International Research
Mandat International is actively supporting international research projects, including as coordinator and research partner in areas such as:
- ICT research: Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, IPv6, 5G, etc.
- Sustainable Development: smart cities, smart water management, environmental impact studies, etc.
- Privacy and data protection: GDPR, cybersecurity, data protection impact assessment, etc.
- Data analytics and data spaces: data interoperability, open APIs, open science, etc.
- Research infrastructures: testbed federation, testbed as a service, conformance, interop and performance tests, etc.
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Our support and contribution to research projects
Our multidisciplinary team of researchers can support projects with a comprehensive set of expertise, including:
- Data protection and regulatory compliance with European regulations (GDPR, NIS, ePrivacy, AIA, MDR, etc.) and international norms. It also brings expertise in data protection impact assessment and privacy by design technology development.
- Open Science, data management and curation, including FAIR and Open Science principles in line with the UNESCO declaration principles for open science. We provide our own CKAN open data servers infrastructure connected to EOSC, and we are used to lead Data Management Plans.
- Citizen science, co-creation and privacy-by-design end-user validation with innovative cocreation methodologies and tools to engage with end-users in a fully privacy by design manner.
- Sustainable development, SDG and impact assessment with specialized methodologies. Thanks to its special consultative status to the UN, our foundation can serve as an interface between projects and the international agenda for sustainable development.
- Standardization: Our team is actively engaged in international standardization with experience at ITU, ISO, IEC, ETSI, OGC, IETF, IEEE, W3C and TM Forum. We have served as Rapporteur at the ITU on research and emerging technologies and have led the development of several new international standards. We are used to coordinate and lead standardization strategies for research projects.
- International outreach and communication: Our team is used in leading outreach and communication for research projects, including through international conferences such as IoT Week, Digital Around the World, Global IoT Summit, and Privacy Symposium, for which we play a central role in the organizing. We can also leverage our role in various international fora and our consultative status to the UN to disseminate research results globally. We also support the plans for dissemination, communication, standardization, and exploitation.
- Internet of Things and multi-protocol interoperability: Our team has strong expertise in IoT multi-protocol integration, with over 50 IoT standards and communication protocols.
Academic Freedom Charter
Mandat International has led the development of an Academic Freedom Charter, which can be freely used by educational or research centres. Academic freedom is a fundamental right and a key requirement for the development of open and democratic societies. It aims at developing and sharing knowledge. It also aims at developing intellectual skills enabling individuals to think by themselves, contribute to the society, and support its progress. Academic freedom is indissociable from the freedom of expression enshrined in article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the right of access to information recognised by the UNESCO and the World Summit on the Information Society, and the UN Sustainable Development Goal 16 to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. Academic freedom is also essential to differentiate knowledge from opinions and beliefs. It allows to confront theories and opinions to factual evidences, critical thinking, logics, and reasoning. It enables to develop sound, useful, and reliable knowledge anchored in the reality, that is free from cognitive, religious, and political biases.
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