How Standardisation can Boost Research and Innovation Results in Europe

Thursday 24 October 2024, 09:00-14:00 CEST

Event co-organised with STAND4EU

On 24th October 2024, from 9:00 to 14:00 CEST at TownHall Europe in Brussels join us for the final STAND4EU event, co-organised with HSbooster.eu. Discover how connecting research and innovation with standardisation can significantly enhance R&I results across Europe.

This event is a unique opportunity to engage with research projects and standardisation experts. Participants will share their experiences, discuss common challenges, and explore innovative solutions to bridge the gap between research and real-world application.

Background

The European Standardisation Strategy highlights the need to engage researchers and innovators in the standardisation process and incorporating relevant research findings into new and updated standards to support the market uptake of new technologies.

The EU funded projects HSbooster.eu and STAND4EU aim at connecting research with standardisation. Over the past two years, the HS Booster project has piloted a service-based facility designed to help European projects valorise their results by contributing to the creation or revision of standards. At the same time, the STAND4EU project has identified the bottlenecks and obstacles hindering standardisation efforts and developed a remediation plan. Both projects are currently working on their final recommendations with HSbooster.eu closing in March 2025 and STAND4EU in October 2024. Additionally, the European Standardisation Panel Survey, launched in 2023, looked at the demand from industry and other stakeholders for standards as potential results of R & I projects and put forward recommendations related to research and innovation.

This event will offer an opportunity to present the draft recommendations from these projects and engage in a discussion with the High-Level Forum to ensure a closer link between research, innovation, and standardisation. Attendees will also have the chance to share experiences from research projects and standardisation experts regarding the contribution of research to standardisation, as well as to discuss obstacles and potential solutions.

The ultimate goal is to formulate joint recommendations to be endorsed by the High-Level Forum, promoting a unified approach to better integrate research outcomes into standardisation efforts.

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Preliminary Agenda

09:00 - 09:30	Welcome and Introduction Connecting research and standardisation: EU policies for enhanced impact Kirsi HAAVISTO, Head of unit, DG RTD, Valorisation policies and IPR Introduction of STAND4EU and HSbooster: cooperation and synergies Rafael AFONSO, Stand4EU project coordinator, EWF Nick Ferguson, HSbooster coordinator, COMMpla
09:30 - 10:30	Linking Research and Standardisation Moderator: Maitane Olabarria, SBS Presentation: STAND4EU: bottlenecks and key recommendations Ismail ÜNSAL, FhG IGCV Roundtable discussion: What are the key findings and recommendations from other initiatives? How aligned are they? Knut Blind, European Standardisation Panel ISO representative HS Booster representative Gergely Tardos, DG RTD
10:30 - 11:15	Available resources to foster Research and Standardisation Collaboration Moderator: Clarissa GONZÁLEZ, Chalmers University of Technology Presentation: The STAND4EU portal Rafael AFONSO, STAND4EU project coordinator, EWF Roundtable discussion: What are the needs? What other resources are available? Nick Ferguson, HSbooster coordinator, COMMpla Rafael Afonso, STAND4EU project coordinator, EWF Sebastian Vogel, CEN-CENELEC representative Claire Desclercs, ETSI Director for Membership Development and Education?
11:15 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30	Findings and experiences from the support to EU research project on standardisation activities Moderator: Nick Ferguson, COMMpla & HSbooster coordinator Presentation: Success stories from STAND4EU and HSBooster: a view from projects supported by these initiatives Rafael AFONSO, STAND4EU project coordinator, EWF Roundtable discussion: What is the experience from the side of technical committees and from research projects? Project representative, MULTHEM project Project representative, HSbooster Sebastian Vogel, CEN-CENELEC representative ISO representative (TBC)
12:30 - 13:15	Boosting research and standardisation in the future Moderator: FhG IPA (Confirm with Olga) Presentation: Future Activities of STAND4EU Roundtable discussion: The way forward Mattias Bergdahl, DG GROW, Deputy Head of Unit, Standardisation policy or DG (TBC) DG RTD representative, Kirsi HAAVISTO (TBC) Sebastian Vogel, CEN-CENELEC representative HSBooster representative (Emilia Tantar) Project Officer or Colleague (TBC)
13:15 - 14:15	Network Lunch