2026

Electronic identification and trust services (including e-signature)

Topic (8th Open Call)

IoT Internet of Things

Paolo Campegiani

Country

Italy

Fellow's country

Italy

Open Call Topics

E-Government

Impact on SMEs (8th Open Call)

Europe is developing its decentralized identity system (European Digital Identity Wallet - EUDIW). Many companies and citizens in Europe will adopt EUDIW; therefore, a standard that supports interoperability will facilitate the use of credentials, stored in the wallet, outside of Europe.

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OC#8 2026

ISO 23042 - Reference Architecture for DLT-based decentralised identity systems.

Organisation type

SMEs

Organization

Bit4id

Organization website

Bit4id

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Proposal Title (8th Open Call)

ISO 23042 - Decentralised identity management

Standards Development Organisation

StandICT.eu Year

2026

2029

Year

Electronic identification and trust services (including e-signature)

Topic (8th Open Call)

Aleksandr Tiulkanov

Country

France

Fellow's country

France

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (8th Open Call)

This activity has significant impacts on AI standardization and European interests, notably related to the facilitated EU AI Act Compliance, as there will be a more clear alignment between standards and regulatory requirements will simplify compliance processes for organizations.Also, this allows reduced compliance costs and efforts, particularly beneficial for SMEs and startups in the AI sector.

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OC#8 2026

Organisation type

Organization

Responsible Innovations

Organization website

Responsible Innovations

Personal website

Responsible Innovations

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Proposal Title (8th Open Call)

Enhancing AI Risk Management and QMS Standards for EU AI Act regulatory purposes in CEN/CENELEC

Standards Development Organisation

CEN/CENELEC

ISO/IEC

Topic

Artificial Intelligence

StandICT.eu Year

2029

Year

Topic (8th Open Call)

Jutta Breyer

Country

Spain

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (8th Open Call)

Digital and ICT Professional skills performance play a vital role for the European economy and society, and dedicated EU reference standards are essential. SME’s form the backbone of the economy in Europe, with almost two-thirds of employees in the EU working for an SME. SMEs often struggle with digital transformation and the optimal use of AI due to limited resources. Clear references and frameworks for skills and roles requirements for the digital and AI domain can be an essential aid for small and medium-sized enterprises when planning, recruiting and developing staff. The standards also provide the common language needed to interact with education providers and policy makers to understand and raise awareness on SME specific skills needs dealing with AI and digital more in general as well as with other specific technologies, and to find from there efficient and effective ways to get the right staff.

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OC#8 2026

OC#2 2029

Organisation type

CWA 18398 "AI Professional Role Profiles"

Organization

Breyer Publico SL

Organization website

Breyer Publico SL

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Proposal Title (8th Open Call)

AI, Quantum: Common Eu Standards For Ict Professional Skilling Across Technologies & Sub-Domains

Proposal Title

AI, Quantum: Common Eu Standards For Ict Professional Skilling Across Technologies & Sub-Domains

Role in SDO

Standards Development Organisation

CEN

Topic

Artificial Intelligence

StandICT.eu Year

2029

Year

Topic (8th Open Call)

Monika Heyder

Country

Germany

Fellow's country

Germany

Open Call Topics

LSE School of Public Policy

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

The work supports the better integration and alignment of two key European ambitions under the Green Deal: becoming climate-neutral and advancing digital transformation. Our local and regional governments (LRG) are at the heart of this transformation. LRGs are responsible for organizing the topic of smart cities in spin-offs, and LRGs are the places that use our society.Also, our goal is to build and consolidate synergies with existing European initiatives, programs, and platforms focused on advancing climate-neutral and smart cities.Such as , engagement with ClimateView that is a Stockholm-based climate tech SME founded in 2018. The company provides ClimateOS, a software platform that supports municipal governments in planning, modeling, monitoring, and financing climate-neutral and smart city transitions.

Impact on society (7th Open Call)

The work supported the societal impact of standardisation by helping to anchor the twin transitions, digital and climate, in the real needs of cities and communities, where societal change is most visible and immediate. Cities are the spaces where challenges are experienced firsthand and where solutions must be effectively implemented. By strengthening their involvement in the standardisation process, we ensure that the resulting standards are not only technically sound but also socially relevant and fit for purpose. Local knowledge is essential for identifying practical needs and streamlining resources, enabling standards that deliver real value and promote efficiency. This approach also strengthens Europe’s global leadership by aligning strategic innovation with on-the-ground implementation.

