Stadiem 1st open call webinar
2021-02-22 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Brussels) | 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.

EU Open Source Policy Summit 2021
2021-02-05 13:00 - 18:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
OpenForum Europe and the Linux Foundation are excited to invite you to the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2021
It’s becoming increasingly clear that ‘Open’ must play a central role as Europe addresses its pressing digital policy challenges. Open source and open technologies drive digital transformation in practice, and policies that support this process pave the way for European economic development and citizen empowerment. The EU Open Source Policy Summit will bring this squarely into the policy discussion.
With this Policy Summit, OpenForum Europe aims to facilitate an engaged and informed dialogue between a large array of stakeholders, who work at the intersection of politics and technology. Speakers and panelists will address the role of ‘Open’ in the green transition, the recovery packages, digital sovereignty and the EU’s competitiveness, as well as the sometimes polarized views of Digital Sovereignty.
In the end, we challenge ourselves to answer: how do we create a winning open source culture in Europe?
We look forward to enhancing the political debate at this critical juncture, as discussions of Openness move into a deeper understanding of the strategic role Open Source will play in Europe’s digital future.

LEDGER 3rd Open Call – Webinar #3
2021-02-04 12:00 - 13:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
Join third out of four live webinars on the LEDGER’s current 3rd Open Call 4th 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 third webinar, you can get first-hand feedback from previous Open Calls participants.
Stay tuned for detailed information on the remaining webinar.
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 projects
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.

NGI Talk with Dirk Jumpertz
2021-02-03 15:00 - 16:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
NGI TALK: “Cybersecurity for a safer Internet” BY Dirk Jumpertz
When: 3rd of February at 15:00 CET
Where: Free REGISTER HERE!
ABOUT THE EVENT
Information security is a fundamental building block of our business. According to EURid, enforcing key security protocols such as DNSSEC helps reduce the chance that visitors are led to fake websites and tricked into supplying personal information if they enter a protected web address into their browser.
Security on the Web is crucial when aiming at building a European initiative for a Human Internet that respects the fundamental values of privacy, participation and diversity. This approach aligns with The Next Generation Internet goal to successfully address global sustainability challenges.
Join the next NGI Talk, a roundtable facilitated by the NGI community ambassador Aljosa Pasic, in which Dirk Jumpertz (Security Manager at EURid) and experts from SIDN Labs.
Register here for this event!

About Dirk Jumpertz and EURid
Dirk Jumpertz is the Security Manager at EURid, the top-level domain registry operator appointed by the EC for .eu, .ею and .ευ. His career started in the late 1990s while working at PING, one of the first internet service providers in Belgium. Since then he has deep-dived into internet technology and cybersecurity, gradually moving to cyber governance and policy.
EURid is an organisation encouraging SMEs in Europe to have an online presence with a .eu domain. Their vision is to support the European Digital Single Market by actively working to ensure a trustworthy .eu environment and to enable online multilingualism.
About SIDN Labs
SIDN Labs strive to help the Dutch, European and global communities by contributing to ongoing improvement of the internet infrastructure’s trustworthiness. Their work is motivated by the recognition that a secure, resilient and transparent internet infrastructure is of increasing social and economic importance.

NGI Talk with Manuela Battaglini
2021-01-28 13:00 - 14:00 | ON-LINE EVENT
NGI Talk: “Impacts of Artificial Intelligence on Society” by Manuela Battaglini
When: 28th of January at 13:00 CET
Where: Free REGISTER HERE!
About the event
Will machines become super-intelligent and will humans eventually lose control? While there is debate around how likely this scenario will be we do know that there are always unforeseen consequences when new technology is introduced. Those unintended outcomes of artificial intelligence will likely challenge us all.
As with most changes in life, there will be positive and negative impacts on society as artificial intelligence continues to transform the world we live in. How that will balance out is anyone’s guess and up for much debate and for many people to contemplate.
Join the next NGI Talk, brought to you by the NGI community ambassador Manuela Bagliattini, and meet possible challenges that we, as a society, might be faced with, and as well as several of the positive impacts artificial intelligence will have on society.
Register here for this event!

About the speaker
Manuela Battaglini is a specialist in strategic digital marketing, a law graduate and a researcher. She works on Digital Ethics (data ethics, security ethics, algorithm ethics and ethics in practice) studying the social impact of automated decision-making processes and personal profiling. She is also CEO of Transparent Internet, a consulting firm that helps organizations make their AI systems ethical, transparent and trustworthy.

