Next Generation Internet

IoT Day 2020
2020-04-09 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
THE WORLD IS LOCKED DOWN AND YOU ARE AT HOME. YOU ARE ALSO ONLINE AND HAPPY WITH THAT. ALTHOUGH WE CAN NOT MEET IN PERSON, WE MEET ON SCREENS.
IoT Day started in 2010 and is an open invitation to the Internet of Things Community to set up an event, a lunch, a talk with the neighborhood on what #IoT is and what it means in everyday life for all of us.
This year the entire scope will be virtual.
IoT Day 2020 wants to flush out those initiatives in #IoT, AI, blockchain, that are helping people to connect, to stay healthy and stay sane. What can objects do to help? How can we bring an environment alive to support our daily needs? What tools can support the wellbeing of children at home?

NGI EXPLORERS WEBINAR #2
2020-04-08 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Brussels) | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
NGI Explorers webinar#2 | From application to evaluation
We are pleased to invite you to our #2 webinar – this is a great opportunity to learn more about the application process, evaluation criteria, and program details. The team will be ready to answer all your queries. You can ask us anything!
The webinar will be on Wednesday, April 8 @ 12:00 am (CEST).
Some topics we’ll cover
What to expect after the application process
What type of free services the project will provide you with
If you comply with the eligibility criteria
Which track of application to choose: Open Ideas – Challenge- Paired Teams
If there’s something additional you would like us to cover or have any questions before, drop us a message on F6S.com/ngiexplorers or find us on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
This webinar has limited live seating. Reserve your seat via F6S now.
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DAPSI WEBINAR #3
2020-04-08 11:00 - 11:30 (Europe/Brussels) | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CEST
DAPSI OPEN CALL #1 WEBINAR#3 | GUIDE FOR APPLICANTS
We are pleased to invite you to our first webinar – this is a great opportunity to learn more about the Data Portability and Services Incubator, the application process, evaluation criteria, and programme details.
The team will be ready to answer all your queries. You can ask us anything!
The webinar will be on Wednesday, April 8 @ 11:00 am (CEST).
Some topics we’ll cover:
What is DAPSI
Which are the data portability challenges
How to apply
These and many more questions will be addressed during our webinar! Reserve your seat via F6S now.
This is the link to reserve your seat via F6S: https://www.f6s.com/dapsiopencall1-webinar2-guideforapplicants

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IGF 2020 OUTREACH WEBINAR
2020-04-06 14:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Warsaw) | WEB-STREAMED | TIME UTC
What to expect from the IGF 2020 and how to engage?
The 15th annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will be hosted by the government of Poland in Katowice from 2 to 6 November 2020. The meeting’s programme, developed around the overarching theme the ‘Internet United’, will focus on four thematic tracks: (1) Data; (2) Environment; (3) Inclusion; (4) Trust.
Join the first IGF 2020 Outreach Webinar to learn more about what to expect at the IGF 2020 in Katowice and how to take active participation.
Interact Live With:
IGF 2020 Host Country – Government of Poland
IGF MAG Chair
IGF Secretariat

eSSIF-Lab webinar
2020-03-31 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Brussels) | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
eSSIF-Lab: creating & funding an interoperable SSI infrastructure in Europe
Attend this webinar to learn about the eSSIF-Lab (EU H2020) project with Oskar van Deventer and Rieks Joosten from TNO in the Netherlands.
WHY: the eSSIF-Lab vision, objectives, and intended benefits;
WHAT: its (initial) functional architecture/components;
HOW: ways in which you may contribute (and possibly get funded for that).

eSSIF-Lab is an EU H2020 project whose purpose is to fundamentally improve real-life transactions via the Internet, by focusing on next-generation mental models for such next generation transactions, and using SSI technologies and implementations to realize them.
Today, conducting an online business transaction consist of an individual that fills in an online form, which is subsequently processed (data is validated, and a commitment decision is made). Filling in and validating forms can be quite tedious, frustrating, time consuming and costly. Digitally inexperienced people are known to give up on requesting (social) benefits they are entitled to, enlarging the digital divide. But even people with an academic background and years of IT experience find this difficult.
In the SSI-enabled world as eSSIF-Lab sees it, an SSI IT infrastructure can help to find, provide and validate the needed data electronically. This makes filling and processing forms much easier (people no longer have to understand forms, upload pdfs, etc.), much faster (people no longer have to go places to get paperwork) much cheaper (saving tens of billions of euro’s – or even more – on verification/validation costs and IT-links).
The current wealth of SSI-related products, technologies and standards is insufficient for realizing this vision, because it generally lacks interoperability and scalability, and does not address the process- and business levels.
eSSIF-Lab calls for a scalable and interoperable technological infrastructure that is very easy to use by and integrate with (the IT, the processes and the business/policies of) arbitrary organizations and individuals to request, obtain, store and issue data objects whose meaning (semantics), origin (provenance) and integrity can be proved (verified) – which is basically what SSI is all about.
The main task of the eSSIF-Lab consortium is to coordinate between and fund projects of SME’s/startups (from EU/EEA countries) that contribute to the realization of this vision, in terms of technology and/or associated business propositions, and that will work together so as to benefit from each other’s contributions.
Register on this link to join the webinar on the 31st of March 8 am MST / 10 am EST / 3 pm CET.