The continued and active participation of representatives from associations, cities, and communities underscored the strong interest in and perceived relevance of this work to address pressing challenges. Beyond the core topics of digitalisation and climate change, we also addressed issues such as procurement, nature-based solutions, and the nature-positive economy. A representative from the Tiliria Region (Cyprus) highlighted the importance of recognising and integrating historical knowledge as a distinct asset for addressing energy and water shortages and building more resilient societies. Inspired by these debates, the Cypriot Mirror Committee will launch a new standardisation project to develop a standardised Climate City Contract for Cyprus, which will serve cities and communities in creating broad coalitions and help address climate change more systematically.

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Organisation type

Organization

LSE School of Public Policy

Organization website

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Proposal Title (7th Open Call)

CEN/TC 465 Ad hoc Group “Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities

ISO/TC 268 Sustainable cities and communities

Role in SDO

chair

Standards Development Organisation

CEN

StandICT.eu Year

2026

2029

Year

Topic (7th Open Call)

University of Naples Federico II

Angela Sara Cacciapuoti

Fellow's country

Italy

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

A key challenge in building the Quantum Internet is integrating different qubit technologies, each with its own strengths and limitations, since no single qubit platform can fulfill all the requirements for storage, processing, and communication simultaneously. Indeed, both the scientific and industrial communities widely agree that the Quantum Internet will likely rely on superconducting qubits for information processing while flying qubits will be used to distribute entangled states across network nodes.
Indeed, on one hand, superconducting circuits are adopted for quantum computation because of their capabilities to realize fast gates and their high scalability. These benefits come at the price of operating at cryogenic temperatures, which in turn challenge the development of large-scale quantum networks. On the other hand, optical photons are recognized as quantum carriers to fulfill communication needs, as they enable high-rate, low-loss transmission and can be easily controlled using standard optical components. However, the main challenge underlining the interaction between these two technologies lies in the huge gap between their operating frequencies: optical photons work at hundreds of terahertz while superconducting circuits at a few GHz.
Therefore, it is mandatory to realize a matter-flying interface, namely a quantum transducer, performing quantum transduction to enable the interaction among different qubit platforms. This interface must convert one type of qubit to another and be compatible with the characteristics of the physical channels used for flying qubits, including optical fibers and free-space optical links.
In this project, we present quantum transduction from a communication perspective, by shedding the light on its fundamental role within quantum network design and deployment.

Impact on society (7th Open Call)

From a European perspective, the expected impact is twofold. Firstly, it aims at catalyzing innovation by providing a foundational framework upon which diverse quantum technologies can be developed and integrated. Secondly, it will reinforce Europe’s strategic position in the global quantum race, ensuring that European standards and best practices shape the future of quantum communications. This will facilitate ensuring that its values and regulations are embedded in the next generation of Internet infrastructure.

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Angela Sara Cacciapuoti

Open Call

OC#7 2026

OC#2 2029

Organisation type

Academia/Research

Organization

University of Naples Federico II

Organization website

Personal website

Angela Sara Cacciapuoti

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Enabling Interfaces: Towards the Standardization of matter-flying Transducers

Quantum-Native Architectural Tenets and Philosophy for the Quantum Internet

Quantum Internet Research Group QIRG

Standards Development Organisation

IETF

Topic

Quantum Technology

StandICT.eu Year

2029

Year

Topic (7th Open Call)

Quantum Technologies

Debora Comparin

Country

France

Fellow's country

France

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

This standard responds to some requirements outlined in the European Union eIDAS2 regulation and will be implemented by European SMEs and societies active in the EU digital ID wallet ecosystem regulated by eIDAS.

Impact on society (7th Open Call)

The primary gap being addressed is the lack of standardized interfaces for Authentic Sources in the European Digital Identity (EUDI) ecosystem. Despite the legal requirement set out in eIDAS 2.0 (Article 45e) for Authentic Sources to provide such interfaces, there is currently no available specification that defines how these interfaces should be designed or implemented. This gap has been officially recognized in the CEN TC224 WG20 “European Digital Identity Wallets Standards Gap Analysis” and significantly impedes interoperability across Member States.

