NGI ASSURE’s 1st Open Call for bottom-up projects concluded resulting in thirteen finalists gaining access to overall €474 610 equity-free funding per project as well as business and technical support during the support programme.

After fierce competition, thirteen potential beneficiaries were selected from a total of 71 applications and currently are undergoing legal eligibility check. Pre-selected projects come from seven different EU countries and upon receiving legal confirmation will begin testing and validating their solutions within NGI ASSURE Business and Technical Support Programme.

Shortlisted Projects

1. GNUnet Messenger APIAPI for decentralized instant messaging using CADET
2. Adopting the Noise Key Exchange in ToxImproved security of Tox instant messaging with NoiseIK
3. Securing Shared Decentralised Live Information with m-ldCollaborative editing of LInked Data based on CRDT
4. GNUnetFormalisation within IETF of R5N Distributed Hash Table design
5. Peer-to-Peer Access to Our Software HeritageAccess Software Heritage data via IPFS DHT
6. The Libre-SOC Gigabit RouterNative Open Hardware chip implementation of crypto primitives
7. YrsCollaborative editing with CRDT written in Rust
8. Layer-2-OverlayGeneralising the GNUnet Layer-2 Overlay for broader usage
9. libresilientCreate robust web presence with service workers and DHT
10. Improving OpenSSH's Authentication and PKI through OpenPGPImproving SSH Authentication with OpenPGP transitive trust
11. Adding TPM Support to Sequoia PGPImplement use of TPM 2.0 crypto hardware for OpenPGP
12. Trustix
    Make build logs available as publicly verifiable, tamper-proof Merkle trees
13. TrustING
    Ultrafast AS-level Public-Key Infrastructure

Apart from receiving up to €50.000 equity-free funding per project, the winners are entitled to receive technical and business support, during a 6 to 12-months-long support programme.

NGI ASSURE Project goal is to support projects that design and engineer reusable building blocks for the Next Generation Internet as part of a complete, strong chain of assurances for all stakeholders regarding the source and integrity of identities, identifiers, data, cyber physical systems, service components and processes.

The consortium behind the project continues to organise further Open Call for applications with the next closing on 1st October. Applicants are welcome to submit their application here: https://ngi-assure-opencall.fundingbox.com

All interested parties are invited to join the NGI ASSURE community and follow the project’s Twitter and LinkedIn for the latest updates.

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