The Web after the Platforms
2021-06-02 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
The Web after the Platforms DAPSI FINAL EVENT
What is at stake with Interoperability?
Standards have been defined to build a different web, to give back control of data usage to actors, to maintain control of industrial data and to allow for fair competition conditions. However, these opportunities are not well known by the entrepreneurs who are likely to seize them, support them and leverage their potential, neither by the public actors likely to encourage them, nor, more widely, by citizens.
This event proposes to discuss the implications of these changes based on the input from various use cases.
How do businesses boost or strengthen their market access? How can these standards be used as a weapon of European digital fairness? What changes can be made to the rules for managing personal data? What kind of legal frameworks should be built? How can we educate citizens and actors to manage their data? Finally, how will these transformations affect the organization of businesses and institutions?
We will explore all these issues by mobilising European experts and stakeholders of these topics. We will also shed light on the seven winning projects of the European challenge DAPSI (Data Portability & Services Incubator – dapsi.ngi.eu) proposed by the European initiative NGI (Next Generation Internet – funded by the European Union in the framework of the H2020 programme).
The conference is a 100% digital event. It is addressed to all European stakeholders in digital innovation (large companies, public actors, academics, innovative start-ups & SMEs, representatives of associations and civil society and journalists, etc.). It will be held in English and French. Simultaneous translation will be available.
This event is the kick-off of a cycle of four digital webinars that will focus on different sectoral use
cases, to be organized in 2021.
AGENDA
Morning (09:45-12:00): Interoperability as a means for rebuilding the web, with Gilles Babinet (co-Chairman at French Digital National Council and Digital Champion at the European Commission), Jean-François Abramatic (ex Inria, ex W3C), Alain Assouline (CINOV – Numerique), Antoine Garnier (IDSA).
Afternoon (13:30-16:45): DAPSI FINAL EVENT – Presentation of the 7 winning DAPSI projects, roundtables with the DAPSI project leaders. The first roundtable will focus on the issues of uses, user experience & adoption, the second one on technology transfer and scaling up issues.
Focus on the 7 innovations for data portability from the DAPSI program

Alias Identity: ALIAS enables the next generation of applications to happen, by automating GDPR portability for applications developers.
Own your Data – Digital Immunization Passport (DIP): The main focus of this project is on Data Interoperability & Compatibility through establishing interfaces between health industry and individuals as well as pushing forward on standardized interfaces for PDSs.
Audria – OpenXport: The OpenXPort project will start by providing two main results. First, a best practice document which supports developers and policymakers to address and shape the future of data portability will be created. Second, an Open Source framework for the portability of core PIM data types will be defined. Given the ubiquity and key role of PIM data and prior work in this field, such an open framework has a huge potential for bringing data portability into widespread practice and also to serve as a blueprint for data portability in other domains.
Dpella: a tool that perturbs data analyses’ results with carefully calibrated randomized noise to protect the privacy of individuals with mathematical guarantees, while providing information about the accuracy of the results. This project explores the possibilities for this technology to enable governments and companies to produce open, secure, and public data analyses from private datasets.
Gridpocket – Oratorio: The ORATORIO project consists also in the development of a platform that will store different types of energy data of consumers and prosumers (consumption/production and IoT data in this prototype): consumption data, energy profiles, analytics of use, data of IoT devices, electric vehicule data.
Digita BV: software and services that allow organizations to easily connect to Solid-based personal data sets.
IMEC – Prov4ITDATA: This project offers an improved solution that is fully transparent and has fine-grained configuration to improve interoperability with other data models by exploiting and advancing the existing open-source tools RML.io and Comunica and showing its extensibility by directly applying it to the Solid ecosystem.

Registration
Please register by clicking here.

Leading the Digital Decade
2021-06-01 | Online event
Leading the Digital Decade, held 1-2 June, is a two-day online event focused on Europe’s digital transformation towards 2030.
What should the future of digital in Europe be? What should our 2030 goals be when it comes to digital transformation? How can we make sure we meet our objectives?
These are the main questions that Leading the Digital Decade aims to answer. The past 18 months have radically transformed Europe and the world. Because of the ongoing pandemic, the world has digitalised faster than ever before. Digital is what has kept our society going. It has also widened the gap between those who have the means to shift to digital and enjoy its benefits and those who do not.
At this crossroads, Europe must define its path going forward. Leading the Digital Decade focuses on defining this path. This two-day event is co-organised by the European Commission and the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union and will be held virtually on 1 and 2 June 2021.
Day 1
The starting point of the first day’s debate is the Communication 2030 Digital Compass: the European way for the Digital Decade. Its vision is clear: everyone in Europe can and should benefit from digital.
To make this a reality, we need to improve on digital skills, infrastructure and use of technology by people, companies and public administrations.
Day 2
The second day will be dedicated to the launch of the Digital Europe Programme, the first financial instrument of the EU to specifically finance European projects on digital. The Digital Europe Programme will accelerate the economic recovery and shape the digital transformation of Europe benefiting citizens and businesses.
The Digital Europe Programme will provide funding for projects in five areas:

supercomputing
artificial intelligence
cybersecurity
advanced digital skills
use of digital technologies across the economy and society

Join the conversation with #DigitalEU2030
The full programme for Leading the Digital Decade will be available soon.
Register for the event

eSSIF-Lab Open Calls webinar
2021-05-27 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/Brussels) | Online event
Find out all about the eSSIF-Lab current Open Calls
Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) promises to empower European citizens with new means to manage privacy, eliminate logins, and enjoy much faster and safer electronic transactions via the internet as well as in real life.
Do you have questions about the eSSIF-Lab Open Calls? Want tips for crafting an effective proposal?
Join our live webinar on the eSSIF-Lab’s current Open Calls!
2nd Business – oriented Open Call
eSSIF-Lab is looking for proposals to develop and demonstrate SSI working solutions for a real-world, domain-oriented problem or opportunity, in prioritized eSSIF-Lab areas (Health Tech, e-Government and Education), or in the Open Disruptive Innovation track (which is covering innovative bottom-up projects out of these verticals).
eSSIF-Lab will select 23 best SMEs (including startups), not-for-profit entities (such as foundations or associations), or collaborative initiatives (as micro-consortia of these entities)
Proposed solutions must be commercial, competitive and sector-specific SSI applications for products and services. They are expected to leverage on the added value that previously developed functionalities within the eSSIF-Lab, to include the issuing, exchange and consumption of SSI credentials as a core element and to have high technology and investment readiness levels.
The proposals selected in the Second Business-oriented Call will be invited to join an 8-month acceleration programme, including business and technical support to integrate eSSIF-Lab and other SSI technology with market propositions.