This fellowship contributes to the enhancement of the ITU-T X.1281 standard, the project supports the creation of secure, trusted, and interoperable mechanisms for verifying attributes from Authentic Sources. This is crucial for the deployment of the EUDI Wallet, a flagship initiative under the Digital Single Market strategy aiming to be available to all EU citizens and residents by 2026.
The key challenges are related to:
Interoperability: The lack of standardization leads to fragmented implementations across Member States, impeding seamless cross-border operations.
Security and Trust: Verifying sensitive personal attributes (like diplomas or driving licenses) requires secure, privacy-preserving, and auditable mechanisms that are hard to implement consistently without a shared standard.
Legal and Technical Fragmentation: Authentic Sources vary widely across jurisdictions in terms of legal frameworks, data models, and technical capacities. A harmonized standard must respect these national differences while ensuring a unified operational framework at the EU level.

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Debora Comparin

Open Call

OC#7 2026

Not for Profit Organisation

Organisation type

Organization

Secure Identity Alliance

Organization website

Secure Identity Alliance

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Developing Standardized Interfaces for Authentic Sources in the European Digital Identity Ecosystem

Standards Development Organisation

ITU-T

ITU

Topic

Artificial Intelligence

StandICT.eu Year

2026

2029

Year

Electronic identification and trust services (including e-signature)

Topic (7th Open Call)

Luis Moran Abad

Description of Activities

I focus on the development of a new standard Work Model type (Technical Specification) that facilitates the consolidation, integration, and implementation of requirements, helping organisations comply with AI laws, regulations, and standards more effectively. The objective is to guide and support organisations on how to meet the multiple requirements imposed by laws, regulations, and standards on AI-based systems. The initiative will not create new requirements but will provide assistance and guidance to organisations on how to consolidate, integrate, implement and audit different sources of requirements

Fellow's country

Spain

Open Call Topics

CTN 71/SC 40 - Gestión de servicios de TI y Gobierno de TI

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

The AI-Compliance initiative aims to develop a new standard to help European organisations, especially SMEs, comply with complex AI-related laws, regulations and standards. This new standard will be especially valuable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) because these organisations often lack the internal resources, specialised staff, and structured processes necessary to implement regulatory environments.
SMEs frequently struggle to interpret legal and technical requirements, allocate time for implementation, and ensure ongoing adherence. A practical standard would provide a clear framework for implementation reducing the cost and effort of compliance.

Impact on SMEs (9th Open Call)

European small organisations (SMEs) and very small organisations (VSMEs) do not have the experts or economic resources to hire specialised AI consultants on compliance, so they must postpone the application of AI in their businesses. This generates a new delay in their innovation gap. The main opportunity for SMEs-VSMEs is their incorporation to a future AI-Compliance collectives: sectorial cluster type, laboratory of a City Hall and other potential movements of knowledge collectivisation.
Creating a standard to guide organisations and SMEs to facilitate compliance for AI implementations reduce the risk of sanctions by regulatory authorities and facilitates confidence that the use being made of AI systems is ethical, moral and legal.

Impact on society (7th Open Call)

The European Union can push its values and ethics in AI without fear of crippling economic development by having a new standard to help with regulatory compliance. For the EU, it is primarily about finding ways to seize the opportunities offered by AI in a way that is human-centred, ethical, safe and consistent with our core values as Europeans.

Impact on society (9th Open Call)

A new standard supports consolidating, integrating and optimising regulatory requirements and make compliance audits more efficient will be essential for the development of AI in Europe, and thus of European industry and welfare. This new standard will enable European organisations to leverage the full potential of AI while ensuring compliance with the various mandatory requirements. In doing so, this standard will enhance the competitiveness of European organisations.

In this way, the new standard will open the door to the competitiveness of European organisations by making AI compliance more efficient. The pillars of the new guidelines standard are:
Converting different regulations and standards into a cloud of requirements.
Consolidate and integrate these requirements into a specific set.
To make the implementation of requirements more efficient.
Reduce the cost and organisational effort of regulation compliance.
Guidance on the management of specific requirements implementation projects.
Reduce and optimise the number of internal and external audits.
My fellowship also contributed to the development of working methodologies in organisations aligned with the objectives of the European AI Office and its ‘Regulation and Compliance’ Unit.