NGIatlantic.eu's 1st Open Call webinar
2020-03-26 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Rome) | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
All you need to know about NGIatlantic.eu’s 1st Open Call – webinar, 26 March 2020
From April 2020 until November 2021, NGIatlantic.eu will launch 5 Open Calls for Proposals, with a total budget of 2.8 Million Euro. The calls are open to European organisations – SMEs, large enterprise, public organisations – wishing to carry out high-quality Research & Innovation activities, with a US-based counterpart, on NGI experimental platforms.
The first Open Call is scheduled to be launched on 1st April 2020, open until 31st May 2020 with a budget of 600k Euro.
This webinar is the first of a series to be organised around the NGIatlantic.eu Open Calls. It will introduce the NGIatlantic.eu project and opportunities, and will follow with a deep dive-into the details of the first Open Call, including the NGI topic focus areas where experiments will be funded.
Agenda

15:00 – 15:10
Openness, inclusivity, transparency, privacy, cooperation, and protection of data: the Next Generation Internet initiative of the European Commission

15:10 – 15:15
NGIatlantic.eu: bridging EU-US research on Next Generation Internet

15:15 – 15:30
NGIatlantic.eu 1st Open Call: topics, experimental platforms, finding your partner

15:30 – 15:40
Nuts & bolts of the call

15:40 – 15:45
Open questions

All the info for the EPE call are available here: https://ngiatlantic.eu/evaluators
and the webinar’s slides can be downloaded here: https://ngiatlantic.eu/sites/default/files/2020-03/NGIatlantic_Webinar_26032020_slides_final.pdf

IAM Weekend
2020-03-19 - 2020-03-21 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
The annual gathering for creative thinkers & doers exploring the futures of the internet(s) where the digital economy meets the post-technical perspectives needed to cultivate collective critical hope.
‘The Weirdness of Interdependencies’ is the research theme for the upcoming edition of IAM Weekend (March 19–21, 2020. Barcelona) that will focus on how organisation and citizens can address the weird implications of the design, mythologies and usages of the internet(s) and digital technologies in the environmental emergency.
DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CRISIS IAM WEEKEND 2020 WILL BE ADAPTED AS A LIVE ONLINE EVENT.
Website of the event here.

DAPSI WEBINAIRE
2020-03-18 10:00 - 10:30 (Europe/Brussels) | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
WEBINAIRE D’INFORMATION AAP DAPSI – NGI
Participez à notre webinaire de présentation du nouvel appel lancé par l’initiative européenne Next Generation Internet dédié aux innovations pour l’internet de demain.
Ce webinaire d’information vous est proposé en présence des opérateurs Cap Digital et l’IMT Atlantique qui présenteront l’appel et répondront à toutes vos questions !
L’appel DAPSI répond au besoin de développer des technologies facilitant la transmission et la portabilité des données entre fournisseurs de services. Si la portabilité des données est un droit garanti par le RGPD, il demeure difficile de relever le défi sur un plan technologique.
*Les infos clés de l’appel*
Mono-partenaire ou consortium
Ouvert aux établissements publics, entreprises ou associations, chercheurs, étudiants
Jusqu’à 50 équipes soutenues à l’issue de l’appel
Clôture de l’appel le 20 avril 2020
Soutiens apportés : jusqu’à 150 000€ de subvention
Inscription: https://app.livestorm.co/cap-digital-1/webinar-dinformation-aap-dapsi-ngi

DAPSI WEBINAR #1
2020-03-16 15:00 - 15:30 (Europe/Brussels) | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
DAPSI WEBINAR#1 | GUIDE FOR APPLICANTS
We are pleased to invite you to our first webinar – this is a great opportunity to learn more about the Data Portability and Services Incubator, the application process, evaluation criteria, and programme details.
The team will be ready to answer all your queries. You can ask us anything!
The webinar will be on Monday, March 16 @ 15:00 pm (CEST).
Some topics we’ll cover:
What is DAPSI
Which are the data portability challenges
How to apply
These and many more questions will be addressed during our webinar! Reserve your seat via F6S now.
This is the link to reserve your seat via F6S: https://www.f6s.com/dapsiopencall1-webinar1-guideforapplicants

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POLITICO AI Summit 2020
2020-03-16 - 2020-03-17 | Brussels, Belgium
CAN EUROPE KEEP UP WITH ITS DIGITAL LEGACY AND BE A GLOBAL AI RULE-MAKER?
AI has infiltrated every aspect of our lives, from the way we work and communicate to how we treat diseases and wage wars. Globally, businesses and governments are focusing on how to make the most out of this disruptive technology and mitigate the associated risks.
In this AI “race to the top”, the U.S. and China stand as the world’s frontrunners, because of their development of cutting-edge AI applications and their capacity to attract investments. Europe wants to lead the way on digital policies by setting the conditions for the development and use of AI. GDPR, digital competition and online copyright are some of the major policy areas that the last Commission implemented to give the bloc a competitive advantage. But will the new European Commission be able to keep up with Europe’s unfinished digital legacy when the technology is evolving quickly and investments are being allocated to other parts of the world?
Taking place on March 16-17, 2020, POLITICO’s AI Summit returns to Brussels to tackle key questions about the future of AI global regulation and the technology’s implementation, such as:

What is happening across the globe (U.S., Canada, China, Japan, other regions)? And what are the key alliances that are emerging between countries and regions worldwide?
Should AI development be limited? How can the biases in the use of AI be addressed? What are the biggest consequences and challenges of automation in industry, taking into account the level of power given to machines?
Is AI a cultural question? How does the interpretation of “trustworthy” defer from a country to another, and how does it impact AI development across the globe?
Can the EU push its case for creating international rules in a future world of artificial intelligence and robotization? Will the EU’s approach towards regulation and development of AI technologies, adhering to the region’s ethical standards, give the bloc a global competitive edge — or will the EU be left behind? What are the EU’s policy priorities to boost Europe’s AI industry, while complying with European ethical standards?
In 2019, China’s AI industry received the most funding, surpassing the U.S. and its traditional advantage in venture capital investment, while Europe still lags behind. What are the EU and member states doing to facilitate access to capital, data and skills needed to support AI growth and develop strong AI solutions?
How challenging is the implementation of a cross-border and coordinated European approach towards AI? What is being done to overcome those challenges and will member states eventually take the lead?

NGI EXPLORERS WEBINAR
2020-03-04 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Brussels) | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
100% SPONSORED TECHNOLOGY EXPEDITION TO THE US
On Wednesday, 4th March 2020 at 11:00am CEST, we’ll be answering all your burning questions about applying for the NGI Explorers Open Call# 2, live on air.
If you’re thinking of applying, or are already half-way through your application for NGI Explorers Open Call #2, then this webinar is for you.
Join our NGI Explorers team, to find out:
The mission of the Next Generation Internet Explorers program
Are you eligible to apply?
Which track to choose? Open idea? Challenge or Paired Team?
These and many more questions will be addressed during our webinar!
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LEDGER’s Fourth Bootcamp
2020-03-04 - 2020-03-06 | Ex Asilo Filangeri, Ex Asilo Filangieri, Vico Giuseppe Maffei, 4, 80138 Napoli NA, Italy, Napoli, Campania, 80138, Italy
The LEDGER project is organizing the fourth boot camp for the 16 winning teams of the first funding round. The event is held in conjunction with the University of Naples Federico II and Ex Asilo Filangeri cultural center, Naples. The event is hosted by them.
The theme of the camp is ‘communication’ and coaching will focus on ways to grow and take care of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities.
The Bootcamp will open on 4 March with a Round Table and a full presentation at the third floor theater of the Ex Asilo Filangeri venue.
For more information visit the LEDGER site or follow our twitter feed @LedgerEU; @DyneOrg
Events are open to the public (limited entry due to the capacity of the theater).
Open to public are 3 sessions in 2 different days:

Agenda of 4th March | UNINA Social Sciences Department

17:00
Opening session: Research Panel / roundtable

Blockchain and social change: hype and experiences

Adam Arvidsson | UNINA
Tiziana Terranova | UNINA
Stamatia Portanova | UNINA
Mariacristina Sciannamblo | Sapienza Università di Roma, The Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute
Denis “Jaromil” Roio | Dyne.org foundation

NOTE: During all the event will be used English Language

Agenda of 6th March | Ex Asilo Filangeri, third floor library, theater

11:00- 13:00
Open panel about ways to grow community around your project in FLOSS community

15:00 – 17:30
Presentations of 16 winning LEDGER teams MVPs (more info)

17:30 – 18:00
End of the presentation event

More on LEDGER boot camps and Human-Centric development methodologies on https://vimeo.com/ledgerproject

Barcelona Blockchain Spirit
2020-02-27 11:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Madrid) | Casa Llotja de Mar, Passeig d'Isabel II, 1, 08003 Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Catalunya, 08003, Spain
This is an open event for everyone to know more about blockchain. Morning talks focus on Trust and the future Internet as a society. Afternoon talks focus on Community including decentralized projects, DEFI startups and blockchain technology.
The event will bring together around 500 enthusiasts for blockchain technology and is open to everyone who wants to know.
NGI Ambassador Alex Puig, will be presenting:
11:25 – 11:45 – Towards the Internet of humans: Empowering Individuals through self-sovereign identity, Alex Puig, CTO Caelum Labs

The event is supported by the Chamber of Commerce and Tech Spirit Barcelona, a startup ecosystem initiative.

Fed4FIRE+ | Porto Roadshow
2020-02-18 09:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Lisbon) | Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, s/n, R. Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal, Porto, Porto, 4200-465, Portugal
Get to know Fed4FIRE+
Free and open access | Porto Roadshow 18/02/2020

Test-drive Europe’s largest set of experimentation facilities!
Fed4FIRE+ is a project under the European Union’s Programme Horizon 2020, offering the largest federation worldwide of Next Generation Internet (NGI) testbeds.
Access to facilities is free and open, supporting a wide variety of research and innovation communities and initiatives in Europe, including big data, cloud computing, wireless networks, wired networks, IoT, 5G and more.
We want you! To develop, optimize, test and stress-test your product – all for free in a quasi-realistic wired or wireless environment.
More info at: fed4fire.eu/roadshow

If you would like to receive more information about the event, please, drop us an email at: contact@fed4fire.eu and subscribe to our newsletter here: fed4fire.eu/newsletter
Do not forget to follow us: – on Twitter @Fed4FIRE and on LinkedIn– and please spread the word with our hashtag #f4froadshow #fed4fire.