Deadline: 7th of July 2021 at 17:00 (CEST)
Funding: up to 106,000 € (for the best in class)

Infrastructure – oriented Open Call
This call targets open-source technical enhancements and extensions for eSSIF-Lab Framework which fall within the SSI concept (i.e. technologies which allow individuals to control their electronic identities and guard their privacy).
Open source SSI components developed as a result of this open call will be applied by other participants in eSSIF-Lab. Hence, applicants shall be willing and able to work in an agile way with lots of communication and interaction with other participants in the eSSIF-Lab ecosystem, together with developing the eSSIF-Lab Framework and testing the interoperability of delivered components.
This call targets innovators in the SSI domain (such as outstanding academic research groups, hi-tech startups, SMEs, etc.), legally established/resident in a Member State of the EU or in an H2020 associated country.

Deadline: 7th of July 2021 at 17:00 (CEST)
Funding: up to 155,000 €

This webinar is free and open to all stakeholders.
eSSIF-Lab is funded by the European Commission, as part of the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under Grant Agreement Nº 871932 and it’s framed under Next Generation Internet Initiative.
The data controller is FundingBox Accelerator sp. z o.o. (Al. Jerozolimskie 136, 02-305 Warsaw, Poland). We process your personal data for the purpose to run this webinar and promote eSSIF-Lab Project. In all matters regarding personal data, you can contact us using the following email address: privacy@fundingbox.com. You can find the full information clause here.

TRUST IN DATA?
2021-05-27 10:00 - 11:00 | Online event
TRUST IN DATA? Why social innovation needs digital.
EUSES, Mannheim, Day 2 10-11 am CET
Sharing data – whether personal or not – is key to social innovation and digital competitiveness. Data processing innovation relates to Europe’s sustainable growth and digital jobs. Before the internet era data collection was slow, top-down, and very little data was shared let alone queried. The internet’s growth expands broadband access such that distributed computation happens in real time on connected devices near you. Our web business model relies on voluntary sharing of data, when the world of internet and big data is a lot more centralized and extractive than it ever was. A few aggregators act as global online gateways to products, services and content; they capture most of the digital value chain. With Open Data and the GDPR, we all realize that data privacy, data ownership and data trust has social value above and beyond business as usual. Data governance matters to individuals as well as to society as a whole. Social innovation requires maximising socio-economic benefits of ‘being connected’, whilst minimising the centralized control power over the web. Data asymmetries and mistrust is a growing threat to social innovation. Can we agree on our digital rights, common safety safeguards, prevention of identity theft, cybercrime, data breaches, manipulation and malware? Because digital inclusion won’t just happen by default.
Speakers:

Dr Loretta Anania, European Commission Next Generation Internet Unit, moderator
Dr Andrea Renda, Director, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium
Sir Geoff Mulgan, Professor of Collective Intelligence, University College London, UK
Dr Michelangelo Secchi, Centre for Social Innovation, Coimbra, Portugal
Prof. Elizabeth Maria Renieris, Director, Cybersecurity and Technology Ethics Lab, Harvard and Stanford Universities, USA

NGI Forward Salon: Spotlight on Dark Patterns
2021-05-26 16:30 - 18:00 | Online event | CEST
Spotlight on Dark Patterns: What can the ePrivacy Regulation do?
Co-hosted by NGI FORWARD and the German Research Institute for Public Administration. Deutsches Forschungsinstitut für Öffentliche Verwaltung, FÖV “Dark Pattern Detection-Project (Dapde) funded by the German Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, and the Next Generation Internet initiative (NGI) of the European Commission.
SCOPE
At least since the entry into force of the GDPR, Dark Patterns seem to be all over the internet. Companies use interface designs to lead users to take decisions contrary to their actual interests. Consent banners appear to have become more and more loaded with Dark Patterns.
How could EU Member States and European law be able to limit the use of Dark Patterns? The proposed ePrivacy Regulation, set to replace the old ePrivacy Directive (Directive 2002/58/EC) and adapt it to the evolution of electronic communications, could provide a chance for the European legislator to take a stricter stance on Dark Patterns. However, different from, for example the new California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) of 2020, none of the current proposals for the Trilogue specifically addresses Dark Patterns. Thus, the question arises whether the new ePrivacy Regulation can and should limit the use of Dark Patterns.
The talk will bring together perspectives from consumer protection organizations, industry representatives and academics. The format will be a moderated podium discussion followed by questions from the audience.
The goal of the event is to discuss the phenomenon of Dark Patterns and how best to address it, in particular through regulation.
Speakers

Peter Eberl, Deputy Head of Unit Cybersecurity and Digital Privacy, EU Commission
be.linkedin.com/in/peter-eberl-0a528a60
Maryant Fernández, Senior Digital Policy Officer, The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC)
www.linkedin.com/in/maryantfernandez
Cristiana Santos, Assistant Professor, Utrecht University
www.linkedin.com/in/cristianateixeirasantos
Christian Drews, Research Fellow, Dapde
www.linkedin.com/in/christian-drews

Moderation
Quirin Weinzierl, Project Coordinator, Dapde
www.linkedin.com/in/quirin-w-1a2756140
Organizers
Carsten Berger, Quirin Weinzierl and Anton Kamke (FÖV Speyer) with Rob Van Kranenburg

The Salons reflect the views of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission but form part of the project’s overarching recommendations for the NGI and future European internet policy.

TETRA Webinar: Introduction to Intellectual Property for ICT start-ups
2021-05-26 10:00 - 11:00 | web-streamed
How can young entrepreneurs in the ICT field include and improve their Intellectual Property (IP) as a part of their international expansion strategy?
To answer this question and support you in your other IP-related questions, NGI TETRA organises the webinar “Introduction to IP for ICT start-ups” to cover the following topics:
• IP in the ICT sector: The basics
• IP protection in the framework of ICT/NGI: success and failure stories
• To protect or not to protect? From counterfeiting to IP valorisation in the sector
So, feel free to join us and let’s talk about IP!
Registration
Please register by clicking HERE!
SPEAKER
Mathieu Buchkremer is part of the Dennemeyer & Associates firm in Luxembourg with 6 years of experience as a patent engineer in the fields of mechanics, electronics and ICT inventions. In addition to extensive experience with drafting and patentability opinions for several companies established in Europe, Asia and the USA, Mathieu specialises in advising SMEs as well as universities and research institutes in their efforts to build up valuable IP assets.
Previously active in the field of IP in France, Mathieu regularly supports start-ups from their first development steps towards an optimal international expansion strategy.