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Organization website

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Proposal Title (7th Open Call)

AI-Compliance: Artificial Intelligence Compliance Enabler new standard Guidelines and Work Model

Proposal Title (9th Open Call)

AI-Compliance: Proof of Concept and Refinement of the AI compliance guidelines standard

Standards Development Organisation

UNE

Topic

Artificial Intelligence

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

2025

Topic (7th Open Call)

Topic (9th Open Call)

Luca Nannini

Description of Activities

My fellowship addresses three critical gaps in the European AI standardization landscape: The first gap concerns the harmonisation of Documentation Development, as there is an urgent need for technical documentation (Annex ZA, HAS checklists) to connect developing standards with AI Act requirements following the M/593 request. Without this work, standards risk delayed OJEU citation, creating regulatory uncertainty. I've worked on developing preliminary harmonization documents for JT021008 (Trustworthiness), JT021039 (QMS), and JT021024 (Risk Management). The second gap is related to cross-Standard Technical Coherence. As multiple AI standards are developed simultaneously, it creates potential inconsistencies in terminology, requirements, and implementation approaches. I've created mapping documents highlighting interconnections between standards, particularly focusing on how QMS requirements interface with other M/593 standards, to ensure a coherent framework. The third gap focuses on the alignment with EU AI Act Articles, as technical specifications in draft standards must precisely align with AI Act articles to support regulatory compliance. I have contributed targeted technical refinements to clauses 6.4 (transparency) and 6.5 (human oversight) in the Trustworthiness Framework to strengthen alignment with Articles 13 and 14 of the AI Act.

Fellow's country

Spain

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

I believe that this work helps reduce compliance uncertainty and costs for SMEs. Technical coherence across the standards framework simplifies implementation for organizations with limited resources. My contributions to the QMS standard particularly focus on ensuring requirements are scalable and accessible to SMEs developing AI systems (i.e. being able to show SMEs how standard interrelating is valuable and would solve burdens related to understanding how requirements across different standards flow).

Impact on SMEs (9th Open Call)

The editorial leadership of EN AI Trustworthiness Framework Part II directly supports European SMEs through Articles 62-63 AI Act provisions for SME assistance. The standard provides SMEs with clear, pre-endorsed technical specifications for meeting AI Act accuracy and robustness requirements, reducing compliance costs and legal uncertainty. The harmonization documentation coordinated through editorial work enables SMEs to achieve presumption of conformity through standardized approaches rather than expensive individual assessments.

Impact on society (7th Open Call)

The work on the AI Trustworthiness Framework (particularly enhancing requirements for transparency and human oversight) ensures standards effectively support the protection of fundamental rights as required by the AI Act. This strengthens societal safeguards against potential harms from AI systems.

Impact on society (9th Open Call)

I can see several societal impacts with the engaged standadisation activities:
AI Accuracy and Robustness Standards: As Editor of EN AI Trustworthiness Framework Part II, my work directly supports European citizens' rights to accurate and robust AI systems. The standard establishes technical requirements ensuring AI systems deployed across the EU meet rigorous accuracy standards and maintain performance across operational conditions, protecting citizens from unreliable algorithmic decision-making in high-risk contexts.
SME Innovation Ecosystem: The editorial leadership through N1106 coordination enables European SMEs to compete effectively in AI markets by providing clear compliance pathways rather than costly regulatory uncertainty. This supports innovation while ensuring responsible AI deployment protecting European citizens.
European Leadership in Global AI Governance: The editorial role positions European values-based approaches to AI accuracy and robustness for global influence. The framework embeds principles of reliability, trustworthiness, and accountability into technical specifications that influence international AI standardization discussions.
Consumer Protection Framework: The cross-WG coordination through N1106 ensures AI standards address consumer concerns around system reliability, performance consistency, and safety while remaining technically implementable. This balance protects European consumers while supporting technological advancement and maintaining Europe's competitive position in global AI markets.

