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.
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:
- Decoy-Auth: Zero-Knowledge Authentication with Compromise Detection.
- MC-DIW: Micro-Credentials and Digital Identity Wallets.
- SeEDS: Secure and Efficient Data Spaces.
- FRQGAN4AD: Federated and Robust Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks for Anomaly Detection in Future Internet.
- SmartBreath: AI Based SmartBreath Cloud.
- DIDroom Uni Credentials: DIDroom for University Transatlantic Credential.
- MDIP: Medications Data Interoperability Project.
- QRISTIN: Quantum Routines In Space-Terrestrial Integrated Networks.
- DIDSSI: Blockchain-based Decentralized and Self-Sovereign Identities.
- CADP: Cooperative Agri-Data Portal / Portail Coopératif des Données Agricoles.
- Taler-OIM: Bridging the Literate Divide in Digital Payments.
- 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:
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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This newsletter was originally published on NGI Sargasso LinkedIn.