FLOSS developers, open technology innovators, researchers, and small teams in Cyprus and Greece are invited to apply for the latest round of NGI0 (Next Generation Internet) funding, with upcoming deadlines on\u00a0October 1st\u00a0and\u00a0December 1st, 2025.<\/p>\n
NGI0 is a European Commission initiative, coordinated by NLnet Foundation, that provides grants ranging from\u00a0\u20ac5,000 to \u20ac50,000\u00a0to support Free\/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), open hardware, open standards, and open data projects. More than 1,000 projects across Europe have already been supported, all contributing to a more open, resilient, human-centric, and trustworthy internet (https:\/\/nlnet.nl\/NGI0\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n The program is known for the\u00a0immediacy and ease of its application process, allowing developers to apply directly and be assessed on the\u00a0technical excellence, impact, cost-effectiveness, and interoperability\u00a0of their proposal. This makes NGI0 particularly attractive to small teams and independent developers.<\/p>\n The program directly connects with global digital rights movements such as\u00a0Public Money, Public Code, the\u00a0Right to Repair, and other campaigns for privacy, transparency, and sustainability. This cascade funding mechanism empowers innovators at the grassroots level, ensuring their work strengthens the digital commons.<\/p>\n Funded projects include\u00a0privacy-preserving tools, secure communication platforms, decentralized identity systems, new internet protocols, open-source search engines, and open hardware solutions. Developers are encouraged to propose projects that strengthen user autonomy, digital sovereignty, and resilience. Notably, NGI0 has also funded components of larger, well-known projects such as Mastodon, Matrix, Nextcloud, Jitsi, Tor, and other major open-source infrastructures, showing the breadth of potential impact. For a full list of the funded projects go here:\u00a0https:\/\/nlnet.nl\/project\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n Earlier this week, an NGI0 InfoSession took place in Cyprus, showcasing how local FLOSS talent can access EU opportunities and contribute to Europe\u2019s open-source ecosystem (https:\/\/ellak.org.cy\/2025\/08\/27\/ngi0infosession1\/<\/a>). The positive response to EL\/LAK\u2019s position in relation to the\u00a0ChatControl debate\u00a0earlier this month (https:\/\/ellak.org.cy\/2025\/08\/29\/chatcontrolbriefing\/<\/a>) as well as the debate around the recent\u00a0government hybrid cloud tender\u00a0(https:\/\/ellak.org.cy\/2025\/09\/08\/policy-watch-government-hybrid-cloud-tender\/<\/a>) suggest that\u00a0the country is at a tipping point regarding public debate in Tech Policy, and a drive towards investment in open, freedom-respecting, sovereign, and community-controlled infrastructures, and\u00a0away from dependencies on Big Tech proprietary giants, whose concentration of power, lack of transparency, and creation of technological lock-in pose systemic risks.<\/p>\n Applicants can submit proposals through\u00a0https:\/\/nlnet.nl\/news\/2025\/20250801-call.html<\/a>. Local support is available:\u00a0Dr. Chrystalleni Loizidou, Regional Representative for Cyprus, will be present at the\u00a0Open Tech booth\u2019s Repair Caf\u00e9, organised by 101.cy and EL\/LAK Cyprus, at LaouLaou, Limassol, this Saturday\u00a020\/9 (https:\/\/ellak.org.cy\/2025\/09\/08\/repair-cafe1\/<\/a>). She can be contacted at\u00a0[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLOSS developers, open technology innovators, researchers, and small teams in Cyprus and Greece are invited to apply for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[49,48,244,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-154778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}