Blockchains for Social Good
2020-02-10 | Joint Research Centre | European Commission, Rue du Champ de Mars 21, 1050 Ixelles, Belgium, Ixelles, Bruxelles, 1050, Belgium
EIC Horizon Prize
‘Blockchains for Social Good’ Finalists’ Day
Jointly organized between DG CNECT and DG RTD
MONDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2020
• Joint Research Centre (JRC) •
Rue du Champs de Mars 21, 1050 Brussels

During the ‘Blockchains for Social Good’ Finalists’ Day, 23 finalists selected out of the 178 applications received for the 5M€ EIC Horizon Prize on ‘Blockchains for Social Good’ will discuss their social innovation solutions with other innovators in front of an engaged audience. In a five-minute pitch, all candidates get the chance to present the impact of their solutions on social good aspects and the underlying economic models, and will demonstrate how their solutions would work for people, concretely.
In each session, ample time will be devoted to questions from the public (asked in person, or though twitter and sli.do – use the event code #BC4GOOD) and from other finalists as well, to explore and debate the advantages and limitations of the proposed solutions.
This interactive event will bring together blockchain innovators, specialists and curious minds from all across Europe, in order to learn how Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) might positively affect our society in various application areas related to sustainability and SDGs.

Please find more info about the Horizon Prizes here: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/what-horizon-2020

About the EIC Horizion Prize ‘Blockchains for Social Good’
The EIC Horizon Prize ‘Blockchains for Social Good’ awards the next generation of Blockchain innovators in the broad area of social good, where Blockchain technologies can be vital to enable solutions for the emerging environmental, social and economic sustainability challenges.
By awarding 5 million euro to the innovators that come up with the most promising Blockchain solutions to different social good areas, the initiative aims to motivate the development of decentralised social innovations beneficial for the European society.

Where do the finalists come from?
In 2019, applicants from 43 different countries submitted 178 proposals, 33 of which from non-EU countries. Applicants are mostly small private companies or consortia, and include individuals and public institutions.

How are the prize winners selected?
A multidisciplinary jury of 30 high-level experts in Blockchain technologies and economic and social sciences has evaluated the 178 applications against the five criteria set in the rules of contest. This includes positive social impact, decentralization and governance, usability and inclusiveness, viability at large scale, and European added value.
The jury selected the finalists in November 2019, and will identify the winners after additional hearings, by the end of March 2020.
The jury also identified, according to the Rules of Contest, 4 additional areas, related to SDGs, which could not be foreseen at the inception of this Prize, in 2015. It also noted that unfortunately none of the above threshold applications were addressing the original area “participation in democratic decision-making by enabling accountability, rewarding of participation and/or anonymity”.
The resulting areas are as follows (in brackets, the full description as indicated in the rules of Contest):
traceability & fair trade (demonstrating the origin of raw materials or products and supporting fair trade and the fair monetization of labour);
transparency of public processes (allowing for a greater visibility of public spending and a greater transparency of administrative and production processes);
decentralised circular economy (enabling the development of decentralized social networks or clouds, or of decentralized platforms for the collaborative economy);
management of public records (managing property, land registry or other public records);
financial inclusion (contributing to financial inclusion)
aid & philanthropy (new area);
energy (new area);
health (new area);
quality content (new area).

Abstracts Finalists’ Day EIC Prize “Blockchains for Social Good”

AGENDA

EIC Horizon Prize, Blockchains for Social Good Finalists’ day

Time
Monday 10 February 2020

08:30-09:00
Registration and welcome coffee

OPENING

09:00-09.15
Welcome by Olivier Bringer, Head of Unit ‘Next Generation Internet’ of DG Connect at the European Commission

09:15-09.30
Blockchains for… Social Good? by Fabrizio Sestini, Senior Expert, DG Connect Next-Generation Internet

TRACEABILITY & FAIR TRADE
Moderator: Rob van Kranenburg

09.30-10:30
Presentations by:
Circularise (CirSource), COIN (see slides here), Minexx (see slides here), Provenance (PPP – see slides here)
Q&A

TRANSPARENCY OF PUBLIC PROCESSES, and MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC RECORDS
Moderator: Rob van Kranenburg

10:30-11:15
Presentations by
Alice (GIVE – see slides here), OriginalMy (OMHorizon2020 – see slides here), VidChain (see slides here)
Q&A

BREAK

11:15 – 11:45
Coffee Break – Poster presentations
Commission setting the scene

DECENTRALISED CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Moderator: Monique Calisti

11:45-12:30
Presentations by
Blockchain my Art (BMA – see slides here), Common Good Chain (ComGo – see slides here), Kleros (CKH2020 – see slides here)
Q&A

12:30-13:45
LUNCH BREAK
Poster presentations

FINANCIAL INCLUSION
Moderator: Gaelle Le Gars

13:55-14:30
Presentations by
CommonsHood (see slides here), Did4Basics (see slides here), GMeRits (see slides here)
Q&A

BREAK

14:30 – 15:00
Coffee Break – Poster presentations

AID & PHILANTHROPY
Moderator: Gaelle Le Gars

15:00-15:45
Presentations by
AID:Tech, BitDegree (BDG Scholarships – see slides here),
Unblocked Cash Project (OXBBU – see slides here)
Q&A

ENERGY
Moderator: Monique Calisti

15:45-16:30
Presentations by
BED4EUC (see slides here), Prosume (see slides here), SolarCoin
Q&A

HEALTH and QUALITY CONTENT
Moderator: Marc Tavernier

16:30-17:30
Presentations by
Meditect, Vigicard – Content Blockchain (COBLO – see slides here), WordProof (see slides here)
Q&A

