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Young professionals bring new energy, ideas, and skills to European standardization. As our society undergoes rapid transformations, their contributions are key to ensuring that standards remain relevant, forward-looking, and impactful.
It is again time to celebrate the contribution of research to standardization as well as the important contributions that bring standardization into the classrooms.
Every year, the European Week of Sport takes place from 23 to 30 September, encouraging people across Europe to embrace a more active lifestyle. This year’s campaign highlights that physical activity can take many forms and should fit each person’s circumstances. Whether you walk, cycle, run, swim or simply play, standards help make physical activity safer and more enjoyable.
CEN and CENELEC are pleased to share the report from the joint CEPS event, "From Research to Market: Standardization in FP10 and the European Competitiveness Fund (ECF)", held in Brussels on 10 September 2026. The event brought together policymakers, researchers, industry representatives, SMEs and standardization experts to discuss how standardization can strengthen the impact of European research and innovation and support Europe's competitiveness. More than 100 participants attended the event.
A new CEN Workshop is being established to provide much-needed guidance for ammonia refuelling points and bunkering for ammonia fuelled vessels. The project’s vision is to capture industry best practices for the safe use and storage of ammonia as a marine fuel.
CEN is happy to announce that it has published a new edition of EN ISO 9001 ‘Quality Management Systems – Requirements’ in parallel with ISO. As the European adoption of the world’s most widely used quality management standard, EN ISO 9001:2026 supports organizations in applying a common, internationally recognized framework for quality management across Europe.
Artificial Intelligence is transforming the way we work, learn, and innovate. At the same time, its rapid development raises important questions about the skills and ethical foundations needed to use AI effectively and responsibly.
The recently published CEN/TS 18272-1 ‘Textiles – Circular economy for textile products – Part 1: General principles and guidance’ provides a common European framework for applying circular economy principles to textile products and the textile value chain. It brings together key principles, terminology and guidance, helping stakeholders develop a shared understanding of circularity in the textile sector.
A new CEN Workshop is being established to build upon the innovative outcomes of the European research project FLEXCRASH (Flexible and hybrid manufacturing of green aluminium to produce tailored adaptive crash-tolerant structures). The project’s vision is to advance the crash resistance while contributing to the lightweighting of vehicle body parts.
Medical device labels contain a remarkable amount of information in a very limited space. To help ensure that critical information can be understood regardless of language or geography, manufacturers rely on internationally recognized graphical symbols to replace text that requires translation. One of the most widely used standards supporting this practice is EN ISO 15223-1 ‘Medical devices — Symbols to be used with information to be supplied by the manufacturer — Part 1: General requirements’.