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NGI ASSURE’s 4th Open Call Announcement

NGI ASSURE’s 4th Open Call for bottom-up projects concluded resulting in thirteen finalists gaining access to overall €451 580 equity-free funding as well as business and technical support during the support programme.

olasawickagreen 28 de octubre de 2021
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NGI ASSURE’s 4th Open Call Announcement

After fierce competition, thirteen 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. Blink Qt Messaging

Add modern encryption to SIP softphone

  1. Earthstar

P2P protocol and APIs for collaborative and social applications

  1. Improve Okular digital signature support

Improve open source tooling for digital signatures

  1. Hyper Hyper Space

Cryptographically secure append-only distributed data layer

  1. Open MLS Infrastructure

End-to-end encrypted group messaging

  1. LIP6 VLSI Tools

Logical validation of ASIC layouts

  1. Securing NixOS services with systemd

Securing NixOS services with systemd

  1. Sequoia PGP

Improve interface of Sequoia PGP command line

  1. Libre-SOC Cavatools: Power ISA Simulator

Power ISA Simulator

  1. Datacenter packet classification extensions for Netfilter

High throughput packet classification of tunneled traffic

  1. Verified Reowolf

Formal protocol verification with Reowolf

  1. rasn

Safe ASN.1 codec framework for Rust

  1. Atomic Data

Typesafe handling of LinkedData

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.

About NGI ASSURE

NGI ASSURE is a Horizon 2020 project, part of the NGI Initiative, envisioning to re-imagine the Internet for the third millennium, embodiment of Human Values, resilient, trustworthy and sustainable. It hopes to achieve its vision by supporting 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, cyberphysical systems, service components and processes.

NGI ASSURE has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 957073

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