Working Breakfast with the European Parliament
2021-01-28 11:30 - 13:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
Working Breakfast with the European Parliament: “How policy makers can support the digitalization for European SMEs”
Hosted by Adriana Maldonado López, MEP member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) and substitute on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and on the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA).
In the framework of the H2020 Innovation and Research Programme, the European Commission selected different acceleration programmes to support the implementation of breakthrough technologies in the European SMEs and make the transition to their digitisation more agile. In this framework, three acceleration programmes were selected with the aim of facilitate the revolution of Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) across European SMEs, supporting the development of innovative use-cases and supporting technological SMEs through the road to market.
The session is jointly organized by three acceleration programmes with a relevant role fostering the adoption of Blockchain and DLTs, by the SMEs in Europe:

The BLOCKCHERS project selected from more than 150 applicants a wide portfolio of SMEs and use cases, comprised by 30 teams from 12 EU countries, where the application of DLTs in new sectors and applications different from fintech was demonstrated.
BLOCKSTART is a 3-stage partnership programme. Each DLT/ blockchain startup receives a grant (equity-free) of up to €20,000, tailored tech and business mentoring. This accelerator is focused on fintech, ICT, and retail.
BLOCKPOOL project is already ongoing and has selected for funding 25 SMEs to develop and test DLT in more than 11 different DLTs and directly affecting 8 different economic sectors.

During the breakfast, attendees will have the opportunity to know first-hand three relevant SMEs participating in the programmes, who will explain in detail their use cases and business ideas, as real examples of application and success.
To complete this session, the attendees will have the opportunity to know the main challenges that SMEs have towards their digitisation, and some policy recommendations for the future regulations in the field of these disruptive technologies (Blockchain and DLTs).
The deadline for registrations is the 26th of January 2021 at 17:00h CET. The places available are limited. Register here.

NGI EXPLORERS Open Call#3 - webinar
2021-01-28 11:00 - 12:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
A Step-by-Step Guide webinar
Are you a Top European Researcher or Innovator in the Internet-related field?
We’ll be answering all your burning questions about applying for the NGI Explorers Open Call# 3, live on air.
If you’re thinking of applying, or are already half-way through your application for NGI Explorers Open Call #3, then this webinar is for you.
Join our NGI Explorers team, to find out:

The mission of the Next Generation Internet Explorers program
Are you eligible to apply?
Which track to choose? Open idea? Challenge or Paired Team?

These and many more questions will be addressed during our webinar!
JOIN US! https://www.f6s.com/ngiexplorersopencall3-astep-by-stepguidewebinar

NGI EXPLORERS Open Call#3 - webinar #1
2021-01-28 11:00 - 12:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
NGI EXPLORERS Open Call#3 – A Step-by-Step Guide webinar
Are you a Top European Researcher or Innovator in the Internet-related field?
We’ll be answering all your burning questions about applying for the NGI Explorers Open Call# 3, live on air.
If you’re thinking of applying, or are already half-way through your application for NGI Explorers Open Call #3, then this webinar is for you.
Join our NGI Explorers team, to find out:

The mission of the Next Generation Internet Explorers program
Are you eligible to apply?
Which track to choose? Open idea? Challenge or Paired Team?

These and many more questions will be addressed during our webinar!
JOIN US!
More info here: https://www.f6s.com/ngiexplorersopencall3-astep-by-stepguidewebinar

Citizen Control of Personal Data
2021-01-27 15:00 - 17:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
New Initiative “Citizen Control of Personal Data” within the Citizen Focus Action Cluster
On January 27th, 2021, the Smart Cities Marketplace will launch its new Initiative “Citizen Control of Personal Data” within the Citizen Focus Action Cluster. We kindly invite you to join us from 15 to 17 h and learn more the initiative’s approach to handling personal data.
Enormous changes will take place in the next few years in the field of data, moving from the current large-corporation approach, where personal data is collected for narrow commercial benefit, to an approach aiming at the greater good of society and the economy.
The intention of the “Citizen Control of Personal Data” initiative is to contribute to speeding up the adoption, at scale, of common open urban data platforms, and ensure that 300 million European citizens are served by cities with competent urban data platforms, by 2025. The potential for citizen’s personal data to contribute to data ecosystems will be significantly enhanced by introducing secure, ethical and legal access to this highly coveted and valuable personal data, incorporating citizen-generated data as “city data“.
The “Citizen Control of Personal Data” initiative will seek to remove existing obstacles and help build the conditions and relationships whereby the citizen will be willing to share personal data with a city and with other actors in the data economy. The ambition behind this new initiative is to give the smart cities movement a boost by providing cities with access to a rich personal data pool. This pool of data, in turn, would stimulate further activity within the data economy, accelerate the take-up of urban data platforms and contribute to the improvement of mobility, health, energy efficiency and better governance among other.
You can register for the initiative launch here.

