ELITE-S · Future Leadership in ICT Standards in Europe “ELITE-S”

Future Leadership in ICT Standards in Europe “ELITE-S”

Elite-s was a postdoctoral fellowship programme for intersectoral training, career development and mobility. It offered fellowships in technology and standards development addressing subject domains in AI (4), Data analytics (2), Cybersecurity (1), Future Networks/Cloud (1) and Semantic Web (2) that are relevant and impactful on societal issues and concerns. ICT standardisation research is of particular relevance to the EU’s Rolling Plan for ICT Standardisation, underpinning a single digital market and is very important to the economic growth of the ERA and ELITE-S provided the required research and leadership skills for our fellows to take on leadership roles in industry or academia in the Standardisation sphere. Fellows recruited under ELITE-S were of different nationalities across the globe, ensuring mobility of researchers and during their fellowships they could enhance their qualifications and develop their competencies by completing a research project in one of the 7 host institutions in Ireland. All 10 fellows addressed 5 of the 14 priority areas identified by the Irish state, those are: AI, Data analytics, Cybersecurity , Future Networks/Cloud, and Semantic Web. During all calls we followed the European Charter & Code for Researchers which is a set of general principles and requirements which specifies the roles, responsibilities and entitlements of researchers as well as of employers and/or funders of researchers. This standard was applied throughout the ELITE-S evaluation and selection process, guided by the principles of Excellence, Transparency, Fairness and Impartiality, and equitable selection procedure and underpinned by international peer review. The objectives of the programme were to: Provide a state of the art research environment in the area of ICT standardisation related to the programme’s core research areas that will stimulate and challenge researchers while developing them as research leaders of the future, provide with industry-specific training and secondments in priorities sectors including 5G, Internet of Things, Cloud computing, cybersecurity and data technology.

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