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Their core work

The Swedish Institute for Standards (SIS) is Sweden's national standardization body, responsible for developing, publishing, and maintaining Swedish, European, and international standards across industries. In H2020, they bring institutional authority that no research institute or technology company can replicate: a direct pipeline into ISO, CEN, and CENELEC processes that convert research outputs into recognized technical standards. Their H2020 contribution is focused on the security domain, where they join large multi-national consortia as the standards expert — ensuring that research findings are structured in ways that can eventually become binding or widely adopted technical norms. Their participation signals to any consortium that the path from prototype to standard-compliant deployment is built into the project from the start.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their earliest H2020 engagement (STAIR4SECURITY, 2019), SIS appeared as a third-party contributor to a broad exploration of how standards and security innovation interact — a wide-angle, advisory role. By their second project (STRATEGY, 2020), they had stepped into a funded participant role with a sharper mandate: pre-normative research and interoperability validation, the specific activities that immediately precede standard-writing. This shift from observer to active co-developer of pre-normative groundwork suggests SIS is deliberately positioning itself as an early-stage influence point in the EU security standards pipeline, not just a downstream ratifier of others' work.

SIS is moving upstream — from validating standards after research concludes to co-authoring the pre-normative framework that shapes what standards will be written, making earlier consortium involvement more valuable.

How they like to work

SIS has not led any H2020 project, which is consistent with their institutional identity as a facilitating body rather than a primary research driver — they are the standards expert that a consortium brings in, not the scientific coordinator. What is striking is that across just 2 projects, they have engaged with 27 unique partners in 13 countries, reflecting the inherently broad, multi-stakeholder nature of standards work: a standard that only a few organizations endorse is not a standard. Anyone considering partnering with SIS should expect to find themselves in large, geographically diverse consortia.

Despite just 2 H2020 projects, SIS has accumulated 27 unique consortium partners across 13 countries — an unusually wide network that reflects the multi-national requirements of credible standards development. Their network skews toward EU member states with active security research programs.

What sets them apart

SIS is the only national standardization body in Sweden's H2020 security portfolio, giving them a position no research institute or SME can fill: formal institutional standing in the European and international standards ecosystem (CEN, ISO). When they join a consortium, they are not just providing expertise — they are opening a direct channel to the standards-setting process that determines whether a technology becomes an industry norm or remains a one-off solution. For projects targeting regulated domains like security, critical infrastructure, or interoperability, SIS's participation is a credibility signal to evaluators that impact beyond the project lifetime is planned and feasible.

Highlights from their portfolio

• STRATEGY
  SIS's only funded H2020 role (EUR 91,875 as participant), directly aligned with their core mission of pre-standardization — a rare case where an org's project work and institutional purpose are perfectly matched.
• STAIR4SECURITY
  SIS's entry into H2020 as a third party, demonstrating their early positioning as a standards authority within the EU security research ecosystem before taking on a funded participant role.