Open Call 4

In StandICT.eu 2029, supporting and promoting the involvement of ICT standardisation experts in SDOs at a global level is pivotal. 
For this reason, standICT will recruit and enroll experts through 6 different Open Calls, each one running for 60 days. 

Priority topics for Open Call 4

For Open Call 4, the following priority topics have been identified:

• Applications on Data economy, Cloud and Edge Computing, Data Interoperability, in particular those contributing to the implementation of the Data Act and to the work of the Minimum Interoperability Mechanisms (MIMs), contributing to the following SDOs: ETSI TC DATA, CEN/CLC JTC25, ISO/IEC JTC1 SC38, ITU-T SG20.

Possible Topics

Applications should focus on the topics taken from the Multi-Stakeholder Platform Rolling Plan for ICT Standardisation, namely:

FOUNDATIONAL DRIVERS

• Data economy
• Cybersecurity / network and information security
• ePrivacy

KEY ENABLERS

• 5G and beyond
• Cloud and edge computing
• Data interoperability
• Internet of Things
• Electronic identification and trust services including e-signatures
• e-Infrastructures for data and computing intensive science and the European Open Science Cloud
• Broadband infrastructure mapping
• Accessibility of ICT products and services
• Artificial Intelligence
• European Global Navigation Satellite System (EGNSS)
• Quantum Technologies

SOCIETAL CHALLENGES    

• Digital health, healthy living and ageing
• Digital skills
• Digital learning
• eGovernment
• eCall
• Pandemic preparedness
• Safety, transparency and due process online
• Emergency communications and public warning systems

INNOVATION FOR THE DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET

• e-Procurement – pre- and post award
• e-Invoicing
• Retail Payments
• Preservation of digital cinema
• Fintech and Regtech Standardisation
• Blockchain and Distributed Digital Ledger Technologies
• Web 4.0 and virtual worlds
• Media        

SUSTAINABLE GROWTH 

• Smart grids and smart metering
• Smart and sustainable cities and communities
• ICT Environmental impact
• European Electronic Toll Service (EETS)
• Intelligent Transport Systems - Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (ITS-CCAM) and Electromobility
• Digitisation of European Industry
• Robotics and autonomous systems
• Construction - building information modelling
• Water Management Digitalisation
• Single European Sky
• U-space
• Circular economy and sustainability

Application Guidelines

Check the guidelines here

How to access the New Grants Platform