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Following the strong response to its inaugural edition in 2025, the WE NORM THE FUTURE | Summit returns this autumn. Austrian Standards will host a series of Expert Talks addressing key issues for Europe’s standardization community. Most of the Expert Talks will be held in German. Live audio translation and subtitles in English, French and Italian will be available throughout via the streaming page, making the discussions accessible to an international audience.
The Croatian Standards Institute (HZN) launched a LinkedIn awareness campaign entitled "Standards Behind Everyday Things" to demonstrate how standards contribute to people's daily lives in simple, practical and engaging ways.
Digital product information that is reliable and interoperable is becoming increasingly important for global supply and value chains. The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is emerging as a key enabler of this development, supporting the digital exchange of product-related information across markets and sectors and opening the door to digital services beyond. To ensure that DPPs can function seamlessly on a global scale, international standards are essential.
The Institute for Standardization of Serbia (ISS) had the pleasure of hosting Mr. Magnus Hakvåg, Chief Executive Officer of House of Knowledge, who visited ISS for the first time. During his full-day stay, he presented an innovative approach to education through the application of so-called “serious games”—educational games designed to facilitate knowledge acquisition and skills development.
As digitalization and the green transition continue to shape society, standards play an increasingly important role in ensuring that products and services are safe, reliable, accessible and fit for purpose. Alongside its core responsibility of developing and adopting standards, the Slovenian Institute for Standardization (SIST) places particular emphasis on engaging consumers and raising public awareness of the value of standardization. These activities illustrate how a national standards body can promote broader stakeholder involvement and increase awareness of the role of standardization in society.
Innovation is often associated with breakthrough technologies, disruptive business models, and visionary entrepreneurs. Yet the ability to transform an idea into a commercially successful product or service depends on something far less visible: the infrastructure that enables innovation to scale.
The Cyprus Organisation for Standardisation (CYS), under the auspices of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2026, successfully hosted the CEN and CENELEC Annual Meeting from 16 to 19 June 2026 in Agia Napa, Cyprus.
Standards. All of them. This was the starting point of "Standards4Future Skills – Hack Your Way Into the Industry", the Academic Standards Day organized by ASRO on 28 May 2026 at the "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iași, Romania, as part of the Edu4Standards project.
As announced in the previous edition of On the Spot, June was dedicated to Education for Standards. The first highlight was the first Austrian Academic Standards Day in Graz, where Prof. Dr. Karl Grün, Deputy Managing Director of Austrian Standards International, highlighted the strategic role of standards in translating innovation into practice, building trust, and connecting academia, industry, and society.
CEN and CENELEC welcome the Institute for Standardization of Moldova (ISM) as the newest Member of the two European Standardization Organizations. The membership has been confirmed and will enter into force in January 2027.