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NGI Sargasso Joins EuroDIG 2025: The European Dialogue on Internet Governance

"An inspiring edition putting Human Rights as the highest priority" - Mariette Vandermersch-Desmartin, Mission Coordinator at European Science Foundation (ESF).

This is the quote summarizing what EuroDIG 2025 was according to Mariette Vandermersch-Desmartin, Mission Coordinator at European Science Foundation (ESF), the NGI Sargasso project coordinator.

The 2025 edition of the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) took place in Strasbourg (France) under the theme: 'Safeguarding Human Rights while Balancing Regulation and Innovation'. The ESF team, represented by Mariette, together with Hélène Schaffner, Bilingual English Administrator, participated on behalf of NGI Sargasso, and they were impressed by the quality and diversity of speakers and discussions.

Mariette and Hélène jumped into conversations about Next Generation Internet (NGI) and Internet Governance, while networked with other participants to explain how our NGI Sargasso Innovators are building an Internet of humans with their projects supported by our cascade funding program. Their discussions on standardization, digital identity, and cybersecurity were notably of great interest for the NGI Sargasso community.

EuroDIG 2025 reaffirmed the essential role of multi-stakeholder dialogue in shaping the future of Internet Governance. The need for robust and forward-looking standardization frameworks –especially concerning NGI– was a recurring theme across sessions, reflecting Europe's commitment to building a secure, interoperable, and rights-respecting digital future.

More about EuroDIG 2025: 'Safeguarding Human Rights while Balancing Regulation and Innovation'

The European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) is an open multi-stakeholder platform to exchange views about the Internet and how it is governed. First organized in 2008 by several organisztions, government representatives and experts, it fosters dialogue and collaboration with the Internet community on public policy for the Internet –culminating in an annual conference that takes place in a different European city every year. EuroDIG ‘Messages’ are prepared and presented to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF).

In 2025 EuroDIG took place from May 12 – 14 in Strasbourg (France), hosted by the Council of Europe in cooperation with the Luxembourg Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.

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NGI Sargasso Connects with the FIERCE Project to Embrace the Green Transition by Leveraging Downstream Space Data

NGI Sargasso and the FIERCE Space project have joined forces to create a greener, human-centric and more digital Europe in the ecosystems of Next Generation Internet (NGI) and space data. Both EU-funded projects have signed a collaboration agreement to support each other on outreach activities through the projects' main digital outlets and joint webinars or any other event of mutual interest.

FIERCE aims to support SMEs, startups and scale-ups to build their motivation and capacity to tap the potential of downstream space data in order to improve their circularity and sustainability, ultimately contributing to the EU efforts towards the green and digital transition.

FIERCE: Making Space for Green Solutions

FIERCE is a 3-year Coordination and Support Action, running from November 2024 to October 2027, funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2021-2027.

With a mission to accelerate Europe’s green and digital transition, FIERCE will:

  • Mobilise €2.5 million in financial support for 70 SMEs, start-ups and scale-ups to fuel the development, demonstration and commercialization of green space-enabled solutions.
  • Support 140 SMEs with specialized technical and business advisory to design business solutions and engage in process innovation using downstream space data in areas such as circularity, raw materials, environmental monitoring and corporate sustainability.
  • Enable a series of local entrepreneurship initiatives driven by business support networks aimed at creating even more opportunities for space-enabled green innovation.

The project is coordinated by Q-PLAN International, and counts with six more partners: Novaspace, FundingBox, Europa Media, TechTour, EIT Raw Materials, and Draxis Research Ventures.

The FIERCE project consortium

NGI Sargasso: Building Bridges Across Continents for the Future of the Internet

NGI Sargasso promotes the developing of a unique collaborative ecosystem to harvest Europe-United States and/or Europe-Canada technology breakthroughs that aim to revolutionize the Next Generation Internet (NGI) technologies, services and standards. We also aim to contribute to the evolution of the Internet according to a human-centric approach of the Internet commons, following to the NGI initiative values of openness, inclusivity and sustainability.