NGI Forward: dialogues on the future of search
2021-01-27 11:00 - 15:00 | ON-LINE EVENT
Salon: The future of Information access for search and discovery in next generation internet
Register early: https://app.livestorm.co/made-group/dialogues-on-data-and-search-the-future-of-information-and-search
On January 27th probe the following questions: What are the key needs of tomorrow’s search and discovery, what are the distributed infrastructure needs and how are algorithms that give ‘top’ results validated? What are the data policy guidelines and governance thereof? What are user’s unmet needs to ‘discover’ tomorrow’s world? Do diverse human languages and values play a local role in the global search context of zeroes and ones? And is there room for a citizens fair data deal that leads to reliable and verifiable information and data trusts? How do individual (eg right to be forgotten) and collective rights (to know) make searching more public, more transparent or more ethical by design?
By decentralising search & retrieval, and by making future acts machine-processed, and services composable in realtime, there still remains a wide gap to fill: to gain quality and discoverability. Open standards can help. Service composability joins multiple independent sources of federated search without a single search authority point of presence. The ethical search would apply a variety of ethical filters to search results, plus mechanisms for collective action to feed those filters, making values transparent or visible inside future AI search. Trust benefits usage, instead of lamenting lack of trust in commercial providers like Amazon. In ‘The Age of Continuous Connection 24/7’ it may be time to change our unsustainable business models.
WE WANT YOUR INPUT AND IDEAS: Go tell.edgeryders.eu
We invite experts to give their recommendations for NGI. Three EU funded H2020 projects in this domain join this event: NGI FORWARD, NGI0 Discovery, and NGI Assure. We invite others to also join. The expected outcome is to contribute to the next generation EU research funding, a better understanding and cohesive EU efforts to submit innovative ideas for open calls. Meeting organizers include the IoT Council & Edgeryders for NGI FORWARD, NLnet Foundation for NGI Discovery and Assure and ELONTECH.
Register early: https://app.livestorm.co/made-group/dialogues-on-data-and-search-the-future-of-information-and-search
11:00 – 16:00 | Workshops: The Future of Search
Workshops are on Big Blue Button, hosted by TU. Delft

11:00 – 12:00 | Search and Ethics
Kick-off by Noémi Ványi (SEARX)
https://bbb.tbm.tudelft.nl/b/rob-u1k-4jz-ycj
13:00 – 14:00 | Search and (hyper) locality
Kick-off by Sarah Hoffmann (OpenStreetMap)
https://bbb.tbm.tudelft.nl/b/rob-uo4-q1n-ldu
15:00 – 16:00 | Search and Internet of Things
Kick-off by Michael Christen (YaCy)
https://bbb.tbm.tudelft.nl/b/rob-1zv-mco-ci9

WE WANT YOUR INPUT AND IDEAS: Go tell.edgeryders.eu
17:00 – 18:00 | Seminar: The Future of Search
Speakers

Vint Cerf (Google)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf
Loretta Anania (EC)
https://www.dsimanifesto.eu/speakers/loretta-anania/
Sarah Hoffmann (OpenStreetMap)
https://sosm.ch/about/board/former-board-members/sarah-hoffmann/
Michiel Leenaars (NGI projects coordinator)
https://nlnet.nl/people/leenaars.html
Pietro Lio’ (Department of Computer Science and Technology of the University of Cambridge)
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pl219/

Organizing

theinternetofthings.eu
tell.edgeryders.eu
research.ngi.eu
nlnet.nl
nlnet.nl/discovery
nlnet.nl/assure
elontech.org

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.
WE WANT YOUR INPUT AND IDEAS: Go tell.edgeryders.eu
https://vimeo.com/496482126

