HSbooster.eu (Horizon Standardisation Booster)
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Standardisation Support forHorizon Europe and H2020Projects
Open Calls to Contribute to the Revision & Creation of Standards to Address Europe’s Standardisation Urgencies
About
HSbooster.eu is a 30-month European Commission initiative that will provide the European Standardisation Booster. The booster provides expert services to European projects to help them to increase and valorise project results by contributing to the creation or revision of standards.
HSbooster.eu facilitates and streamlines the dialogue between Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe Research & Innovation projects with the Standardisation landscape and its main actors, namely corresponding Standards Developing Organisations (SDOs) to increase the European impact on (international) Standardisation and strengthen the European competitiveness.
The project comes at a right time to effectively respond to the main priorities (so-called urgencies) outlined in the recently released European Strategy on Standardisation, to speed up the pace of innovation through the development of efficient Standards that might be capable to accelerate the transition towards a more resilient, green and digital economy and to protect democratic values in technology applications.
Contributing to standards is often an objective of many R&I projects. However, the actual process to engage with Standardisation working groups, technical committees, focus groups can be complex to comprehend. This is where HSbooster.eu steps in.
HSbooster.eu will provide consultancy services to guide and support beneficiaries and consortia of R&I projects to make sure they take the right strategic approach and contribute efficiently to the Standardisation process and to make them active players in the development of Standards in the corresponding area or domain.
Find out more on the respective Open Calls for Standardisation Experts and R&I projects.
The Standardisation Booster for fostering exploitation of EU-funded research results is an action supported by the European Research Area HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01 Call, managed by the European Research Executive Agency (REA).
HSbooster.eu relies on a solid Consortium of partners with overarching experience in the management of European Commision funded projects and CSA (Trust-IT Srl & COMMpla), in delivering education training and courses in for future Standards experts and professionals (Dublin City University and University of Belgrade), in Standards certification (SGS), plus the National Standards Body of Denmark (Dansk Standard).
HSbooster.eu Open Call
The HSbooster.eu Open Calls provide the opportunity for ongoing or complete H2020, Horizon Europe and Digital Europe projects to apply for practical guidance to assess the standardisation readiness of project results and match them up with standardisation experts who can guide the project on how these results can feed into standardisation working groups or technical committees.
Applications are now open. To apply you should provide information on the project, its standardisation-related objectives and what you hope to gain from the booster service. The call will run continuously until June 2024.
Our step-by-step guide can help you throughout the application process.
Call topics
The topics of the first Open Call are divided into two categories:
- Priority Topics for this first open call have been selected from the general HSbooster.eu Open Call topics. They have been selected on level of priority and are either linked to a SReq (Standardsiation Request) from the European Commission or are classified as being highly urgent (e.g. pandemics). Priority Topics are indicated in the table below.
- Other Topics cover all general HSbooster.eu Open Call topics. These are based on the Standardisation Urgencies highlighted in the EU’s Standardisation Strategy.
Projects can apply for either a “priority” or “other” topic in this call. Preference may be given to “priority” topics. See our FaQ page for more information.
Health
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- COVID-19 vaccines: Needle-free and needle based-injection systems for medical use
- COVID-19 vaccines: Aseptic processing
- Medicine production
- Respiratory equipment
- Pandemic preparedness and resilience
- Tests and measurement methods for SARS/COV19: Pathogens
- Tests and measurement methods for SARS/COV19: Wastewater
- Epidemiology: Risk, population, genetic
E-Health and personalised services
Design and use of medical devices
Resilience
Robust supply chains - PRIORITY
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Find out more on Robust Supply Chain
- Energy and natural gas distribution
- Transport and infrastructure (roads, rails, telecommunications, energy, etc.)
- Workforce changes and demands
- Risk management
- Business continuity
Data protection and cybersecurity
Sustainable digitalisation
Data quality and Artificial Intelligence (AI) - PRIORITY
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Find out more on Data Quality & AI
- Trustworthy AI
- Intelligent factories
- AI-based decision-making solutions (HR, legislation, labour)
- Circular data
- Ethical data usage
- Data interoperability
Green transition in Europe
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Find out more on Clean and Renewable energy
- Clean hydrogen value chain
- Gas transportation (incl. hydrogen)
- Clean hydrogen infrastructure
- Documentation of green fuels
- Fueling and refueling of green fuels
- Energy storage
- Wind turbines
- Smart energy
Green and sustainable production
Smart Cities and Circular Economy in Buildings
Circular economy in the construction sector - PRIORITY
Find out more on Circular Economy in the construction sector
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Design for circularity
- Design for disassembly
- Embedded carbon
- Selective demolition
- Material and product pass
- Non-destructive testing
- Low-carbon cement
How to apply
Applying for the booster service takes about 30 minutes. All applications must be made on behalf of any ongoing or complete H2020 or Horizon Europe project.
You cannot save your progress so please take a look at the application form in full before applying. We recommend you prepare content before making the application.
To make the application, you will need:
- Basic administrative information on the project (GA number, full name etc.)
- Information about the project objectives and those related to standardisation
- Details on why you are making the application and the goals you would like to achieve with the support of the booster services.
