SEEBLOCKS.eu and Stan4SWAP announce collaboration in standardisation promotion

We are pleased to announce that we will be collaborating with SEEBLOCKS.eu in the area of standardisation. Both projects are involved in the promotion of standards as an enabling factor for innovation in sectors constituting key components of European digital and industrial policy and we are sure that the collaboration will be of benefit to both projects as well as to the standardisation community as a whole.

Where Stan4SWAP departs from the European Green Deal and the mission to decarbonise the European transport sector, SEEBLOCKS.eu has the mission of promoting standardisation in Blockchain / Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT).

“Standardised DLT technologies are fundamental building blocks for achieving some of the most important goals of the Digital Decade 2030, such as the availability to all European citizens of services such as the Decentralised Digital Identity and the Digital Euro – in addition to enabling exciting new business models such as the Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO).” - Rita Meneses of SEEBLOCKS.euProject Coordinator Trust-IT.

But standards are not only enablers for the Digital Decade. They are also key enablers of the objectives of the European Green Deal. In this context, Stan4SWAP will develop a standardisation roadmap towards facilitating the use of swapable battery systems for light category (L-CAT) vehicles, to facilitate the decarbonisation of urban mobility.

“Our goal is to reach a standard that ensures the interoperability of batteries among various vehicles and swapping stations. This will not only reduce charging time but also lower costs for end-users. Additionally, it will facilitate the re-use and re-purposing of batteries for a second life, aligned with the circular economy approach.” - Enrico Mayrhofer of Project Coordinator Piaggio.

A Common Theme of Standards Engagement and Education

While our two projects may deal with different areas, they are united by a common mission: the need to engage and educate stakeholder groups in the important role that standards and standardisation play.

To help strengthen European organisations' and particularly companies' capacity in standardisation, the SEEBLOCKs.eu project has developed the Standards Visualisation Tool, which is a dynamic resource platform for stakeholders in standards education and training (e.g. suppliers of standards education resources such as universities, SDOs, research institutes, and resource users such as representatives of European industries, SMEs, teachers and students). The current topic areas covered by the tool are standardisation in general, ICT standardisation and blockchain standardisation. With the collaboration between our two projects, SEEBLOCKS.eu embarks on a journey to extend the tool’s focus to other areas. The collaboration will help to expand the tool's applicability to new thematic areas such as e-mobility and other key areas in the transport sector.

Stan4SWAP will contribute to the addition of new standards-related materials to new thematic sectors of the tool, as well as exploiting the more general resources in standards-related education. This is in line with the Stan4SWAP objective to increase stakeholders' engagement and establishing an active dialogue between the standardization community, industry and research.

The synergy created by this collaboration will lead to a richer set of offerings by the tool, as well as to an expansion and strengthening of the European standardisation community into a broader, multi-disciplinary ecosystem of standards-enabled innovation.

SEEBLOCKS.eu in a nutshell

•       Funded by the EU’s Digital Europe Programme under grant agreement No 101102718.

•       Project period: June 1, 2023 – May 30, 2025

•       Consortium: 4 partners from 3 member states

•       Website: https://seeblocks.eu/  

•       Twitter: @SEEBLOCKS_eu

•       LinkedIn: company/seeblocks-eu/ 

•       YouTube: @SEEBLOCKS_eu

•       Contact email: r.meneses@trust-itservices.com