Month: February 2025

Discover the Last 13 NGI Sargasso Innovators from our Open Call 5 Creating an Internet Of Humans Across Continents

Three months ago, we closed our Open Call 5, the last of the NGI Sargasso cascade funding program. It was the 25th of November 2024 when 104 Transatlantic teams submitted their ideas for our call, which meant that 104 innovators were willing to join us in our mission of shaping an Internet of Trust with a human-centric approach for our generations to come.

After being reviewed by external evaluators, 13 teams that submitted their ideas on the 25th of November started today their NGI Sargasso OnCampus Program to kick-off their projects to build the Next Generation Internet. Keep reading the article to discover them!

Welcome to your Next Generation Internet Transatlantic journey!

1. AAA: 3A - Authenticated Anonymity Architecture

The 3A - Authenticated Anonymity Architecture project (AAA) aims to provide a decentralized architecture to defend the right of lawful individuals to be anonymous online, while also protecting society from criminals exploiting anonymity to carry out illegal deeds undisturbed.

Implementation and deployment of a blockchain-based software architecture for ethical, robust, and authenticated anonymity. This enables the creation, management, and distribution of authenticated anonymous accounts for Internet use, with mappings between real identities and anonymous accounts stored in the blockchain, resolvable only when multiple legal jurisdictions agree on misuse. This team aims to perform a large-scale performance analysis and present a concrete testbed to public administrations.

2. ARC: Cancer Patient Application Powered by Generative AI (starting with CRC)

Arcella’s AI-powered Cancer Patient App is a cutting-edge medical device that empowers patients and healthcare providers with personalized insights, real-time data analysis, clinical trial matching, and health tracking, supporting informed decisions and enhancing personalized, holistic cancer care.

ARC focus is the development of an advanced, interactive Cancer Patient App — a state-of-the-art Medical Device powered by Gen- AI. This app is designed to empower both patients and healthcare providers, delivering personalized insights and enhancing care through real-time data analysis. By integrating tailored info, clinical trial matching, and health tracking features, they aim to support informed decision-making, foster patient engagement, and provide holistic care tailored to each patient’s journey.

3. ArcFusion: Agentic AI Analytics and Global Shopfloor Connectivity

Bridging the gap with precision and agentic AI, empowering SMEs to tier-1manufacturers with seamless AI analytics and real-time MES integration.

ArcFusion combines precision AI, agentic AI, and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) to empower Tier 1-3 manufacturers and SMEs with advanced shopfloor analytics. It enhances global operational efficiency, unlocks market opportunities, and delivers automation, user empowerment, and scalable AI access for non-technical users, driving faster time-to-market and improved productivity. Integration of agentic and precision AI supports next-gen shopfloor AI systems, moving beyond state of the art.

4. COAT: Comprehensive Online Agreement Transparency (COAT) Toolkit

COAT Toolkit is a toolkit for empowering data education of online users with clear and understandable explanations of complex online agreements, to ensure data privacy and promote accountability.

COAT (Comprehensive Online Agreement Transparency) toolkit is designed to interpret and simplify complex online agreements. It is an AI-based system that leverages models such as Natural Language Processing to analyze dense legal documents about privacy policies, translating them into user-friendly concepts and ranking by a privacy risk score. COAT manages users’ accepted agreements, notifies them of privacy policy updates, and promotes online transparency, awareness, and accountability.

5. COBOTPLANET: Connected Robotics Platform for Autonomous Networks

This project will develop an innovative platform for the management and orchestration of autonomous 5G networks comprising intelligent connected robots for sensing and connectivity.

COBOTPLANET will develop a first-of-its-kind platform for the management and orchestration of 5G wireless networks comprising intelligent nodes (i.e. robots). In general, two main challenges in this project will be addressed: the management of the robots in the network to assist the network with sensing and connectivity services offered to the users, and network management for serving robots as terminal users for reliable robot-to-infrastructure connection in mission-critical scenarios.

6. DecentraLabs: Decentralized Online Laboratories for Education and Research

Making online labs sustainable through the application of decentralized technologies.

Online labs (OLs) may be used for both research and education, by anyone, from anywhere. In principle, this supports all type of experimentation activities in the contexts of Open Science and Open Education. In practice, however, extremely few lab devices are shared for either purpose due to several limiting factors. This project proposes applying decentralized technologies to overcome all these limitations and create a business case for sharing OLs across institutions and keep them operative.