EUSES 2021
2021-05-26 - 2021-05-27 | Online event
European Social Economy Summit
The ‘European Social Economy Summit’ (#EUSES) is a jointly organized digital conference by the European Commission and the City of Mannheim. The #EUSES is a conference which aims at strengthening the social economy in Europe and harness its contribution to economic development, social inclusion as well as green and digital transitions. The discussions will focus on three dimensions: digitalisation of the Social Economy, (social) innovation, cross-country and cross-sectoral collaboration.
The #EUSES is an opportunity to bring all stakeholders active in the social economy together.

The #EUSES will offer a forum for numerous exchanges on the role of social economy in Europe as a vector for economic development and social inclusion. The summit will be an opportunity to discuss how social economy can help reshape the economy post-COVID by promoting inclusive sustainable economic models for the green and digital transition within Europe.
Social economy and social enterprises create jobs, provide accessible services, foster upskilling, address environmental challenges and strengthen communities. They carry potential for social innovation and social cohesion. They contribute positively to the economy and society at large. Social economy and social enterprises are an excellent example of “An economy that works for people.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGm1gzSTop4

NGI_TRUST Webinar Results #6
2021-05-19 10:30 - 12:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
From February 2019 to May 2020, the NGI_Trust project ran three Open Calls to fund the development of a human-centric Internet through privacy and trust enhancing technologies. These calls attracted a significant number of applications and NGI_Trust was able to fund 57 projects focused on relevant innovations. Now that all of the funding has been allocated, it is time to focus in on the funded projects and showcase their ideas and developments. NGI_Trust has started a series of webinars to do just this – and also to help build a community of innovators among the projects through shared ideas and principles.
NGI_Trust will be continuing webinars with our projects during 2021. You can also find out more about the projects via the NGI_Trust twitter account and through the NGI blogposts.
More info on the NGI_Trust website.

NGI Forum 2021
2021-05-18 - 2021-05-19 | Online event | CET
NGI Forum 2021
Building the Internet of Humans
18-19 May | Register now!
The NGI Forum 2021 is the flagship event of the Next Generation Internet initiative, which brings together some of Europe’s top internet innovators who are shaping the Internet of Humans. An Internet that guarantees trust, privacy, and inclusion, while empowering people and addressing global sustainability challenges.

Digital technologies and access to a safe and secure Internet have proved essential during the COVID-19 crisis, but the pandemic has also exacerbated existing technological, societal, and economic gaps. Human centricity is not an option for Europe as we enter the Digital Decade, it is a core component, and NGI is an essential initiative to bring the human dimension at the core of the Internet.

In the last couple of years, NGI innovators have been at work delivering technologies and services that respect European rights and values, leading to tangible benefits for both private and public organisations, as well as citizens.

The NGI Forum 2021 is an opportunity to showcase the first NGI results, learn about the impact of ground-breaking internet technologies, discuss future priorities with experts across several domains, such as trust and data sovereignty, Internet architecture, decentralised technologies, or new methods of search. It will also provide insights into NGI upcoming calls in Horizon Europe, offering an opportunity to top internet innovators to continue their work and to join the growing NGI community.

The event, which will run online, will include a mix of specialist talks, open discussions, and interactive workshops. The emphasis is on stimulating discussion and foster the creation of synergies between innovators, researchers, developers, policymakers, and civil society players.

Be part of it, join the NGI community to build the Internet of Humans!

Self Sovereign Identity. Trust in NGI
2021-05-17 11:00 - 15:00 | Online event
A pre “NGI Forum” event
May 17 11:00 – 12:00 and 14:00 – 15:00
This workshop has two parts. A webinar with short presentations (60 min) and a general discussion on Big Blue Button for participants in to contribute (60 min). Topic is online trust, based on Self Sovereign Identity frameworks funded in NGI projects. International interest in digital identity management and SSI is growing globally.
More info about the NGI Forum 2021 at 2021.ngiforum.eu
Speakers
11:00 – 11:05
Opening, Loretta Anania, European Commission
11:05 – 11:10
Primavera de Filippi, CNRS, ‘Self-Sovereign Identity in a Globalized World: Credentials-Based Identity Systems as a Driver for Economic Inclusion’
How combining blockchain-based cryptocurrencies and SSI contributes to promoting privacy as well as greater economic inclusion.
doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2019.00028
11:15 – 11:20
Daniel Du Seuil, Convenor of the European Self Sovereign Identity Framework within the European Blockchain Partnership
This partnership of 30 EU member states and related countries cooperate in the establishment of an interoperable infrastructure (EBSI) that supports the delivery of cross-border digital public services, with highest standards of security and privacy.
ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/EBSI
11:20 – 11:25
Irene Hernandez, Founder and CEO of Gataca (ESSIF Lab subproject)
Gataca has built three components to connect q more secure digital ID ecosystem. Aims to help issuers transform their CREDENTIALS into IDENTITY wallets in the customers’ mobile phones. This will connect and access a range of digital services, from e-government to car sharing.
gataca.io
11:25 – 11:30
Caspar Roelofs, Founder of Gimly Blockchain Project (ESSIF Lab subproject)
Gimly’s focus is on self-sovereign identity and secure data exchange as pivotal building blocks for the future of internet, supply chain, finance, and health care.
gimly.io
11:30 – 11:35
Michael Kubach, Team Identity Management at Fraunhofer IAO, TRAIN (ESSIF Lab subproject)
The trust management architecture that TRAIN enables more secure, trustable digital interactions. At the same time a classical hierarchical CA-type structure is avoided – limiting fraud, chaos and the pure dominance of the economically strongest actors in the system.
https://essif-lab.eu/essif-train-by-fraunhofer-gesellschaft/
11:35 – 11:40
Gordana Halavanja, Co-founder of Co-operating.systems (NGI Trust subproject)
The world faces complex and interrelated issues that can only be addressed by real-time secure digital co-operation between diverse organisations. How can we enable effective co-operation between autonomous actors and institutions without sacrificing digital sovereignty? The answer is a new kind of open source/open standards platform, with a unique social enterprise driving its development.
co-operating.systems
11:45 – 11:50
Jaya Klara Brekke, Founding member of Magma Collective (NGI LEDGER project)
Dr Jaya Klara Brekke will speak on SSI in relation to two EC projects that I am part of: CoBox cobox.cloud and Nym nymtech.net (which also has EC roots through the Panoramix and DECODE projects).
cobox.cloud
11:50 – 11:55
We inventaris the remarks and questions in the chat.
11:55 – 12:00
Closing by Loretta Anania, invitation for all to join the discussion session on Big Blue Button.
Meeting link: pro.fairteaching.net/r/%23IoT%20Council