We have funded +50 projects of NGI Sargasso Innovators with a total budget of €4.8 million in the following topics:

  • Trust.
  • Data sovereignty.
  • Digital identity.
  • Internet architecture & renovation.
  • Decentralized technology.
  • Interoperability & standardization.
  • New internet technology.

https://youtu.be/QoVUJTsIv9Q

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NGI Sargasso Supports CO-INVESTIN to Connect Deep-Tech Investment Ecosystems Across Europe

NGI Sargasso and the CO-INVESTIN project have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which is a collaboration agreement, to support each other by providing visibility to our outreach activities.

Both European-funded initiatives will cooperate during 2025 to promote our relevant actions, events and project milestones to our network of stakeholder communities and through our main digital outlets.

CO-INVESTIN: Creating an Interconnected Landscape within EU Ecosystems, Promoting Investment Opportunities

CO-INVESTIN aims to create cross-border co-investment opportunities for modest and moderate EU ecosystems by leveraging promising start-ups in the portfolio of local investors to attract foreign investors from more advanced ecosystems in their new rounds. The CO-INVESTIN approach relies on four main dimensions that cover in a complete manner both the analytic and the action oriented dimensions of the approach:

  1. Investment gap analysis.
  2. Development of market orientation programs.
  3. Stimulating cross-border investments.
  4. Upscaling the framework and enhancing its impact.

Have a look at the CO-INVESTIN Portfolio Showcase #1 to understand better what they do:

https://youtu.be/XLr33_249ck?si=-e2qYoGtyA0FLuTX

The partners making CO-INVESTIN possible are: Booster-Labs, Techcelerator, TechTour, and EUVC, coordinated by Found.ation.

NGI Sargasso: Building Bridges Across Continents for the Future of the Internet

NGI Sargasso promotes the developing of a unique collaborative ecosystem to harvest Europe-United States and/or Europe-Canada technology breakthroughs that aim to revolutionize the Next Generation Internet (NGI) technologies, services and standards. We also aim to contribute to the evolution of the Internet according to a human-centric approach of the Internet commons, following to the NGI initiative values of openness, inclusivity and sustainability.

We have funded +50 projects of NGI Sargasso Innovators in the following topics:

  • Trust.
  • Data sovereignty.
  • Digital identity.
  • Internet architecture & renovation.
  • Decentralized technology.
  • Interoperability & standardization.
  • New internet technology.

https://youtu.be/QoVUJTsIv9Q?si=-g7uYc62qQMT7Mtb

Together, NGI Sargasso and CO-INVESTIN will keep fostering the growth of the deep tech and Next Generation Internet communities in Europe and across borders!

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NGI Sargasso Joins Transfiere 2025 to Connect with the European Science, Technology and Innovation Community

The NGI Sargasso partner Mobile World Capital Barcelona joined Transfiere 2025, celebrated from the 12th to the 14th of March in the Spanish city of Málaga. We shared the booth with our colleagues from The Collider, to join discussions with key stakeholders driving the future of science, technology and innovation in Europe.

NGI Sargasso Innovators at Transfiere 2025

NGI Sargasso was also represented by two of our Innovators, who were in the stand E1A:

  • Roberto Medina Bujalance, CEO at Sosteco (Spain), shared insights about his project SmartBreath: AI Based SmartBreath Cloud, selected in our Open Call 4. SmartBreath AI is a comprehensive respiratory care platform to prevent respiratory complications in both hospital settings and at the point of care. The AI-based SmartBreath Cloud aims to enhance patient outcomes by leveraging real-time respiratory and pulmonary data collected through incentive spirometers. This project is partnered by Sonoma State University (USA).
  • Juan Luis Ramos Villalón, from Nebulous Systems (Spain), spoke about DecentraLabs: Decentralized Online Laboratories for Education and Research, beneficiary of our Open Call 5. This project, also partnered by The University of British Columbia (Canada) is making online labs sustainable through the application of decentralized technologies.

More about Transfiere

Transfiere is the largest European event on R&D and knowledge transfer connecting the entire Spanish innovation system and boosting its international reach. Talent, scientific and technological development, access to investment, and business opportunities are all at a high-potential event for generating global alliances and synergies.

