Standardisation ensures quality, safety, interoperability, and market acceptance of innovative technologies. Standards are voluntary technical specifications that establish criteria for products, processes, services, or testing methods. They guarantee compatibility and safety, lower costs, help businesses integrate into supply chains, and enable reproducibility and collaboration in research.

Standards maximize the impact of EU-funded projects by facilitating valorization, enabling scale-up, and smoothing market entry. When incorporated during development phases, they exponentially increase impact and ease adoption. However, EU-funded projects often overlook standardization due to limited understanding of processes, uncertainty about applicable standards, or unfamiliarity with relevant Technical Committees. With proper training and guidance, projects can enhance their standardization approaches while expanding networks across industry, civil society, and research communities.

The widerAdvance Facility is a European-funded project dedicated to unlocking research and innovation potential by facilitating dialogue between European projects within the Widening Programme. The widerAdvance Facility offers a suite of tailored services designed to support research teams and research management administrations in advancing their Key Exploitable Results (KERs) towards real-world impact. One of the free one-to-one services provided is focused on standardisation landscape, where guidance, coaching, and training webinars will be provided to KERs suitable for standardisation, that is, with a minimum Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of 4. The standardisation service can be applied to a wide range of possible topics, including green transition, health, smart cities, circular economy, sustainable digitalization, and resilience in climate, supply chains, cybersecurity, and defense.

Standards are the invisible infrastructure that transforms brilliant ideas into global solutions—without them, innovations remain isolated experiments. With a deeper understanding of standardization's potential, Europe can build a more inclusive and balanced research and innovation landscape.

This webinar provides an accessible introduction to standardisation: what standards are, why they matter, who the European and International Standardization Bodies are, and examples of European research teams that benefited from standardization activities.

Who Should Attend?

• Researchers, research managers teams and innovation officers
• Project coordinators and partners in Horizon Europe
• National Contact Points 
• Policy makers and standardization bodies in widening countries
• SMEs, start-ups, and industrial partners

The webinar is aimed at specially of representatives of Widening countries and Foremost regions.

Why should you attend?

• Gain a foundational understanding of what standardisation is and how it supports innovation.
• Learn about the European standardisation system, its structure, actors, and processes.
• Understand how research projects can contribute to or benefit from standards.
• Discover practical ways to participate in Technical Committees, contribute to standard drafts, or use standards for project impact.
• Strengthen your ability to integrate standardisation activities into EU project proposals.
• Hear examples relevant to widening countries and receive guidance on overcoming common participation barriers

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Moderator: Rita Meneses, Trust-IT Services

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