Deadline: 4 August 2018

Applications are now open for the 2nd StandICT.eu grant programme, “Supporting European Experts Presence in International Standardisation Activities in ICT” that addresses the need for ICT Standardisation and defines a pragmatic approach and streamlined process to reinforce EU expert presence in the international ICT standardisation scene.

Priority Areas

The 2d Call topics follow the priority areas:

• Key Enable and Security
  • 5G
  • Cloud computing Public sector information, open data and big data
  • Internet of Things
  • Cybersecurity / Network and Information Security
  • Electronic identification and trust services including e-signatures
  • e-Privacy
  • E-infrastructures for research data and computing-intensive science
  • Broadband Infrastructure Mapping
  • Accessibility of ICT products and services
• Societal Challenges
  • eHealth, healthy living and ageing
  • e-Skills and e-Learning
  • Emergency communications
  • eGovernment
  • eCall
• Innovation for the Digital Single Market
  • e-Procurement — Pre and Post award
  • e-Invoicing
  • Card, internet and mobile payments
  • Preservation of digital cinema
  • Fintech and Regtech Standardisation
  • Blockchain and Distributed Digital Ledger Technologies
• Sustainable Growth
  • Smart grids and smart metering
  • Smart cities / technologies and services for smart and efficient energy use
  • ICT environmental impact
  • European Electronic Toll Service (EETS)
  • Intelligent transport systems (ITS)
  • Advanced manufacturing
  • Robotics and autonomous systems
  • Construction — building information modelling
  • Common Information Sharing Environment (CISE) for the EU maritime domain

Funding Information

• LT – Long term contributions (with travel option): Up to 12 months, €5,000 – €8,000
• ST – Short-Term contributions (with travel option): 1 month – 6 months, €1,000 – €5,000
• OS – One-Shot (Event participation): Ad-hoc for event participation, €1.000 – €3,000

Eligibility Criteria

• The StandICT.eu Calls are open to applicants from both public and private sectors in EEA member countries and Switzerland, industry and service companies including SMEs and start-ups, academia and research, and national and European associations, including NGOs representing consumers interests.
• In particular, the target of StandICT.eu open calls are European Experts who:
  • have profound knowledge in one of the priority areas supported by the open calls;
  • have experience regarding developments of standards, e.g., in SDOs, in community organisations like Cloud Standards Customer Council (CSCC), in groups set-up by the EC like C-SIG or AIOTI, or when creating documentation in open source developments;
  • are individuals or natural persons residing in the European Member States and Associate Countries;
  • are not receiving support from other instruments (PPPs, EU or national R&I projects) for the proposed activities, and are not being funded from other sources for an identical activity.

How to Apply

Applicants can apply via given website.

For further information, please visit StandICT.eu.