***My apologies for cross-posting. But look at it this way - the more
often you get this call, the likelier it is of interest to you****
Dear All,
Those of you who have an interest in standards and/or standardisation
may find the Call below interesting (I certainly hope you do).
I look forward to receiving may submisisons form the members of this
group. And in case you've got any further questions - please do ask.
Cheers,
Kai.
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
18th EURAS Annual Standardisation Conference
- Standards: Boosting European Competitiveness -
24 - 26 June 2013
Brussels, Belgium
Submission deadline: 7 March 2013
Organised by the
European Academy for Standardisation (EURAS)
with the support of the
European Committee for Standardization CEN
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization CENELEC
European Telecommunication Standards Institute ETSI
Mutual economic dependence between nations is the corner stone of
European integration. The latter requires a European Single Market
without barriers to trade. European standardisation is a core instrument
to achieve this. Different standards per country, though voluntary, may
hinder trade. For products, most of these standards have been replaced
by single European ones and this is a major contribution to the Single
Market. Standards for the service sector still lag behind. Standards
prepared for the 'New Approach' (1985) and many other European
standards, not related to legislation, have been developed. Gradually,
the EU has discovered standardisation also as an instrument for other
purposes such as competitiveness, sustainability and innovation.
Meanwhile, it is time to evaluate this.
- Is there evidence for the contribution of standardisation to
competitiveness of single companies, business sectors, countries or the
EU as a whole?
- How does standardisation relate to achieving other policy objectives?
- How does standardisation relate to the European research agenda and to
innovation performance of companies, business sectors and countries?
- Do companies and other stakeholders still feel comfortable with
European standardisation or do they search for other ways to develop
standards such as by consortia?
- How do these European developments relate to developments in other
regions and at the international level?
These questions demand academic reflection from different angles. The
EURAS 2013 conference seeks to receive academic papers that analyse
standardisation and its role in boosting European competitiveness.
Together, these analyses will help contribute towards defining the
direction for future standardisation in Europe. Paper topics can include
but are not limited to the following four major themes:
History
- History of European standardisation
- Alignment between European and international standardisation
- Processes of European standardisation
- Linguistic aspects of European standardisation
Policy
- European policy and standardisation
- Relationship between European standardisation and legislation
- Alternative forms of standardisation such as consortia
- Standards and conformity assessment in Europe
Economics
- Standardisation for European infrastructures
- Standardisation and the functioning of financial markets and Europe's
financial system
- Role of industry and their associations in European standardisation
- Standardisation and Europe's competitive position
Research
- Standardisation and Europe's research and innovation agenda
- Impact of European standardisation and of other standards development
- Standards as a driver for innovation
- Market take-up of innovation through standardisation
EURAS conferences provide a platform for all those interested in
standardisation research. Therefore other standardisation papers not
specifically related to the conference theme are welcome as well. The
timing of this EURAS conference (24-26 June 2013) has been specifically
set to enable the attendance of non-European participants who are also
attending the International Cooperation for Education about
Standardization (ICES) workshop and the WSC (ISO/IES/ITU) Academic Day
to be held in Sophia Antipolis in Southern France from 12 to 14 June 2013.
Full papers (up to 30 double-spaced pages; pdf, rtf, .doc or .docx
format) should be submitted to Kai Jakobs at
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Authors of accepted papers are expected to serve as discussants upon
request. All papers will be reviewed (double blind) by members of the
Programme Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings, as part of the 'EURAS Contributions to
Standardisation Research' book series. Particularly good and relevant
papers will be fast-tracked to either the EURAS Yearbook or the
International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research
(JITSR). For more detailed information please consult the EURAS website
(www.EURAS.org).
Deadlines
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Paper submission: 7 March 2013
Notification: 28 March 2013
Final paper due: 24 April 2013
Organisers
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Ashok Ganesh, Andreea Gulacsi and Ingrid Soetaert (CEN-CENELEC
Management Centre)
Kai Jakobs and Henk de Vries (EURAS Board)
Programme Committee
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Justsu Baron (Sciences-Po, FR)
Knut Blind (Fraunhofer FOKUS & TU Berlin, DE; Erasmus University
Rotterdam, NL)
Axel Czaya (Helmut-Schmidt U., DE)
Tineke Egyedi (TU Delft, NL)
Vladislav Fomin (Vytautas Magnus U., LT)
Stephan Gauch (Fraunhofer FOKUS, DE)
Ian Graham (U. of Edinburgh, UK)
Jean-Christophe Graz, (UNIL, CH)
Christophe Hauert (UNIL, CH)
Eric Iversen (NIFU STEP, NO)
Kai Jakobs (RWTH Aachen U., DE)
Geerten van de Kaa (TU Delft, NL)
Arturas Medeisis (Vilnius Gediminas TU, LT)
Ivana Mijatovic (Belgrade U., SRB)
Anne Mione (U. Montpellier 1, FR)
Marta Orviska (UMB, SK)
Megan Quinlan (Imperial College London, UK)
Cesare Riillo (STATEC, LU)
Taavi Valdlo (Ministry of Economic Affairs, EE)
Henk de Vries (Erasmus U. Rotterdam, NL)
Marc van Wegberg (U. of Maastricht, NL)
Local Organisation and Enquiries
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Enquires on the event can be sent to Gulacsi Andreea ([log in to unmask]).
Conference Venue
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The EURAS Conference will take place in the CEN-CENELEC Management
Centre in Brussels, Belgium. http://www.cencenelec.eu/aboutus/
ourservices/MeetingCentre/Location/Pages/default.aspx
For more information about Brussels www.visitbrussels.be
For more information about EURAS http://www.euras.org
________________________________________________________________
Kai Jakobs
RWTH Aachen University
Computer Science Department
Informatik 4 (Communication and Distributed Systems)
Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
Tel.: +49-241-80-21405
Fax: +49-241-80-22222
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<http://www.comsys.rwth-aachen.de/team/kai-jakobs/>
EURAS - The European Academy for Standardization.
<http://www.euras.org>
The International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research.
<http://www.igi-global.com/ijitsr>
The 'Advances in Information Technology Standards and Standardization
Research' book series.
<http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=37142>
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