On the occasion of their recently renewed Cooperation Agreement, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC), together with the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) are hosting an event to celebrate the role of the European standardization system in support of strategic sectors for the future of the EU economy.
More and more, standardization is recognized as a driver for innovation, with an important role as a supporting tool for policy development. The European Standardization Strategy recognizes that proper resource allocation to pre-normative research can help ensuring that Europe takes the lead in international standardisation processes. CEN-CENELEC Strategy 2030 also goes in the same direction, aiming at reinforcing the contribution of standards to the strategic policy objectives of the EU and to the impact of research and innovation projects on the European and global market.
For this reason, strengthening the link between research, innovation and standardization has been at the centre of the collaboration between JRC and CEN and CENELEC for the past 5 years, and will be even more with the renewed Agreement.
This event will provide an exchange platform to reflect on past achievements and to discuss opportunities for further exploiting this collaboration.
Specifically, the event will focus on 4 aspects where standardization is supporting European strategic priorities:
- Standardization as a tool for the valorization of new knowledge and research project outputs
- Standardization as a vehicle for addressing European strategic priorities (leadership in emerging and disruptive technologies, safeguarding resources, addressing twin transition…)
- Earlier identification of standardization support for policy development – including that driven by research and innovation
- Digital transformation of European standardization to enable online standards development and the delivery of SMART Standards adapted to the needs of industry (standards as software, machine-interpretable standards…integrating open-source approaches…)
Organizers:
- Joint Research Centre – European Commission
- European Committee for Standardization (CEN)
- European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC).