ISO 59004 is a part of the ISO 59000 family of standards, specifically designed to foster a shift towards a circular economy. This standard provides comprehensive guidance applicable to any type of organization. It includes defining key terms and concepts, outlining a vision for a circular economy, elucidating core principles, and offering practical guidance for actionable steps towards sustainability. The standard aims to support organizations in contributing to the United Nations Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development by facilitating a transition to a circular use of resources.
ISO/AWI TS 25481 Governance for DAOs in Blockchain and DLT
This project will specify the governance model for DAOs regarding three facets; IN CHAIN FACET: infrastructure level, where DAO membership requires an entity to only run a node of the DLT network (e.g. join a permissioned DLT network). ON CHAIN FACET: transaction and smart contract level, where DAO membership requires an entity to interact with a specific smart contract, or send specific transactions (e.g. register with a particular smart contract). OFF CHAIN FACET: non DLT system level, where DAO membership requires an entity to perform additional non-DLT activities (e.g. protect data privacy). The three facets can be used individually or as a blend in any variation for completeness as the minimum governance.This project will specify the governance model for DAOs regarding three facets; IN CHAIN FACET: infrastructure level, where DAO membership requires an entity to only run a node of the DLT network (e.g. join a permissioned DLT network). ON CHAIN FACET: transaction and smart contract level, where DAO membership requires an entity to interact with a specific smart contract, or send specific transactions (e.g. register with a particular smart contract). OFF CHAIN FACET: non DLT system level, where DAO membership requires an entity to perform additional non-DLT activities (e.g. protect data privacy). The three facets can be used individually or as a blend in any variation for completeness as the minimum governance.
CEN/TC251 Health Informatics is a standards delivery organisation, meaning that it approves standards in Europe, but the standards do not have to be created in Europe. In fact, many of them come from the global health informatics committee ISO/TC215. For this reason, it is important to monitor and contribute to the standards prepared in ISO/TC215. This is what the purpose of this fellowship was about. ISO/TC215 has around 10 working groups (WGs) and CEN/TC251 has two. I am the convener of the second one and I try to follow those ISO/TC215 WGs that operate within the scope of my WG in CEN/TC251. This is not always easy because the ISO/TC215 WG meetings take place at the same time. In ISO/TC215 I participate mainly in interoperability, information security, and health software development areas. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is coming to healthcare, too. As I have AI experience through my doctoral studies and projects that followed, it has been natural for me to follow AI standardisation, too. The ISO/TC215 meeting in Toronto in October 2025 made it clear that the number of AI related work items is increasing in ISO/TC215. ISO/TC215 has a joint working group 3 (JWG3) with JTC1/SC42 Artificial Intelligence. The idea is that the ISO/TC215 AI work items are developed in this JWG3. Attendance in JWG3 is important also because I am a member of the CEN Strategic Advisory Group on AI in healthcare. During the ISO/TC215 Toronto meetings in October 2025, SC42 held its meetings in Sydney, Australia. After the working day was over in Toronto, work began in Sydney in Toronto evening time. I participated in particularly the healthcare AI standards development JWG3 and SC42/WG4 Use Cases meetings virtually in Sydney. Attendance in JWG3 meetings was important to motivate the ISO/TC215 initiated standardisation projects to the SC42 leadership. Through my participation, the other parties became more aware of European values in AI standardisation.
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Finland
Impact on SMEs (9th Open Call)
Due to my background in the university, I look for opportunities to commercialise the results of our research projects in a start-up company. When I have this approach in my mind, I try to contribute to the standards in such a way that that their implementation does not require a large organisation. For example, this week I commented in a AI Risk Management System standard comment resolution meeting that this form of requirements means that the company has to have at least four people to be able to comply with the standard.
Impact on society (9th Open Call)
Information technology supports the delivery of healthcare, making it safer, more effective and patient-friendly by making the personal health information accessible to the patients themselves. The standardisation work in ISO/TC215 supports these developments.
Standardisation in the field of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies is imperative to promote interoperability, security, and innovation across European markets. The rapid evolution of these technologies has led to a fragmented landscape of standards globally. This fragmentation presents challenges such as hindered cross-border data flow and increased compliance burdens on European businesses. My activity aims to address these critical gaps by actively participating in the creation of comprehensive, internationally recognized standards. My engagement in the Joint ISO/TC 307 - ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 WG directly supports this action. By actively participating in WG, I am bolstering Europe's representation and influence in shaping global standards in this transformative domain. From a European perspective, this activity is pivotal. Europe seeks to not only embrace but lead in the adoption and implementation of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies. By participating in the development of standards, we ensure that Europe's interests, values, and priorities are ingrained in the foundation of these technologies. This is paramount for bolstering Europe's digital sovereignty, fostering innovation, and ensuring that European businesses remain competitive on the global stage.
