NLnet Foundation Selected for Three Horizon Europe Grants

The first is the Open Internet Stack call, this new 10M€ initiative will enable NLnet and its consortium partners to continue the important work it is carrying out with its NGI Zero effort: strengthening the European ecosystem of contributors to the digital commons with financial and practical support. The Cascade Funding programme called Restack, is designed to retain the strength of the NGI Zero approach of nurturing bottom up innovation by providing small- and medium-sized grants to creators of free and open source technologies, as well as a pipeline of tailored support that strengthen the quality and maturity of their projects. The announcement was made by the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, the Commission's department responsible for the much praised Next Generation Internet initiative. The role of NLnet in such pilots is to involve additional parties through open calls, providing grants to free and open source projects which are aligned with the goals of the pilot The Encrypted Local-First Applications (ELFA) consortium focuses on developing technologies that operate local first. CodeSupply addresses these challenges by delivering correct, trusted, and verified software metadata, as an open source, federated, and digitally sovereign data catalog, as necessary to manage and secure software supply chains. The decentralized distribution of open data democratizes access to valuable datasets, as it balances the end-to-end traceability and discoverability of code with organizational autonomy and authority over data assets.