NGI0 Core HopOn

grant

(user-centric) privacy preservation, Digital identity, Internet Services &
Applications, Trustworthy ICT, Data
portability, Trustworthiness, OSHW, Open Source, Free Software, FOSS

This proposal aims at increasing the visibility of the NGI Zero Core granting
programme, to promote its output and its grant mechanisms. We will increase the
interaction with scientific and technical output throughout the region of Central
and East Europe and beyond - which due to the nature of the funding scheme
(small, early stage grants for deep tech) requires continuous attention to reach
the right talent. The value of the addition of BUT as widening partner lies in
two partially overlapping aspects which are currently not present within the
programme: a significant investment in promoting and growing mindshare for the
individual technological building blocks produced by NGI Zero, and through that
also much more active and directly targeted engagement with the talent pool
present in the geography covered by HopOn/WIDERA. This means we communicate on
two layers: direct outreach to target audiences promoting ethical open
technologies as well as evangelising the recursive opportunity to researchers and
developers to contribute to the underlying portfolio of technology commons. We
put reusable technological building blocks on display, but in a co-creation way:
anyone can jump in and improve and add more functionality or tweak to new use
cases. Outreach activity was limited by design so far (due to priorities set
early within the project on technical excellence and long term societal impact.
The new effort will build a network of technical universities and other
interested parties across Europe interested in contributing to the open internet
and the technology commons. This part will seek to engage educational and
research institutions with cutting edge work on open standards and open source
from developers and researchers executed within NGI Zero Core, and empower them
to join this effort and benefit from the results.

Smrž Pavel, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (DCGM) – research leader
Juránková Markéta, Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM)
Zemčík Pavel, prof. Dr. Ing., dr. h. c. (DCGM)