The Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative announces latest results with a large and growing community of almost 550 Internet researchers and innovators supported in 366[1] third party projects. NGI Results from all the NGI Open Calls until June 2020 have mobilised €26M. In the first 18 months of operation of the various ongoing Research and Innovation (RIAs) projects, NGI received a total of 2,367 proposals from 3,414 applicants from 36 countries submitted to the RIAS’ Open Calls. The NGI Initiative is attracting ever more newcomers to EC funding – three quarters (76 percent) are new to Horizon 2020.
Research And Innovation Actions Results
Innovators from all over Europe are working on a variety of technology domains for the digital transformation of society with a human-centric approach.
Technology, Projects and Support
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Technologies improving search and discovery | ||
| NGI Zero Discovery | 11 calls closed and 1 continuously opened call | 81 projects awarded |
Privacy-enhancing technologies | ||
| NGI Zero PET | 11 calls closed and 1 continuously opened call | 126 projects awarded |
Privacy and Security | ||
| NGI-Trust* | 3 calls closed | 54 projects awarded |
Better data governance | ||
| LEDGER | 2 calls closed, 1 call planned | 25 projects awarded |
Data Portability and Services | ||
| NGI DAPSI Data Portability and Services Incubator | 1 call closed and 1 planned | 17 projects awarded |
Self-Sovereign Identity | ||
| NGI eSSIF-Lab: Business and Infrastructure | 1 call closed, 1 planned, 1 continuously opened call | 26 projects awarded |
NGI architects to change the underlying fabric of the Internet and the Web | ||
| NGI Pointer | 1 call closed and 1 planned | 24 projects awarded |
NGI experiments together with US teams | ||
| NGI Atlantic | 1 call closed and 4 open calls planned | 6 projects awarded |
Technology mission to the US | ||
| NGI Explorers | 2 calls closed | 32 explorers |
Blockchain technologies | ||
| NGI Assure | 6 calls planned | – |
| Treblo | 3 calls planned | – |
| Ontochain | 3 calls planned | – |
Statistics on selected projects
The success rate for applicants to NGI grants is 1 project selected out of 6.6 proposals. This represents a good rate of success and reflects that applications tend to meet the criteria. The application process is relatively easy and the time between applying for funding and implementing the project is comparatively short.
The average funding for each project is €71K a sufficient sum to allow individual innovators and small teams to develop solutions. In addition, projects such as TETRA support innovators in their search for business readiness and sustainable funding sources. A dedicated team at the NGI Outreach Office assists innovators to gain more market visibility.
NGI is around halfway in terms of overall Horizon 2020 budget. The current portfolio of 366 projects, mobilising €26M, represents around two thirds of the total budget allocated to fund innovators. More funding will be disbursed in 2020 and 2021 through upcoming NGI Open Calls managed by the NGI RIAs.
Statistics on selected third parties
The majority of NGI support goes to individual persons (52 percent) and micro, small or medium-sized enterprises (31 percent). Higher education establishments and Associations/NGOs are also well represented (7 percent each respectively).
NGI has achieved a broad geographic coverage with 80 percent of innovators coming from European Member States and 20 percent from non-EU countries.
The period of January to June was very busy for NGI and with more innovators coming on board in 2020 the community is growing ever stronger.
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[1] All data are as of September 2020