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ETSI Security Conference 2024

Sophia Antipolis, 18 October 2024

One of the event highlights of the year - the ETSI Security Conference – has closed its doors at the end of expert discussions on a range of cybersecurity standardization topics.

195 onsite attendees enjoyed presentations across multiple sessions, over three and a half days, as well as networking opportunities at the breaks - extending into the evening - during the ETSI hosted social events.


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ETSI Fellows 2024

Sophia Antipolis, 30 September 2024

Direct communications between vehicles, pedestrians and infrastructure based on 3GPP and ETSI TC ITS standards have been tested during the 4th C-V2X Plugtests™ interoperability event in Malaga, Spain, hosted by DEKRA (September 10- 13, 2024).

In partnership with 5GAA, this Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) and ITS technologies event attracted the participation of 24 companies and 82 experts – both onsite and via remote connections – with 94% of the planned tests, based on over 60 test scenarios, successfully completed.


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ETSI Fellows 2024

Sophia Antipolis, 11 June 2024

ETSI, the Standards People, are putting high emphasis on enhancing education to help prepare the next generation of standards professionals master tech standardization.

The European standardization organization provides a comprehensive set of high-quality educational materials on ICT standardization aimed at universities, NSOs and member organizations for training purposes. This comprises a textbook on ‘Understanding ICT Standardization’ which is complemented by a modular slide set allowing components to be used in a range of engineering, business, and law courses.

ETSI is pleased to announce a new collaboration with the Utrecht University Summer School on ‘Global Power and Technology’ covering ‘Competition, Innovation & Technological Advancement through Standardization in the EU’, taking place on 15-19 July 2024 in the Netherlands.


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ETSI Fellows 2024

Sophia Antipolis, 18 April 2024

ETSI is pleased to unveil its 2024 ETSI Fellows who were announced at the 83rd ETSI General Assembly on 16 April 2024.
The Award Committee, composed of the GA Chair and Vice-Chairs, the Board Chair and the ETSI Director-General, unanimously named Dr. Howard Benn, Mr. Philippe Magneron, Dr. Matthias Schneider, Mrs. Isabelle Valet Harper and Mr. Dirk Weiler, as ETSI Fellows 2024 for their outstanding personal contributions to the organization.



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In Memory of Thomas HAUG

Sophia Antipolis, 02 January 2024
*This article was updated with additional details on January 4, 2024.

In Memory of Thomas Haug 

All at ETSI are saddened to hear of the passing on December 9, 2023 of one of the great early champions of European mobile communications. Thomas Haug made a massive contribution to the work that led to the creation of ETSI in 1988, as one of the leaders in the Nordic project for cellular communication (NMT) and Chair of the CEPT* GSM group.


ETSI Open Source MANO announces Release FIFTEEN

Sophia Antipolis, 21 December 2023

The ETSI Open Source MANO community is proud to announce OSM Release FIFTEEN, meeting the well-established cadence of two releases per year. The OSM community delivers one Long Term Support (LTS) and one regular release every year, to ensure the OSM user base is provided with continuous innovations and production-ready stability.


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ETSI's Committee on Securing AI Decides on New Work

Sophia Antipolis, 7 December 2023 

In order to have the capability to directly contribute to standardization requests, which may include, but not limited to, the future AI Act, Cybersecurity Resilience Act and NIS2, it was decided to transfer the SAI Industry Specification Group into a Technical Committee.


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3GPP Commits to Develop 6G Specifications

As the project celebrates the 25th anniversary of the signing of the 3GPP Project Agreement, the 3GPP Organizational Partners have today issued the following joint press release.

Sophia Antipolis, 4 December 2023

With its work on 3G, 4G and 5G specifications used by billions of communications services consumers globally, 3GPP stands ready to create the 6G future.


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Pledge to Future Standardization Professionals

Sophia Antipolis, 30 November 2023

On 28 November, the ETSI General Assembly announced the appointment of a diverse group of 27 board members to serve a new three-year term. Dr. Markus Mueck, Intel Deutschland GmbH, was elected as the new Chair while Mr. Nick Sampson, Orange, Dr. Colin Willcock, Nokia and Dr. Thomas Zielke, BMWK (Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action) were elected as Vice Chairs during the board meeting on 30 November.