As one of their future targets, the European Commission aims to ensure increasing cross-fertilisation between civil, defence and space industries and to focus on improving the crucial link between space and defence and security. To this end, in March 2020 the Commission announced an Action Plan on synergies between civil, defence and space industries, including at the level of programmes, technologies, innovation and start-ups. An essential part of the proposed actions in this plan is standardisation, especially the creation of hybrid standards covering topics from all three mentioned sectors.
This workshop will discuss the role of standards in the implementation of this Action Plan, and to identify supporting activities by the standardisation domain and other related stakeholders.
The workshop will:
- Introduce the Action Plan
- Clarify the Commission’s ideas of implementing the Plan
- Hear the view of the Industry towards the Plan
- Underline the importance of standardisation as a tool
- Discuss the necessary activities by the European Standardization Organisations (ESOs) to support the Plan