Booster Guide for Expert

Introduction

Welcome to HSbooster.eu 2’s expert consultancy service, tailored specifically for standardisation professionals like you. Your expertise is invaluable in guiding EU and nationally funded projects through the complex world of standardisation, ensuring their research aligns with the most relevant standards and achieves maximum market impact. This factsheet provides a comprehensive guide to the consultancy process, ensuring a seamless collaboration between you and the projects you'll be assisting.

Becoming a Consultant

If you have a deep knowledge of standardisation and are eager to share your insights with EU-funded or national projects, HSbooster.eu 2 is your ideal platform. Your expertise will be pivotal for research and innovation projects, ensuring their results are in sync with current standards and are integrated into the relevant standardisation groups or committees.

To join our expert pool, simply submit your application for our Open Call. Keeping your profile updated ensures we can best match you with projects that align with your expertise.

After the application

Once you've applied, we'll conduct an eligibility check to ensure your expertise aligns with our needs. We may consider your experience in standardisation, topic knowledge and participation in standardisation activities. This will make us better equipped to ensure that we can match you to appropriate projects when applications from projects are received. Upon successful verification, you'll receive a confirmation from HSbooster.eu 2.

Subsequently, our team will guide you through administrative procedures, including contract details and remuneration. An introductory briefing will be scheduled to familiarise you with the process. As soon as a project matching your expertise emerges, and you're available, the consultancy journey begins.

Consultancy Service

As a consultant, you'll provide invaluable insights on various standardisation-related aspects of research projects. Your role is to support projects, ensuring they can effectively engage with standardisation processes and achieve tangible results.

Types of Consultancy Offered

The types of consultancy you could be asked to provide include, as an example:

  • Standardisation Mapping: Identify and assess standards relevant to the project.

  • Suggestions on Deliverables or Strategy: Offer recommendations for future standardisation activities.

  • Understanding Standardisation: Explain the intricacies of standardisation, including development and adoption.

  • Training Materials: Provide resources related to standardisation processes, including those available in the HSbooster.eu Training Academy

  • Engaging with SDOs or TCs/WGs: Guide projects on interacting with relevant standardisation bodies.

  • Accelerate pathways to standardisation: In a second phase, selected projects that have completed the Mentoring Service and demonstrate clear standardisation potential may be invited to access the Accelerator Service. This advanced support will be delivered by a subset of EPE experts specifically trained by the HSbooster.eu II consortium, with the aim of helping projects move towards more concrete engagement, contribution or uptake within the relevant standardisation ecosystem.

    • Support new proposals preparation: Selected EPE experts may support proposal teams in identifying relevant standards, standardisation bodies, technical committees and policy priorities, and in defining a credible standardisation approach within the project concept. The aim is to help applicants integrate standardisation more effectively from the proposal stage, strengthening the expected impact, exploitation potential and alignment of the planned research and innovation activities with relevant European and international standardisation pathways..
    Deep Dive Workshops: Organise a series of approximately three events focussed on presenting and discussing standardisation topics within a specific field. These workshops are tailored for a cluster of projects operating in the selected area, offering an in-depth exploration and dialogue platform to enhance understanding and collaboration on standardisation efforts.

  • Your Role and Commitment

    The consultancy is designed to be efficient and targeted, with services structured to maximise impact within a concise timeframe. Here's an overview of the timing for each service:

    • Estimated effort by the expert: The mentoring service requires 3 full working days spread over 3 months, including up to 4 calls with the project. This approach ensures focussed support and guidance. If a project requires a longer timeframe, custom arrangements can be negotiated. The Accelerator service requires approximately 7.5 working days, while the proposal support requires approximately 1 working day. Each working day is fixed at 8 hours.

    • Possibility to request additional services

      It's important to note that the HSbooster Consultancy Service is modular. Therefore, projects may, in principle, apply for more than one HSbooster.eu II service where this is justified by their needs and maturity level. However, priority will be given to projects that have not previously received support, in order to ensure broad access to the services and maximise the reach of HSbooster.eu II across the research and innovation community..

      Output and Confidentiality

      At the end of your consultancy, you'll compile a summary report detailing meetings, activities, and recommendations. It is recommended that you start working on the report as soon as the service starts and that you keep the platform updated with all the dates of meetings planned or held and with all relevant information. While the final activity report is confidential, it may be accessed by selected HSbooster 2 team members, EC representatives and the External Advisory Group members for quality check reasons. These individuals will not disseminate the report.

      Accessing the Platform

      To access the HSbooster Consultancy Service platform, please follow these steps:

      Promotion and Recognition

      Your successful consultancy may be highlighted on the HSbooster 2 website, showcasing your expertise and the positive impact you've made on a project. This not only elevates your professional profile but also serves as a testament to the value you bring to the standardisation community. Moreover, your profile will be made visible on a dedicated page on our website if you agree to this during the application process.

      Please feel free to contact the HSbooster 2 team for further assistance or if you have any questions. We are excited to collaborate with you and support your project's standardisation goals.

      Additional Interview Opportunity

      Selected experts may be given the chance to engage in a further interview and discussion with expert members from our External Advisory Group. This provides you an avenue to delve deeper into your experience with the project and discuss the most interesting aspects of your consultancy.

      Contact Information

      Website: www.hsbooster.eu

      Email: info@hsbooster.eu