DISCOVER THE NGI SARGASSOFUNDED PROJECTS

OPEN CALL 1


Asset Profile Standards for Interoperable Decentralised Ecosystems

APSIDE is an ambitious collaborative project between Compellio and MIT that aims to pave the grounds for the international standardisation of asset profiling and interoperability across DLTs and between traditional IT systems and blockchains.

Democratizing Decentralized Digital Identity through Cloud agents

Average user considers decentralised systems abstract and complex due to the concepts involved. D3ICA wants to democratise the use of digital credentials which ultimately give the “power” back to individuals by focusing on diversity, inclusion, usability and interoperability from the get-go.

Decentralized Digital Identity Profile

Interoperability is a must, but that requires a set of common specifications and standards that can be tested with a comprehensive automated conformance test platform.

EBSI and Verifiable Credentialing in Canada.

EBSI-CAN explores the potential for EBSI to be deployed as a verifiable, cross-border credentialing framework in Canada, levering on use-cases for cross-issuance, cross-verification, cross-recognition to identify issues related to the governance, legal, technical, and business landscape in Canada.

Evaluation of Open RAN network equipment including underlying

EvORAN project will build the first opensource testing tools for time-fixed cybersecurity evaluation in O-RAN 5G/6G networks, cementing a baseline of security assurance common to all stakeholders: O-RAN providers, Network Operators, Regulators and Governments.

Interoperable decentralized identity and wallet infrastructure

This project will enable holistic interoperability (tech, semantic, legal, governance) between different decentralized ID technologies & ecosystems with a focus on EU & Canada. The results will be open source libraries & contributions to alignment on standards, semantics, legal & governance topics.

A Secure Underlay for the Internet

Inter-domain routing vulnerabilities are often exploited by adversaries to compromise the security of critical Internet applications. To this end, Secure Backbone AS (SBAS) aims to provide secure routing to BGP-Internet users by deploying a virtual Autonomous System (AS) over the SCION network.

Secure Named Data Sharing

The SNDS project will extend the NDN architecture to enable flexible, secure, and privacy preserving data sharing, by adding APIs that implement query-based content retrieval for clients and fine-grained content storage and update operations for content producers, turning NDN to a CDN underlay.

OPEN CALL 2


Decentralized Electronic Signature using Blockchain based Digital Identity

The DES project seeks to create a groundbreaking decentralized electronic signature system using blockchain technology. Integrated with Gov-Smart, it will enable citizens to generate secure digital signatures, verified and authenticated through a robust blockchain framework.

Develop and demonstrate a Digital Product Passport for Carbon-Reduced Concrete emphasising Cross-Atlantic Legislation and Governance.

The project utilises SSI technologies and Zero-Knowledge Proofs to create process compliant Digital Product Passports in line with the EU Green Deal. It targets Europe's growing carbon-reduced concrete market with the goal to collect and present verified, tamper-proof data along the production chain.

Next-Gen Safeguard: Detection and Recovery from Ransomware for Attacks to Data in Motion

The GUARDIAN project will develop a toolkit for detecting and recovering from ransomware attacks on data in motion. It will use advanced technologies like AI and application virtualization to counter evolving cyber threats. The toolkit will be tested in a dedicated testbed simulating these attacks.

Hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography Self-Sovereign Identity Stack

HPQCSSI will develop a hybrid cryptographic quantum secure self-sovereign identity stack with a focus on bridging the EU and US identity gateways for the human- centric future. The project will improve existing open-source self-sovereign identity (SSI) tools by hardening them against quantum attacks through parallel use of classical and quantum-resistant cryptography.

Large Language Models as Defensive Honeypots

To research, develop, and apply LLMs to generate honeypots designed to deceive human attackers. They aim to increase variance in response types, improve technical detail, and precisely replicate different target systems. We expect the LLM's generated output to be more effective at luring or confounding attackers into perceiving honeypots as genuine production systems.

Rosetta Stone for API

Within EU Data Spaces, in American agriculture and through the Indian Stack, there is fast growing demand for interoperability based on the same global technical standards. In these 3 continents, there is explicit demand for a Rosetta Stone for APIs, as organizations need to make their existing APIs interoperable with their partners.

Sustainable & Interoperable Digital Identity

"SIDI is a collaborative platform involving over 15 organizations from EU, US and Canada. It aims to bridge national digital identity schemes by identifying champion use cases for cross-border interoperability and by mapping trust frameworks. By building cross-border interoperability for digital identity, the project seeks to accelerate operationalization of digital trust services.

