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NGI_TRUST, co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the grant agreement No 825618, foresees as an eligible activity the provision of financial support to third parties, as a means to achieve its own objectives.

Third-party projects may only receive financial support if they are working on privacy and trust enhancing technologies and their application to the Next Generation Internet (as defined broadly by the Horizon 2020 Work- Programme 2018-20, Information and Communication Technologies Part 5.i - Page 51 of 144), namely: as sensors, objects, devices, AI-based algorithms, etc., are incorporated in our digital environment, develop robust and easy to use technologies to help users increase trust and achieve greater control when sharing their personal data, attributes and information.

The NGI Trust open calls aim to:

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NGI TRUST will support third-party projects working in the following areas:

• Technical

  innovation in

  innovation in privacy enhancing technologies, such as

  cryptography

  crypto, federated identity,

   security

  security and privacy for Internet of Things (IoT), distributed ledgers

  and privacy

  and privacy-enhancing

  data transports

  data transports and data at rest

  .

  ,

• Ethical aspects, such as ways to use AI/ML

  The application of artificial intelligence/machine learning

  /neural networks to serve the

  user’s interests (such as addressing concerns arising from the

  user’s interests, legal and best practices for policy makers to consider, impact of profiling

  and mass

  and mass surveillance

  ).

  ,

• Bootstrapping

  trust at

  trust at the protocol level, to maintain a

  decentralised

  decentralized Internet Infrastructure,

  for the

  for the establishment of trust, privacy (and security) between end-users

  and services.

  and services,

• Ways for users to

  Developing means for individuals to

  make more informed decisions on the relevance of information that they

  are asked

  are asked to disclose when accessing

  and using

  services.

NGI Trust is organising three rounds of open calls:

• A 1st call (open from 1 February 2019) seeks to attract a broad mix of projects including a larger number of early-stage ‘feasibility’ studies.
• A 2nd call (open from 1 October 2019) will aim to build on 1st phase projects (larger second round funded projects following on from smaller pilot/feasibility projects) but also attract additional players with scalable projects in specific fields, industries or verticals.
• A 3rd call (scheduled to open in February 2020) 

NGI_TRUST Open Call third-party projects

Three types of third-party projects will be awarded funding:

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The call is open to individuals or organisations, or groupings thereof.

Specifically, the following may apply, either on an individual basis or as a consortium:

• Researchers and developers (holding a master’s degree or higher) employed in third-level education institutes, research infrastructures, not for profit organisations and charitable (scientific) foundations and public research centres.

• Internet technologists and innovators, privacy and trust specialists and action groups

• Organisations/companies with relevant privacy and trust cases or concerns in specific sectors or ‘verticals’ (fields such as health, etc.).

• Micro, small and medium sized enterprises firms working on internet technologies.

Applicants may be legal entities or natural persons and should be registered (for organisations) or resident (for individuals) in an EU Member State or a Horizon 2020 associated country

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The call will open on 1 October 2019

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