Jun 11 2024
OW2con’24 Press Release
NGI Search Beneficiary Projects Hightlighted at OW2con’24
This year OW2 annual conference showcases NGI Search beneficiary outcomes with demos and discussions in the main Hall community corner, and during a dedicated breakout session.
Paris, 11 June 2024 - OW2, the international community of professional open source software is offering excellent networking opportunities to open source contributors and users, next June 11-12, 2024 at Orange Gardens in Paris-Châtillon.
The 15th edition of OW2con is bringing together developers, companies, academics and non-profit organizations. The conference also welcomes Tunisia as Invited Country and highlights three OW2 projects as Community, Market, and Technology OW2con’24 Best Project Awards. This event is made possible thanks to 12 open source sponsors: NGI Search, NGI Zero Commons Fund, Collabora Online, Huawei, Orange, Worteks, City of Paris, Rocket.chat, Xwiki, OnlyOffice, MAIF, and OpenUp.
During both days, more than 200 international developers have a chance to discuss with several dozens of speakers, partners and members of the community, including NGI Searchers. The central theme of this edition is “Funding Open Source Software and Digital Commons". All participants are able to find out more about the 5th NGI Search open call (June-July 2024) and ongoing NGI Zero Commons Fund EU open calls.
Read the full NGI Search at OW2con'24 Press Release …
Jun 05 2024
Content Creation Training
May 29 2024
Open Call #5 Press Alert
NGI Search launches its 5th and Final Open Call for Open Source Developers
The NGI Search project, funded under the European Commission's Horizon Europe programme, aims to support NGI Searchers, who will develop technologies and solutions centred on privacy and trust for end-users searching and discovering information on the Internet.
The project is part of Next Generation Internet (NGI), the European Commission's "Internet for Humans" initiative, which aims to transform the Internet of tomorrow into an Internet of humans that responds to people's fundamental needs.
With five European partners contributing to the project, NGI Search is launching its fifth and final Open Call for innovative projects, which is expected to be highly competitive.
Selected applicants will benefit from financial support of up to €150,000 and technical, business, and innovation support over a strict nine months to develop solutions that change how we use and experience, search, and discover data and resources on the Internet and the web.
The 5th Open Call managed through One Pass, the new Open Call Application Tracking System powered by FundingBox, will be launched on May 29th and will remain open until July 29th, 2024, at 17.00 CEST.
Note to applicants: you can raise all your doubts and questions in the NGI Search Community or via the project's dedicated email ngisearch@fundingbox.com, and project partners will get back to you very soon.
Good luck! Discover how to apply to this Open Call here: https://lc.cx/x6okoq
May 13 2024
The Open Call 4 NGI Searchers are announced
Date: Monday 13 May 2024
Time: 09:45-12:00
Place: OC4 KickOff Web Conference
This by invitation only event kicks off the NGI Search project beneficiaries from the open call #4.
Discover the selected projects and listen to the OC4 NGI Searcher podcasts …
May 06 2024
NGI Impact Benchmarked by Gartner Consulting
Title: Benchmarking the Impact of the Next Generation Internet Initiative
Author: Clémentine Valayer – Gartner Consulting
Date: April 2024
The NGI program has had a significant impact in shaping an EU tech landscape that is sustainable, sovereign, and aligned with EU policy and values. This benchmark study evaluates the impact of NGI projects based on criteria such as alignment with EU Digital rights, enabling EU legislation, impact on standardisation, provision of alternative solutions, and sustainability. The study aims to provide quantitative and qualitative insights into the NGI portfolio's performance and technological building blocks, as well as recommendations for the future evolution of the initiative. The findings aim to inform policy-making decisions and shape future work programs.
Apr 17 2024
StandUp Meeting #3
Date & Time: 17/04/2024 at 10:00 CEST
Place: Big Blue Button remote meeting
Attendees: 35
Audio presentations of TrustSearch Project, LabDiscovery Engine, and MetaVision
Apr 11 2024
Open Source Webinar by OW2 #1
Date: 11/04/2024
Time: 16:00
NGI Search funded project: Search-a-Licious (Open Food Facts)
Speaker: Alex Garel
Search-a-licious is the future Open Food Facts search engine: built upon open source libraries, with faceted search and ready to use widgets and SDK, it is designed in a generic way to be usable on any open dataset, and easy to deploy - so you can use it to power your own search engine!
Alex Garel is an early adopter of Linux and Python. He worked in different SMEs always promoting Open Source software and contribution to the eco-system. Although mainly a developper and tech lead, he always participated in a lot of tasks: from marketing or scrum master to machine learning or system administration. He joined Open Food Facts 18 months ago, where he also participates in a wide variety of tasks on software and community animation.
Search-a-Licious, an NGI Search funded project, by Alex Garel, Open Food Facts
Mar 21 2024
AlpOSS 2024
Date: 21 March 2024
Place: Echirolles, France
Website: https://alposs.fr/
Programme: https://alposs.fr/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Programme-AlpOSS-2024.pdf
Join the OW2 booth for more information about NGI Search final open call (June-July 2024) and NGI Zero Commons Fund first open call.
At 12:05, Pierre-Yves Gibello, OW2 CEO, will talk about "Your project with NGI Zero Commons"
Take this opportunity to finance your searching open source innovations and/or Next Generation Internet digital commons.
Mar 10 2024
Infosys 2024 Congress in Athens
Event: Evolving Internet 2024
Date: March 10-14, 2024
Place: Athens, Greece
More: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2024/INTERNET24.html
In the framework of Infosys 2024 Congress, in parallel with the Evolving Internet event in Athens, the NGI Search project led the OSS LLMs scientific conference.
LLMSDI: OSS LLMs and decentralized systems for Search, Discovery and Indexing on the Internet
Chair: Ph.D. Aurora González-Vidal, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Murcia, Spain
Co-Chair: Ph.D. Mirko Presser, Associate Professor, Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University. Denmark
Feb 20 2024
Open Call #4 First Webinar
Date: 9/2/2024 9:00-10:00 CET.
Topic: Open Call Webinar OC4.1
Venue: Online
In this webinar, you will discover the list of topics for this fourth Open Call, its scope, and ten services offered to beneficiairies. Join us and discover how, when and where to apply in order to receive up to €150,000 along with business and technical support during up to 12 months.
Ready to become an NGI Searcher? Attend this webinar presented by Mirko Presser, NGI Search Project lead.