TETRA WEBINAR
2021-01-27 10:00 - 11:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
TETRA WEBINAR: Business models for the Next Generation Internet
When: 27 January 2021 at 10:00 AM (CET)
Where: Online
In this webinar session, we will learn about the different types of business models, from the most basic “direct sale” models all the way to software/product-as-a-service and other hybrid models suitable for open source.
We describe the differences and suitability for particular situations. Then, we will assess what these business models could mean for your project and what are the prerequisites to execute them successfully.
More information: https://business.ngi.eu/join-now/webinars/webinar-12-business-models-for-the-next-generation-internet/
Register: https://meeting.zoho.eu/meeting/register?sessionId=1236443557
Our speakers
Slavo TULEYA is a “Generation Y” expert on Corporate Innovation and Intrapreneurship. In the past, he gained experience by helping launch Innovation labs such as the SKODA AUTO DigiLab and its related offices in Tel Aviv and Beijing. Slavo lived in 7 countries in the last 7 years and accumulated his experience from Real-Estate, Utilities, and Automotive. He is a Certified Design Sprint Master and founder of the Czechoslovak Service Design Community. Today he continues building new ventures in the field of Digital Native Vertical Brands and Service Design. Companies usually get in touch with Slavo for advice on how to set up internal innovation labs, methodologies, and keynotes on Intrapreneurship.
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.

NGI-Assure First Open Call Webinar
2021-01-26 10:00 - 11:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
NGI-Assure’s Open Call for Technical R&D projects is open! And we are ready to tell you all about it in the NGI-Assure First Open Call Webinar: Get up to €50k to build a reliable Internet for all, to be held on Tuesday 26th January at 10:00 – 11:00 CEST
Register now for the webinar!
The internet lies at the heart of our modern economies and societies, but it was not designed to be used in the way we use it now. Additional innovations are needed, in particular to make usage of remote resources on the internet more trustworthy and secure. We will select the most innovative and useful projects through a series of competitive open calls. Projects will receive financial, technical and business support.
We are looking for technical R&D projects that provide some form of assurance regarding any aspect of the internet and the way we use it today or will use it tomorrow. How do we know whether some person is who she claims to be? How can we tell a specific resource on the internet is genuine? How do we assert provenance and integrity? And how can we make this transparent and privacy friendly?
We prefer concrete and viable outcomes. The technology you propose should be relevant to the long-term evolution of the internet and in the interest of actual internet users in the real world. Show us that your idea solves a problem, and what you need to make it happen.
Learn about the objectives of NGI Assure, its open calls and what you can get out of the programme. During this webinar, we will explain the requirements of the call, the type of solutions we are looking for, and the funding and services that selected projects will receive.
AGENDA

10:00 – Presentation of the NGI Initiative
Michiel Leenars, NLnet
10:15 – Presentation of NGI Assure objectives and its Open Calls
Nuno Manarte, FundingBox
10:30 – Questions & Answers from participants
Michiel Leenars, NLnet; Nuno Manarte, FundingBox
11:00 – End of the session

Register now for the webinar!

EDIH GEARING UP conference
2021-01-26 - 2021-01-27 | On-line virtual event
Gearing up towards European Digital Innovation Hubs conference, jointly organised by the European Commission, Luxinnovation, the Luxembourg Ministry of the Economy and DIHnet, is an opportunity for stakeholders to meet, nurture their networks, share ideas and learn about the new EU policy developments on supporting the green and digital transformation through European Digital Innovation Hubs.
Alongside high-level speakers and thematic sessions, the event will be the info session for the European Digital Innovation Hubs call with the Digital Europe Programme.
The event will take place on January the 26th and 27th 2021 and will be fully online.
The EDIH GEARING UP conference is a public event organised as the first yearly European Digital Innovation Hubs conference. In coordination with the Luxembourg Ministry of Economy this first year’s edition will officially kick-start the European Digital Innovation Hubs initiative all across Europe.
The Commission is supporting Digital Innovation Hub-like activities since 2012 and since 2016, under the Digitalising European Industry initiative, the Commission has supported the creation of Digital Innovation Hubs. In 2021, the Commission, with the Member States, is gearing up the support to the digitalisation of Europe economy and society. The European Digital Innovation Hubs are the new piece of the puzzle of our industries landscapes and our economy. How they will fit in this landscapes and how the Digital Europe Programme will support them will be at the heart of this conference.
This phygital event will have 4 thematics tracks and one networking track, all online: “the European EDIH ecosystems”, “the Digital Europe Programme”, “Implementing the EDIH initiative” and “a working EDIH”. Most importantly, the conference will address the future call for the EDIH under the DEP initiatives.
With more than 20 parallel sessions, the EDIH GEARING UP conference provides an opportunity for the different EDIH candidates around Europe and their respective public authority involved in the digitalisation of the economy to share experiences, exchange best practices and discuss the future of EU digital industrial policy. Among them will be representatives from Member States and regions, national initiatives for digitalisation, industry, SMEs, academia, Digital Innovation Hubs and research and technology centres. Between keynote speeches and participatory discussions, the event will offer the participant a voice in shaping the future instrument of the Digital Europe Programme.

