1 Report of the ICES2007 workshop on Education about Standardization in Delft, the Netherlands1

A few years ago, universities in Korea hardly spent any time on standards and standardization. Last year (2006), however, 87 standardization courses at 46 Korean universities were attended by 6681 students. Korea’s stance is that standards shape the market for products and services. As they want to increase their influence in the process of developing these standards and make their companies profit from standardization, they indeed understand the need for education. This report presents the main results of an international workshop on standardization education organized by the International Committee for Education about Standardization (ICES). ICES was established in Tokyo, February 6-8 2006 at an expert meeting on ‘The Future of Global Education in Standards. ' Experts from academia and industry from Asia, North America and Europe met to share ideas and learn from each other's education practices. The participants agreed that education about standardization globally is a subject worth pursuing, to meet once a year, to share knowledge and experiences, and to proceed under the name ICES. Figure1: Presentation on education content by Danbee Kim (KSA) just prior to the Group Decision Support exercise