7. DeepShield: Transatlantic Cooperation for Fighting Deepfakes Online

Bridging transatlantic expertise, Truebees and Purdue University (VIPER) collaborate to advance deepfake detection, transforming cutting-edge research into market-ready solutions and ensuring compliance with deepfake regulations on both sides of the Atlantic.

This project creates a new connection between Truebees and Purdue University (VIPER) to cooperate by merging AI-based deepfake detection in challenging real world case settings with advanced media authentication methods. Their goal is to ensure that users and media companies can confidently share trustworthy content and have verifiable proof of its authenticity. This collaboration leverages top-tier research and innovation to set a new Transatlantic standard in digital media integrity.

8. DPDB: Towards a Standard Interface for Differential Privacy Systems with Database Interoperability

Establishing a cross-compatible, privacy-preserving approach for differential privacy systems interfacing with diverse database engines.

Many current differential privacy solutions either rely on proprietary data engines, limited processing capabilities, or support only specific database environments, restricting scalability and flexibility. This project proposes a standardized approach to link DP frameworks that handle privacy-preserving noise injection with robust, scalable database engines, supporting large-scale data analytics across platforms and enhancing interoperability in privacy-focused data sharing.

9. FUSION: Facilities Using Sustainable Integrated Operations Network

FUSION is a project creating a new embedded IoT platform that can handle the interconnection of different smart devices/services and other services provided by existing facility service companies along with the new services from the integration of a SaaS AI/ML tool for the HVAC/lighting systems.

Residential digitalization is a major issue. FUSION aim is to create a sustainable digital infrastructure of an IoT platform connecting present different building facilities services and a new Building Energy Management system (c-BEMS) tool on HVAC/lighting (presently each operates in its own IoT platform) towards expansion of these services and confronting challenges such as energy efficiency, sustainable cities and climate change.

10. G-SIGN - IP: Global Smart InterGovernment Network (for Secure Data Exchange): Piloting for Intellectual Property Services

G-SIGN - IP aims to create a secure, reliable global network (G-SIGN) using blockchain and AI for authentication, authorization, and data exchange, with pilot use case on intellectual property (IP), enabling resilient, decentralized, and secure cross-border data exchange between Turkey and the USA.

G-SIGN-IP will use blockchain and AI to create a secure cross-border network for authentication, authorization, and information sharing. The platform will manage sensitive data between Turkey and the USA, integrating Bluetooth and Wi-Fi through blockchain-based interactions and e-government services. With expertise from Turksat and Pathways toRight-Of-Ways, the pilot case will focus on demonstrating secure IP services, promoting trust in digital transactions, supporting NGI Sargasso’s vision.

11. GreenTwin: A Digital Twin Solution for Emission Sustainability in Agriculture

GreenTwin explores greenhouse gas emissions from crops, such as those caused by fertilizer use or waste burning, using a Digital Twin approach. By combining chemistry transport models, hyperlocal IoT data, and Data Spaces, it creates a virtual representation to drive better practices and decisions.

The agricultural sector significantly contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, yet its full impact remains unclear. This project uses a Digital Twin—a virtual model replicating real-world agricultural systems—to estimate emissions like methane (CH4) and ammonia (NH3) from practices such as fertilizer use and waste burning. By integrating advanced models, IoT data, and Data Spaces, it helps farmers and policymakers implement sustainable strategies and make informed decisions.

12. OCB: Open Commerce in a Blox

Open Commerce in a Blox enables any company to participate in an open commerce network based on the Beckn protocol by deploying a compatible marketplace in a few clicks.

Beckn protocol runs 14M monthly transactions in India, mostly transport. However, there is no ready-made marketplace one can deploy to start retailing products from a Beck network. Open-source marketplaces in the Beckn ecosystem are using deprecated versions of the protocol, are also not documented enough and are strongly coupled with services that only work in India. Open Commerce in a Blox is a light and open source marketplace that is compatible with the latest version of the Beckn protocol.

13. WikiDIDs: Decentralized Identifiers for Wikipedia and other ‘Commons’ Initiatives

WikiDIDs is a set of schemas, services and tools allowing contributors to Wikipedia and other ‘commons’ initiatives to achieve democratic and traceable rule-based publishing by using the Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) W3C standard.