Monitoring Digital Transformation
2021-01-25 14:30 - 17:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
Monitoring Digital Transformation: The role of Artificial Intelligence in the Industrial Modernisation
Artificial intelligence has rapidly gained in importance and diffusion and is now beyond the nascent phase. This workshop will review in detail the demand and supply dynamics related to the AI pointing to the opportunities, most promising use cases and future potential arising from Artificial Intelligence.
AI’s potential in terms of future growth and socio-economic impacts is impressive. As a general-purpose technology, it is expected to be adopted in a variety of ways by all industries and by a multitude of actors. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the centrality of AI (for example in contact tracing) in countering the disease. Nonetheless, the deployment of AI use cases is hindered by multiple challenges and implementation barriers. To reap concrete business opportunities, enterprises must be aware of these challenges and of the countermeasures that industry and policy makers are trying to implement in Europe.
After an introduction on ATI project and an overview of the main trends in AI, the workshop will explore policies, initiatives and services that are being developed to foster AI adoption and will discuss on the impact those initiatives have on end users, especially SMEs.
Register at the link below:
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/ATIWORKSHOPAI25012021

NGI_TRUST Webinar Results #2
2021-01-22 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 56 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.

NGIAtlantic.eu - Third Open Call proposers webinar
2021-01-21 17:00 - 18:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
Show your Talent through our Twinning Lab: Third Open Call proposers webinar
Following the first two successful Open Calls, on the 1st of December NGIatlantic.eu launched its third call to support EU- organisations to carry out research experiments across Next Generation Internet application domains using EU and/or US-based experimental platforms. The application deadline for this third open call is 26th of February 2021. For this third call, proposals will address one or both the priority areas identified: (i) the development and/or evolution of EU – US Experimental Platforms for NGI experiments, and/or (ii) experimentation of results with key NGI technologies addressing NGI priority topics where results are mature enough for transatlantic experiments. Internet Trustworthiness and Greening the internet are new topics introduced under this call.
This webinar is part of a series organised around the NGIatlantic.eu Open Calls. It will introduce the NGIatlantic.eu project and opportunities and will follow with a deep dive-into the details of the third Open Call, including the NGI topic focus areas where experiments will be funded. This time the event will also offer to the active participants of the NGIatlantic.eu Twinning Lab a roadshow to promote their current work and ideas for initiating future projects. Both public and private institutions from the EU and the US will gain the opportunity to start a collaborative dialogue with potential partners which can contribute to the complete deployment and adoption of their experiments connected to Next Generation Internet fields through the NGIatlantic.eu open calls.
The third NGIatlantic.eu open call is open until the 26th February 2021. This pitching session constitutes a great opportunity not only to active participants to the Twinning Lab, but also to potential new ones willing to join the NGIatlantic.eu open calls. In the final part of the event, participants will join a practical visual collaboration session to enable them to easily build and map relevant ideas for future experiments
Participants will:

Get insights about the NGIatlantic.eu services and open calls.
Explore the benefits and added value of joining the Twinning Lab online tool.
Promote their services and find collaborations for generating new experiments.
Generate new ideas and link them with those of potential partners from the EU-US.

REGISTER HERE!

