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BDI Position European Standardisation Strategy

pioneering role in standardisation and shaping the transformation towards a green and digital economy.

4. Standardisation and innovation are interrelated in many ways

The stronger involvement and use of Europe's RDI base for the identification and transformation of standardisation projects makes sense and is to be welcomed. With the "Standardisation Booster", for testing the relevance of scientific results for standardisation, the Commission is striking the right balance. This makes it possible to realistically analyse the interrelationship between standardisation and RDI in the run-up to each activity with regard to its market relevance. In particular, however, Standardisation Organisations must be cautious about assessing the innovation potential of possible standardisation projects.

5. Promoting young talent and strengthening the business location

With the proposed measures, the Commission aims to make an important contribution to the recruitment and training of standardisation experts. Raising awareness among students of business and technology-related courses of study lowers the hurdles to dealing with standardisation. It makes sense to take standardisation into account in the university education of business and technology-related courses of study. At the same time, the EU Academy, with the development and dissemination of online training materials, provides simple and low-threshold opportunities to teach the basics in the context of standardisation. For the implementation of these measures, the Commission should build on already available findings from relevant studies2 .

2 Motivation for and barriers against the inclusion of standardisation in European academic research and education and European market needs for education in standardisation/standardisation-related com-petence