Decentralized Digital Sovereign Identity and Voting System using Blockchain Technology

Challenging the traditional concept that democracy is limited to voting every four years, our Trustless Democracy project employs cutting-edge blockchain technology and zero-knowledge proofs to facilitate continuous, cost-free electoral participation.

AI-Driven Interview Analysis for Precision Hiring

VeriRecruit uses a human-centric approach to hiring excellence. Harnessing AI for precise analysis, validation, and improving the selection process, they unveil authentic talent, foster trust, and elevate recruitment experiences for a future-ready workforce. Redefining interviews, shaping careers.

OPEN CALL 3


Empower eDemocracy For Peace

In liberal democracies worldwide, an alarming trend of polarization is taking hold. To rehumanize and depolarize online civil discourse, we are developing Agora, an open-source polling and wikisurvey platform designed to facilitate large-scale conversations on important societal issues. Our solution is privacy-first, depolarizing, sybil resistant, as well as censorship resistant.

EVI US Pilot : Electric Vehicle Identity

EVI US is a privacy enhanced dapp to minimize dissemination of personal data to 3rdparties when transacting in Public Electric Vehicle Charging Stations. Securely storing vehicle certificates linked to users’ digital wallets will eliminate the need to sign up with different applications to access charging stations of different OEMs and CPOs. The dapp will be designed to limit what data can be extracted when an electric vehicle is plugged in the charging station to protect drivers’ privacy.

Facilitate Verifiable Credentials Presentation across borders

Define and develop a framework for wallet and credential interoperability between different decentralised identity (DID) ecosystems, allowing one ecosystem to process credentials from wallets from another ecosystem in a semantically meaningful way with some level of assurance.

Generative AI with Cybersecurity for Internet Applications development

GALICIA will test a novel approach to digital resilience verification by testing LLM generated code for correctness and security on a set of case studies, aiming to ensure compliance with user requirements and given standards. The ambition is to verify source code generated by Generative AI and analyze its limits, thus building trust in Generative AI. GALICIA aligns with the increasing demand for compliance in industrial automation and the need for fast and low cost software production.

A Global Market Maker for decentralized token exchanges

GMM is an interdisciplinary project through which computer scientists and economists join forces to design and build a truly global decentralized exchange (DEX) for cryptographic tokens. The key innovation in GMM is the use of all the reserves available blockchain-wide to compute tokens’ prices. By leveraging a larger pool of reserves, the GMM exhibits more stable prices than current DEXs, offering enhanced users’ protection against price manipulation attacks as well as reduced operational cost.

Internet Of Things automatic PAYment solution

IOTPAY is dedicated to developing a robust, interoperable decentralized payment ecosystem specifically designed for IoT devices. By harnessing blockchain technology, IOTPAY significantly reduces fraud and errors while boosting operational efficiency. This innovative platform ensures seamless, secure and automatic transactions between connected devices, paving the way for a smarter, more reliable digital economy.

POSition Information with Digital twin Offloading in trustworthy Next-generation Internet Applications

Within the NGI vision, POSIDONIA tackles a green and human-centric network design for heterogeneous scenarios supported by the Fog-Edge-Cloud continuum. In particular, POSIDONIA envisions a distributed network architecture to provide trustworthy and sustainable Location-Based Services (LBS) in Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios where threat mitigation is opportunistically offloaded between the local network and its core infrastructure. Therefore, POSIDONIA integrates DTs to ensure interoperabili

Empowering Commercial Drivers: Harnessing Next Generation Internet (NGI) to Enhance Safety, Trust, and Environment Sustainability

SafeMode collaborates with ICS to boost data privacy in fleet management using AI, aligned with NGI principles. This initiative sets new global standards for transparency and safety, leveraging ICS’s network to deploy human-centric technology.

Enhancing Trusted Transatlantic Data Processing and Storage with Fully Homomorphic Encryption

TruPS seeks to strengthen EU-US collaborations by employing Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) for data processing and storage. This project will create a secure, privacy-preserving solution for cross-border data processing and storage. TruPS will address both EU and US legal regulations, pivotal for enhancing mutual trust and ensuring compliance with stringent data protection regulations, and thus empowering the users with more options for secure and regulatory-compliant data governance.