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Macedonia (the former Yugoslav Republic of)
Impact on society (9th Open Call)
The core social impact of my work is safeguarding European interests, values, and citizen rights in the foundational rules that will govern emerging digital technologies worldwide.The key areas of social Impact included: protecting privacy and security for citizens, promoting European digital sovereignty, promote interoperability, allowing for smoother cross-border data flow and services, foster innovation by creating a stable and predictable technical environment.
This fellowship supports my role as a convener of ISO TCC307 WG3. The priority is to organise the appropriate ballots and meetings to allow the experts to discuss and reach a consensus based on the comments received for the projects in ISO TC 307 WG3. Another priority is to complete the norms with the attendance list and verify that all experts in the meeting were duly registered in the portal and authorised to participate in the meetings.
One of the main challenges of this work has been overcoming the cultural barriers and language differences encountered during this period, particularly through various meetings and ad hoc meetings for the three projects, which are ongoing in preparation for the final stage to publication.
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Spain
Impact on SMEs (9th Open Call)
Smart contracts are a fundamental enabler for developing with other technologies. In particular, the taxonomy and classification of smart contracts will contribute to understanding the scope within the Data Act and avoid confusion with some smart contracts that are not limited to the scope of the Data Act, thereby making it more comprehensive for the Digital Single Market and future strategy. The context of the EUDIC, EBSI, and other advancements for smart communities will gain a clear perspective with the technical specification TS 18126 (Taxonomy and classification for smart contracts).
In addition, the Sustainable Development Goals, which many projects of SMEs and other European societies are pursuing, will have guidance on how smart contracts are contributing to achieve the SDGs; this will be a Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 24874 (Guidance on the use of smart contracts in contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)).
The contribution directly impacts European societies and SMEs by helping develop standards that promote healthier, more sustainable, and inclusive urban environments. These standards support cities in improving well-being, resilience, and equitable access to services—key factors for vibrant communities and local economies. For SMEs, clearer guidelines on sustainability and smart urban solutions create opportunities for innovation, market access, and competitiveness within Europe. By fostering alignment between global best practices and local needs, the work helps European stakeholders adapt to evolving challenges in urban development and public health.
Impact on society (8th Open Call)
By promoting interoperability and scalable health and well-being indicators, this initiative advances inclusive, data-driven solutions for sustainable urban development. I contribute extensively by providing guidance on integrating existing management system elements and concerns with technology—particularly emphasizing digital health and IoT integration—to promote health and well-being effectively within urban management systems.
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.
This document is the first of a family of standards. This document defines XML based encoding rules for conceptual schemas specifying types that describe geographic resources. The encoding rules support the UML profile as used in the UML models commonly used in the standards developed by ISO/TC 211. The encoding rules use XML schema for the output data structure schema. The encoding rules described in this document are not applicable for encoding UML application schema for geographic features (see ISO 19136 for those rules).
ISO 19108:2002 defines concepts for describing temporal characteristics of geographic information. It depends upon existing information technology standards for the interchange of temporal information. It provides a basis for defining temporal feature attributes, feature operations, and feature associations, and for defining the temporal aspects of metadata about geographic information. Since this International Standard is concerned with the temporal characteristics of geographic information as they are abstracted from the real world, it emphasizes valid time rather than transaction time.
This document is the first of a family of standards. ISO/TS 19150-1:2012 defines the framework for semantic interoperability of geographic information. This framework defines a high level model of the components required to handle semantics in the ISO geographic information standards with the use of ontologies.
ISO/TS 19158:2012 provides a framework for quality assurance specific to geographic information. It is based upon the quality principles and quality evaluation procedures of geographic information identified in ISO 19157 and the general quality management principles defined in ISO 9000. The framework defined in ISO/TS 19158:2012 enables a customer to satisfy itself that its suppliers, both internal and external, are capable of delivering geographic information to the required quality. Fundamental to the framework is the assurance of the supplier's ability to understand and meet the quality requirements. Through the quality assurance framework both the customer and the supplier are able to consider the quality required at the earliest opportunity in the production/update process. Principles and responsibilities of the relationship between the customer and the supplier that facilitate the framework are provided. The responsibility for the quality assessment procedure is shared between the customer and the supplier. ISO/TS 19158:2012 is applicable to customers and suppliers of all geographic information where the quality of the product may be impacted upon by the supplier's processes in any of the following scenarios:1) there is an agreement or legislation for the supply of data acquisition services,2) data acquisition services are being tendered for, and3) one or more suppliers exist in the supply chain.ISO/TS 19158:2012 is not applicable for the supply of legacy datasets or ?off the shelf' products where there is no further data production or update activity to manage.