The Overweb Challenge
2021-01-21 09:00 - 18:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME PST
The Overweb Challenge: hack your idea of what the Internet can be
The Internet is the Wild Wild West. People believe what they read on the web but they shouldn’t. It was not always that way. The web started out as communities of researchers sharing knowledge within their field. But search and social media algorithms along with fake accounts have created an Internet of silos. People and information are isolated in polarized bubbles that channel their attention with fake virality. This is enabled by browsers that make the Internet flat and static, while treating people and information as commodities.
But browsers have the potential to connect information and access the Internet in its full dimensionality. We can have a deeply connected Internet that layers knowledge on top of web pages. We can have an Internet of Ideas.
We are building browser extensions and network protocols to access the Overweb, a trust layer over the webpage that provides deep layers of context for any idea on the web enabling you to discern what you can believe on the web. Just as the Wild Wild West ultimately became Silicon Valley, the Internet will evolve into the Overweb.

LEDGER 3rd Open Call – Webinar #2
2021-01-20 12:00 - 13:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
Any doubts and questions about Ledger’s 3rd Open Call left? Join second out of four live webinars on the LEDGER’s current 3rd Open Call 20th of January, 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 second webinar, the focus will be on introducing verticals and explaining tech mentorship that is part of this Open Call benefits.
Stay tuned for detailed information on the 2 remaining webinars.
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 projects
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.

NGI Forward: dialogues on Data & Policy
2021-01-20 11:00 - 18:00 | ON-LINE EVENT
Salon: Data and Policy
Do register early as we have limited seating in the (online) workshops.
https://app.livestorm.co/made-group/dialogues-on-data-and-policy-the-40-the-identity-and-the-privacy-issue
Executive Vice-President for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age, Margrethe Vestager, said: “You don’t have to share all data. But if you do and data is sensitive you should be able to do in a manner where data can be trusted and protected. We want to give business and citizens the tools to stay in control of data. And to build trust that data is handled in line with European values and fundamental rights.”
It is clear that there is an urgency for an alternative European model to data handling practice of major tech platforms, and pave the way for sectoral European data spaces to benefit society, citizens and companies.
WE WANT YOUR INPUT AND IDEAS: Go tell.edgeryders.eu
We invite experts to give their recommendations for NGI. Two EU funded H2020 projects in this domain join this event NGI FORWARD and DAPSI. The expected outcome is to contribute to the next generation EU research funding, a better understanding and cohesive EU efforts to submit innovative ideas for open calls.
Do register early as we have limited seating in the (online) workshops.
https://app.livestorm.co/made-group/dialogues-on-data-and-policy-the-40-the-identity-and-the-privacy-issue
11:00 – 12: 00 | Seminar
Speakers

Eva Kaili, MEP Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
Anja Bechmann, Professor & Director @AUDATALAB
Jaya Klara Brekke, founding member of the Magma Collective, a planetary think-and-do tank, currently developing peer-to-peer cloud system, CoBox
Irene Hernández, Founder & CEO at GATACA | Digital Identities | Blockchain researcher, Interop WG ESSIF

First respondent
Primavera De Filippi, permanent researcher at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute.
Moderators
Mantalena Kaili (ELONTECH) and Gaëlle Le Gars (NGI Forward WP4)
14:00- 18:00 | Workshops DATA/POLICY

13:00 – 14:00 CET | Data and Methods
Kick-off by Alberto Cottica, edgeryders.eu
https://bbb.tbm.tudelft.nl/b/rob-jvf-ik7-xvx

15:00 – 16:00 CET | Data and Policy
Kick-off by Rob van Kranenburg, moderation Gaëlle Le Gars
https://bbb.tbm.tudelft.nl/b/rob-cis-o7h-gos
17:00 – 18:00 CET | Data portability
Kick-off by Trace Labs, moderation Erik Mannens (IMEC)
https://bbb.tbm.tudelft.nl/b/rob-8rf-k55-fgn

Organizing

theinternetofthings.eu
tell.edgeryders.eu
research.ngi.eu
dapsi.ngi.eu
elontech.org

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.
WE WANT YOUR INPUT AND IDEAS: Go tell.edgeryders.eu

NGI Talk with Sam Butler
2021-01-14 13:00 - 14:00 | ON-LINE EVENT
NGI Talk: “How is Digital Innovation Shaping the Post-Digital Era” by Sam Butler
When: 14th of January at 13:00 CET
Where: Free REGISTER HERE!
About the event
Today, digital innovation is at the heart of every organization. You need to digitize internal operations to do things better, faster, and cheaper, find new ways to engage users and bring new products and services to market. Changing market conditions mean that you’re planning around a moving target, and with disruptive startups popping up all over, competition is mounting. You need a faster path to transform your innovative new ideas into winning applications and that’s where digital innovation come in.
Over the decades, societies have progressed from steam power to the division of labour, right through to the IT and electronic age. Now, most are firmly cemented in the era of datafication, hyper-connectivity, and digital labour.
These changes have had a huge impact on the IT industry which is evolving rapidly with advances in digital technologies. For those in the industry, this has created significant challenges, coupled with great opportunities.
Join the next NGI Talk, brought to you by the NGI community ambassador Sam Butler who will tell you why digital transformation is not only important but essential to your business and the world in general.

About the speaker
Sam Butler, is an all-around professional, that makes a plan, based on leverage points and lean design, and finally, writes, designs, codes, and builds, to bring ideas to life. He graduated with a degree in Politics and a certificate in Creative Writing from Princeton University. He worked with actor Mark Feuerstein (Royal Pains) to develop two impact-driven film projects, edited sports media at Bleacher Report, led a few experiments in fixing the internet, researched the world’s best climate solutions and developed a framework for community climate mitigation, managed an open data experiment with one of the largest trade finance institutions in the world, led a collaboration between Mattereum and RoUm to create digital identities for original art pieces. He also does product design and various types of consulting.

LEDGER 3rd Open Call - Webinar #1
2021-01-14 12:00 - 13:00 | web-streamed
Do you have questions about Ledger’s 3rd Open Call? Want tips for crafting an effective proposal?
Join first out of four live webinars on the LEDGER’s current 3rd Open Call this Thursday 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 first webinar, the focus will be on introducing the LEDGER project, the advanced 6-month programme and the application process.
Stay tuned for detailed information on the remaining 3 webinars.
To get more info or apply for the LEDGER’s 3rd Open Call, click here!
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.

COVID-X Open Call - webinar
2021-01-13 12:00 - 13:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
COVID-X is an exclusive acceleration program funded by the European Union as part of the response plan to defeat COVID-19 through the power of data. COVID-X is promoting its Open Call #1.
The project will grant EU companies (Single Players) with 100K€ indirect funding to validate their data solutions in one of our clinical partners from Italy, Spain or Sweden. If the company already brings a Healthcare Provider that can validate the solution, the financial support will go up to 150K€ (Team Players). The solutions should address challenges related to diagnosis, prognosis or follow-up of COVID-19 patients. You can apply to the call till 27th January (5pm CET)!
Selected ideas will join our acceleration program to boost a quick market uptake. The plan of action will include technical support, ethical validation, and business coaching. In addition, participants will have access to the COVID-X Sandbox, a one-stop platform to exploit COVID-19 data sources, incorporating general information on data silos, as well as the integration, visualization, and exploratory analysis for easy understanding.
Register in our coming webinars:

Webinar 1: 13 January 12pm (CET) – https://www.f6s.com/covid-xwebinar1
Webinar 2: 15 January 12pm (CET) – https://www.f6s.com/covid-xwebinar2
Webinar 3: 20 January 12pm (CET) – https://www.f6s.com/covid-xwebinar3

More info: www.covid-x.eu
Contact point: info@covid-x.eu
Twitter: @TheCovidX
LinkedIn: company/covid-x
F6S Application: https://www.f6s.com/covid-x/