This project enacts a novel Decentralized Autonomous Publishing Organization model integrating Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs) for academic publishing. Leveraging smart contracts, IPFS, and DID-based authentication, it addresses centralization, inefficiency, and transparency issues. The solution enables democratic, scientific quality, traceable, trusted knowledge management, fostering a decentralized ‘Wikipedia of facts’ based on EU/USA standards including eIDAS2.

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NGI Sargasso Newsletter - February 2025: Bridging Continents on Next Generation Internet at 4YFN 2025 with a Panel & Pitching Session

In exactly one week, the EU-funded project NGI Sargasso, building Transatlantic bridges for the future of the Internet, will proudly present some of the most outstanding projects funded during the course of our OnCampus Program to shape the Next Generation Internet technologies and services at 4YFN 2025 through a panel and a pitching session.

These activities will take place on Tuesday the 4th of March at 11:15h in the Hall 8.1 – Stand 8.1.B.55 to explain how NGI Sargasso, part of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, is contributing to create a human-centric Internet of the Future across continents on the following topics: trust, data sovereignty, digital identity, Internet architecture and renovation, decentralized technology, interoperability and standardization, and new Internet technology.

The Panel - "Next Generation Internet: Bridging Continents, Innovating Together"

The panel “Next Generation Internet: Bridging Continents, Innovating Together” will begin at 11:15h, moderated by Emmanuel Detsis, NGI Sargasso Project Coordinator from ESF - European Science Foundation. Stergios Tsiafoulis, NGI Sargasso Project Officer from the European Commission, will offer the introductory keynote, followed by a debate starring some of the NGI Sargasso Innovators, such as Yuting Jiang, CEO at Agora Citizen Network; Alex Bourlier, Co-Founder at Startin'blox; Christos Stefanatos, Project Lead at EV Loader, and Erik Hieta-Aho, Senior Scientist at VTT. Monique Calisti, from the NGI Outreach Office will act as the closing speaker.

The Pitching Session - "NGI Sargasso Showcase: Pioneering Innovations for Europe’s Digital Future"

This panel will continue with a dynamic pitching session, “NGI Sargasso Showcase: Pioneering Innovations for Europe’s Digital Future”, starting at 12:00h, in which nine of the NGI Sargasso Innovators will briefly present their transformative ideas shaping the Next Generation Internet landscape.

Each innovator will walk the audience through their objectives, methods and achievements. Yuting Jian, Alex Bourlier, Christos Stefanatos and Erik Hieta-Aho will be accompanied by Jordi Mongay Batalla, Professor at Warsaw University of Technology; Marcelo Bagnulo Braun, Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Julien Bringer, CEO at Kallistech; Giovanni Pettorru, PhD Student at Università degli Studi di Cagliari, and Fernando Gómez Gil, Co-Founder at Training Experience.

We invite you to join us and our NGI Sargasso Innovators on Tuesday the 4th of March to discover how they are shaping the Internet of tomorrow.

https://youtu.be/QoVUJTsIv9Q?feature=shared

News from our NGI Sargasso Innovators

NGI Sargasso is a European Commission-funded cascade funding program, part of the Horizon Europe Programme, dedicated to fostering innovation and strengthening collaboration between the European Union, the United States, and Canada in the field of Next Generation Internet (NGI) technologies.

NGI Sargasso’s mission is to accelerate the development of human-centric and trustworthy internet solutions that embody openness, inclusivity, and sustainability through five open calls to fund 50 Transatlantic teams to redefine future Internet with a budget of €4,800,000.

Five Open Calls, 397 Submitted Applications

The fifth of these five calls was closed on the 25th of November 2024, with 225 submitted applications, 104 of them being submitted. This means that 104 innovators were willing to join us in our mission of shaping an Internet of Trust with a human-centric approach for our generations to come, the highest number of our open call program. The selected proposals will start their NGI Sargasso Transatlantic journey this Friday with their first activity: the OnCampus Welcome Day.

In total, during the five open calls of the NGI Sargasso funding program, we have received 397 submitted applications.

