The Cooperation Platform for Research and Standards (COPRAS) was initiated by several European Standardization Organizations, including CEN, in cooperation with ICTSB, the coordinating forum for ICT standardization in Europe.
COPRAS was set up to address the challenge of better synchronizing the continuous technological development in ICT with standardization processes, thus making the benefits of these technological developments better and earlier accessible to industry and society.
Its mission therefore was to stimulate, facilitate and ease cooperation and exchange between current as well as future IST research projects and ICT standards organizations.
COPRAS has provided a set of generic guidelines to policy makers as well as to researchers. These guidelines should assist researchers in finding the way to standardization and will be considered by the STAIR group to generalize them beyond the ICT standardization sector.