Ivan Moya Alcon (UNE) on The Importance of Standardisation for Raman Harmonisation

“Ultimately achieving the consideration of the project’s results in new or existing standards, developed under a recognised international standardisation organisation, will make a solid contribution to the harmonisation practices developed in CHARISMA.”

Iván Moya Alcón (UNE)

Could you please tell us a bit about yourself?

I have a degree in Chemistry and a master’s degree in Advanced Studies. Since 2008, I am the Programme Manager at UNE, the Spanish Association for Standardisation, monitoring, coordinating and promoting the development of standards at national and international levels and supporting the integration and implementation of standardisation activities in EU funded projects (Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe, Life+ and so forth).

How do you describe your role in the CHARISMA project?

My main role in CHARISMA is to link the project with the CEN/CENELEC/ISO/ IEC standardisation system to allow the resulting outputs to benefit from greater compatibility and impact.

I’m the leader of WP7 which is responsible for archiving this target by first gathering the relevant state of the art for Raman (with an overarching perspective) and secondly by promoting the results and approach of CHARISMA to be considered in international standards.

What is it about Raman spectroscopy and Raman-related technologies that interests you the most?

Raman is a promising technology with ground-breaking benefits in a surprising variety of fields today (and much more) in the future than can make a difference in many industrial and social applications. However, it needs harmonisation to increase the usefulness of its results and to deploy its full potential. Here is where the integration with the standardisation system can make a substantial contribution, being the standards a co-created and trusted language among industrial players, facilitating the acceptance of CHARISMA’s result and approach by the relevant stakeholders.

How can standardisation activities contribute to the main goal of CHARISMA?

Implementing standardisation activities in the environment of CEN/CENELEC/ ISO/IEC makes a relevant contribution to the harmonisation aimed by CHARISMA through points listed below:

Facilitating compatibility with accepted practices by identifying and promoting the use of relevant existing standards.
Maximizing dissemination to proper stakeholders by addressing the relevant actors of the standardization community.
Contributing with the findings and knowledge generated during the project to the standardization development in the field.
Ultimately achieving the consideration of the project’s results in new or existing standards, developed under a recognised international standardisation organisation, will make a solid contribution to the harmonisation practices developed in CHARISMA.