17:30-20:00
DRINKS & TALKS

FOSDEM'20
2020-02-01 - 2020-02-02 | ULB Campus du Solbosch, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium, Bruxelles, Bruxelles, 1050, Belgium
Thousands of open source developers from all over Europe are flocking to Brussels on 1 and 2 February to share ideas and collaborate.
FOSDEM is one of the top developer events on the planet, gathering 8,000+ open source community members. Although NGI-funded projects have only been operational for just one year, several NGI-funded projects have been selected to talk at this FOSDEM 2020 edition.
NGI is driving activities at the community-organized event and the objectives of FOSDEM are closely aligned with the NGI Initiative. Open source communities address most parts of the Internet stack with a philosophy that is fully aligned with the values supported by the Next Generation Internet: openness, respect of privacy, transparency, inclusion, cooperation and decentralisation.
For more info on NGI involvement at FOSDEM, read our news article:
NGI SUPPORTS OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY’S FOSDEM 2020

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.
Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.

What is FOSDEM?
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. The goal is to provide free and open source software developers and communities a place to meet to:

get in touch with other developers and projects;
be informed about the latest developments in the free software world;
be informed about the latest developments in the open source world;
attend interesting talks and presentations on various topics by project leaders and committers;
to promote the development and benefits of free software and open source solutions.

Participation and attendance is totally free, though the organisers gratefully accept donations and sponsorship.
Developer rooms
The FOSDEM team feels it is very important for free and open source software developers around the world to be able to meet in “real life”.
To this end, we have set up developer rooms (devrooms) with network/internet connectivity and projectors where teams can meet and showcase their projects. Devrooms are a place for teams to discuss, hack and publicly present latest directions, lightning talks, news and discussions. We believe developers can benefit a lot from these meetings.
A bit of history
In 2000, Raphael Bauduin, a fan of the Linux movement in Belgium, decided to organise a small meeting for developers of Open Source software. He called it ‘Open Source Developers’ European Meeting’ (OSDEM).
Raphael created a mailing list, a small website and spread the word to people around him. Only a few weeks later, lots of people were waiting for an exciting event in Brussels! Invitations were sent to well-known figures in the community: Rasterman, Fyodor, Jeremy Allison and so on. They all gave a very positive response, and OSDEM was on the road to success.
For the second year, OSDEM was renamed FOSDEM. And now, many years later, it has grown into the event it is today. We now try to cover a wide spectrum of free and open source software projects, and offer a platform for people to collaborate. Every year, we host more than 5000 developers at the ULB Solbosch campus.
Raphael is no longer the driving force behind FOSDEM. After 7 years of hard work he left the team for new Open Source plans.

LEDGER 2nd Open Call Webinar - 28 Jan
2020-01-28 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Brussels) | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
Q&A to help you finalise your application
Stand a chance to gain up to 200 000€ in funding from the European Commission for your solutions based on decentralised technologies like Blockchain, P2P and others. NGI LEDGER is an E.C.-funded project which empowers people to solve problems using decentralised technologies such as blockchain, peer to peer or distributed ledger technologies. We are looking for 16 projects to build Minimum viable products (MVPs) where privacy by design, openness and citizen data sovereignty are at the core of their proposition.
The 2nd Open Call was launched on the 1st of November 2019 and will close on the 31st January 2020.

Webinar slides downloadable here.
Q&A pdf downloadable here.

Digital Identity Virtual Coffee Break with NGI Ambassador Alex Puig
2020-01-23 13:00 - 13:45 (Europe/Brussels) | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
Do you have everything you need, to prove that you are you?

Digital ID is well and truly established as one of the most significant technology trends on the planet. Join the webinar and hear more!

About this event
When: Thursday, 23rd of January 2020 at 13:00 – 13:45 (CET)
Where: Online – Link to be sent.
NB: There is a limit of 150 attendees
Agenda
13:00 – 13:10 Introducing the speaker
13:10 – 13:20 Introduction on Digital Identity
13:20 – 13:40 Having a conversation with Alex – Have your questions prepared!
13:40 – 14:45 Conclusions
About the topic
Anyone who has ever created an online profile, anywhere, has established a digital identity. Facebook owns our online social profile, retailers own our shopping patterns, credit agencies hold our creditworthiness, Google knows what we have been curious about since the dawn of the internet and your bank owns your payment history. All of us have traces of our digital identities scattered all over the world wide web. As a result, we are all analyzed in detail to predict our future behavior and monetize our digital identities.
Decentralized identity is how people control when, where and with whom they share their personal data. In the physical world, we take this sharing for granted, yet in the digital world, a stable, smart way to do this has long been lacking. A digital identity is an online or networked identity adopted or claimed in cyberspace by an individual, organization or electronic device. These users may also project more than one digital identity through multiple communities. In terms of digital identity management, key areas of concern are security and privacy.
About the speaker
Alex Puig is a CTO @ CaelumLabs and Co-chair on Digital Identity @ INATBA (International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications) and an ambassador of the NGI community.
Alex is a software developer with extensive experience in Blockchain and self-sovereign identity. He has always been involved in R+D projects and the tech entrepreneur scene leading different startups and starting one of the first Blockchain congresses, the Digital Currency Summit, with more than 10+ editions. He believes we need to rethink the architecture of the Internet and build a new one, with a strong self-sovereign identity, privacy by design, and security for all.
Prepare some questions and join the conversation with him!

