1. Summary of report   2.         1. Purpose         2. There are two main purposes of this report: the first is to review the current standards and specifications which exist or are being developed, which are relevant for the establishment of Europe-wide trusted services; the second is to put forward a roadmap for future standards development work.         3. Status## The area of standards development is always changing: existing standards are improved; new standards are introduced. This report refers to the state of standards and specifications activities at the beginning of April 1997. The report has been produced following review of work in a number of standards related organisations:    *          o International Standards Organisation (ISO)          o Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)          o European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)          o European Committee for Standardisation (CEN).## The environment in which standards are produced and the motivations for standards have been considered.The work of a number of industry groups has also been reviewed.A number of projects funded by the European Commission have also been reviewed, in order to identify possible action to bring their results into the standards area.   1.         1. Priorities for action         2. The main conclusions of the report and recommendations for action fall under two headings: content of standards and processes for their production. A more detailed roadmap is within the report. The underlying conclusion is that the technical standards, while not completely and formally ratified, are well advanced; what is required is a focus on implementation of applications using trusted services.

Building Trust

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Have you any ideas for this call for proposals?

Transversal Programme

Key Activity 3 – Development of Innovative ICT-based Content, Services, Pedagogies and Practice for Lifelong Learning

General information on Key Activity “ICT”

Information and communications technologies (ICT) are powerful tools for improving the quality and the ease of access to education and training. Developing innovative ICT solutions to promote better education and training throughout a citizen’s life is a special focus of the Lifelong Learning Programme.

http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/llp/ict/index_en.html

Environment call

http://ecentres.net/RMENV

Identifier: FP7-ENV-2008-1 Budget: € 212 000 000 Deadline: 25 February 2008

Area 6.1.3.2. Vulnerability assessment and societal impacts

ENV.2008.1.3.2.1. Natural Hazards: Social perception, behaviour and responses to risks

The aim of this action is to contribute to a better assessment of risk perception of societies and communities confronted by natural disasters.

The project should identify and assess key studies, initiatives, best practices and existing legal tools in order to elaborate strategies and recommendations for actions to improve capacity building, preparedness and resilience of the society in the context of natural hazards.

Gaps in research in these fields need to be assessed.

Education on disaster prevention and awareness raising of the society as a means to improve social perception and change behaviour needs to be considered in a multidisciplinary context.

The actions described under this topic could be mainly organised by means of small workshops enabling synthetics vision papers, guidelines and recommendations to be elaborated.

Funding scheme: coordination and support actions (coordinating type)