Read the compilation of over 30 inspiring stories from the NGI innovators.

ONTOCHAIN Summit for Trustworthy Internet was a 2-day event focused on the ONTOCHAIN software ecosystem development. This was an opportunity to engage with the ONTOCHAIN community, which presented key software services, demonstrations and funding opportunities (grants up to €119.5k), and to join an open discussion on specific technological aspects that aim at trustworthy data exchange and knowledge management.

Discussion topics included the semantic marketplace, application-level proofs, tokenomics, cross-chain interoperability, oracles, and blockchain-based knowledge management.

IoT Week in Dublin 2022 showcased the impact of Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, quantum computing, AR/VR, Robotics, and new digital innovations. The future of IOT will undoubtedly create positive evolution in all sectors of activity, improving the way we live and work in a safer and more sustainable way.

NGI was at work building an internet for humans at the Dublin IoT Week 2022.

The Next Generation Internet initiative was present at May Contain Hackers, a large nonprofit outdoors hacker camp in Zeewolde, the Netherlands, on 22 to 26 July 2022. The event has a long and rich history, dating back to 1989. MCH was organised by volunteers from around the world, bringing together over 3500 people to attend hundreds of lectures, talks and workshops.

During the event, there were quite a few talks on NGI funded projects like ARPA2, Libresilient, IRMA, PDS Interop and Metapress-es. In addition, there were informal daily sessions on how to apply for grants to work on free and open source projects within NGI Zero and NGI Assure.

On June 29, the European Commission presented the 2022 Strategic Foresight Report "Twinning the green and digital transitions in the new geopolitical context", which builds on the JRC’s Science for Policy Report "Towards a green and digital future. Key requirements for successful twin transitions in the European Union".

Upcoming events, conferences and workshops featured by the NGI projects.

FIWARE GLOBAL SUMMIT 2022

When: 14 - 15 September | Where: Canary Islands, Spain
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WOLVES SUMMIT VIENNA​​​​​​​

When: 20 - 21 October | Where: Hybrid event/Vienna, Austria
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IGF 2022​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

When: 28 November - 2 December | Where: Hybrid event/Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Through an agile and flexible process, following the Horizon 2020 cascade funding mechanism, ongoing NGI Research and Innovation Actions (RIAs) provide support to projects from outstanding academic researchers, hi-tech startups and SMEs.

The NGI Map is an interactive tool that places you in the NGI Community to highlight your expertise/offering to other NGI community members, find new NGI partners for future ICT/NGI Calls, and show interest in cascaded funding/Open Calls - an easy and fast mechanism to apply for funding.

The NGI newsletter and portal are run by the NGI4ALL.E project, which is part of the NGI initiative. NGI4ALL.E has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Grant Agreement no 101069813. The content of these products don't represent the opinion of the European Union, and the European Union is not responsible for any use that might be made of such content.