LEDGER 2nd Open Call Webinar - 10 Jan
2020-01-10 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Brussels) | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
First cohort experiences and testimonies
Stand a chance to gain up to 200 000€ in funding from the European Commission for your solutions based on decentralised technologies like Blockchain, P2P and others. NGI LEDGER is an E.C.-funded project which empowers people to solve problems using decentralised technologies such as blockchain, peer to peer or distributed ledger technologies. We are looking for 16 projects to build Minimum viable products (MVPs) where privacy by design, openness and citizen data sovereignty are at the core of their proposition.
The 2nd Open Call was launched on the 1st of November 2019 and will close on the 31st January 2020.

Webinar slides downloadable here.

Ideal-ist Proposal Check
2020-01-08 | APRE Central Office, Via Cavour, 71, 00184 Roma RM, Italy, Roma, Lazio, 00184, Italy
Ideal-ist Proposal Check Event for ICT calls in Horizon 2020
Ideal-ist is holding a proposal check event for ICT & related calls in Horizon 2020 with a January 2020 deadline. The event will take place on 8 January 2020 (and 7 or 9, to accomodate additional proposals, if needed) in Rome, Italy (hosted by APRE), but proposers will be able to participate remotely, as well.
Full proposal check events offer proposers a chance to improve the quality of project proposals based on feedback from experienced external experts and national contact points (NCPs). The event aims to transfer useful knowledge and increase proposers’ chances for funding.
Procedure
On-site attendants
Interested proposers will provide a good first draft of their proposal for the selected ICT call topic (see the list below) and receive qualified feedback from experienced evaluators immediately during the proposal check session. The session consists of the evaluators reading the proposal and a feedback round.
It will be possible to receive additional consulting by experienced NCP staff.
Remote attendants
Ideal-ist will offer a remote evaluation for selected participants. Experienced evaluators will sit in Brussels and meet with proposers via Skype. The remote nature will require that proposals are sent electronically.
All participating experts will sign a confidentiality declaration. There are a limited number of slots for this event, so early applications are encouraged!
Selection of participants
Proposers who apply to participate at the event go through a case-by-case selection process. After their expression of interest via an online form, they will be contacted in the following days to assess the degree of completion of their proposals. Short-listed candidates will be invited based on the available places and the submission of a final draft of their proposal.

The deadline for expression of interest is 18 December 2019.
The deadline for sending the final draft that will be reviewed will be 3 January 2020.

Who can attend?
The event will support proposals for ICT calls under H2020, with a deadline in January 2020. Admission to the event is for the coordinator (i.e. one person, mandatory) plus one representative from a project partner institution (i.e. one optional person). In exceptional cases, the coordinator may name a proxy to attend.
The evaluators on-site do not check the eligibility of the proposers to submit a proposal for the topic. Therefore it is strongly recommended that the proposers have an abstract of their proposal checked by their National Contact Points (NCP).
The event is free of charge, however, slots are limited. Ideal-ist does not refund travel expenses for the proposers.
For more information, please check on the organizer website at: https://www.ideal-ist.eu/event/ideal-ist-proposal-check-event-ict-calls-horizon-2020-january

Chaos Communication Congress 2019
2019-12-27 - 2019-12-30 | Leipziger Messe, Messe-Allee 1, 04356 Leipzig, Germany, Leipzig, Sachsen, 04356, Germany
36th Chaos Communication Congress
The Chaos Communication Congress is an annual conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club. The congress features a variety of lectures and workshops on technical and political issues related to security, cryptography, privacy and online freedom of speech. The event takes place regularly at the end of the year since 1984, with the current date and duration (27–30 December) established in 2005. It is considered one of the largest events of this kind, alongside the DEF CON in Las Vegas.
For the 36th time the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) will host the Chaos Communication Congress between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. The 36C3, which will take place at Messe Leipzig, is the largest hacker conference in Europe and – like all CCC events – will be organised and executed entirely by volunteers. As last year, around 17,000 participants are expected from 27th to 30th of December 2019, including more than 2,000 volunteers.

36C3: Resource exhaustion
Resource exhaustion is a type of attack on computer systems that is considered rather crude and destructive. Even with two large scale events this year we don’t want to execute such an attack against ourselves. Instead we want to use our own resources in a measured, effective way:
Those who do know the extend of their own resources, can set limits, to prevent their exhaustion.
On an international stage this wisdom appears to be absent. Resources are exhausted knowingly and willfully, instead of limiting their use. Two years ago, during 34C3, we dedicated a day of our schedule to the topic of global climate change, and in the year following that we joined forces with other civil rights and environment protection NGOs for the Bits & Bäume conference.
It is in this tradition and with this spirit that we see this year’s congress’s motto 36C3: Resource Exhaustion.
More info here: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2019/

LEDGER 2nd Open Call Webinar - 17 Dec
2019-12-17 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Brussels) | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
What do you gain from LEDGER
Stand a chance to gain up to 200 000€ in funding from the European Commission for your solutions based on decentralised technologies like Blockchain, P2P and others. NGI LEDGER is an E.C.-funded project which empowers people to solve problems using decentralised technologies such as blockchain, peer to peer or distributed ledger technologies. We are looking for 16 projects to build Minimum viable products (MVPs) where privacy by design, openness and citizen data sovereignty are at the core of their proposition.
The 2nd Open Call was launched on the 1st of November 2019 and will close on the 31st January 2020.

Webinar slides downloadable here.
Q&A pdf downloadable here.