Moderation by Gaëlle Le Gars and Rob van Kranenburg (NGI Forward)
https://research.ngi.eu

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DLT4EU final event
2021-05-06 10:30 - 12:30 | Online event
How to use blockchain for the public and social sectors
For a year now, the EU-funded DLT4EU programme has been working to prove how Distributed Ledger Technologies can help solve the challenges faced by the Circular Economy and Digital Citizenship on the way to a more transparent, inclusive and competitive public sector.
Join us at our final event online to hear out the leading voices on the use of technology for the common good and discover our 3 winning accelerator initiatives!

HOW AI, ML AND DIGITAL GAMES CAN CHANGE STUDENT LEARNING SUCCESS.
2021-04-30 16:00 - 17:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CEST
DEL4ALL Thematic Workshop “How AI, ML and digital games can change student learning success.”
The workshop will focus on the role Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays in everyday life, and the changes underway for educators and learners: on the way learning with AI is underway while we are still learning about and preparing for AI. The workshop will also address the impact of Machine learning (ML) on education systems, and research and how digital games may improve the learning experience by improving adaptation, problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
REGISTER NOW!
Agenda
16:00 – 16:05
DEL4ALL Introduction
Dr Giovanni Rimassa, Project Coordinator & CEO Martel Innovate
16:05 – 16:15
Introduction of Panelist speakers / Elevator speech

Dr Vanessa Camilleri, Lecturer at the Faculty of Information & Communication Technology, University of Malta
Prof Alexiei Dingli, Professor at the Faculty of Information & Communication Technology, University of Malta
Dr. Gege Gatt, CEO at EBO.ai.
Dr Martin Hlosta, Research Fellow, Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics, The Open University
Gašper Hrastelj, Secretary General of the Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO
Prof Georgios Yannakakis, Professor, Director at the Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta
Dr Iro Voulgari, Research Support Officer at the Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta

16:15 – 16:55
Discussion round
16:55 – 17:00
Conclusion & Outlook
Dr Alex Grech, Director, The 3CL Foundation
Moderator: Dr Alex Grech
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NGI Forward Salon Foundationals: Blockchain Ecologies
2021-04-28 11:00 - 12:30 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
NGI Forward Salon Foundationals: Blockchain Ecologies with Primavera De Filippi
Primavera De Filippi will address self-sovereign identity, the challenges it faces in order to guarantee both unicity (no more than one user per identifier) and singularity (no more than one identifier per user), the way in which these challenges have been addressed by Kiva and WFP through the use of biometrics, and then open up to alternative mechanisms, such as for instance the recently launched Proof-of-Humanity initiative, using web-of-trust and decentralized verification systems to ensure singularity of identities.
www.proofofhumanity.id
“Self-sovereign identity is a relatively new area of research, which is only now starting to materialize into real-world applications of new digital identity management systems. This is particularly valuable for applications that have the ability to scale and greatly improve financial and social inclusion of vulnerable populations (Blakstad and Allen, 2018). Yet, it is important to keep in mind that while there are emerging best practice standards and primitives for self-sovereign identity (McMullen et al., 2019), there is no generic identity protocol that solves all use cases. As demonstrated by the Kiva and WFP case studies, identity is inherently use case dependent. Interoperability and standardization will be important for scale, but the success of a particular identity application will depend on how its deployment is tailored to the use cases and local conditions. A successful identity management system will therefore need to be sufficiently flexible to adapt to the inherently malleable nature of human identity.”
Source: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbloc.2019.00028/full
Front. Blockchain, 23 January 2020 | doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2019.00028
Self-Sovereign Identity in a Globalized World: Credentials-Based Identity Systems as a Driver for Economic Inclusion. By Fennie Wang1 and Primavera De Filippi.
“Ultimately, therefore, the technological guarantees of blockchain technology (in terms of, e.g. transparency, immutability, non-repudiability, etc.) may reduce the need for third-party’s scrutiny and oversight over these institutions. By enhancing the perceived confidence in the operations of both public and private institutions, blockchain technology can reduce the level of risk or vulnerability that is generally associated with trust.1 As such, the technology could indirectly contribute to increasing the level of trust that people may be willing to confer in these institutions, because of the higher degree of predictability associated with their actions. Indeed, thanks to blockchain technology, people would no longer need to trust these institutions in toto, but only to the extent necessary for them to carry on these specific operations that cannot be codified into the formal and deterministic language of a blockchain-based system.”
Source:
www.sciencespo.fr/public/chaire-numerique/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Blockchain-Technology-as-an-Instrument-for-Global-Governance-P.-De-Filippi-1.pdf
Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code
https://www.amazon.com/Blockchain-Law-Rule-Primavera-Filippi/dp/0674976428
Moderation by Mantalena Kaili (ELONTECH) and Rob van Kranenburg (NGI Forward WP 4 Thinktank)
First respondents are Loretta Anania (EC) and Gaëlle Le Gars (NGI Forward WP 4 Thinktank)
The Salons reflect the views of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission but form part of the project’s overarching recommendations for the NGI and future European internet policy.

NGI_TRUST Webinar Results #5
2021-04-23 10:30 - 12:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET

Think NEXUS workshop
2021-04-21 17:00 - 19:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CEST
Key NGI technologies in the EU-US context – second workshop
Think NEXUS builds upon EU-US experiences for developing a common Future Internet agenda. This Workshop will notably build upon the outcomes of the workshop organised on 17th of February 2021. During this previous workshop, the participants identified the main technologies to prioritise for EU-US cooperation on Next Generation Internet (NGI). More information about these outcomes is available here.
The upcoming workshop will provide the chance to further define priorities for EU-US cooperation on the NGI with key experts across the Atlantic, and provide the European Commission and National Science Foundation with a relevant roadmap for cooperation. Think NEXUS will enable experts from both sides to pitch, discuss and design a shared agenda based on the technologies identified on internet architectures, applications and services benefiting citizens across the globe.
Please find attached the agenda of the Workshop.
To confirm your participation, please register here.
You will be quickly informed about a short questionnaire building upon the previous discussions’ outcomes.

