OC#2 2029 | StandICT.eu

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

IT Consultancy/Development

Organization

Breyer Publico SL

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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

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

CWA 18398 "AI Professional Role Profiles"

Role in SDO

convenor

Standards Development Organisation

CEN

Topic

Artificial Intelligence

StandICT.eu Year

2029

Year

2026

Topic (8th Open Call)

Artificial Intelligence

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

Artificial Intelligence

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

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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

2026

Topic (7th Open Call)

Artificial Intelligence

Topic (9th Open Call)

Artificial Intelligence

Mohamed Khemakhem

Description of Activities

It aims to develop technical specifications and standards to efficiently manage terminology work ensuring seamless information exchange, minimizing misunderstandings, and enhancing both human-human and human-AI interactions.

Fellow's country

France

Impact on SMEs (6th Open Call)

My contribution benefits European SMEs and societies by advancing the integration of TM and AI, addressing challenges in communication, efficiency, and inclusivity while aligning with global standards like ISO. For SMEs, this project provides at this stage guidelines and recommendations for accessible AI techniques that are aligned with TM standards and practices, enabling cost-effective automation of terminology processes and improved productivity. SMEs in specialized sectors (e.g., biotech, fintech) and transversal fields (e.g. translation, interpretation) gain better insights for handling domain-specific terminologies, enhancing competitiveness in European and global markets.

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

For SMEs, this work reduces adoption barriers by clarifying AI-related standards (e.g. AI Act, GDPR, ISO/IEC), mapping practical use cases, and addressing gaps in tools, skills, and compliance knowledge. This helps smaller organizations implement trustworthy AI solutions aligned with European norms without needing large technical teams.

Impact on SMEs (8th Open Call)

Yes, my contribution positively impacts both European SMEs and societies. The Technical Report ISO/AWI TR 25896 provides practical, standards-aligned guidance on integrating AI into terminology workflows, helping SMEs—especially in language services, translation, and AI-adopt advanced technologies efficiently and responsibly. It lowers technical barriers, supports scalability, and promotes competitiveness across multilingual markets.

Impact on society (6th Open Call)

For European societies, the project addresses ethical AI concerns like bias and transparency, ensuring responsible adoption in domains like healthcare, law, and education.

Impact on society (7th Open Call)

For European society, we foster ethical, transparent AI integration in sectors like healthcare, governmental services and justice. By involving diverse stakeholders, we ensure solutions address real needs, safeguard rights, and reflect EU values. Our approach supports innovation while reinforcing public trust in AI, making deployment more inclusive and impactful across communities.

Impact on society (8th Open Call)

This initiative helped position WG 6 as an essential platform at the crossroads of AI and linguistic standardization. It supported Europe’s role in leading the development of valuedriven digital standards aligned with ethical principles, interoperability needs, and the goal of a multilingual digital space. For European societies, the TR encourages trustworthy and ethical AI adoption by addressing issues like explainability, data quality, and inclusiveness. It supports transparency and linguistic accuracy in domains such as healthcare, public services, and education, aligning with core European values and fostering public trust in AI-driven tools.

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MandaNetwork

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website

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Proposal Title (6th Open Call)

Exploration of the mutual benefits between Terminology Management (TM) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Proposal Title (7th Open Call)

Support for activities as the Convenor of AFNOR/X03A GE IA “IA, Langues, Langage et Terminologie”

Proposal Title (8th Open Call)

Support for activities as the Convenor of the ISO/TC 37/SC 3/WG 6 “Terminology Management and AI”

Support for activities as the Project Leader of the TR “AI for Terminology Management”

https://www.iso.org/committee/48136.html

Role in SDO

convenor

Standards Development Organisation

ISO

StandICT.eu Year

2026

2029

Year

2024

2026

Topic (6th Open Call)

Artificial Intelligence

Topic (7th Open Call)

Digitisation of European Industry

Joachim Koss

Description of Activities

My fellowship contributes to analysing the ICT (IoT) Standards landscape in order to find gaps to be filled by future standardisation work and also to identify existing standards, which manufacturers and service providers of connected products or related services may apply in order for their products being compliant to the new Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 (European Data Act).

Fellow's country

Germany

Open Call Topics

IoT Internet of Things

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

The Data Act applies to the group of holders of data (not only but also SMEs) acting on the European market irrespective of the place of establishment of those manufacturers and providers.

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

Since the addressed existing or to be developed standards enable particularly semantic interoperability across the IoT, they also provide cross domain and cross-vendor IoT semantic interoperability for exchanging data with common understanding of its meaning. This will become increasingly important as greater quantities of data are generated and shared across the IoT. It opens new market opportunities in the domains of e.g. Healthcare, Smart Grid, Smart Metering, Intelligent Transport Systems, Industrial Automated Systems, and Smart Cities, which depend on collecting and processing data. With that, it directly supports the strong European goal of the “digital single market”.

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OC#4 2026

OC#2 2029

Organisation type

IT Consultancy/Development

Organization

Independent principal consultant, JK Consulting and Projects

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Proposal Title (4th Open Call)

EU Data Act - Evaluation and filling of standardisation gaps to satisfy technical provisions of it

Technical Committee (TC) Smart Machine-to-Machine Communications (SmartM2M)

ETSI TC DATA

Standards Development Organisation

ETSI

Topic

Data interoperability

StandICT.eu Year

2026

2029

Year

2024

2026

Topic (4th Open Call)

IoT Internet of Things

Annegrit Seyerlein-Klug

Description of Activities

Annegrit's priority is the Convenorship of CEN CENELEC JTC21 WG 5, the organisation and project support to work on the AI Act standardisation request for Cybersecurity. This includes a close collaboration with other groups within JTC 21, JTC 13, ISO IEC SC 42 and SC 27 to collect all information of existing and work under development. The main challenge is that JTC 21 and also our WG5 has a diverse structure of experts and knowledge, which makes the work, the effort and efficiency very difficult. In this case, the challenge in addition is the collaboration with other existing standardisation groups within JTC 21 as well as with JTC 13 for Cyber Resilience Act, with ETSI and their view, with ISO IEC SC 27 and SC 42.

Fellow's country

Germany

Open Call Topics

Accessibility of ICT products and services

Artificial Intelligence

Impact on SMEs (4th Open Call)

Contributing activity for a new work item NWIP within CEN CENELEC JTC 21 WG5 “Artificial Intelligence - Cybersecurity specifications for AI systems” and developing the standard on the basis of the gap report.

Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)

A lot of European SME and/or European societies will be affected in the one or other way from AI-systems in the future in all areas of our living environment, from AI in medical devices, in personal equipment over autonomous driving until general purpose AI systems like chat gpt or Metaverse platforms. The challenge is to align the standards with the regulation but also with the needs of SME and European values. For this reason, the AI Act asked for standards, which CEN/CENELEC is developing.

Impact on SMEs (9th Open Call)

European SMEs , which are providing risk or high risk AI systems in the European market are effected by the AI Act and in that case also from the standard I work for and contribute: Cybersecurity Specifications for AI- Systems.

Impact on society (4th Open Call)

Cybersecurity is elementary for every digital asset and very important also for AI-Systems as a digital asset to be secure, safe, healthy and respecting fundamental rights.

Impact on society (7th Open Call)

The proposed activity aims to answer the official EU standardization request for the EU AI Act and specifically No. 8 Cybersecurity. Thrustworthy Metaverse solutions are based on trustworthy AI solutions. Trust and cybersecurity of AI and Metaverse can be ensured with well developed standards from cybersecurity and AI experts with business background. In case of the European Union harmonized standards as presumption of conformity to the EU Regulation are requested, in this case the request is for the AI Act and CRA as an essential fundament for a trustworthy and secure web 4.0 with virtual world and Metaverse with the specific EU focus on safety, fundamental rights, health and data protection.

Impact on society (9th Open Call)

The AI Act has the goal to avoid or mitigate negative impact on people and society regarding Fundamental Rights, Health and Safety. All harmonized standards for the AI Act support this goal and request of the AI Act including the standard for Cybersecurity specifications for AI Systems.

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neurocat GmbH

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