Call for ICT Standardization Experts and related Support Services for the GIST Project

Building on the proven success of projects SESEC and SESEI, the European Commission (DG INTPA lead with participation of DG GROW and DG CONNECT) together with CEN, CENELEC and ETSI are launching a project named GIST (Global Partnerships for Human-Centric Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Standardization).

Over a 48-month period ending in December 2028, the GIST project will seek to:

  • Strengthen long-term relationships between European Union (EU) standard-setting bodies and relevant standardization and regulatory bodies in selected partner countries and regions.
  • Promote EU digital standards and international digital standards aligned with EU values with green, gender responsive and human centric perspectives in each target country.

The targeted geographies are:

  • Indonesia (base location) and the Philippines
  • Kenya
  • Nigeria
  • Tunisia (base location) and Egypt
  • Colombia

with also some activities at regional level around the base country.

The above objectives will be reached through the establishment of an expert and an office in each of the five targeted geographies allowing the Partners to raise awareness of the European standardization system as well as to receive structured and focused information in Europe on the policy, regulatory and standardization landscape for Digital in the targeted geographies.

The deployment of experts on the ground will allow the Partners to establish or strengthen a consistent and durable relationship with local stakeholders. The presence of a team on-site will notably enable the Partners to anticipate developments requiring a reaction and to prepare such reaction based on a solid local network that will progressively be built in the context of the project.

Open calls for tender are now launched for Candidates to apply for the GIST Expert positions as well as for the provision of support services (mainly office and local project assistant).

Applicants should follow the instructions provided in the annexed calls for tender and apply with the relevant Country Lead contact points.

ETSI will be the lead for Indonesia (and the Philippines) as well as for Tunisia (and Egypt).

CEN will be the lead for Kenya, Nigeria and Colombia. CEN also acts as project coordinator for GIST.

The deadline for the submission of applications is 30 April 2025 end of day, and applications handled by ETSI should be sent to xavier.piednoir@etsi.org and copied to policy@etsi.org.

Applications handled by CEN should be sent to zchen@cencenelec.eu and copied to intcoop@cencenelec.eu.

Short-listed candidates will be interviewed by a committee composed by representatives of the Project Partners ETSI, CEN, CENELEC and the European Commission. Full details about the calls can be found in the Annexes linked below.