News and Press Releases

Sophia Antipolis, France, 28 October 2025

ETSI is pleased to announce the appointment of the new leadership team for the Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) Industry Specification Group (ISG) for its second two-year release, commencing 17 November 2025. The renewed leadership team will continue the work of accelerating ISAC pre‑standardisation efforts to facilitate 6G development and contribute to forthcoming specifications in key global standards, including 3GPP and IEEE 802.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 10 October 2025

If you missed the annual ETSI Security Conference, held from 6 to 9 October in the beautiful surroundings of ETSI headquarters on the French Riviera, you can still benefit from the presentations on the website.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 6 October 2025

Following the mission to Delhi in October 2024 by ETSI’s Director General, Mr. Jan Ellsberger, an ETSI Delegation is in India this week to engage with institutional and private partners and to take part in the India Mobile Congress 2025 in the context of the InDiCo-Global project.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 1 October 2025

On 1 October 2025, ETSI’s Director-General, Mr. Jan Ellsberger, and Chief Policy Officer, Mr. Martin Chatel, were honoured to meet with European Commission Executive Vice President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, Ms. Henna Virkkunen.

To Consolidate Current Standards and Address Future Market Needs 

Sophia Antipolis, France, 30 September 2025

The ETSI Board has recently approved the creation of a new Technical Committee on Quantum Technologies (TC QT) marking a significant milestone in ETSI’s commitment to advancing the underlying framework of standards for quantum technologies across numerous quantum-related domains.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 24 September 2025

ETSI is pleased to announce the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the European Communications Office (ECO) to enhance cooperation on ICT standards and regulations.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 19 September 2025

During the ITEA Award of Excellence ceremony this week, the IML4E (Industrial Machine Learning for Enterprises) project was honoured with the ITEA Award of Excellence for Standardisation. ITEA is the Eureka RD&I Cluster on software innovation. Among the projects it hosts, IML4E simplifies and scales the adoption of AI & MLOps in European industry through tools, methodologies, and an open, cloud-agnostic platform.

Sandra Feliciano, Dr George Sharkov, and Simon Phipps to lead ETSI’s EUSR Working Group developing European standards for the Act

Sophia Antipolis, France, 16 September 2025

ETSI is pleased to announce it has elected three new officials to lead EUSR Working Group within TC CYBER, a standardisation working group to support the EU Cyber Resilience Act. In response to a request from the European Commission in early June of this year, ETSI is facilitating the harmonisation of cybersecurity standards for digital products across the EU.  Its three new appointments, Sandra Feliciano (Chair), Dr George Sharkov (Vice-Chair), and Simon Phipps (Vice-Chair) bring a wealth of diverse expertise in standardisation, conformity assessment, SMEs and open source software development.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 09 September 2025

The ETSI Open Source MANO community is proud to announce OSM Release EIGHTEEN, a Long-Term-Support (LTS) release of OSM, meeting the established cadence of two releases per year and incorporating the latest innovations produced by the OSM Community.

OSM Release EIGHTEEN builds upon the architectural evolution of previous releases, further consolidating OSM as a cloud-native orchestrator for infrastructure, platforms, and services. This release introduces significant advancements in declarative operations, cluster management, and modular installation, reinforcing OSM’s position as a leading open-source orchestration solution.

Sophia Antipolis, 27 August 2025

ETSI published a response to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence for the Revision of the New Legislative Framework.