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Nov 17 2023
NGI Search Brussels General Assembly
Nov 15 2023
NGI Forum 2023
Dates: 15-16 Nov. 2023
Place: Boulevard Auguste Reyers 80, 1030 Brussels, Belgium
Online registration required
NGI Forum 23 website: https://www.ngi.eu/event/ngi-forum-2023/
Paving the Way to a Trustworthy Internet of Humans
NGI Forum 2023 will bring together a wide range of researchers, innovators, industry representatives, policymakers, and users to discuss and reflect on the latest topics relating to ensuring an open, inclusive, trustworthy, and sustainable internet.
Discover cutting-edge technologies, exchange ideas, and collaborate with experts across several domains, such as trust and data sovereignty, digital commons, electronic identities, open source and open hardware, web 4.0, ActivityPub, metaverse and virtual worlds, distributed ledgers, etc. The event will feature keynote speeches, panel discussions, innovators’ presentations and pitches, technical workshops, policy debates, and networking sessions.
Save the date and stay tuned for updates including the NGI Forum 2023 Agenda.
Nov 10 2023
SFScon23

OW2 Conference Track
Date: Friday, November 10th, 2023, starting at 2 pm.
Venue: Seminar Room 2
Moderator: Noemi Maglio, Engineering Group
Oct 17 2023
The Open Call 2 NGI Searchers are announced

After a tough selection process, the NGI Search 2st Open Call results have been announced.
Discover the selected projects and listen to the OC2 NGI Searcher podcasts …
Open Search Symposium 2023
The Open Search Foundation is preparing the 5th Open Search Symposium bringing together the Open Internet Search community in Europe.
The #ossym Open Search Symposium series is an interactive conference which provides a forum to discuss and further develop the ideas and concepts of open internet search. Participants include researchers, data centres, libraries, policy makers, legal and ethical experts, and society.
Date: October 4-6, 2023
Venue: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland and Online.
Sep 13 2023
Open Call #3 First Webinar

Date: September 13, 2023, from 15:00 to 16:00.
Topic: Open Call Webinar OC3.1
Venue: Online
In this webinar, you will discover the list of topics for this third 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.
Aug 09 2023
Academy of Management Annual Meeting

Dates: August 4-8, 2023
Venue: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Website: https://aom.org/events/annual-meeting
Academy of Management is a leading professional association of scholars dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organizations. The Annual Meeting is the world's premier event for scholarly engagement, and the largest gathering of management and organization scholars in the world with over 10.000 attendees this year.
The NGI initiative and specifically NGI Search was presented during the Academy of Management annual conference. The NGI initiative was presented during one of the workshops organized there by Madalina Pop and Leonhard Dobusch – Unconferencing SAP. The aim of the presentation was to get feedback and input on setting up a research project on the organizing practices of the NGI Search beneficiaries. The project was received with interest and the audience offered a number of ideas of potential interesting research topics for the context that could help policy makers to further empower and help organize these communities.
Jun 23 2023
NGI Searcher Stickers
Here are a few examples of stickers designed for NGI beneficiaries according to the following instructions.
Jun 15 2023
NGI Search at OW2con'23
Date: 14-15 June 2023
Conference: OW2 Annual Conference
Place: Paris Châtillon, Orange Gardens
Number of attendees: 175
Mirko Presser, professor at Aarhus University and NGI Search coordinator, fosters OW2con'23 attendees to study the third open call to be open from 1 August to 2 October 2023. He gives key insights to open source designers and details about the first two open calls topics and beneficiaries including OpenFoodFacts, also present at the conference.
Jun 14 2023
OW2con'23 Press Release
NGI Search Supports Ten European Open Source Search Software
The first ten open source projects, selected after the NGI Search Open Call #1 early 2023,
are now supported by the consortium members and funded by the European Commission.
Paris, 14 June 2023 – OW2, the international community of open source software for information systems and Mirko Presser, professor at Aarhus University (Denmark) and NGI Search coordinator, a cascade funding project showcased at OW2con’23, are proud to support ten open source software projects that may change the way we search, discover and use data and resources in general on the internet and the web.
The first ten winners were selected after two months of evaluation, from among 62 eligible proposals, out of a total of 81 applications received. They have just signed an agreement including a support from the NGI Search project five partners and a funding from the European Commission up to 150,000 € per project.
Read the full NGI Search at OW2con'23 Press Release
Press Review
- 2023/06/27 in ZDnet.fr: NGI Search: la Commission européenne finance dix logiciels open source de recherche







