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Are standardisation processes eating up your time and resources? 💡 StandardAIse is building an AI-powered Hub designed to make searching and understanding standards easier than ever, providing SMEs, researchers, and standardisation experts with clear, contextualised insights at national, European, and international levels. To make sure this tool truly serves your needs, we need your input! 👉 Share your experience in our quick survey: https://lnkd.in/ec-vQ8E6 📆 Until 4th December 2026 Whether you struggle with navigating complex documentation or finding relevant standards for your sector, your feedback will directly shape the future of this platform. ❔ Why participate? 🔹 Help design a tool built specifically to simplify standardisation for smaller businesses. 🔹 Ensure SME voices drive European and international AI-driven solutions. 🔹 Take standardisation from a hurdle to a competitive advantage. Learn more about this project: https://lnkd.in/eCvh6Tm7 #Standards4SMEs #StandardAIse #Survey

📢 Does your company have the skills to master standards? #Standards shape markets, open doors to global value chains, and underpin Europe's competitiveness. But does your workforce have the knowledge to use them and to help shape them? The High-Level Forum on European Standardisation (European Commission) wants to hear from enterprises of all sizes and sectors. 📋Our short survey on Standardisation Education & Skills in European Enterprises looks at: 🔹 how companies currently build standardisation knowledge, from entry-level staff to management 🔹 which training resources and tools you use (or wish existed) 🔹 your best practices, the most impactful initiatives may be showcased in the Forum's outcomes 🔹 the upcoming EU Certificate of Knowledge in Standardisation and what it could mean for hiring and training in your organisation Your input will feed directly into the findings and recommendations of the Forum's workstream on Education & Skills, including future training activities. ⏱️ It takes only a few minutes. Available in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. 👉 Take the survey: https://lnkd.in/emcnpF2M 🔄 Please share with colleagues who work with standards in your company! #Standards4SMEs #Standardisation #EUStandards #Education #Skills #Competitiveness #EuropeanUnion #HLF

🚀 NEW CAMPAIGN: Standards shape your business. Are you shaping them? As part of the #MeetingStandards initiative, we are launching a 10-part illustration series exploring how standardisation shapes and should be shaped by Europe's small and medium-sized enterprises. Illustration #1: USB-C and the Right to Repair The EU's 2022 USB-C mandate, based on the USB Implementers Forum's technical standard, established a single charging interface across smartphones, tablets, cameras, and laptops. For repair shop SMEs, the impact is significant: rather than stocking a wide range of proprietary cables, a single standard now covers an entire product category. This outcome was not automatic. When #SME repairers are absent from standards consultations, resulting mandates can favour large OEMs — through costly licensed parts, restricted access to diagnostic tools, or exemptions for proprietary connectors. SME input was instrumental in securing a standard centred on open, affordable interfaces. This is a clear example of why SME engagement in standardisation matters: those who use and apply standards every day are best placed to ensure they serve the market as a whole. ❗ Standards shape your business. Are you shaping them? Over the coming months, we will share nine further examples illustrating the value of SME participation in standards development. Stay tuned! Illustration by Zsofi Lang - ✏️ 🎨 #StandardsMatter #SMEStandards #ShapeTheStandards #SBS #Standards4SMEs

🙌 Amplifying the voice of European SMEs, a night to celebrate! On 29 June, Small Business Standards (SBS) welcomed almost 100 participants at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels for our Stakeholder Reception & 1st Awards Ceremony, the flagship moment of the 4th edition of #MeetingStandards. It was a true honour for SBS to organise this event in partnership with the EESC, and we were deeply touched by the presence of President Séamus Boland and EESC Member Angelo Pagliara, who both delivered warm and inspiring welcome remarks. 🙏 🎙️ The evening opened with a high-level keynote panel, "Three Frameworks, One Market: The Standardisation Regulation, the New Legislative Framework (NLF), and the Market Surveillance Regulation under revision," moderated by Tim Krögel, with: 🔹 Guillaume Roty, European Commission 🔹 Jon Echanove 陈炯, Secretary General, SBS 🔹 Belen Suarez Lopez, SBS Expert & CEO Thank you all for such a rich and timely discussion on the future of the Single Market for SMEs! 🏆 Then came the moment we'd all been waiting for: the very first SBS Awards Ceremony! Andrea Raffaelli hosted the full evening with great energy, and handed the mic to Jon Echanove, Secretary General of SBS, to present the Awards. 🥇 SBS Expert of the Year 2025 goes to Emilia Tantar, PhD — recognised for her outstanding contribution to #AIstandardisation and her work making cyber-resilience accessible to SMEs across Europe. Congratulations, Emilia! Huge congratulations too to fellow finalists Pierre-François Jullien and Eoin Flavin for their remarkable contributions. 🥇 Standard of the Year goes to EN ISO 27799:2026, Health informatics — Information security controls in health, recognised for the real, measurable difference it makes for small businesses in the health sector. The award was accepted by Jennifer Ogbonna on behalf of CEN and CENELEC, who will pass it on to the technical committee behind the standard, thank you to everyone involved in its development! 💛 And one final surprise: a special award was given to our dear colleague Doris Rabetge, who will soon retire after being part of the SBS family since its very creation. Doris, thank you for over a decade of dedication to the SME voice in #standardisation Your mark on SBS will stay with us for years to come. 👏 A huge thank you to everyone who joined us, celebrated with us, and makes the SBS community, a vibrant one! We look forward to seeing you at next year's edition! 📸 Paul Arnault #Standards4SMEs #SBSAwards #EESC #SingleMarket

🛒 How are products designed, standardised, placed on the market, and monitored across the EU? Want to contribute to this conversation? 🗓️ Join us on 29 June at the SBS Stakeholder Reception which comes just as the Standardisation Regulation, New Legislative Framework (NLF) and Market Surveillance Regulation are all being revised and ahead of the anticipated EU Product Act. To mark this legislative turning point the SBS event will feature a keynote presentation by Valere Moutarlier, Deputy Director General DG GROW European Commission, Iuliu Winkler, Vice-Chair Committee on International Trade (INTA) at the European Parliament and Belen Suarez Lopez, SBS expert and CEO. Together they will offer their thoughts on what these revisions mean for the European Single Market – and for #SMEs The Reception will be held at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), which is actively producing an opinion on the revision of the Standardisation Regulation, and EESC President Séamus Boland will discuss the importance of civil society input in shaping the final legislative outcome. More information 👉 https://lnkd.in/e5EFK4ev #MeetingStandards #Standards4Growth #Standards4SMEs #SMEsupport

Let’s celebrate the outstanding contributions made to SME-inclusive standardisation! Apply now or nominate an individual who has made a positive impact on SMEs.