Impact 1: Identify EU ICT standardisation priority areas and propose EU intervention
STANDICT.eu has conducted regular monitoring of priority technologies and topics, comparing those signalled by the Rolling Plan, EC requests and insights from the EAG. Key findings have fed into the 4 OCs organised so far by the project.
Impact 2: Increase impact of EU priorities on international ICT standardisation
STANDICT.eu plays a key role in boosting the impacts of standardisation from an EU perspective, by enabling experienced and new technology specialists to become active players in the standards-making process. The cascading grants give opportunities to network with peers and high-level specialists, sustain contributions after the end of project funding.
Impact 3: Establish a sustainable facility to support and increase participation of European standardisation specialists in international ICT standardisation activities
A central scope of StandICT.eu was to implement a transparent, robust, user-friendly, easily maintainable platform for sustaining the participation of European specialists to international ICT standardisation activities. This goal has been successfully achieved already from the 1st call (March 2018). All in all, the StandICT.eu platform constitutes a solid foundation on which to generate impact in 2019 and to build the sustainability path envisaged for the initiative.
Impact 4: Ensure timely contributions to international standardisation activities
Stakeholder workshops, particularly ETSI Security Week and ICT2018, have underscored the need to overcome the current defragmentation of international standards, remove outdated standards and replace them with updated standards for ICT and cyber. STANDICT.eu has already ensured that the financial incentive and the industrial competitiveness are key milestones to build on the momentum gained in year one.
Impact 5: Establish synergies with relevant EU and nationally funded initiatives
STANDICT.eu draws on its networks and EAG members to prioritise the setting-up of synergies with relevant EU and nationally funded initiatives.
Impact 6: Draft a strategy for consolidation of standards and improvement of SDOs’ and SSOs’ cooperation.
STANDICT.eu has gained fresh insights into the evolving standards landscape through its stakeholder engagement, links to EU and international SDOs and SSOs, and through the EAG. These insights form the foundations for on-going work towards facilitating greater cooperation across standardisation organisations. This includes key insights to avoid overlapping of work and fragmentation, encouraging greater awareness and focused dialogue on complementary families of standards to address the diverse requirements of ICT sectors.
Impact 7: Reduce the gap between SDOs, SSOs and open source communities
STANDICT.eu has established links across all major SDOs and SSOs in Europe and globally, drawing on connections established through partner networks, the EAG and related work being carried out in partner and other EU projects.
Impact 8: Set-up and maintain a website for accessing up-to-date information on ongoing standardisation for the five priority areas.
www.standict.eu is designed to offer fresh insights on ICT standardisation and key benefits, such as updates from SDOs and SSOs, inputs from the EAG, including a showcase, information about the external experts (EPE). The website complements regular communications on STANDICT.eu LinkedIn and Twitter.