12 New NGI Sargasso Innovators Building Transatlantic Bridges for the Future of the Internet

Speaking about the NGI Sargasso OnCampus Program that our Open Call 5 beneficiaries are about to start, the 12 selected teams that applied for our Open Call 4 already started theirs last month, on the 9th of January 2025. Meet them:

  1. Decoy-Auth: Zero-Knowledge Authentication with Compromise Detection.
  2. MC-DIW: Micro-Credentials and Digital Identity Wallets.
  3. SeEDS:  Secure and Efficient Data Spaces.
  4. FRQGAN4AD: Federated and Robust Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks for Anomaly Detection in Future Internet.
  5. SmartBreath: AI Based SmartBreath Cloud.
  6. DIDroom Uni Credentials: DIDroom for University Transatlantic Credential.
  7. MDIP: Medications Data Interoperability Project.
  8. QRISTIN: Quantum Routines In Space-Terrestrial Integrated Networks.
  9. DIDSSI: Blockchain-based Decentralized and Self-Sovereign Identities.
  10. CADP: Cooperative Agri-Data Portal / Portail Coopératif des Données Agricoles.
  11. Taler-OIM: Bridging the Literate Divide in Digital Payments.
  12. INN: Identity Network of Networks.

The NGI Sargasso Innovators Startin'Blox and Werenode Included in the Top 26 Web 3.0 Companies and Startups in France

Two NGI Sargasso Innovators, Startin’Blox and Werenode, have been included in the list of the “26 top Web 3.0 companies and startups in France in January 2025”, powered by the F6S Community.

The French Internet game-changers applied to the NGI Sargasso Open Call 2 and Open Call 3, respectively, and were selected to join our Transatlantic journey to shape a more human-centric Internet.

Have a look at what they are doing:

https://youtu.be/AVvlkB1l_bQ

https://youtu.be/60uzgS7ynm0

Startin'blox and WERENODE, congratulations for this achievement!

Meet the NGI Sargasso Ecosystem

The NGI Sargasso ecosystem keeps growing with new Supportive Partners joining our mission of creating an Internet of Humans. We have recently signed agreements with:

NGI Search: The Next Generation Internet Search Incubator

NGI Search aims to fund open source projects in the area of Next Generation Internet Search, Discovery and Indexing with focus on European values. Specifically this means open source alternatives that are privacy preserving and trustworthy and contribute to the evolution of the Internet according to a human-centric approach of the Internet commons.

This mission is aligned NGI Sargasso‘s ambition to create a unique collaborative ecosystem to harvest EU-US and/or EU-Canada technology breakthroughs to revolutionize the Next Generation Internet technologies, services and standards, and contribute to the evolution of the Internet also according to a human-centric approach of the Internet commons.

D2XCEL: Scaling EU Deep Tech & Digital Ventures in Sustainable Transport, Logistics, Trade & Smart Cities

D2XCEL is a collaborative pan-European scaling program, bringing together a top-tier industry network of 200+ investors, public and private lead customers, and innovation hubs to support 100 deep tech and digital ventures through a comprehensive mentoring program including individual support, work with experts on specific issues, as well as exposure to investors and corporate partners through series of online and onsite events. The project holistically mentors the selected ventures and connects them with investors, lead customers and other growth opportunities to strengthen Europe’s leadership and sustainable growth in key sectors such as Transport, Logistics, Trade, Energy, and Smart Cities.

We will support each other by cross-disseminating D2XCEL’s and NGI Sargasso’s news, events and achievements to our extensive network of stakeholders and through our main digital outlets and channels to increase the impact and visibility of our project activities to collaborate on scaling European deep tech in several sectors while also building a more human-centric Internet for our future generations.

MyData Global: Empowering Individuals by Improving Digital Human Rights

The Finnish worldwide organization MyData Global has a very clear mission: to empower individuals by improving digital human rights, including the right to self-determination regarding personal data by building human-centric solutions and services. This mission is shared by NGI Sargasso, since we work to create a more human-centric Internet of Trust for our future generations. This is the reason behind our brand new collaboration to join forces and keep granting Next Generation Internet innovation across continents.

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NGI Sargasso and MyData Global Collaboration: Towards an Ethical Use of Personal Data with Human-Centric Solutions

The Finnish worldwide organization MyData Global has a very clear mission: to empower individuals by improving digital human rights, including the right to self-determination regarding personal data by building human-centric solutions and services. This mission is shared by NGI Sargasso, since we work to create a more human-centric Internet of Trust for our future generations. This is the reason behind our brand new collaboration to join forces and keep granting Next Generation Internet innovation across continents.