TETRA Webinar: Managing Copyright with Open Source Licenses and Creative Commons
2021-04-21 10:00 - 11:00 | web-streamed
Managing Copyright with Open Source Licenses and Creative Commons
When: 21 April 2021 | 10:00-11:00 AM (CEST)
Where: Online

Have you ever wanted to share and promote your work in a legal way? Did you ever question if you can legally use some works you may find online?
Open licenses can help you answer these questions. This webinar has been designed to help you manage IP rights in a legal and practical way.
As so, we will talk about:

basic copyright law and its relationship with open licenses;
how to use open licenses in your professional practice;
how to develop an open business model and integrate open access licenses in your projects.

In the end, we believe you will be able to explore the web in another perspective, in a more “copyright-friendly” way. Looking forward to meeting you and talk about open licensing!
Registration
Please register by clicking HERE!
Speaker
Diogo Morais Oliveira is an Attorney-at-law based in Porto, Portugal. Currently, as a Legal Advisor in Sonae MC, he works in technology transfer and copyright protection and compliance. He also has expertise in IP Law for the cultural and creative sector.
Diogo is the partner of D10, a creative hub in Viana do Castelo in Portugal, and the legal co-coordinator of Creative Commons Portugal, being responsible for the project “CC Local Point”.

NGI breaks down walls: decentralize social networking with ActivityPub
2021-04-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Online event
Logo for webinars and workshop “ActivityPub for Administrations”

WHAT: Online webinars and workshop on federation and the decentralized social media protocol ActivityPub
WHEN:

April 19 10:00 – 12:00
April 26 10:00 – 12:00
April 29 14:00 – 16:00

WHERE: FediverseWebinars (BigBlueButton)
COST: Free
CONTACT: Joost Agterhoek, NGI Zero

Summary: Through two webinars and a workshop NGI Zero and the ActivityPub-community will showcase to national and European administrations how the decentralized social networking protocol ActivityPub can help European institutions retake their online presence.
Topic: ActivityPub
Focus: EU and national administrations
Audience:

Interested European and national administration including the European Commission, European Data Protection Supervisor, European Parliament
Policy makers notably in relation to platforms, the Digital Service Act and Digital Market Act
Recipients of NGI0 Discovery / PET-funding
Active representatives of the ActivityPub-community
Developers interested in NGI0 and ActivityPub

Co-authors of the official ActivityPub W3C Recommendation, advocates of the ActivityPub-community and developers of the federated universe will engage with representatives of European and national institutions including the European Commission, the European Data Protection Supervisor and European Parliament about the possibilities of federation and how the European Commission can announce important events on the federated universe (also known as the ‘fediverse’).
Webinar 1 – Introduce the decentralized social media protocol ActivityPub and its role on the fediverse

Webinar 2 – ActivityPub, the EU and the future. Federation and its role in the decentralized technology landscape

Workshop – Demonstrate how national and European administrations can adopt and benefit from ActivityPub

AGENDA
Access the full agenda here on the event website.
Two webinars will be held on Monday morning 19, and 26 of April from 10 to 12. A follow-up workshop will be held on Thursday 29 April afternoon from 14. Save the dates!

ALLDATA 2021
2021-04-18 - 2021-04-22 | On-line & on-site (Porto) event
The Seventh International Conference on Big Data, Small Data, Linked Data and Open Data
ALLDATA 2021 conference tracks:
Challenges in processing Big Data and applications
Data classification: small/big/huge, volume, velocity, veridicity, value, etc; Data properties: syntax, semantics, sensitivity, similarity, scarcity, spacial/temporal, completeness, accuracy, compactness, etc.; Data processing: mining, searching, feature extraction, clustering, aggregating, rating, filtering, etc.; Data relationships: linked data, open data, linked open data, etc. Exploiting big/linked data: upgrading legacy open data, integrating probabilist models, spam detection, datasets for noise corrections, predicting reliability, pattern mining, linking heterogeneous dataset collections, exploring type-specific topic profiles of datasets, efficient large-scale ontology matching etc.; Applications: event-based linked data, large scale multi-dimensional network analysis, error detection of atmospheric data, exploring urban data in smart cities, studying health fatalities, estimating the energy demand at real-time in cellular networks, multilingual word sense disambiguation, creating open source tool for semantically enriching data, etc.
Advanced topics in Deep/Machine learning
Distributed and parallel learning algorithms; Image and video coding; Deep learning and Internet of Things; Deep learning and Big data; Data preparation, feature selection, and feature extraction; Error resilient transmission of multimedia data; 3D video coding and analysis; Depth map applications; Machine learning programming models and abstractions; Programming languages for machine learning; Visualization of data, models, and predictions; Hardware-efficient machine learning methods; Model training, inference, and serving; Trust and security for machine learning applications; Testing, debugging, and monitoring of machine learning applications; Machine learning for systems.
Approaches for Data/Big Data processing using Machine Learning
Machine learning models (supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement, constrained, etc.); Generative modeling (Gaussian, HMM, GAN, Bayesian networks, autoencoders, etc.); Explainable AI (feature importance, LIME, SHAP, FACT, etc.); Bayesian learning models; Prediction uncertainty (approximation learning, similarity); Training of models (hyperparameter optimization, regularization, optimizers); Active learning (partially labels datasets, faulty labels, semi-supervised); Applications of machine learning (recommender systems, NLP, computer vision, etc.); Data in machine learning (no data, small data, big data, graph data, time series, sparse data, etc.)
Big Data
Big data foundations; Big data architectures; Big data semantics, interoperability, search and mining; Big data transformations, processing and storage; Big Data management lifecycle, Big data simulation, visualization, modeling tools, and algorithms; Reasoning on Big data; Big data analytics for prediction; Deep Analytics; Big data and cloud technologies; Big data and Internet of Things; High performance computing on Big data; Scalable access to Big Data; Big data quality and provenance, Big data persistence and preservation; Big data protection, integrity, privacy, and pseudonymisation mechanisms; Big data software (libraries, toolkits, etc.); Big Data visualisation and user experience mechanisms; Big data understanding (knowledge discovery, learning, consumer intelligence); Unknown in large Data Graphs; Applications of Big data (geospatial/environment, energy, media, mobility, health, financial, social, public sector, retail, etc.); Business-driven Big data; Big Data Business Models; Big data ecosystems; Big data innovation spaces; Big Data skills development; Policy, regulation and standardization in Big data; Societal impacts of Big data
Small Data
Social networking small data; Relationship between small data and big data; Statistics on Small data; Handling Small data sets; Predictive modeling methods for Small data sets; Small data sets versus Big Data sets; Small and incomplete data sets; Normality in Small data sets; Confidence intervals of small data sets; Causal discovery from Small data sets; Deep Web and Small data sets; Small datasets for benchmarking and testing; Validation and verification of regression in small data sets; Small data toolkits; Data summarization
Linked Data
RDF and Linked data; Deploying Linked data; Linked data and Big data; Linked data and Small data; Evolving the Web into a global data space via Linked data; Practical semantic Web via Linked data; Structured dynamics and Linked data sets; Quantifying the connectivity of a semantic Linked data; Query languages for Linked data; Access control and security for Linked data; Anomaly detection via Linked data; Semantics for Linked data; Enterprise internal data ‘silos’ and Linked data; Traditional knowledge base and Linked data; Knowledge management applications and Linked data; Linked data publication; Visualization of Linked data; Linked data query builders; Linked data quality
Open Data
Open data structures and algorithms; Designing for Open data; Open data and Linked Open data; Open data government initiatives; Big Open data; Small Open data; Challenges in using Open data (maps, genomes, chemical compounds, medical data and practice, bioscience and biodiversity); Linked open data and Clouds; Private and public Open data; Culture for Open data or Open government data; Data access, analysis and manipulation of Open data; Open addressing and Open data; Specification languages for Open data; Legal aspects for Open data; Open Data publication methods and technologies, Open Data toolkits; Open Data catalogues, Applications using Open Data; Economic, environmental, and social value of Open Data; Open Data licensing; Open Data Business models; Data marketplaces