In 2025, they closed their 14th edition with over 5,200 professional visitors, over 600 companies, institutions, and administrators, and over 400 experts in attendance.

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Strengthening the NGI Ecosystem: NGI Sargasso and NGI Local for Local Sign a Collaboration Agreement

With the aim of strengthening the Next Generation Internet (NGI) community, at NGI Sargasso, we have recently signed an agreement to collaborate with NGI Local for Local, one of our sibling projects creating economic ecosystems through NGI deployment.

NGI Local for Local helps cities strengthen regional economies with digital tools for local currencies, fostering social cohesion and simplifying administration. They integrate open source NGI building blocks into the Local for Local open-source software stack. They nurture a software ecosystem through open calls for NGI innovators, which they finance, supervise, mentor, and support in standardization. The selected top teams collaboratively create the envisioned software stack consisting of blockchain-based infrastructure, a modular platform, and one application called Locasus-B. The application is then tested in three pilots across five regions throughout Europe, to then measure both the economic impact and the technical performance of the software stack.

Why is NGI Local for Local doing this? Local regions throughout Europe face shrinking economies, which threaten their ability to sustain small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Strong technological intervention aimed at strengthening local ties can revitalize these regions. At the same time, the European Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative proposes a new Internet of Humans. It brings European values and norms to all citizens.

"We hold that NGI is the technological intervention needed to revitalize our regions" - NGI Local for Local consortium.

Source: NGI Local for Local

The direct outcomes of this project are economic validation and technical performance measurement of the software stack. These outcomes contribute to the adoption of the Digital Rights and Principles for the Digital Decade. They distribute building blocks that can create sustainable circular economies that give better control for users on their digital life. This has rapid scaling potential throughout Europe, and the consortium, coordinated by Paul van Vulpen from Centric Netherlands BV, and partnered by Kauno Technologijos Universitetas, Université d'Aix Marseille and Technische Universiteit Delft, will act to realize this adoption.

NGI Sargasso: Building Bridges Across Continents for the Future of the Internet

In the case of NGI Sargasso, we are also aiming to create an Internet of Humans, but going beyond the European region by fostering Transatlantic collaboration across continents matching teams of European innovators with USA and/or Canadian. In fact, we have funded +50 projects of NGI Sargasso Innovators in the following topics:

  • Trust.
  • Data sovereignty.
  • Digital identity.
  • Internet architecture & renovation.
  • Decentralized technology.
  • Interoperability & standardization.
  • New internet technology.

Besides our collaboration with NGI Local for Local, we are also cooperating with NGI Search in order to create a strong Next Generation Internet in Europe and beyond!

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NGI Sargasso Innovators Shine with their Solutions Shaping a Human-Centric Internet at 4YFN - MWC 2025 in Barcelona

The Hall 8.1 was the scenery that saw nine of our NGI Sargasso Innovators shine at 4YFN 2025, the startup side event of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025, celebrated in the Spanish city of Barcelona from the 3rd to the 6th of March.

During the four days of the hectic international event, nine teams selected in the NGI Sargasso open calls had the opportunity to present their projects creating the Next Generation Internet in a Pitching Session, and to network in their own booths located in the Hall 8.1 of 4YFN, from 8.1 B63.4 to 8.1 B63.8.

We also counted with the special visit of Stergios Tsiafoulis, our Project Officer from the European Commission, who spoke with our beneficiaries about the progress of their projects, and one of the coaches individually mentoring and supporting them during the OnCampus Program months, Juan Juan. It was a unique week for NGI Sargasso, in which some of our innovators could meet in person for the first time with the NGI Sargasso consortium partners supporting them to build an Internet of Humans: European Science Foundation, Mobile World Capital Barcelona, Sploro and AUSTRALO.

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

Next-Generation Internet: Bridging Continents, Innovating Together

"Next-Generation Internet: Bridging Continents, Innovating Together". This was the title of the NGI Sargasso panel we hosted in the morning of Tuesday, the 4th of March, in the Hall 8.1 B55 of 4YFN 2025. 'What does NGI mean?', 'How is NGI Sargasso supporting innovation in Next Generation Internet?'

