We have put together a collection of resources on standards and education. This collection includes both teaching materials as well as resources that describe how standardization can be integrated into education.

The ISO repository of teaching materials is a list of existing teaching materials on standardization, with details of the authors and publishers. This materials have been divided into two groups:

• materials for primary and secondary education, and
• materials for university level education.

Teachers and standards professionals can use this tool to access information that can help them in designing and delivering courses on standards matters. In addition, the repository will help optimize the use of resources, facilitate the re-use of existing materials and highlight new subject matters to be addressed in the future.

This section contains a collection of articles, policy documents, academic research articles that describe how standardization is integrated into education in various countries. Additionally, it comprises an overview of initiatives related to educational initiatives, training and awareness raising on standardization and related topics.

Please note, the majority of material in these repositories is not published by ISO. Please contact the publisher in order to find out more about how to use this material, licensing fees etc.

ISO Award for Higher Education

The ISO Award for Higher Education was started in 2007 to promote and support higher education institutions running successful programmes that raise awareness of the benefits of International Standards. Every two years, a selection panel including representatives from academia, economics and the media, choose a higher education institution that is leading the way in education about standards.

Past winners

• 2011 - Ecole de technolgie supérieure, Canada – read more in the press release about 2011’s award winner
• 2009 - Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands – read more in the press release about 2009’s award winner
• 2007 - China Jiliang University, People's Republic of China – read more in the press release about 2007’s award winner
  

WSC Academic Day

The WSC Academic Days are designed to promote dialogue between universities and the international standards community, to raise awareness and to foster cooperation and joint initiatives.

This year's event was held in Bali, Indonesia. Read more about the 2012 event.

Promoting cooperation between standards bodies and education institutions

As part of our work with members in developing countries we aim to better integrate standardization into educational curricula.

In order to do this we are:

• organizing a series of regional events supporting developing countries to set up or strengthen university courses on education about standardization,
• committed to developing a publication ("Good practices on cooperation between standards bodies and education institutions") based on the outcome of the above regional events.

More information can be found in ISO's Action Plan for Developing Countries.

The first regional workshop of this kind "Enhancing collaboration between national standards bodies and academia", was organized in Bali (Indonesia), on 7-9 May 2012. The workshop covered the South Asia and South-East Asia regions, and was co-sponsored by ISO and the national standards body of the Republic of Korea, KATS. The summary of the outcome of the workshop represents a first step towards the development of a general ISO publication describing guidelines and good practices on the matter.

At the ISO General Assembly 2012, held in San Diego (USA) from 17-22 September, a break-out session was devoted to Education and Standardization.

Contribution to postgraduate courses

We also contribute to the University of Geneva Masters' programme Standardization, Social Regulation and Sustainable Development. The masters is an interdisciplinary programme including sociology, management and economics. It is developed in partnership by the University of Geneva, ISO and SNV (the Swiss national standards body).

The programme focuses on sustainable development and in particular the idea that development processes need the active involvement of all parties likely to contribute to or to be affected by them. It underlines the importance of the participatory processes involving public and private actors at various levels ('social regulation'), including the standard-setting practices that provide essential voluntary agreements supporting the dissemination of knowledge, best practices and monitoring tools.

All teaching materials developed by ISO for this programme are available to the ISO members.

ISO also cooperates with the Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) of the University of Geneva and the Haute École de Gestion (HEG) of the Haute École Spécialisée de la Suisse Occidentale (HES-SO), on the Diploma of Advanced Studies (DAS) on Sustainable Management.