Standards organizations like CEN, CENELEC, and ETSI develop European standards to help bridge the gap between research and marketable products. They provide a platform for stakeholders to develop consensus standards through technical committees comprising national members from 33 European countries. Their standards aim to support the European single market and link to legislation and policy initiatives like Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation funding program. Research projects are encouraged to consider standardization during all stages from initial analysis of needs to ensuring any results with standardization potential are transferred to the standards development process.

1. Standards as a bridge to the market
Andreea Gulacsi, Research Integration Unit Manager
CEN-CENELEC Management Centre

2. Policy Context
Standardization Buzz?
 Commission Communication to Council, 2008
 Council Conclusions, 2008
 The Innovation Union, 2008: “Standards play an important
role for innovation”
 Regulation on European Standardization, 1025/2012:
“Standards can help to bridge the gap between research and
marketable products or services”
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3. Who we are:
The European Committee for
Standardization
The European Committee for
Electrotechnical Standardization
The European Telecommunications
Standards Institute
= the European Standards
Organisations (“ESOs”)
+ 33 full members
+ international standards bodies (ISO, IEC, ITU-T)
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5. Where we fit in:
International
International
Europe
National
ISO IEC ITU
CEN
CENELEC
WTO
WTO
ETSI
Membership
NSBs for CEN & CENELEC
Companies for ETSI
EC
EFTA
National
authorities
Industry, other
stakeholders, standards‘
users...
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6. What we do
 We provide a platform for stakeholders in a
specific area to come together
 We facilitate consensus at European level
 We help ensure principles of transparency,
openness, coherence, consensus
 We develop European consensus documents
 We help build support for the European Single
Market
 Links to legislation
 Links to public policy
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7. Horizon 2020
 EC proposal for a 80 billion euro research and
innovation funding programme (2014-2020)
 A core part of Europe 2020, Innovation Union and
European Research Area
 Responding to the economic crisis to invest in future
jobs and growth
 Societal needs – livelihood, safety and environment
 Strengthening the EU’s global position in research,
innovation and technology
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8. Three priorities
Excellent
science
Industrial
leadership
Societal
challenges

9. Horizon 2020 standardization links
“Stronger support will be given to the market take-up of innovation,
including by the public sector. This will include more proof-of-concept,
piloting and demonstration. It will involve a better use of the potential of
research infrastructures, as well as setting technical standards, precommercial procurement and strengthened loan and equity financing.”
Identified support organizations:
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10. Standards in Horizon 2020 Calls
Screening of the calls for proposals identified standardization in +/165 topics as follows:
 Mapping of relevant standards
 Standardization gap analysis
 Development of new standards
 Development and implementation of standardization roadmaps
(may include international cooperation)
 Etc
Even if not specifically mentioned in the call
standards can be identified by project proposers.
Standardization bodies can be included in the
consortium. This should be addressed at proposal
stage.
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11. Horizon 2020 – calls extracts
SPIRE-04-2014: Methodologies, tools
and indicators for cross-sectorial
sustainability assessment of energy
and resource efficient solutions in the
process industry
Scope: Strategies should be proposed to work with value chain partners, public
authorities and final users, in particular to meet expectations in terms of relevant
sustainability assessment (e.g. standards, labelling), and create a broad range of
options to raise awareness levels and understanding of sustainability.
Collaboration with standardisation bodies should be addressed.
BG-06-2014: Delivering the sub-sea
technologies for new services at sea
Scope: Where relevant, activities should cover the development of European
standards.
EeB-01-2014: Materials for building
envelope
Scope: Standardisation aspects can be considered particularly in relation with
the work carried out in CEN/TC 350.
NMP-06-2015: Novel nanomatrices
and nanocapsules
Scope: Safety considerations and contribution to standardization should be an
integral part of the projects.
Expected impact: Identification of gaps in standards, paving the way for future
pre-normative activities in the field.
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12. Armoury of standardization ‘tools’
Fundamental
Terminology,
conventions, signs,
symbols
Test methods and
analytical methods
Specifications for
products,
services,
systems,
performance
Organization and
management
system standards
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13. Documents we produce:
 Developed in a Technical Committee following the national
delegation principle:
 European Standard (EN) – identical in 33 countries
 Technical Specification (TS) – first trail/ pre-standard step
 Technical Report (TR) – informative
 Direct participation model mostly used in R&D context:
 CEN-CENELEC Workshop Agreement (CWA) – agreement between
interested parties, open participation
 eg CWA “Fuels and biofuels – pure plat oil fuel for diesel engine
concepts – requirements and tests methods’ developed by FP7
project 2ndVegOil
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14. The Integrated Approach
Research project development
Identify new areas
Screen existing standards and needs
Draft programmes and proposals
Select based on standards need/potential
Perform research project
Identify standards potential of project results
Protect, diffuse & implement project results
Use standards & standardization as transfer channel
Evaluate research programme & project results
Standards and standardization as output evaluation criteria
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15. Good practice for a project proposal
The support a CEN or CENELEC member gives to the standardization
process as part of a research project can be broken down into:
 Step 1 – Analysis of standardization potential (state of the art,
gaps etc)
 Step 2 – Liaison Organisation status (if applicable)
 Step 3 – Proposal for new standardization work (WS, input to
existing work, new standards etc)
 Step 4 – Guidance and support on standardization process
 Step 5 – Publication of the final deliverable (note: CEN-CENELEC
keep copyright!)
Note: the Research Project has to ensure the necessary funding
(e.g. for a Workshop secretariat) is included in the budget
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16. CEN-CENELEC participation policy
“CEN and CENELEC as organizations will not join a
research project as a partner. A CEN or CENELEC national
member, representing CEN or CENELEC, can join a
research project”
 CCMC-staff not eligible for FP-funding
 Only a national member (NSB/NC) can take the secretariat
of a technical group developing our deliverables
 Contact with the National Standardization Bodies is
facilitated through the Research Helpdesk and a network
of “Correspondents” on Research & Innovation issues at
national level (RDI-COR)
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17. Useful Resources & Tools
CEN-CENELEC Research Helpdesk
research@cencenelec.eu
RDI CORrespondents network @
national level
 Horizon2020 specific web-pages
(in construction)
FP7 Guide to project proposers
(revised to reflect Horizon 2020)
Success stories in FP projects
Factsheet on IPR & Standards
Twitter @Standards4RDI
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18. BRIDGIT Project
 Started in January 2013 with a focus on bringing the
standardization and innovation communities closer
together (Bridge-the-Gap)
 Outputs (expected mid 2014):
 Tools for researchers to understand and address
standardization (in construction)
 Tools for standardizers to understand and engage with
innovation
 National information events
 Guidance material for researchers
 European conference
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19. European Conference – 30 October 2014
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20. Thank you for your attention!
Andreea Gulacsi
agulacsi@cencenelec.eu
LinkedIn
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