“MyData Global is excited to partner with NGI Sargasso to work towards fostering ethical, interoperable, and privacy-respecting data practices on a global scale. By leveraging our respective communities and expertise, we believe this collaboration can help advance Next Generation Internet technologies that empower individuals and uphold digital human rights”, remarked Christopher Wilson, Executive Director of MyData Global.

MyData Global team

About MyData Global

MyData Global is an award-winning non-profit organization registered in Finland, with members in over 45 countries and across six continents. They help organizations build human-centric solutions and services, support companies to launch sustainable business models and collaborate with local, national, and international stakeholders to advance the ethical use of personal data. MyData Global empowers individuals by improving digital human rights and the right to self-determination regarding personal data.

MyData is recognized as one of the movements in the EU Data Strategy that “promise significant benefits to individuals, including to their health and wellness, better personal finances, reduced environmental footprint, hassle-free access to public and private services and greater oversight and transparency over their personal data.”

About NGI Sargasso

NGI Sargasso aims to create a unique collaborative ecosystem to harvest EU-USA and/or EU-Canada technology breakthroughs that aim to revolutionize the Next Generation Internet technologies, services and standards, and contribute to the evolution of the Internet according to a human-centric approach of the Internet commons. We will fund 50 projects with a total budget of 4.8M€, attracting European, USA and Canadian teams working on emerging topics, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing through a common language across global borders.

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The EU Projects D2XCEL and NGI Sargasso Collaborate to Scale European Deep Tech and Next Generation Internet

At NGI Sargasso, we are very happy to announce our new partnership with the European-funded project D2XCEL through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on scaling European deep tech in several sectors while also building a more human-centric Internet for our future generations.

We will support each other by cross-disseminating D2XCEL's and NGI Sargasso's news, events and achievements to our extensive network of stakeholders and through our main digital outlets and channels to increase the impact and visibility of our project activities. Moreover, at NGI Sargasso we will promote the D2XCEL roadmap reports, sharing them with our innovators. We also consider participating together at any webinars or events of mutual interest for our communities.

"We at D2XCEL are thrilled about our collaboration with NGI Sargasso. Our partnership is built on seamless cross-communication across multiple channels, amplifying success stories and engaging a wider, more diverse audience“, shared Maria Koycheva, Senior Pogramme Manager at Tech Tour, D2XCEL Coordinator.

You can join them at D2XCEL Startup City Day, their first partnering event within the Startup City of embedded world Exhibition&Conference on the 12th of March 2025 in Nuremberg (Germany).

The D2XCEL consortium

About D2XCEL

D2XCEL is a collaborative pan-European scaling programme, bringing together a top-tier industry network of 200+ investors, public and private lead customers, and innovation hubs to support 100 deep tech and digital ventures through a comprehensive mentoring programme including individual support, work with experts on specific issues, as well as exposure to investors and corporate partners through series of online and onsite events. The project holistically mentors the selected ventures and connects them with investors, lead customers and other growth opportunities to strengthen Europe's leadership and sustainable growth in key sectors such as Transport, Logistics, Trade, Energy, and Smart Cities. D2XCEL is managed by a consortium of 13 partners from 8 European countries and coordinated by Tech Tour.

About NGI Sargasso

NGI Sargasso aims to create a unique collaborative ecosystem to harvest EU-USA and/or EU-Canada technology breakthroughs that aim to revolutionize the Next Generation Internet technologies, services and standards, and contribute to the evolution of the Internet according to a human-centric approach of the internet commons. We will fund 50 projects with a total of 4.8M€, attracting European, USA, and Canadian teams working on emerging topics, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing through a common language across global borders.

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NGI Sargasso Joins NGI Search in their Mission to Fund the Next Generation of Web Searching Tools

The Next Generation Internet projects NGI Sargasso and NGI Search have signed an agreement (Memorandum of Understanding, or MoU) to formally join forces and support each other's aspiration to shape a more human-centric Internet for our future generations.

NGI Search aims to fund open source projects in the area of Next Generation Internet Search, Discovery and Indexing with focus on European values. Specifically this means open source alternatives that are privacy preserving and trustworthy and contribute to the evolution of the Internet according to a human-centric approach of the Internet commons. This mission is aligned NGI Sargasso's ambition to create a unique collaborative ecosystem to harvest EU-US and/or EU-Canada technology breakthroughs to revolutionize the Next Generation Internet technologies, services and standards, and contribute to the evolution of the Internet also according to a human-centric approach of the Internet commons.

