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Standards shape everyday products—from safety equipment to digital services.

How can open data move from policy ambition to real-world impact? InDiCo-Global’s recent webinar explored this question with experts from Europe and partner regions, highlighting practical challenges and emerging solutions in digital government.

By printing living cells layer by layer, this emerging technology can create biological tissues and could one day enable patient-specific organs that are fully compatible with the body.

We are pleased to inform you about the upcoming CEN and CENELEC activities in 2026.

To mark International Women's Day 2026, the International Federation of Standards Users (IFAN) organized a special webinar and released new conversations through the recently launched IFAN Podcast, highlighting the contribution of women to the global standardization system.

Over the last few months, CEN and CENELEC have been reaching out to the European Parliament regarding the drafting of the European Competitiveness Fund (ECF) and the 10th EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP10, 2028-2034), the successor to Horizon Europe. Together with national Members, CEN and CENELEC will continue to reach out to the Members of Parliament in the ITRE committee to convince them to build on the European Standardization Strategy and the Guiding Principles of Knowledge Valorisation and Code of Practice on Standardization in the European Research Area (full article here).

The February issue of the CEN and CENELEC newsletter 'On the Spot' is out now!

We are pleased to inform you about the upcoming CEN and CENELEC activities in 2026.

ANEC has sent its response to the EC consultation on the evaluation and possible revision of the Market Surveillance Regulation (EU) 2019/1020.

From construction sites and chemical manufacturing plants to firefighting and emergency response operations, many workers face hazardous environments where respiratory safety is a matter of life and death.