dive Webinars
• Standardisation Orientation Tool
• HSbooster.eu Standards Catalogue
• Training Sessions (Webinars)
• Training Courses
• The Serious Smiley Game
HSbooster.eu has identified eight exploitable results that are considered in this exploitation and sustainability report:
• HSbooster.eu platform (website & SOP)
• Premium Services
• Deep Dive Webinars
• Standardisation Orientation Tool
• HSbooster.eu Standards Catalogue
• Training Sessions (Webinars)
• Training Courses
• The Serious Smiley Game