LEDGER 2nd Open Call Webinar
2019-12-09 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Brussels) | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
Introducing LEDGER and the Venture Builder
Starting on December 9th at 15:00 CET, the Venture Builder is going to hold 4 webinars to promote its current 2nd Open call and help you with detailed information about the application process, the programme and its values.
In this first webinar we will focus on introducing the LEDGER project, what happens in the 12-month Venture Builder programme and how the application process works.
Stand a chance to gain up to 200 000€ in funding from the European Commission for your solutions based on decentralised technologies like Blockchain, P2P and others. NGI LEDGER is an E.C.-funded project which empowers people to solve problems using decentralised technologies such as blockchain, peer to peer or distributed ledger technologies. We are looking for 16 projects to build Minimum viable products (MVPs) where privacy by design, openness and citizen data sovereignty are at the core of their proposition.
The 2nd Open Call was launched on the 1st of November 2019 and will close on the 31st January 2020.

Webinar slides downloadable here.
Q&A pdf downloadable here.

Future Internet Governance Strategy for the European Union
2019-11-27 16:10 - 17:10 (Europe/Berlin) | Estrel Congress Centre – Convention Hall, Sonnenallee 225, 12057 Berlin, Germany, Berlin, Berlin, 12057, Germany
The European Commission is a strong supporter of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), and will be organising several initiatives during the event:

A booth with information on the Next-Generation Internet.
An interactive Open Forum on the ‘Future Internet Governance Strategy for the European Union’ on Wednesday 27 November

Theme:
Data Governance
Subtheme:
Innovation | Internet Ethics
Description:
With the election of the new European Parliament and new European Commission, the EU will setup a new Internet Governance strategy for the coming 5 years.
Organizers:
European Commission
Speakers:
Pearse O’Donohue- European Commission
Online Moderator:
Valentina Scialpi
SDGs:
GOAL 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

High-level conference on Data Economy
2019-11-25 - 2019-11-26 | Finlandia Hall, Mannerheimintie 13, 00100 Helsinki, Finland, Helsinki, 00100, Finland
The High-Level Conference on Data Economy will gather a broad spectrum of aspects on data economy in order to showcase solutions and to define the principles for a sustainable, competitive and human-driven data economy. The programme will focus on the theme of human-centric data economy featuring the public and private sectors, non-governmental organisations and civil society. The Conference is expected to bring together an influential group of 400 high-level attendees representing the EU member states and EU institutions, business and economy as well as the civil society to discuss and shape the principles for future development of European data economy.
The conference is organised by the Ministry of Transport and Communications, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Education and Culture.
For more information, check the program on the event website.

IGF 2019
2019-11-25 - 2019-11-29 | Estrel Congress Centre, Sonnenallee 225, 12057 Berlin, Germany, Berlin, Berlin, 12057, Germany
14th Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was set up as an open discussion platform of the United Nations for key legal, political, social and technical issues relating to the internet.
The IGF is designed according to the “multi-stakeholder” model, meaning that all the relevant societal groups are equally involved in preparations and implementation: from governments, civil society, business, academia, international organisations and the technical community. This is particularly of note in terms of representatives from developing and newly industrialising countries, who otherwise tend to be under-represented.

The forum was established in 2006 by the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN). The IGF does not make binding decisions, but only serves in an advisory capacity. The annual meetings are held for the purposes of discussion, information and inspiration, with the primary objective of facilitating equitable and constructive dialogue between the various representatives, and to play a role in shaping debate within the relevant decision-making bodies at a national and international level.
Global trends relating to internet politics, current draft legislation and established practices are regularly discussed at these meetings. Delegates address topics including future opportunities and challenges presented by the internet, as well as analysing ways of making full use of the internet’s potential.
Having previously been convened in Geneva and Paris, the 14th Annual Meeting will be held on 25-29 November 2019 at the Estrel Congress Centre in Berlin.
For more info, follow the IGF 2019 on twitter.

The European Commission is a strong supporter of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), and will be organising several initiatives during the event:

An interactive Open Forum on the ‘Future Internet Governance Strategy for the European Union’ on Wednesday 27 November
A booth with information on the Next-Generation Internet.

More info here: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/internet-governance-forum-2019