Four of our NGI Sargasso Innovators took the stage to discuss these and some other questions, moderated by our coordinator Emmanuel Detsis, from ESF - European Science Foundation.

Yuting Jiang, CEO of Agora Citizen Network, spoke about how she is developing a citizen network purposefully designed for civic dialogues, since today social networks are "very powerful tools to manipulate public opinion", in which users can prove anonymously that they are humans, and not bots, she explained. Alex Bourlier, Co-Founder of Startin'blox, is creating data spaces making access to data easier. He highlighted the possibility given by NGI Sargasso to access top business opportunities in the USA market. Christos Stefanatos, Project Leader at EV Loader, remarked that the NGI Sargasso Brokerage Platform to find a partner across the Atlantic was a "matchmaking heaven". He is developing a software to optimize and streamline payments in electric vehicles charging stations, protecting users' data. Erik Hieta-aho, Senior Scientist at VTT, reflected about why quantum algorithms are the future that will impact every company. With HPQCSSI, or Hybrid PQC Self-Sovereign Identity Stack, he is making digital credentials more secure.

Our Project Officer Stergios Tsiafoulis was in charge of opening this session to speak about NGI - The Next Generation Internet initiative, creating an Internet of Humans for Europe by funding over 1.500 ideas. He also emphasized that NGI Sargasso was the first project fostering collaboration between Europe and USA and Canada. In fact, we have funded 50 innovators through five open calls, distributing a total €4.8M.

Monique Calisti, CEO of Martel Innovate and NGI Outreach Office Director, encouraged the audience to keep building an Internet of Trust, and to apply for the NGI open calls.

Together, we will keep building bridges for the future of the Internet!

NGI Sargasso Showcase: Pioneering Innovations for Europe’s Digital Future

Right after the panel, five more NGI Sargasso Innovators joined Yuting, Alex, Christos and Erik in the pitching session "NGI Sargasso Showcase: Pioneering Innovation for Europe's Digital Future", in which each of them had three minutes to present their project funded by NGI Sargasso to the audience:

  • Ángel Hernando-Veciana, Full Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, presented "GMM: A Global Market Maker for Decentralized Token Exchanges". He was joined by Marcelo Bagnulo Braun.
  • Yuting Jiang, CEO at Agora Citizen Network, presented her alternative social media network.
  • Julien Bringer, CEO at Simeon, presented his platform.
  • Giovanni Pettorru, PhD Student at Università degli Studi di Cagliari, presented "POSIDONIA: POSition Information with Digital twin Offloading in trustworthy Next-generation Internet Applications". He was accompanied by Francesca Marcello, Virginia Pilloni, and Marco Martalo.
  • Erik Hieta-aho, Senior Scientist at VTT, presented "HPQCSSI: Hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography Self-Sovereign Identity Stack". Valtteri Lipiäinen was with him during the event days.
  • Alex Bourlier, Co-Founder at Startin'blox, presented "RSFA: Rosetta Stone for API".
  • Jordi Mongay Batalla, Professor at Warsaw University of Technology, presented "EvORAN: Evaluation of Open RAN network equipment including underlying".
  • Christos Stefanatos, Project Lead at EV Loader, presented "EVI US Pilot: Electric Vehicle Identity US Pilot". His colleagues Nikolaos Karadimos and Alexios Karadimos were with him at 4YFN 2025.
  • Fernando Gómez Gil, Co-Founder at Training Experience, presented "VeriRecruit: AI-Driven Interview Analysis for Precision Hiring". Nicolas Ladino Calvo joined Fernando at their 4YFN booth.

Check our portfolio to discover more ground-breaking ideas creating the Next Generation Internet with a human-centric approach for our generations to come.

✨THANK YOU✨ to everyone who joined NGI Sargasso's mission of empowering NGI innovation across continents during the 4YFN 2025 week in Barcelona! 

In case you missed our sessions, you can watch them below:

https://youtu.be/fZw_JkG95y4?si=hYcyAgqMiCT6W48m

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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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