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NGI ASSURE 3rd Open Call Finalists Announcement

Meet 11 finalists of the 3rd round of funding who will change the Internet we know.

olasawickagreen 13 de octubre de 2021
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NGI ASSURE 3rd Open Call Finalists Announcement

NGI ASSURE’s 3rd Open Call for bottom-up projects concluded resulting in eleven finalists gaining access to overall €446 600 equity-free funding as well as business and technical support during the support programme.

After fierce competition, twelve potential beneficiaries were selected from a total of 41 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. neuropil

DHT based overlay network

  1. Naisho

Efficiently combine end-to-end encryption with CRDTs

  1. Sequoia GPG Chameleon

Implement well-known API's for using OpenPGP

  1. Peppol for the masses

Hybrid self-hosted e-invoicing with decentralized identities

  1. TypeCell

CRDT-based collaborative block-based editor

  1. Hardening OpenPGP CA deployments

HSM support for OpenPGP key infrastructure

  1. Gosling

Generic Onions Services Library Project

  1. Distributed Mechanism Learning

Privacy preserving ways of distributed data usage

  1. Full-source GNU Mes on ARM and RISC-V

Expand full-source bootstrap to other CPU platforms

  1. Gash

Port Gash to GNU Mes for auditable bootstrap

  1. GNU Mes Tower

GNU Mes with alternative scheme implementations and WASM

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 December. 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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