Project description
The new internet of trust is on the horizon
The internet has become an essential dimension of our everyday life: digital environments offer almost unlimited opportunities to stay connected and to share information, not to mention the many ‘things’ that are now connected to the internet, which produce data and information. We face an explosion in internet use and developments, raising concerns about security, privacy, digital rights, and how much control each citizen has over his/her (digital) life. The EU-funded NGI_Trust project ran for three years and mobilised internet innovators and researchers who worked on 57 projects awarded via three open calls. Key topics included user control, privacy and identity, data management, impact of AI, internet of things, and stronger tools.
Objective
The NGI_Trust project aims to support the development of a human-centric Internet. by developing a stronger European ecosystem of researchers, innovators and technology developers in the field of privacy and trust enhancing technologies. NGI_TRUST will run two rounds of open calls in order to select and providing financial support to the best projects submitted by third parties in a competitive manner. The project has four overall objectives
1: Reinforce, structure and develop the community of researchers, innovators and technology developers in the field of privacy and trust enhancing technologies
2: Build on the state of the art in privacy and trust enhancing technologies by focusing support for third-party prheir personal data, attributes and information
3: Improve user trust and acceptance of emerging technologies by focusing on applications and solutions that develop a more open, robust and dependable Internet and strengthen Internet Governance
4: Foster the exploitation and commercialisation of the results of selected third-party projects through a tailored process of coaching and mentoring.
The NGI_Trust project will use the open calls approach to engage, in parallel, with different players, working at various technology readiness levels (TRL), to explore topics that are critical to build the NGI; and are also a core expertise of the consortium partners. The project will be supported by an advisory board of experts with proven expertise in privacy and regulations, security, identity management, encryption, network protocols, IoT and distributed ledgers (i.e. blockchain). During the proposal preparation work has been done with the advisory board to prepare the call topics. The consortium provides an ideal mix of expertise in management of research and innovation policies, technical expertise in the domain, business coaching and mentoring of Internet technology firms. We aim to use the available funds from the call to leverage additional matching funds.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitydata protection
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementinnovation management
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitynetwork security
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
1348 Louvain La Neuve
Belgium
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.