Through an agile and flexible process, following the Horizon Europe cascade funding mechanism, ongoing NGI Research and Innovation Actions (RIAs) provide support to projects from outstanding academic researchers, hi-tech startups and SMEs.
Funding is allocated to projects using short research cycles targeting the most promising ideas. Each of the selected projects pursue their own objectives, while the NGI RIAs provide the programme logic and vision, technical support, coaching and mentoring, to ensure that projects contribute towards a significant advancement of research and innovation in the NGI initiative.
The focus is on advanced concepts and technologies that link to relevant use cases and that can have an impact on the market and society over all. Applications and services that innovate without a research component are not covered by this model.
OIS Restack
OIS Restack 1st Open Call
Building a healthy Open Internet Stack.
Opening date:
September 3, 2026
Closing date:
November 3, 2026 | 12:00 PM (noon) CET (Brussels time)
Open Internet Stack: Restack provides funding and support service with the goal to help deliver, mature and scale operational internet commons across the technology stack.
The fund supports free and open source software and hardware, open standards, open data, open science, and open core internet infrastructure. Between now and 2030, we will award small- to medium-sized R&D grants between 5.000 and 50.000 euro — with the possibility to scale them up significantly if there is proven potential.
Besides grants, we offer support services to improve the quality and maturity of digital commons. Grantees can request support with security, privacy, accessibility, open-source licensing compliance, standardisation, and more. In total the OIS Restack Fund will distribute 7 million euros of R&D on technology commons that improve openness, trustworthiness, resilience and user autonomy across the open internet stack and make these available as free/libre/open source software and hardware.
Target participants:
The call is open to anyone including: SMEs, academics, public sector, non-profits, communities and individuals. Outcomes must be open: all scientific outcomes must be published as open access, and any software and hardware must be published under a recognised open source license in its entirety.
Visit:
nlnet.nl/restack
Contact for more info:
nlnet.nl/contact/
CodeSupply
CodeSupply 1st Open Call
Strengthen software supply chain security with packaging metadata
Opening date:
September 3, 2026
Closing date:
November 3, 2026 | 12:00 PM (noon) CET (Brussels time)
CodeSupply is funded by the European Commission to improve software supply chain management. The project pursues three interconnected objectives that directly address data challenges in cybersecurity, software supply chain management, and regulatory and open source license compliance: 1.Publish current, correct, and comprehensive software metadata. 2. Establish a scalable and sustainable mechanism to provide democratic access to data sets. 3. Create a foundational framework for future iterations, enhancements, and new data sets.
CodeSupply is a project run by a small consortium of four members with a clear and narrow scope. A small part of the budget (€ 400 000) is reserved for open calls to fund auxiliary free and open source efforts that are aligned with the topics and approach of the programme.
Target participants:
The call is open to anyone, including: SMEs, academics, public sector, non-profits, communities and individuals. Outcomes must be open: all scientific outcomes must be published as open access, and any software and hardware must be published under a recognised open source license in its entirety.
Part of the budget of CodeSupply is reserved for open calls to fund additional free and open source efforts that are aligned with the topics and approach of CodeSupply. We are seeking project proposals between 5.000 and 50.000 euro’s.
Visit:
nlnet.nl/codesupply
Contact for more info:
nlnet.nl/contact/