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Organisation type

CEN/CLC/JTC 21/WG 4 - Foundational and societal aspects

Organization

Piccadilly Labs

Organization website

Website

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Proposal Title (7th Open Call)

Technical Contributions to WG2 & WG4's Draft Standards through Annex ZA and hEN Checklists

Proposal Title (9th Open Call)

Co-editing AI Trustworthiness Framework prEN 18229 and coordinating across JTC21 Working Groups

Standards Development Organisation

CEN/CENELEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

2029

Year

2025

Topic (7th Open Call)

Topic (9th Open Call)

Web 4.0 and virtual worlds

Torbjörn Lahrin

Description of Activities

Local Digital Twins will be a fundamental building block for CitiVerse. It will also play a crucial role for anyone in the public sector who wants to fully utilize the usage of AI.
Today, cities, regions and countries all over the world are building Local Digital Twins using various tools and approaches. Game engines, CAD tools, GIS, AR/VR/XR tools, Urban Digital Platforms, CIM and other visualisation tools are used. Thus a wide spread of technologies and standards.
Interoperability for Local Digital Twins (LTD) is crucial. They need to fit horizontally and vertically. Horizontally is to put a LDT of one city next to a LDT of another city and make them align. Vertically, by example, a LDT produced by a city must fit LDT from public transportation and LDT by the energy company for the same geographical area, etc.

European CitiVerse will be built upon Local Digital Twins. If separate Local Digital Twins in Europe don't fit together it will be impossible to create a seamless CitiVerse. It will also be difficult with interoperability between LDT:s. The LDT also needs interoperability versus dataspaces and IoT. For a LDT:s to be useful for officials and others, LDT:s need interoperability with the business operating systems used by officials on a daily basis.

In this sense, in the framework of my fellowship, my JWG has sent a survey to many major LDT projects around the world, and we are now gathering the results and statistics. The result will be a gap analysis and a technical report, which will enable advice to all relevant major SDO:s on how to develop or change their standards to fit better together.

Country

Sweden

Fellow's country

Sweden

Open Call Topics

IoT Internet of Things

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

Investing in Local Digital Twins and CitiVerse is today rather challenging. All technologies for creating LDT:s or CitiVerse have their strengths and weaknesses. Any investment made today is therefore associated with a rather high degradation of uncertainty. Still, the SME:s and Europe must invest already now in these technologies to have a chance to be “on the train” and ahead in the competition. However, this also comes with a large risk that European SME:s and, in the broader scope, the European societies to some extent might find themselves investing in the “wrong” direction with techniques and methods that will not be long lasting.
To know what other actors are doing all around the world will help stakeholders to navigate and to invest in “right” directions with long term safer investments. Once we get an international reference architecture for LDT:s in place this will give even more security for those parties following the international standard.

Impact on SMEs (9th Open Call)

Investing in Metaverse and CitiVerse is today rather challenging. All technologies for creating Metaverse, CitiVerse and underlaying Local Digital Twins have strengths and weaknesses. Such investments are therefore associated with a rather high degrade of uncertainty. Still, the SME:s and European societies must invest already now in these technologies to have a chance to be “on the train” and ahead in the competition. Also for implementing various parts of CitiVerse related to EU calls. However, this come with a large risk investing in the “wrong” direction with technique and methods that will not be long lasting.
Because of this European SMEs and societies will benefit from the creation and coordination of standards for Metaverse. They will also benefit from gaining knowledge about the international standardization, as such knowledge will help SME:s and societies of Europe to navigate and to invest in “right” directions with long term safer investments.

Impact on society (9th Open Call)

The work is laying the foundation for uniting the world in how to build Local Digital Twins (Urban Digital Twins and City Information Modelling) and how to make these interoperable with each other both horizontal, vertical and towards underlaying data sets and daily operation systems of cities and other authorities. It is also paving the road for how Local Digital Twins can be used as the foundation for building CitiVerse.

