NGI Sargasso Collaborates with the EU-funded Project FORGING, Promoting a Human-Centered Methodology for Industry 5.0
The NGI Sargasso initiative, a unique collaborative ecosystem and program for promoting the Transatlantic cooperation for Next Generation Internet technologies with a human-centric approach, has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to join the EU-funded project FORGING in shaping a human-centered methodology in alignment with Industry 5.0.
Technological breakthroughs empowered by enabling technologies hold a transformation potential that can be funnelled to address industrial and societal grand challenges, like greening and digitalization. To exploit this transformative potential, the innovation journey that leads new emerging technologies to their market-uptake shall embed since its early value-sensitive considerations, such as environmental and societal implications.
FORGING proposes a pioneering methodology based on a value-sensitive innovation process to promote technological paths that are attentive to the environment and society. The project is focused on the human being in parallel with the technical context of Industry 5.0. To maximize the impact of the proposed action plan, FORGING acts in parallel as a hub for synergies, serving as a platform where projects with aligned missions can communicate with relevant stakeholders.
Upcoming FORGING Workshops in June 2024
FORGING has launched a new in-person workshop series that combine different disciplines to stimulate new technological pathways attentive to the environment and society: “Novel Enabling Technologies for a Sustainable Future”, diving deep into Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cybersecurity, in the Italian city of Rome:
- Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (12-13 June) – REGISTER HERE.
- Workshop on Cyber Safe Data Transmission, Storage and Analysis Technologies (13-14 June) – REGISTER HERE.
These workshops are a great opportunity for the following stakeholders to co-define use cases of enabling emerging technologies in a sustainable and responsible way:
- Technology providers: researchers from RTOs and academia and start-ups with technologies from the targeted technological frameworks: AI and cyber safe data transmission, storage and analysis.
- Technology adopters or users: they can be from any industry.
- End user associations: they could be worker councils from manufacturing industries in a use case of AI in manufacturing process or a citizen association working on use of AI in insurance.
The travel and accommodation expenses will be reimbursed.
If you are interested, we invite you to find out more about the FORGING upcoming events.
NGI Sargasso Open Call 3 Results: 73 Innovators Willing to Create an Internet of Trust
73 is the number of submitted proposals coming from European, US and Canadian innovators willing to create an Internet of Trust. On the 15th of May at 17:00 CEST / 10:00 CDT, we closed our Open Call 3, looking for startups and SMEs, Universities and RTOs and NGOs and Foundations from both sides of the Atlantic to join us in our mission shaping a more human-centric Internet for our future generations.
Out of the 73 submitted projects from joint teams from a European country and the United States or Canada, 46 are ideas from SMEs and startups; 11, from universities; 6, from NGOs; 4, from RTOs; 2, from foundations, and 4 more, from other type of organizations.
Regarding the country of origin of the submitted projects, the top 3 list of a total of 26 European countries is as follows:
- France: 12.
- Spain: 9.
- Italy: 6.
This list is followed by Slovenia (5); Austria, Germany and Greece (4); Ireland, Netherlands and Romania (3); Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia and Turkey (2), and one project coming from each of these countries: Czechia, Finland, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
The NGI Sargasso Open Call 3 Addressed Challenges
A total of ten challenges were addressed by our innovators in our third open call:
- Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Across Continents.
- Harmonized Cross-Atlantic Digital Governance.
- Inclusive Public Digital Spaces for Global Community Engagement.
- Enhanced Data Security and Privacy in Transcontinental Perspective.
- Interoperability and Standardisation Across Borders Description.
- Global Implementation of Decentralised Technologies.
- Next-Gen Cybersecurity and Generative AI.
- Next Generation Space Based Internet.
- Redefining Intelligence in a Hyperconnected World.
- Open Challenge for Next Generation Internet Description.
Two more NGI Sargasso Open Calls in 2024 with up to €100,000 equity-free funding per beneficiary
As a unique collaborative ecosystem and program for promoting the Transatlantic cooperation for Next Generation Internet technologies, we will launch two more open calls in 2024, so stay tuned to our social media to discover more:
- Open Call 4: Summer 2024.
- Open Call 5 (our last call): Autumn 2024.
After being carefully reviewed by external evaluators, NGI Sargasso selected beneficiaries can get up to €100,000 equity-free funding, access to an up to 9-month Capacity-Building Program with e-lessons and inspirational talks from industry experts, and services from top mentors and coches who guide them during the whole program duration. Besides, the NGI Sargasso innovators also get invited to join a +3,000 members community of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative.