Next Generation Internet

HOW AI, ML AND DIGITAL GAMES CAN CHANGE STUDENT LEARNING SUCCESS.
2021-04-30 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Brussels) | 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.
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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
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.

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.

NGI_TRUST Webinar Results #3
2021-02-26 10:30 - 12:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET

NGIoT | IoT and Edge: Instruments, Priorities and Partnerships
2021-02-25 09:30 - 12:30 | On-line event | CET
The purpose of the workshop is to take stock and consolidate on the key messages from the previous workshops on IoT and Edge computing, organised by the Horizon 2020 project NGIoT, held on 11 September and 7/8 December 2020.
NGIoT invites European industry and the public sector to reflect on the results from these workshops and convey their position or provide a spontaneous feedback on the role of Edge Computing as they experience it in their relevant sectors. Feedback could be provided orally or through quote and/or expression of interest in supporting the future strategic discussion on Edge Computing at the European level.
We welcome your vision
The previous workshops have shown a general consensus that the current shift from Cloud to Edge offers significant opportunities for Europe. While currently, 80 percent of data is stored and processed centralised in the cloud and 20 percent at the Edge in smart connected objects, in five years, this is expected to be the opposite. The shift to the Far Edge is driven by the need for real time solutions, for more intelligence in devices, and is also pushed by the green agenda, as well as quests for increased privacy and security. In addition, Edge computing is supporting the shift in focus from big data to relevant data.
Europe is strongly positioned at the Edge/Far Edge, covering key players in the value chain from sensors and systems, embedded computing, connectivity, SW design to the development of complex products, but forces should be joined, moving from a value chain to a value network. Also, research needs to come up to speed in order to support the developments in industry.
Recent workshops contributed to the vision on how to make the most out of European investments in research, innovation and deployment related to IoT and Edge computing in the coming years. Perspectives for main priorities for research, innovation and deployment on the short/midterm and long term have been addressed. Awareness should be created on the strength of Europe and what Europe still needs. Which instruments for collaboration would create most value? Which barriers are the most critical ones identified? And most important, who are the relevant European key players that can drive the seismic shift from Cloud to Far Edge? How to support SMEs to contribute?
REGISTER TO THE WORKSHOP HERE!

NGI Forward Salon: Digital Sovereignty in eID-Solutions | Part 2
2021-02-24 11:00 - 12:30 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
NGI Forward Salon Digital Sovereignty in eID-Solutions – Self-sovereign, Centralised or Privatised? Part 2
Why does identity technology matter and to which stakeholders? There are three big stakeholders today; the banks (and financial sector intermediaries in general), the ICT sector, and governments (public services, agencies, legislators, ombudsmen). Other stakeholders include civil society and foundations, including the open-source open hardware developers and other fringe players that are important to the innovation ecosystem.
Originally, eID was promoted top-down as a way to simplify the citizen’s relationship to the public administration (eg welfare receipts, taxation). The eIDAS standardisation took many years to agree on how to solve this problem with effective digital authentication technologies (mutual acceptance gains for e-signatures) and a variety of reputable validation mechanisms. It has worked and served its purpose even in the transatlantic context. In EU Member States, eIDAS now requires at least one central node and a bridge to facilitate the exchange of records to all other nodes, thus functioning in an interoperable manner.
But soon came ‘newer’ technologies and new problems, for which a revision of the eIDAS regulation is now needed. There is a recognized need to address the complications, both in terms of cross-border data flows and in terms of certified intergovernmental solutions.
We are in a very interesting historical moment where forces (and solid arguments) for centralization and forces (and solid arguments) for decentralization seem to hold each other in check.
Without a clear vision on identity, society will have no agency since the capability to produce future value (data) is not under regional, nor national, nor international regulated control.
Therefore it is important to have a good overview of what is happening in different parts of the world to see if we can not combine innovative solutions.
In this session, we will hear perspectives from Germany, Next Generation Internet projects, European Blockchain Partnership and Digital Transformation Agency Australia.
SPEAKERS

Daniël Du Seuil
Convenor European Self Sovereign Identity Framework (EBSI) at European Blockchain Partnership
https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielduseuil/
Loretta Anania
scientific officer at DG Connect
https://www.linkedin.com/in/loretta-anania-2765898/
Juleigh Cook
Acting Head Digital Identity and myGov strategy stream. Digital Transformation Agency, Australia
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juleigh-cook/
Helmut Nehrenheim
Ministry of economics and digitalisation NRW/Germany; UN/CEFACT; Blockchain-Initiative BiVD; Self-Sovereign
https://www.linkedin.com/in/helmut-nehrenheim-677049170/

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 Pointer Open Call #2 - Session #2
2021-02-24 10:00 - 11:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
NGI Pointer’s second open call is live! 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)? — Jean-Luc Dorel, European Commission.
What is the NGI Pointer project? — Mirko Presser, Aarhus University
How to apply for funding? — Claire Tonna, FundingBox
Q&A

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TETRA Webinar: IP and Software Code Management
2021-02-24 10:00 - 11:00 | web-streamed
IP and Software Code Management
When: 24 February 2021 Wednesday at 10:00 AM (CET)
Where: Online
During this webinar, we will discover the Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) license standard, which allows us to standardise the nomenclature of licenses and “compute” their compatibility.
Using this standard, we will learn about the different practices used by developers to license their codes. Furthermore, we will see how to use the “version control system”, the most important tool used by the developer to audit and understand the creation of source codes.
These elements will guide us to build the software bill of materials, a key element while managing your intellectual property. Finally, we will walk through different tools that can be used in this task.
Info and registration
More information: https://business.ngi.eu/join-now/webinars/webinar-13-ip-and-software-code-management/
Registration: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/417854413555105547
Speaker

Sébastien Campion | Expert Architect at PwC
Sébastien is an Expert Architect at PwC since 2019 with over 15 years of professional experience in designing, building, and implementing large scale solutions.
Prior to joining PwC, he was a Research Engineer in Cybersecurity and Machine Learning at INRIA, the French Research Institute in Computer Sciences and Applied Mathematics. He has worked on infrastructures and applications dedicated to large scale analysis.
Sébastien also has extensive knowledge and skills in open-source development and architecture.

NGI Pointer Open Call #2 - Session #1
2021-02-23 14:00 - 15:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET

Stadiem 1st open call webinar
2021-02-22 13:00 - 14:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
STADIEM is presenting with this webinar its 1st Open Call for media startups, scaleups and SMEs, aimed at bringing them together with investors and media organisations to foster the development of Next Generation Media solutions.

Learn more about STADIEM’s vision and objectives
Learn about STADIEM’s Open Call programme
Discover how to apply for funding

The Agenda in detail:

1:00-1:10 | Introduction to STADIEM project | Mike Matton, STADIEM Project Coordinator, VRT
1:10-1:20 | Objectives of the 1st Open Call and its phases | Media City Bergen
1:20-1:30 | How to apply? | Violeta Vasileva, F6S
1:30-2:00 | Q&A with participants

Participation is free but registration is mandatory (through Eventbrite).
This event is funded by the European Commission

TETRA Webinar: How to write a winning offer
2021-02-17 10:00 - 11:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
When: 17 February 2021 at 10:00 CET
The TETRA project is proud to bring you a Webinar on “How to write a winning offer”, hosted by PEDAL Consulting and will feature Robert Miskuf and Innocent Mateeka both of whom are experienced public procurement practitioners.
Registration
To register please click HERE!
Agenda

Welcome and Introduction (5 mins)
By Innocent Mateeka Project Manager at PEDAL Consulting
How Tetra provides Access to Tenderio services to help you win business abroad and how to get involved (10 mins)
By Robert Miskuf CEO PEDAL Consulting and Co-founder Tenderio
How to write a winning offer (35 mins)
By Robert Miskuf and Innocent Mateeka
Question and Answer (10 mins)

speakers
Mr. Robert Miskuf – Optimist. Received €8.02M in EU/US grants. Managing two kids and a portfolio of projects worth € 39M EUR. Robert is the Founder and CEO of PEDAL Consulting and Tenderio. Robert has been involved in over 50 FP7/H2020 projects and coordinated several international tenders. Frequent speaker at high level events on public procurement organized by the European Commission or under the EU presidencies.

Innocent Mateeka – is a Project Manager in PEDAL Consulting and TENDERIO. As a trained lawyer, he has both the professional and technical competence to effectively execute extraterritorial projects. He holds a number of academic and professional qualifications which make him uniquely placed in the exercise of his duties.

NGI Forward Salon: Digital Sovereignty in eID-Solutions | Part 1
2021-02-11 16:30 - 18:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
NGI Forward Salon Digital Sovereignty in eID-Solutions – Self-sovereign, Centralised or Privatised? Part 1
with Deutsches Forschungsinstitut für öffentliche Verwaltung , FÖV
NGI Forward WP4 Salon with organizing partner: German University of Administrative Sciences and German Research Institute for Public Administration – Programme area “Transformation of the state in the digital age”. (Prof. Dr. Mario Martini).
SCOPE
Electronic identity (eID) is the enabler of digital transformation: whether in business or in public administration, citizens and companies need a convenient and secure way to identify themselves in the digital world.
In the long term, however, an electronic identity should not be limited to simply provide a digital twin to the state-issued ID document. The vision of an eID already shows great potential for revolutionizing a wide range of digital processes, such as opening a bank account, verifying an academic degree, or applying for social welfare payments.
Time is running out for the government’s own solutions, because large technology companies have discovered the power of convenient eID solutions that allow them to collect a large amount of data. This makes it more difficult to find holistic, interoperable solutions in which the user does not become a data supplier. At the same time, the German administration is under time pressure due to the implementation requirement of the (Online Access Act) OZG by the end of 2022. Without authenticated citizen accounts that individuals can use to log in to the electronic administration, fully digitized communication between the administration and citizens or companies is impossible. The rollout of OZG services is therefore directly linked to the rollout of digital identities. In a European electronic government network (Single Digital Gateway), interoperable solutions not only make economic sense, but are also a legal requirement.
It is therefore hardly surprising that the German chancellor has made digital identity a top priority. With the support of 20 partners from science and industry, she wants to create facts with the Optimos 2.0 project by September 2021. The stated goal is to develop eID services that enable citizens to securely release personal data to service providers – directly from one’ smartphone. At the same time, the Ministry of Economy is promoting real-life “showcase regions” with the “Secure Identities” program – with the aim of making digital identities accessible to a relevant number of users and thus creating a state-driven alternative program to Facebook-login or other data-intensive industry solutions.
The federal policy strategies thus follow a common line with Brussels: At the Union level, the eIDAS Regulation pursues the goal of generating an interoperable Europe-wide identity ecosystem from existing isolated solutions. At the core of the EU Commission’s current reform efforts is the intention to promote digital identities through suitable interface standards.
Last but not least, the eID card, which has been introduced in Germany since January 1, 2021, represents an important impetus for cross-border legal transactions: It allows citizens from other EU countries to apply for a “digital ID card” in Germany in order to be able to identify themselves digitally in the same way as with a German electronic ID card. This also makes it clear: Anyone who does not think about interoperability and citizen-centricity from the very beginning will either promote eID solutions that are of limited help to users due to their lack of broad impact, or solutions that users trust only to a limited extent due to questionable data usage.
But to what extent have legislative efforts so far been successful in turning the existing isolated solutions of individual industries into a broadly functioning ecosystem? What hurdles must an eID solution overcome in order to be as connectable as it is secure from the citizen’s perspective? How can the digital sovereignty of citizens be ensured? And how can the “German Angst” of a lack of data protection and security be reconciled with technical progress?
Speakers
Elizabeth M. Renieris, Tech & Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethrenieris/
Christoph Sorge, Inhaber der Professur für Rechtsinformatik, Universität des Saarlandes
https://www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/sorge/personen/leitung/prof-dr-ing-christoph-sorge.html
Helmut Nehrenheim, Ministry of economics and digitalisation NRW/Germany; UN/CEFACT; Blockchain-Initiative BiVD; Self-Sovereign Identity
https://www.linkedin.com/in/helmut-nehrenheim-677049170/
Kai Hermsen, Global Coordinator of the Charter of Trust; Member of the Siemens Cybersecurity Board
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaihermsen/
Moderation
Margrit Seckelmann, Managing Director German Research Institute for Public Administration, https://www.linkedin.com/in/margrit-seckelmann-65093734/
Carsten Berger, Researcher German Research Institute for Public Administration, https://www.linkedin.com/in/carsten-berger-4132a2105/
Organizers
Carsten Berger and Michael Kolain (FÖV Speyer) with Rob Van Kranenburg and Gaëlle Le Gars