Sustainable Next Generation Internet Horizon Europe webinar
2021-04-14 14:00 - 16:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CEST
DIGITAL FOR PLANET WEBINAR – SUSTAINABLE NEXT GENERATION INTERNET HORIZON EUROPE
The Sustainable Next Generation Internet Horizon Europe webinar aims to gather researchers, innovators and policymakers that across a number of communities are at work to ensure the transition toward a green and sustainable internet that is resilient and inclusive.
THE MAIN OBJECTIVE IS TO IDENTIFY RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN VIEW OF THE UPCOMING HORIZON EUROPE CALLS.
With the increasing dependence on the internet for many professional and private aspects of our lives, as exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a clear need to transition towards a safer, more resilient and better sustainable internet. When focusing on environmental aspects, the internet already uses 9% of global energy, a total that by some of the most extreme estimates could go up to as much as 23% of global greenhouse emissions by 2030.
Next generation internet technologies, from core to access networks, from the physical to the application layer, must become greener, both in the way they are developed and in the way they are deployed. Reducing the CO2 footprint of the internet requires public and private organisations, as well as individuals, to become aware of the environmental impact social media, online advertising, and online streaming, to mention some, are already having. All stakeholders must be engaged in redefining the way we use and consume internet technologies to ensure the twin green digital transition will sustain and grow our economy and society in a sustainable way.
The Sustainable Next Generation Internet Horizon Europe webinar is gathering top experts from public authorities, industry and academia to present and discuss how energy-efficient technologies, mechanisms, and policies must be put in place at several levels to ensure a safe, resilient and sustainable Internet.
Relevant Horizon Europe initiatives will be presented, as well as concrete activities planned by the Digital for Planet – D4P Sustainable Next Generation Internet Working Group, in preparation of upcoming Horizon Europe Calls.
More info available here: https://digital4planet.org/event/digital-for-planet-webinar-sustainable-next-generation-internet-horizon-europe/
Register now here: https://ti.to/martel-innovate/digital-for-planet-webinar-sustainable-next-generation-internet-horizon-europe

NGI Forward Salon Internet of Things
2021-04-14 11:00 - 12:30 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
NGI FORWARD SALON INTERNET OF THINGS WITH ALICIA ASIN
The promise of the IoT market has been growing for the last 15 years, with many market analysts predicting that we would reach 50 billion devices by the magic year 2020. Now the reality is a little more conservative (we’re about 41 billion devices short of the forecast). Has IoT failed to live up to its promise? No, but the industry is evolving in a radically different direction to the one predicted a decade and a half ago.
So what are the main barriers to IoT adoption that are preventing the industry realising the hype of the mid-2000s, and how should the industry adapt to them? Libelium’s CEO, Alicia Asín, explains concepts such as the hyper fragmentation of the market, the relevance of the hardware, the management of the obsolescence, the security versus the privacy and what to expect from the IoT market after Covid.
First respondent: Gérald Santucci,
Member of Global Forum’s International Scientific Committee chez Items International
https://www.linkedin.com/in/geraldsantucci/

TETRA Webinar: Equity financing for your venture
2021-03-31 10:00 - 11:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
TETRA Webinar: Equity financing for your venture
Are you planning the growth of your company and you need external financing? Be prepared in advance for what the entry of an investor into your company brings. In this webinar session, we will deep dive into different types of funding sources for your project with a more detailed overview about equity financing. How to prepare for fundraising, how to choose the best financing structure and what is its impact to your business model. We will also focus on the shareholder agreement (SHA) or investment agreement and their essential clauses and parts, such as valuation, special rights, founders vesting or liquidation preference.
Register HERE
Speakers
Ivan FILUS is senior consultant in BIC Bratislava, EU project manager, innovation advisor, financial and administrative coordinator of Enterprise Europe Network in Slovakia, Horizon 2020 National Contact Point for Innovation in SMEs and Access to Risk Finance and the key account manager for all successful EIC Accelerator beneficiaries in Slovakia. He is active in the EU RTD Framework Programmes for research and innovation, project management, financial management, technology transfer, research and innovation policies and strategies, innovation management, SMEs development, business modelling, business planning, financing, regional development, pre-commercial procurement.

