Description
The Spanish Association for Standardisation, UNE, plays a key role in boosting the quality, competitiveness, and trustworthiness of products and services through the development of technical standards. As Spain’s legally recognised national standards body, UNE manages one of the world’s most extensive standard catalogues, comprising over 32,000 standards, and coordinates the participation of more than 11,000 experts across 214 Technical Standardisation Committees. UNE also represents Spain in leading international and regional standardisation organisations, including ISO, IEC, CEN, CENELEC, ETSI, and COPANT.
The collaboration between UNE and HSbooster is strategic and multi-dimensional, with a shared focus on strengthening the link between research and standardisation across Europe. This partnership is especially relevant in the context of supporting EU-funded projects and fostering the development of standards that reflect emerging innovation.
Through its partner Dansk Standard, HSbooster has established direct contact points and a continuous dialogue with UNE. This engagement ensures an up-to-date and accurate understanding of the standardisation landscape and supports HSbooster’s goal of making standardisation more accessible to the research community.
A central and concrete element of the cooperation involves UNE’s role in the development of CEN Workshop Agreements (CWAs). UNE, along with UNI (Italy), is strategically preferred for its competitive secretariat fees and for the flexibility that allows projects from across Europe to collaborate regardless of geographical location. HSbooster.eu has supported this process by co-financing secretariat fees up to €10,000 for participating projects, such as ARISA project, which is working to define role and education profiles in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and i-Tribomat project, which aimed to develop a CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) in the field of tribology.
This ongoing cooperation underscores how HSbooster.eu mobilises national standardisation expertise to accelerate the transformation of European research into market-ready, standards-based solutions.