HubIT webinar
2021-01-13 11:00 - 12:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
The Next Generation Internet: A Guide to the New Concept and its Opportunities
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) has the potential to disrupt our economy, society, and environment even more than internet technologies have changed our world over the last “emerging-Internet” years.
To develop a human-centric internet, where technology is utilized as a powerful tool to serve the core European values of equality and democracy, there must be the right priorities and framework set. NGI – European Commission initiative aims to develop the current Internet in terms of service and speed and launch an entirely new range of applications which will transform the current use of the Internet. The opportunities of such worldwide change will be uncovered during three presentations throughout the webinar.
“Introduction to the Next Generation Internet: The Internet of Humans” by Robert Miskuf (Pedal Consulting)
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) is a European Commission initiative that aims to shape the development and evolution of the Internet into an Internet of Humans. The focus is on advanced technologies including privacy and trust, search and discovery, decentralized architectures, blockchain, Internet of Things, social media, interactive technologies, as well as technologies supporting multilingualism and accessibility. To ensure durable impact NGI also provides mentoring to help bring research and innovation outcomes to the market.
In his presentation, Robert Miskuf from PEDAL Consulting (a partner of the TETRA project which acts as a business accelerator for NGI) will present the most relevant actions in this field.
“The Next Generation Internet – Re-thinking the Digital Agenda Towards the Society” by Jose Gonzalez (Australo)
Jose’s presentation will outline what are the key values of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) and what that actually means. The roadmap which shapes the human-centered Internet will be presented as the ideology that the people-centered Internet works to make sure the Internet is a positive force for good, improving the lives and well-being of people around the world. The presentation of “Digital Agenda” will underline the need for defining such a strategy, giving examples like the empowerment of women in STEM, and the significant role that mobility programmes have over the professional careers of talented researchers and entrepreneurs.
“Trusted and Reliable Content on Future Blockchains” by Mirko Lorenz (TruBlo)
The presentation will address the importance of ensuring truthful content online as the amount of fake news or misleading and false information presented as news increases each year. The main topic of the presentation spans the fight against dis- and mal-information and with regard to Next Generation Internet (NGI) – a vision of useful, trusted content for society as a whole.

CITYxCITY Festival
2021-01-13 - 2021-01-15
Connecting cities. Empowering communities.
After a decade of successfully hosting the annual OASC conference, we’re shifting gears to amplify our impact on society. Join us for the very first edition of CITYxCITY Festival and take part in a 48-hour celebration. This is an invitation. To innovate. To collaborate. And to celebrate. An invitation to build a smarter society, together. Step by step. And city by city. With like-minded spirits from around the world.
Where ideas meet, smart solutions for tomorrow’s challenges will emerge. Accelerating change to create positive impact for citizens across the globe.
We invite you to join our community of change makers. We invite you to embrace exchange.

DAPSI OPEN CALL #2 - WEBINAR #2
2021-01-11 11:00 - 12:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
DAPSI OPEN CALL #2 WEBINAR #2 | GUIDE FOR APPLICANTS
On Monday, 11th January 2021 at 11:00 am CET, we'll be answering all your burning questions about applying for the DAPSI Open Call #2, live on air.
If you’re thinking of applying, or are already half-way through your application for DAPSI Open Call #2, then this webinar is for you.
Join our team, to find out:

What is DAPSI
Which are the data portability challenges
Support services
How to apply

These and many more questions will be addressed during our webinar!
JOIN US!

Deep Dive with David Li
2020-12-22 15:30 - 16:30 | ON-LINE EVENT
Deep dive with David Li, the founder of Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab
https://www.szoil.org
As the pioneer who pays close attention to the maker activity, David Li has been committed to promoting the development of Chinese makers and the transformation of innovative products since 2010. Meanwhile, he is the important promoter of China maker activity and is honoured as “Top Maker in Asia”, and he once participates in the founding of the first maker space of China-Xin Chejian.
David has participated in open source movement since 1990, and he is the member of Free Software Foundation and the code contributor of Apache as well as the director of Object Web Open Source Geospatial Foundation. During the past 20 years, he has participated in the interactive multimedia project of Steven Spielberg, Disney World, Japanese IT enterprise project and the design of social networking application of Facebook, and he also developed the visual programming environment Ardublock for Arduino and started and worked for many open-source software projects.
With David Cuartelles from Arduino and Ramona Dremljuga from TETRA | Business Acceleration for Next Generation Internet | business.ngi.eu

Links:

“Beyond Silicon Valley. Can Asian countries develop an Alternative Innovation Narrative?”
https://www.szoil.org/ric-webinar-series/
Inside Shenzhen’s race to outdo Silicon Valley
https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/12/18/1661/inside-shenzhens-race-to-outdo-silicon-valley/
Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. Arduino boards are able to read inputs – light on a sensor, a finger on a button, or a Twitter message – and turn it into an output – activating a motor, turning on an LED, publishing something online. You can tell your board what to do by sending a set of instructions to the microcontroller on the board. To do so you use the Arduino programming language (based on Wiring), and the Arduino Software (IDE), based on Processing.
https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Introduction
TETRA project provides business support to third parties awarding NGI open calls issued by NGI-TRUST, NGI0-PET, LEDGER, NGI0-DISCOVERY and by those projects who will be funded under H2020 call ICT-24-2019.
https://ngi.eu/ngi-projects/tetra/