Andrej PETRUS is investment Manager @ ZAKA – venture capital family office investing primarily in the pre-seed and seed stage (50-500k EUR) in CEE region. Agile generalist with experiences in venture building for CEAi and M&A and Strategy consultancy for PwC in Prague. Assisting the Board of Directors of SLOVCA (Slovak Venture Capital and Private Equity Association) as Project Manager. Lived in Berlin, Bratislava and Rome, currently based in Prague.

NGI Forward Salon Foundationals: On Explainability
2021-03-29 11:00 - 12:30 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
NGI Forward Salon Foundationals: On Explainability with Beatrice Fazi
29 March 2021; 11.00am CET
In this talk, M. Beatrice Fazi will present and discuss her latest philosophical work on the issue of explainability in AI. The talk will be based on her published article:
Fazi, M. Beatrice (2020) ‘Beyond Human: Deep Learning, Explainability and Representation’, Theory, Culture & Society. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276420966386
Register here: https://app.livestorm.co/made-group/salon-foundationals-on-explainability-with-beatrice-fazi
Article’s abstract
This article addresses computational procedures that are no longer constrained by human modes of representation and considers how these procedures could be philosophically understood in terms of ‘algorithmic thought’. Research in deep learning is its case study. This artificial intelligence (AI) technique operates in computational ways that are often opaque. Such a black-box character demands rethinking the abstractive operations of deep learning. The article does so by entering debates about explainability in AI and assessing how technoscience and technoculture tackle the possibility to ‘re-present’ the algorithmic procedures of feature extraction and feature learning to the human mind. The article thus mobilises the notion of incommensurability (originally developed in the philosophy of science) to address explainability as a communicational and representational issue, which challenges phenomenological and existential modes of comparison between human and algorithmic ‘thinking’ operations.
Speaker’s bio
Dr M. Beatrice Fazi is Lecturer in Digital Humanities in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on the ontologies and epistemologies produced by contemporary technoscience, particularly in relation to issues in artificial intelligence and computation and to their impact on culture and society. Dr Fazi has published extensively on the limits and potentialities of the computational method, on digital aesthetics and on the automation of thought. Her monograph Contingent Computation: Abstraction, Experience, and Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics was published by Rowman & Littlefield International in 2018.
This presentation will be followed by a roundtable discussion on the epistemologies of AI, with Loretta Anania, M. Beatrice Fazi, Gaëlle Le Gars and Rob van Kranenburg.

M. Beatrice Fazi @m_b_fazi
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p378975-beatrice-fazi
Loretta Anania @LorettaAnania
Scientific officer at DG Connect, Next Generation Internet
Gaelle Le Gars
Independent Policy Analyst Specialising on intersecting Digital and Urban Policy
Rob van Kranenburg
Founder of #IoT Council @robvank

Register here: https://app.livestorm.co/made-group/salon-foundationals-on-explainability-with-beatrice-fazi
The event will be web-streamed on the site of our partner ELONTECH, the MADE group.
The Salons reflect the views of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission but form part of the project’s overarching recommendations for the NGI and future European internet policy.

NGI_TRUST Webinar Results #4
2021-03-26 10:30 - 12:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET

SwForum workshop
2021-03-23 16:00 - 17:30 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
First SwForum workshop on trustworthy software and open source
Nowadays, the increasing importance of software for businesses, industry and the life of common citizens makes the notion of trustworthiness a crucial one. A trustworthy software is one for which some important properties such as correctness, compliance, reliability, availability, performance, safety, security, maintainability, privacy of data, energy efficiency, sustainability, and certified interaction with humans are ensured.
In this context, several problems require attention from the research and the practitioner’s community. Among the others, this workshop is focusing on the following ones:
Characteristics of trustworthy software. Examples of attributes that make software trustworthy are security, compatibility, quality, correctness, dependability. Is there any other? What are the minimal characteristics of a trustworthy piece of software? The acceptable level of trustworthiness for a piece of software depends on the specific application domain the software is developed for. Is it possible to define a taxonomy?
Developing trustworthy software. Which methodologies, methods and tools are currently available to develop trustworthy software? Which are the most critical trustworthiness characteristics to be considered during development? How a developer or a final user can verify if and to which extent it is possible to trust on the used software? Which are the steps to be accomplished in this case? Could these tasks be automated?
The role of open source in the development of trustworthy software. At a first glance, open source may be seen as a development practice that is against the idea of trustworthiness: the first question we may ask, in fact, is: how could I trust that an obscure developer is developing software I can trust? The situation is not as simple as it can appear. Open-source development today is not conducted by obscure individuals, but, often, it is supported by multiple enterprises sharing the same interest and/or by well-known and highly rewarded groups of independent developers. In many cases, open-source software could be even seen as more trustworthy than closed source one as only the first one can be inspected and analysed by third parties in a completely open and transparent manner. So, the questions we would like to discuss concern: 1) what are the criteria to consider an open-source software trustworthy? 2) What drives the industry to use and rely (or not) on open-source software? 3) How can an H2020 project develop an effective and impactful open-source software, considering its typical timeframe and scope?

Digital Day 2021
2021-03-19 | Online event
Digital Day 2021 will take place on 19 March as a virtual event, organised by the European Commission in cooperation with the Portuguese Presidency.
Digital Day 2021 will bring together Member States to discuss current and future challenges of digital technologies and commit to addressing them. Hosted by Thierry Breton, the EU Commissioner for the Internal Market, and the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union, this one-day event will include Ministers from Member States, Members of European Parliament, executives of industry and other high-level stakeholders.
Like at previous Digital Days, Member States will make concrete commitments in the form of ministerial declarations. Ground breaking initiatives resulting from previous Digital Day Declarations include the European High Performance Computing (EuroHPC) Joint Undertaking, the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) or 5G cross-border corridors for Connected and Automated Mobility.
During Digital Day, Member States will sign commitments on data, startups and a green and digital transformation of the EU. These declarations will strengthen Europe’s role in the digital world through international partnerships, boosting the digital economy, finding green digital solutions and more. CEOs from the ICT sector will also be invited to sign a declaration committing to a greener digital future.
Sessions will be hosted online, and are open to the press. Journalists and the general public can register for the event on the registration page.
You can download the programme below or view it online.
Follow us on Twitter @DigitalEU for the latest event updates and join the online discussions with #DigitalDay2021 & #DigitalEU