DEL4ALL WORLD CAFÉ WEBINAR
2021-02-11 16:00 - 17:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
Women in Science – Emerging Technologies in an E–Learning Environment
On 11 February 2021 at 4:00 pm CET, DEL4ALL is organising a World Café Webinar entitled “Women in Science – Emerging Technologies in an E–Learning Environment” as part of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. At present, less than 30 percent of researchers worldwide are women, and according to UNESCO data (2014 – 2016), only around 30 percent of all female students select STEM-related fields in higher education. Science and gender equality are both vital for technology development. Therefore, our World Café brings together several female experts working in the field of technology to share their achievements and expertise and to discuss the value of emerging technologies for the e-learning environment. As part of the event, DEL4ALL will also introduce its latest project findings captured in the first version of the DEL Research Agenda.
Agenda
16:05 – 16:10
Welcome Speech
Dr Anne Bajart, Deputy Head of Unit at DG CONNECT Unit G.2 Interactive Technologies, Digital for Culture and Education, European Commission

16:10 – 16:15
Introduction DEL4ALL Project
Dr Monique Calisti, CEO Martel Innovate, DEL4ALL Coordinator
16:15 – 16:20
Introduction DEL Research Agenda
Klaudia G. Farkas, Commonwealth Centre for Connected Learning, DEL4ALL
16:20 – 16:55
Expert Panel Discussion on Emerging Technologies

Perrine de Coëtlogon, Advocate of Blockchain & Open Education, Universite de Lille
Angeliki Dedopoulou, Senior Manager of EU Public Affairs, Huawei
Prof Carmen Holotescu, Director & Dean, Center for Open Education and Blockchain, University Ioan Slavici, Timișoara
Prof Athina Karatzogianni, Professor in Media and Communication, University of Leicester
Alessia Messuti, Learning Innovation Officer, International Training Centre of the International Training Organization, ILO
Dr Natalie Smolenski, Vice President of Global Digital Credentials, Hyland

16:55 – 17:00
Conclusion & outlook on DEL4ALL’s next activities
REGISTER HERE!

LEDGER 3rd Open Call – Webinar #4
2021-02-11 12:00 - 13:00
Join LEDGER’s fourth webinar, a Q&A session, on its current 3rd Open Call!
Join third out of four live webinars on the LEDGER’s current 3rd Open Call 11th of February, at 12:00 pm (noon) CET!
REGISTER HERE FOR THE WEBINAR!
LEDGER, the Venture Builder for Human-Centric Solutions, is holding a series of 4 webinars to help you apply to its current 3rd Open call. In this fourth QA& webinar session, prepare your questions and get them answered by the project coordinator.
To get more info or apply for the LEDGER’s 3rd Open Call, click here!
Open Call benefits:

Up to €150K equity-free for 9 best-in-class project
Technology and business-focused mentoring provided
6-month Customised Venture Builder Programme
Potential venture capital investments & more

This webinar is free and open to all interested stakeholders.
To stay up to date with the latest project news, join the LEDGER community here.
