On 22 and 23 March, CEN and CENELEC, together with ETSI and ZVEI (the German Electro and Digital Industry Association), co-hosted the online event “Standardization is back”.
The planned CEN Workshop specifies an assessment of pandemic crisis prediction and management tools. The planned workshop is intended to be used by national planners in the area of crisis management (with a particular focus on epidemic and pandemic crises) and first responders dealing with the crisis situations after their outbreaks.
On 18 March, Isabelle Schömann, ETUC’s Confederal Secretary in charge of standardization, was invited to speak at the EESC expert hearing on “The role of standards for the twin transition and the competitiveness of the EU”, to provide the trade unions’ perspective on the recently published new European Strategy on Standardization.
The planned CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) specifies the experimental characterization of the modular hybrid heat pump under real operating conditions in order to define a performance map of efficiency and heat pump capacity as a function of operating parameters.
2022 is the European Year of Youth. Indeed, the EU institutions have decided to establish this year to celebrate and shine a light on the importance of European youth to build a better future – greener, more inclusive and digital.
Brusssels, 16 March 2022 - On 15 March, the European Standards Organisations (ESOs), CEN, CENELEC and ETSI, joined forces with ENISA, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, to organise their 6th annual conference. The virtual conference focused on ‘European Standardization in support of the EU cybersecurity legislation’ and attracted over 900 attendees from the EU and from around the world.
CEN and CENELEC and their Members are fully committed to strengthening their relationship with researchers and innovators and promoting standards as tools to channel research outcomes and innovative ideas into the market.
The Workshop will produce a CEN-CENELEC Workshop Agreement (CWA) which will offer a scalable platform covering the overall lifecycle, ranging from the digital twins setup, modernisation actions to diagnose and predict the operation of physical assets, to the refurbishment and remanufacturing activities towards end of life. In-situ repair technologies and the redesign for new upgraded components will be facilitated through virtual simulations for increased performance and lifetime.
On Thursday, 10 March, AFNOR (the French Association for Standardization), together with BDVA and Confiance.AI, co-hosted the high-level ‘International Conference Shaping European AI leadership’ in the framework of the French presidency of the European Union. The event, to which participated a wide array of key players in the field of AI coming from standardization organisations, national and European public authorities and the industry, was an opportunity to discuss how voluntary standards can contribute to the development of confidence in Artificial Intelligence and in support of a future EU regulation on AI.
On Tuesday March 8th 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) held a virtual event to celebrate the renewal of their Cooperation Agreement which took place at the end of 2021.