NGI Pointer 2nd Open Call webinars
2021-03-16 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-03-16 09:00 - 10:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
NGI Pointer’s second open call deadline is approaching! Have you submited your application yet? Do you have any doubts? Ask them in the next webinar!
In March we will host two informative webinars where you get to know how to become an NGI architect, how to receive funds for your idea and help to build the Next Generation of Internet. In the first Open Call, we have funded 24 projects with up to €200.000 along with business and technical support during a 12-month Support Programme. In this second and last Open Call, we are looking for new amazing ideas.
The project is part of Next Generation Internet (NGI), the “internet for humans” initiative from the European Commission and aims to transform the Internet of tomorrow into an Internet of humans that responds to people’s fundamental needs.
Join us in the webinars and get to know everything about the requirements and expectations for getting NGI funding.
Agenda:

Welcome
What is the Next Generation of Internet (NGI)?
What is the NGI Pointer project?
How to apply for funding?
Q&A

FILL OUT THIS FORM & JOIN THE WEBINAR!
Dates & Time (We are giving you two options on the same day!):

SESSION 1 (16/03/21 at 09:00):
https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/69286606647
SESSION 2 (16/03/21 at 15:00):
https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/65128997115

TETRA Online Scale-up Bootcamp
2021-03-16 - 2021-03-18 | web-streamed
TETRA Online Scale-up Bootcamp #1
When: 16 – 18 March 2021
Where: Online
Who can participate? All projects, ideas and startups funded by Next Generation Internet projects.
TETRA online Scale-up Bootcamps are meant for innovators and businesses that wish to accelerate their already established product or service with the aim of making the Internet more resilient, trustworthy and sustainable by bringing their innovative solution to the market.
The Bootcamp is a practical, hands-on training and mentoring program which allows innovators to accelerate the development process of their idea or business with the help of experienced international experts in the safety of your own home or office.
Applications are open until the end of February 2021!
What will you get?

3 online pre-sessions to understand and analyze the potential user, competitors and costs and legally protecting your idea
3-day intense online bootcamp with high-quality training and practical learnings from international experts
Personal advice and guidance to develop your idea further and make it financially sustainable

What will you learn?

Who else would use your product/service?
How and why should you analyze potential international markets?
How to attract or engage users or customers in a new market?
How to develop and manage your team?
How to legally protect your idea on different markets?
How to gain funding from either public or private sources for science-based companies?
How to present and explain your idea to different stakeholders?

All training topics are followed by practical tasks based on your idea with feedback from experienced mentors.
APPLY NOW!

NGI Forward Salon Foundationals: On Participation
2021-03-10 11:00 - 12:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
NGI Forward Salon Foundationals: On Participation with Federico Bonelli
This talk has 3 parts, the first should be exposed in 15 minutes the second 20 and the third needs another 15. Don’t take notes, I will distribute mines and the slides at the end.
I will try to stop and mark the end of a part, taking in your contributions on the chat.
The occasion for this talk has been given to me by a paper co-authored with Sabrina Sauer titled “Collective improvisation as a means to responsibly govern serendipity in social innovation processes” published in the Journal of Responsible Innovation in 2020.
Is an open-access paper and you can find it from www.trasformatorio.net website and from the link included in this talk presentation.
Introduction to the Lab
Trasformatorio is a laboratory, artistic in scope, where I have experimented ways to create site-specific arts. Is named Trasformatorio because we believed that the scope of genuine art is to engage transformation. The scope was to create a laboratory for enacting transformations. A Laboratory from latin Laboratorium, a place/space/time to work in. Work is a term that has many meanings in our tradition, not only the synonymous of labour. There is the work you do on yourself, the work you do for others, the work of the actor to possess their character’s actions upon the textual matter of the play. Work is what you do with presence, intent and quality. And these three concepts, among others, are what the artist is busy with most of the time.
I worked with technology, most of the time hacking together from pieces that were intended for something else, rarely doing twice the same operation. I studied many things for many different reasons, rarely the canonical ones. When I was exposed to the current methodologies for innovation and design I felt that a big occasion was missing. That there was a coherent corpus of reality bending techniques I had become aware in the field of arts that were watched over by the hype cycle prone industry of innovation. I began using them and cross pollinating. I am still doing it in many ways.

TETRA/ NGI TRUST Webinar: IP Basics Research
2021-03-03 10:30 - 11:30 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
IP Basics Research
When: 3 March 2021 at 10:30 CET
Where: Online
What will you get?
Where to start when you have a business idea but you’re not sure whether you’re being protective enough of the intellectual that is being created with it? Are you considering your local competitors and existing patents in other countries? How to make sure you’ve researched relevant legal frameworks?
The goal of this session is to give an introduction into different IP elements, legal structures and research methods to consider when building or scaling an innovative product or service.
TETRA has invited Raffaele Buompane from EBN / NGI TRUST to share a brief 101 on IP elements and research.
Registration
Register to the “IP Basics Research”, it’s free!
Speaker
Raffaele Buompane is a Senior Manager at EBN responsible for EU projects and the Intellectual Property Pilot. He is also the manager of the Space Special Interest Group (SIG).
Raffaele has worked with EBN since 2007 acting mainly as Senior Advisor and Project Manager and representing the organisation in several events all over Europe and beyond. With more than 20 years of multifaceted experience in particular in the fields of Intellectual Property, Strategic Management and Public Relationships, he has a legal and economic academic background holding a PhD in Economics, a Master in International Political Sciences, and a Master in Geopolitics. He also has an MBA from Imperial College in London.
Beginning professionally as External Relation Manager, he worked in the Italian Patent and Trademark Office, where he specialised in Intellectual Property, and the European Patent Office in Germany and in Serbia as External Relations Manager, Project Director and Team Leader for an IPR EC project. In the private sector, among others, he had a cooperation with BMW as Chief Event Manager. In EBN he has so far been responsible for and participated in the implementation of a portfolio of several projects including Jordan SRTD, TexTechMed, Turkey AbiGem, Ip4inno, MOBIB, ETC Tunisia, EuroMed@Change, PeCoS4SMEs, FETRIC, GReaC, ETRERA 2020, CreatiFI, SaveH2O, IPR Helpdesk China, IPR Helpdesk SEA, Silver Workers, EaP Plus, ReConfirm 1 and 2, SEBSEAM, THE NEXT SOCIETY, DeFINE, NGI Trust, PhotonHub.
Linguistic skills: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Polish.