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Organization

Lahrin i Hajstorp AB

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Proposal Title (3rd Open Call)

JWG between ISO/IEC JTC1 and IEC/SyC Smart Cities on Local Digital Twins

Proposal Title (7th Open Call)

GAP Analysis, Reference Architecture and Ontology for Local Digital Twins

Proposal Title (9th Open Call)

JTC1 CG2 - Strategic Coordination Group on Metaverse

Gap analysis, reference architecture and ontology for local digital twins

SyC Smart Cities

Role in SDO

Standards Development Organisation

ISO/IEC

IEC

StandICT.eu Year

2026

2029

Year

2025

Topic (3rd Open Call)

Web 4.0 and virtual worlds

Topic (7th Open Call)

Topic (9th Open Call)

Web 4.0 and virtual worlds

Caroline Thomas

Description of Activities

The priority aims to support the development of European and international standards for DLT/blockchain technologies to ensure transparency in sustainable financing. This contribution brings together the financial, reporting and new technologies to address the gaps between these three sectors.
The challenge for sustainable finance is to minimise the risk of 'greenwashing’ and provide better reporting for the Sustainability sector, ESG investment and Net Zero climate goals and new EU Reporting regulations.
It includes standards development to combine blockchain/DLT Use Cases reflecting sustainable solutions, while the sustainable finance standards cover Terminology and reporting guidelines, and the financial services consider digital currencies and tokenisation.

This contribution aligns with the European Standardisation initiatives, including the effective delivery of ESG investment strategy and Net Zero climate goals, along with the new EU Climate and Sustainable Reporting legislation in 2024 /2025.

Fellow's country

Greece

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (1st Open Call)

Many of the proposed use case contributions continue to spring from our outreach to European experts within SDOs, companies and SMEs. The ISO/TC 307 WG6 programme provides an active forum for SMEs to: - Contribute and discuss EU technical initiatives on emerging international standards representing European values, ethics & regulations such as privacy (e.g.: privacy - GDPR/ eIDAS) and European green transition initiatives (e.g.: EBSI blockchain to create trusted digital audit trails). - SMEs can gain the opportunity to understand the value of standards, via example use cases and models. The use cases provide insights and cross-domain example that can inform SMEs in their product development, and adoption of their technologies. - Review international use cases and gain insights for EU participation in local markets, or in cross-border /sector issues. - The Vienna Agreement enables ISO standards to be freely shared with CEN/CENELEC members, including SMEs.

Impact on SMEs (3rd Open Call)

This contribution has a wide impact for European SMEs. One example is where in my role as Convenor of ISO/TC307 WG6 Use Cases, we invite international SME experts to get involved in regulatory and standards development processes by sharing their insights and creating use cases into emerging technologies. This approach can enable faster adoption of their business and technical models, and for European SMEs, who create perspectives consistent with EU regulations and societies, such as privacy (GDPR, AI Act) and sustainability (Net Zero and ESG). (See section 2.1) In the lead-up to the ISO/TC 307 Plenary on 4 June 2024, we have gathered 10+ SMEs to showcase and present leading DLT solutions from SMEs, plus involvement in multiple SDO and entrepreneur events including Blockchain Ireland, INABTA etc.

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

The contribution impacts European SMEs and/or European societies and decision-makers on a high level by developing technical standards in DLT/Blockchain that reflect European democratic values including. - E-Privacy: EU Artificial Intelligence Act, new Data Act, GDPR - Fintech and Def: MiCA crypto - Sustainable initiatives: carbon markets, smart energy - Interoperable platforms: EBSI, digital product passports Moreover, I see two major impacts with SMEs. Firstly, international standards enable faster technical adoption for SMEs, as ISO standards provide ‘templates’ of technical systems and guidelines, that provide a baseline for SMEs to build their own solutions that are interoperable and lower risk for potential partners/investors. Secondly, SME are involved in standards development: The use case methodology in ISO/TC 307 WG6 is based on active outreach to SMEs who are pioneering new DLT capabilities. They provide contributions to the standards through ISO/TC 307 WG6 and ongoing external business events.

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

This contribution brings together the financial, reporting and new technologies that impact European societies, and bring opportunities for SME innovation. Examples include:
Climate resilience: Extreme weather events across Europe and globally in 2024/25 saw a seismic shift in climate impacts on societies. B/DLT technologies provides a track record of immutable data sources to help historical measures and help European societies and governments to plan for future climate resilience.
New technologies: The accelerating shift in global tech eg: AI and crypto-currencies, is setting revolutionary opportunities and challenges to European laws, ethics and societies. B/DLT enables immutability, trust in distributed systems and change management in mass data storage.
New Regulations: New standards in Terminology and B/DLT technologies contribute to the new EU Sustainable Reporting legislations, by providing ESG traceability eg: accurate carbon emissions for businesses.

Impact on society (1st Open Call)

The DLT/Blockchain technology is often referred to as ‘the technology of trust’. This ISO feature on my work at ISO/TC 307 and WG6 Use Cases explains the societal impacts of trust across supply chains, digital trust, data provenance, Energy trading, records management, Anti-counterfeit pharma and food safety and provenance. Over recent years, blockchain has evolved into a transformational technology promising to offer secure, real-time transactions across different sectors and industries that will revolutionise the way we do business. ISO is at the forefront of this technology to ensure that its users all speak the same language.

Impact on society (3rd Open Call)

This work sources use cases that can support societal impacts across international priorities such as Net Zero goals for climate change. They can support European values, democracy, and human rights based on European societal regulations including: - Privacy: new Data Act, GDPR - Fintech and Defi: MiCA crypto regulations - Sustainable initiatives: carbon markets - Interoperable platforms: EBSI, digital passports, - And in 2024 the EU Artificial Intelligence Act

Impact on society (9th Open Call)

This new work is necessary to address the urgent shift in international technology advances, such as AI. tokenisation and crypto-currencies, that may provide potential challenges to European laws, ethics and societies. Standards can provide trust in an environment of AI-generated fake news.
For example, the work on ISO/AWI 24982 Digital currencies — Vocabulary helps define a common international language for business and societies, to create an interoperable financial system in digital currencies. Or the work on — ISO/WD TS 32219 Sustainable Finance — Terminology helps define a common international language for business and societies, across these regulations and business reporting.
This Standards work in blockchain and DLT can help inform businesses, SMEs and societies by providing insights in guidelines to enable adoption, trust and scale in their businesses and networks.

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Organisation type

ISO/TC 307 Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies

Organization

ISO

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Proposal Title (1st Open Call)

Develop scope and emerging requirements for new DLT and blockchain use-cases standards

Proposal Title (3rd Open Call)

Develop use cases to inform new standards development in DLT & blockchain technologies

Proposal Title (4th Open Call)

Develop an ISO Technical Report standard on innovative new & emerging DLT/Blockchain Use Cases

Proposal Title (7th Open Call)

Standards development in blockchain and DLT that contribute to Sustainability

Proposal Title (9th Open Call)

Standards development in blockchain and DLT and finance that contribute to Sustainability

Role in SDO

Standards Development Organisation

Topic

Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies

StandICT.eu Year

2026

Year

Topic (1st Open Call)

Topic (3rd Open Call)

Topic (4th Open Call)

Topic (7th Open Call)

Topic (9th Open Call)

Jerome Pons

Description of Activities

The objective of this contribution was to design a taxonomy of decentralised identifier and identity terms for further integration into ISO/TC307 works developed by AHG5 and JWG4.
My fellowship was key to address the gap between worldwide blockchain and DLT standards in the fields of identifier and identity management, especially between ISO/TC307, ITU-T and W3C while including some European-led reference documents (i.e. EBSI, eSSIF-Lab and INATBA glossaries).
The main challenge was reaching consensus between ISO/TC307 working groups (especially AHG5 and JWG4) to support the revision of ISO/TS 23258:2021 in order to integrate a taxonomy of decentrFralised identifier and identity terms.

Country

France

Fellow's country

France

Open Call Topics

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

As European SMEs are subject to stronger regulation (e.g. eIDAS, GDPR, Copyright), harmonising terminologies, taxonomies and architectures in worldwide standards is key to avoid their fragmentation between international (e.g. ISO, W3C), European (e.g. CEN-CENELEC) and national standards (e.g. UNE, AFNOR).
Harmonising decentralised identifier and identity terminologies and taxonomies is key at ISO/TC307 and CEN-CENELEC/JTC19 before they are derived in European regulation (initially eIDAS2) and infrastructures (e.g. EBSI).
All European SMEs will take advantage of such harmonisation.

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OC#7 2026