Startup Europe goes to SLUSH
2019-11-21 - 2019-11-22 | Helsinki Expo and Convention Center, Messuaukio 1, 00520 Helsinki, Finland, Helsinki, 00520, Finland
It’s a crush: Startup Europe’s innovation policies and matchmaking for investors and startups at Slush
Startup Europe is matchmaking startups and investors at Slush, one of the world’s leading startup events in Helsinki, Finland. Startup Europe, together with Business Finland and Slush will also organise a workshop on accelerating Digital Innovation and Ecosystems.
Slush, one of the world’s leading startup events is fast approaching and will take place on November 21 and 22 in Helsinki, Finland. Slush aims to connect investors and innovators at its core and a vision of creating a world-wide startup community and brings together 4000 startups, 2000 investors and 20000 other change-makers.
Startup Europe is bringing its full network of startups, partners and innovators along to Slush, all who have proven experience implementing digital innovation projects with its generous grant-funding. This includes MY-GATEWAY which focuses on strengthening the capacity of start-ups and SME’s in Central and Eastern Europe, and Startup Lighthouse, which helps promising EU startups to increase their market access. Among those joining are the winners of the Innovation Radar Prize and the 11 winners of the My Gateway Slush competition.
Take a deep dive at Slush on Startup Europe’s tools and financing
Startup Europe aims to strengthen the startup ecosystem across Europe and help the startup community easily access our tools and funding. At Slush, a deep dive into the details of our programs will be taken, including on the Digital Innovation and Scale-Up Initiative (DISC), which enhances finance for highly innovative high-risk digital startups in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. More information will be provided on the new Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Fund, which will support the financing of a portfolio of highly innovative AI/blockchain companies and support the development of a dynamic EU-wide innovation ecosystem across Europe. The first phase of the fund will support innovative AI/blockchain companies with 100 million euros in 2020.
Startup Europe is matchmaking startups and investors: November 21—pencil it in!
In line with its goal of connecting people, Startup Europe is organizing jointly with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Business Finland a special matchmaking event that will bring together 100 startups from across Europe, together with private venture capitalists and investors from large financial institutions such as the European Investment Fund (EIF), the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the World Bank, and the International Finance Corporation. To support access to finance, a reverse-pitching session by the investors will be organised. Join the Startup Europe Matchmaking Session on November 21st from 16:00-20:00 and don’t miss out on discovering a whole range of opportunities!
Workshop on accelerating Digital Innovation and Ecosystems: November 22—don’t miss it!
To advance startup and scaleup focused policy, in partnership with Business Finland and Slush, Startup Europe will organise a workshop on Accelerating Digital Innovations and Ecosystems which will bring together 350 stakeholders and experts on digital innovation and startup ecosystems. The workshop will take place on 22 November from 13:00-16:00. The session will focus on both startup policy and investment initiatives and how these can best be harnessed to enable digital innovation and growth. Innovators, startup founders, venture capitalists, business angels, national promotional banks, corporate representatives, startup associations, academics, policymakers and the media will attend. Learn all about the policy workshop, and register now.
More information on NGI open calls here.
For more information on Startup Europe at SLUSH, please contact: Bjorn-Soren Gigler

SLUSH Helsinki 2019
2019-11-21 - 2019-11-22 | Helsinki Expo and Convention Center, Messuaukio 1, 00520 Helsinki, Finland, Helsinki, 00520, Finland
Slush is a student-driven, not-for-profit movement with the mission to create and help the next generation of groundbreaking entrepreneurs.
THE MOST FOUNDER-FOCUSED EVENT ON EARTH.
Whether your startup is looking for investors, customers, talent, media or advisors, we’ve got them all lined up in Slush Helsinki.
Startup Europe is matchmaking startups and investors at Slush. Startup Europe, together with Business Finland and Slush will also organise a workshop on accelerating Digital Innovation and Ecosystems. Read more here.

INFO SESSION ICT-54-2020
2019-11-19 11:30 - 12:30 (Europe/Brussels) | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
INFO SESSION BLOCKCHAIN FOR THE NEXT GENERATION INTERNET ICT-54-2020 | 2nd info webinar
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
11:30 am | (UTC+01:00) Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris | 1 hr
Meeting number (access code): 162 043 644
Meeting password: [REDACTED] (42854093 from phones)
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Each RIA in the three sub-topics above, through an agile and flexible process, will support third party projects from outstanding academic research groups, hi-tech startups, SMEs and other multidisciplinary actors, so that multiple third parties will be funded in parallel contributing to the research and innovation area. As the primary purpose of the action is to support and mobilise internet innovators, a minimum of 70% of the total requested EU contribution should be allocated to financial support to the third parties
For more details https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/ict-54-2020

ICT-54-2020 info
Types of action: Research and Innovation action
Status: Open
Deadline date: 16 January 2020 17:00:00 CET
Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) will be called for in the following three sub-topics. Proposals should address only one of these sub-topics.

Advancing research on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies
Fostering trust in internet information exchange and content with blockchain
Bringing forward the emergence of collective intelligence on the internet

The webinar will cover the three sub-topics of the call and will give participants the possibility of presenting their project ideas and pose their questions.
This call is one of the last in the H2020-ICT-2018-2020 Programme.

NGI Explorers Immersion bootcamp
2019-11-19 - 2019-11-21 | Training Centre “Wspólna”, Sienna 73, 00-001 Warszawa, Poland, Warszawa, mazowieckie, 00-001, Poland
The 15 Explorers selected in our first open call, have been invited to participate in the first NGI Explorers
Immersion bootcamp, which will be held in Warsaw, Poland, at the Training Centre “Wspólna”, from 19th to
21st of November, 2019.
The Immersion bootcamp aims Explorers to (i) foster community connection, exchange and collaboration,
(ii) engage in NGI discussions/vision; while immersing into US cultural and administrative issues.
Our team will drive the 15 Explorers in a 2 days and half of immersion in the NGI Explorers ecosystem, in
order to brief and support them in view of their first expedition to the US.
The agenda of the immersion bootcamp will be composed of different “training modules”, as follows:

Learn: trainings to advance knowledge on topics like the NGI vision, IP management, Tech transfer, Product
development & business generation, American mindset etc…
Support: “we have your back” – administrative support on monitoring procedure during US expedition, visa
recommendations, and an individual support through an assigned mentor.
Grow: fire pitch session. Explorers with an awarded disruptive idea will deliver a three-minute pitch to
outline their US technology expedition to an invited panel of experts.
Connect: mentoring, delicious food and great networking opportunities!

Stay tuned on our channels for more information about the Immersion bootcamp and NGI Explorers second
open call, which will be launched in January!
