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On Wednesday 1 March, CEN and CENELEC’s Director General, Elena Santiago Cid, received from the hands of Maive Rute, the European Commission’s Chief Standardization Officer, the new Roadmap on hydrogen standardization. CEN and CENELEC welcome the publication of this important document and are committed to collaborating to the roll out of large-scale hydrogen solutions across the EU.

Every year, on the 21st of February, the tourism sector celebrates the International Tourist Guide Day to commemorate the foundation of the World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations (WFTGA). The Federation was founded in 1985 with the mission to promote the skills of professional tourist guides all over the world. The motto of this year's International Tourist Guide Day is Rethinking tourism; Regenerating the profession.

This CWA includes a comprehensive canon of standards for the creation, delivery, and use of eXtended Reality (XR) learning activities and 3D Augmented Reality objects for intensive educational processes. It contains a methodology detailing the techniques that should be employed through the different steps to be followed, to advance knowledge retention and impact positive behaviour in Schools. It intends to enable a common European disruptive educational approach and thus the possibility of sharing 3D content.

This CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) provides requirements and recommendations for the content, design and formulation of social media early warning messages and notifications in crisis and disaster management towards the public.

CEN and CENELEC have been shocked by the devastation and terrible loss of life from the earthquake that hit Türkiye and Syria last 6 February. On behalf of all the CEN and CENELEC community, we express our solidarity with all those in the region who suffered because of this disaster and with all citizens who have lost so much at this tragic time.

'Career tracking' has become increasingly recognized as a necessary monitoring tool to map PhD graduate career paths and evaluate the PhD skills training. It is useful and efficient tool for producing high-quality data concerning PhD employability and it also fosters increasing interaction with and exposure to the non-academic sector.

Small Business Standards (SBS) published a guide on blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to raise SMEs’ awareness and assist them in mastering the use of blockchain technology.

This Valentine’s Day, CEN and CENELEC celebrate 30 years of the Single Market by looking at the European standards that bring us love and connection.

The hyperloop is a new technology being developed by several companies all around the world. An innovative means of transport for large volumes of passengers and cargo, it is based on new or emerging technologies, such as low-pressure environment or magnetic levitation, that allow it to travel at very high speeds and protected from bad weather or other negative external conditions.

More data is being generated than ever before. The global volume of data has doubled between 2018 and 2022 and is expected to double again between 2022 and 2025.