This agreement is based on collaborating on joint actions and cross-dissemination activities to strengthen the Next Generation Internet ecosystem in Europe and beyond, and was born in the Open Search Symposium 2024 (OSSYM24), where our partners Sara Abu and Laura Argilés from AUSTRALO met the NGI Search Coordinator Mirko Presser from the Aarhus University, as you can see in the picture below.

NGI Sargasso is also collaborating with StandICT.eu, FORGING, and CrabNebula through MoUs.

About NGI Search: The Next Generation Internet Search Incubator

The NGI Search project is a European project designed to support entrepreneurs, tech-geeks, developers, and socially engaged people, who are capable of challenging the way we search and discover information and resources on the internet.

This is a difficult, yet very important field of research, development and innovation, as today, users of the internet are mostly relying on services provided by non-transparent organizations potentially violating privacy and trust.

With five European partners contributing to the project, NGI Search launched five open calls for innovative projects, whereby selected applicants benefitted from the financial support of up to 150,000€ as well as technical, business and innovation support over 12 months, to develop solutions that change the way we use and experience, search and discover data and resources in general on the internet and on the web. This includes:

  • A new voice and image-based user interfaces for searching and representing data.
  • Heterogeneous data sources include IoT, semantic data, multimedia, social media and traditional websites.
  • New Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) methodologies in a generic context.
  • Specific use cases such as industry 4.0, health, social media, etc.

The NGI Search consortium is coordinated by Aarhus University, and partnered by FundingBox, The University of Murcia, Linknovate Science, and OW2.

About the Next Generation Internet (NGI) Initiative

The Next Generation Internet (NGI) is a European Commission (EC) initiative that aims to shape the development and evolution of the Internet into an Internet of Trust. An Internet that responds to people’s fundamental needs, including trust, security, and inclusion, while reflecting the values and the norms all citizens enjoy in Europe.

After an initial EC investment in NGI research and innovation of more than €250M (2018-2020) that supported more than 1,000 Internet researchers and innovators involved in hundreds of projects, the EC announced renewed EU funding for NGI under Horizon Europe. Horizon Europe Calls related to the Next Generation Internet, of relevance to the NGI community are listed under Pillar II, Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness, Cluster 4, Digital, Industry and Space. This funding goes beyond financing: it includes mentoring and supports the innovators’ journey from an idea to a real business.

https://youtu.be/Jpi338SyKLY?feature=shared

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NGI Sargasso at MWC - 4YFN 2025: A Panel and Pitching Session with our Innovators to Bridge Continents on Next Generation Internet

One more year we are happy to announce that NGI Sargasso will attend 4YFN 2025, the startup side event of Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona, with an agenda full of activities, especially in the morning of the second day of the event, on Tuesday the 4th of March starting at 11:15h. Keep reading to discover them, and save this location in Fira Barcelona: Hall 8.1 - Stand 8.1.B.55!

The NGI Sargasso Panel at 4YFN 2025

We have gathered some of our innovators and stakeholders from the Next Generation Internet (NGI) community in a panel titled "Next-Generation Internet: Bridging Continents, Innovating Together". The panel will start at 11:15h on Tuesday, the 4th of March, in the Hall 8.1 - Stand 8.1.B.55, and four of our beneficiaries will explain how they are shaping transatlantic collaboration on NGI technologies and services.

SPEAKERS

  • Moderator: Emmanouil Detsis, NGI Sargasso Project Coordinator - ESF Foundation.
  • Keynote speaker: Stergios Tsiafoulis, NGI Sargasso Project Officer - European Commission.
  • NGI Sargasso Innovators:
    • Yuting Jiang, CEO at Agora / ZKorum - Project: Agora / EeDP - Empowering eDemocracy for Peace (Open Call 3).
    • Alex Bourlier, Co-Founder at Startin’blox - Project: RSFA - Rosseta Stone for APIs (Open Call 2).
    • Christos N. Stefanatos, Project Lead at EV Loader / Parity Platform PC - Project: EVI US Pilot - Electric Vehicle Identity US Pilot (Open Call 3).
    • Erik Hieta-Aho, Senior Scientist at VTT - Project: HPQCSSI - Hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography Self-Sovereign Identity Stack (Open Call 2).
  • Closing speaker: Monique Callisti, NGI Outreach Office - Martel Innovate. 

