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ISO, Standards and Education

UN/ECE Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies

Mr. Daniele Gerundino ISO Strategic Adviser to the Secretary-General

8 November 2012, Geneva (Switzerland)

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Agenda

1. ISO, Education and Academia

2. ISO Award

3. WSC Academic Day/Week

4. Cooperation NSBs/Universities

5. Application of the ISO Methodology EBS

6. ISO Repository of teaching materials

7. UNIGE-ISO Masters’ programme

ISO, Education and Academia

• Standards are an essential component of modern societies – a topic that should be covered by education

• The contribution of universities is particularly important:

- Teaching what is and what can be achieved through standardization

- Participating in the development of standards

- Developing research and studies on standards-related matters

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Today’s students are the managers and the professionals of the future

ISO Award

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2007 2009

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Good practices on cooperation between National Standards Bodies and Universities

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ISO/KATS regional workshop, Bali, 7-9 May 2012

Application of the ISO methodology to assess the economic benefits of standards – cooperation with universities

Projects run by ISO members in

various countries

Targeting interested companies

Conducted in cooperation with

academic institutions (internships

of students from Masters’ and

PhD programmes)

With coordination and support

from ISO/CS

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Repository of teaching materials

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…and of documents on standardization in education systems

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An interdisciplinary programme which involves three disciplines: sociology, management and economics

Focused on sustainable development – which needs the active involvement of all the actors likely to contribute to or to be affected by it

Highlighting the importance of the participatory processes involving public and private actors situated at various levels (“social regulation”), including the standard - setting practices that provide essential voluntary agreements

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1. Quantitative Methods

2. Methodologies of Public

Policy Assessment

3. Development

4. Economics of

Globalization

5. The Socioeconomic

Impact of Globalization

6. International Political

Economy of Standards

Setting

7. Sociology of

Contemporary Capitalism

Foundations

8. Participatory

Governance

9. Governance of Global

Supply Chains

10. Environmental Policy

11. Health Policy

12. Labour Market Policy

13. Organizations

14. Corporate citenzship

15. Voluntary

Consensus-Based

Standards

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16. Strategic Planning

of Sustainable

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17. Management

Systems Standards

for Sustainablity

18. Impact

Assessment and Risk

Management

19. Conformity

Assessment

5 Elective Courses 15 CREDITS

Internship + Thesis 18 CREDITS

Stucture of the programme

12 CREDITS 45 CREDITS

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ISO Deliverables

• Five courses (each one worth

3-credits, for 24 lecture hours)

• Over 2.000 PPT slides

• About 2.000 pages of selected

reading material

• Contributions of ~20 external

experts including senior

managers from international

organizations, companies,

NGOs and professors from

other universities

Implementation Plan 2013

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All available to ISO members

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