Rudi Bekkers

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 Read more

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. Read more

/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/. Read more

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. Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more