AGENDA

  • 11:15h - 11:20h → Opening keynote by Project Officer.
  • 11:20h - 11:25h → Brief project tagline by each NGI Sargasso Innovator on stage.
  • 11:25h - 11:45h → Open debate.
  • 11:45h - 11:50h → Q&A.
  • 11:50h - 11:55h → An brief intro into the NGI initiative.
  • 11:55h - 12:00 → Coordinator closing and opening of the following pitching session.

The NGI Sargasso Pitching Session at 4YFN 2025

Right after the NGI Sargasso panel at 4YFN 2025, we will start the second part of our session at 12:00h in the same location, in the Hall 8.1 - Stand 8.1.B.55: "NGI Sargasso Showcase: Pioneering Innovations for Europe’s Digital Future", a one-hour pitch session and Q&A featuring some of the NGI Sargasso projects.

NGI Sargasso is proud to present some of the most outstanding projects funded during the course of our program. This dynamic one-hour session offers a platform for our beneficiaries to pitch their transformative ideas and share insights into the next-generation internet landscape. Each innovator will have the opportunity to walk the audience through their objectives, methods and achievements.

 SPEAKERS

  • Moderator: Emmanouil Detsis, NGI Sargasso Project Coordinator - ESF Foundation.
  • NGI Sargasso Innovators:
    • Yuting Jiang, CEO at Agora / ZKorum - Project: Agora / EeDP - Empowering eDemocracy for Peace (Open Call 3).
    • Alex Bourlier, Co-Founder at Startin’blox - Project: RSFA - Rosseta Stone for APIs (Open Call 2).
    • Christos N. Stefanatos, Project Lead at EV Loader / Parity Platform PC - Project: EVI US Pilot - Electric Vehicle Identity US Pilot (Open Call 3).
    • Erik Hieta-Aho, Senior Scientist at VTT - Project: HPQCSSI - Hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography Self-Sovereign Identity Stack (Open Call 2).
    • Jordi Mongay Batalla, Professor at Warsaw University of Technology - Project: EvORAN - Evaluation of Open RAN Network Equipment including Underlying (Open Call 1).
    • Ángel Hernando Veciana, Full Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Project: GMM - A Global Market Maker for Decentralized Token Exchanges (Open Call 3).
    • Julien Bringer, CEO at Kallistech SAS - Project: D3ICA - Democratizing Decentralized Digital Identity through Cloud Agents (Open Call 1).
    • Giovanni Pettorru, PhD Student at University of Cagliari - Project: POSIDONIA - POSition Information with Digital Twin Offloading in Trustworthy Next-Generation Internet Applications (Open Call 3).
    • Fernando José Gómez Gil, Co-Founder at Training Experience - Project: VeriRecruit - AI-Driven Interview Analysis for Precision Hiring (Open Call 2).

AGENDA

  • 12:00h - 12:05h → Pitching Session intro by Emmanuoil Detsis as continuation of the previous panel.
  • 12:05h - 12:25h → NGI Sargasso Innovators Pitches.
  • 12:25h - 12:45h → Q&A, closing and networking catering.

All the NGI Sargasso Innovators will also be during the four days (3-6 March) of 4YFN / MWC 2025 in the NGI Sargasso startup pods from 8.1 B63.4 to 8.1 B63.8 ready to network and connect with you!

More about 4YFN and Mobile World Congress Barcelona

4YFN is the event partner of MWC Barcelona, the world’s largest and most influential connectivity event, bringing together the latest innovations and leading-edge technology alongside today’s most influential visionaries in Barcelona from the 3rd to the 6th of March 2025.

This means this congress not only brings all the players you need for a winning digital startup together (like investors and corporate innovators), but it also springboards startups onto the radar of the most powerful decision makers in the connectivity ecosystem – such as CEOs from global mobile operators and frontier tech companies.

All this helps new business ventures sprout the wings they need for a breathtaking launch.

Have a look at what we did last year at 4YFN 2024, and see you soon in Barcelona to create an Internet of Humans together!

https://youtu.be/kjjH9cp-3lc?feature=shared

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