The 8 cycles of Open Calls will cover key ICT standardisation priority areas with further focus on specific vertical sectors. The Call  topics follow the priority areas outlined in the 2018 Rolling Plan for ICT Standardisation and its future updates.

View the full list of topics at the StandIDC.eu Open Call page.

StandICT.eu will run 8 Open Call cycles. Each call will be open for 60 days and will be followed by a 30 days evaluation period.

The 1st Call timing (Now closed):

• Launch of the 1st Open Call: 30th March 2018
• Deadline for submitting applications: 29th May 2018, midnight CET
• Evaluation: The proposals evaluation will be done by a pool of independent evaluators, the estimated duration will be of 30 days
• Notification: Applicants will be notified of the outcome of their applications by the 28th of June 2018

Subsequent Open Calls will follow a similar timeline. For up to date information about each specific call follow communications on this website and on our Twitter channel @Stand_ICT

Successful applicants will be contacted for contract signing and funding.

Potential applicants are standardisation specialists, defined as professionals with proven expertise and experience in standardisation activities e.g. previous contributions to standards developments, participation in various SDO groups working, previous or current chairs etc in the respective priority area.

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.

In order to be eligible to apply for this grant, applicants must reside/work in Europe. 

The proposals will also have to clearly demonstrate:

• Added value to existing SDO activities;
• Impact of work on European interests and the standard in question;
• Expertise of the applicant in the respective priority area;
• Expertise of the applicant in standardisation, e.g. previous contributions to standards developments, participation in other groups working on architectures, APIs, guidelines in the respective priority area.

Please note for the avoidance of doubt that the expert’s applications should be related to activities or events within SDOs such as ISO, IEC, UNCEFACT, ITU, ISO/IEC JTC-1, IETF, IEEE, W3C, OASIS, ECMA international, OMA, OMG, etc., as well as global projects like 3GPP and oneM2M (where ETSI is a partner) for any of the topic priorities.

As such, Experts applying for participation and/or contributions to NSOs or ESOs will normally be rejected during the evaluation phase, unless clear evidence is shown that the former is relevant or linked to a broader international cooperation or initiative in which the NSO or the ESO takes part.

Evaluations (for each proposal) will be performed using the following 4-criteria principle (score 1 to 10):

• Criterion 1: Soundness of the proposal and foreseen impact on European strategy (30%);
• Criterion 2: Technical excellence & adherence to the standardisation requirements and SDO activities (30%);
• Criterion 3: Experience and qualifications of the applicant (20%);
• Criterion 4: Economics of the proposal (20%)

The proposals final scoring and the ranking final score will be automatically determined by averaging scores provided by the 3 independent evaluators.