Speaking at EPO Patents and Standards event
On 14 May 2025, I will speak at the Patents, standards and innovation: securing Europe’s competitive edge conference by the European Patent Office (EPO) in Paris, France
Adressed the European Council
I was honoured to be invited by the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union to address the Council on the topic of technical harmonization on 14 November 2024 in their main seat at the Justus Lipsius building in Brussels.
Interview published on cloud standards
/On 24 October 2024, iBestuur, a journal frequently read by government officials, published an interview of Larissa Zegveld and myself about the need for standards for cloud computing https://ibestuur.nl/artikel/open-cloudstandaarden-zijn-een-must/.
Winner of the prize of best BSc teacher TU/e!
I am honoured to be the recipient of the prize for the best bachelor’s teacher at Eindhoven University of Technology! At MomenTUm 2024, our university’s academic ceremony of the year, with an audience of several thousand, I got the award from our rector magnificus, Silvia Lenaerts.
HLF conference Education on standardisation in Europe
As the chair of Workstream 1 of the EC High-Level Forum on Standardisation, I am proud to announce the conference Education on standardisation in Europe we are organising on June 17-18 in Delft, Netherlands. With over 30 speakers and participants from the HLF, European National Standards Bodies (NSBs) and academia, we will discuss the steps…
Kick-off edu4standards.eu
On 22 and 23 January 2024, we had the official kick-off of the edu4standards.eu project. This large Horizon-2020 CSA project aims to contribute significantly to the development and use of education on standards in Europe. Eindhoven University is one of the project partners and will specifically contribute to in-company training, whish are important to bring…
Pledge on Education on Standards signed in Brussels
On 30 November 2023, at the meeting of the EC High-Level Forum on Standardisation, 22 EU Member States and 26 organisations signed a pledge on Education and Skills on Standards. These parties have committed themselves to offering traineeships, developing teaching modules, or carrying out other actions to further education on standards in Europe. This pledge…
Three papers at GEOINNO 2024
At the GEOINNO 2024 conference in Manchester (10th – 12th January 2024), three new papers were accepted which I co-author. See the Conferences page for more details.
Talk at DIN
On 28-29 September 2023, I will speak about standards education at the DIN event Durchstarten mit Normung, Berlin.
Conference papers EPIP23
At EPIP23 (11-13 September, Krakow) I have three papers accepted (see conferences)
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