The StandICT.eu2026 ecosystem is centred around its online platform and community, which builds on previous iterations by enhancing stakeholder engagement and serving as the hub for all core project services. It operates through a structured four-step approach: monitoring standardisation efforts and training experts, supporting and promoting European standardisation professionals, actively engaging stakeholders in the process, and serving broader European interests by informing policymakers and fostering synergies across the region. Each step naturally connects to the next, forming an integrated methodology where stakeholder engagement is central and interdependent with the other components.

Each strand of StandICT.eu 2026’s work is reflective of a continuous attempt to engage as many stakeholders as possible into the project – whether through collaborations, trainings, research work, or the actual financial support offered to fellows working at technical committee level. As laid out in further details in D5.1, Stakeholder Engagement Mid Term Report and other Deliverables, seven main stakeholder groups are targeted in the project’s engagement.

StandICT.eu 2026 has identified seven key stakeholder groups that play a crucial role in the project’s ecosystem:

1. ICT Standardisation Experts
2. Companies, SMEs, and Industry Players
3. Standards Bodies
4. Academics, Trainers, and Education Experts
5. Policymakers
6. Horizon Europe and Digital Europe Programme Projects Involved in ICT Standardisation
7. The General Public

The StandICT.eu 2026 seven key stakeholder groups play a crucial role in the project’s ecosystem. The interactive map below presents just an excerpt from the project’s stakeholder database, offering an overview of the various groups and highlighting a selection of a few key stakeholders within each category. As illustrated, StandICT serves as the central hub, actively connecting with all stakeholder groups, fostering collaboration, and facilitating engagement across the ICT standardization ecosystem. By managing this dynamic community, StandICT creates opportunities and promotes synergies between different actors, for the benefit of the entire network. This interconnected approach ensures a broad and inclusive impact, strengthening the overall standardization landscape.

Building on the previous categorization, more than 500 organizations have been identified and mapped from the database to be visualised, with the majority actively participating in various project activities. Below, the customised interactive map visually represents the full range of stakeholders belonging to the different categories. This interactive map, developed as part of StandICT2026’s Milestone 13 offer additional functionalities and more detailed stakeholder categorization. It will serve as a dynamic resource, that will be updated at the end of the project’s duration to reflect new engagements, evolving collaborations, and the expanding network of ICT standardization stakeholders.

StandICT.eu provides crucial resources and funding to support the participation of European standardisation specialists in key international and global SDOs. Through nine Open Calls, this funding will enable the specialists to contribute to and help create a fully integrated European Standardisation Ecosystem, thereby strengthening Europe’s position in global standardisation initiatives.