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Summary
Fediversity is a comprehensive effort to bring easy-to-use, hosted cloud services with service portability and personal freedom at their core to everyone. It wants to provide everyone with high-quality, secure IT systems for everyday use. Fediversity is based on NixOS, a disruptive Linux distribution with a unique approach to package and configuration management. Built on top of the Nix package manager, NixOS is completely declarative, makes upgrading systems reliable, and has many other advantages.
Detailed Call Description
The following types of activities qualify for financial support, provided they are cost effective and have a clear link to the topics directly relevant to Fediversity and the objectives set out in the call:
- scientific research;
- design and development of open source software and open hardware;
- validation or constructive inquiry into existing or novel technical solutions;
- software engineering aimed at adapting to new usage areas or improving software quality;
- formal security proofs, security audits, setup and design of software testing and continuous integration;
- documentation for researchers, developers and end users;
- standardisation activities, including membership fees of standards bodies;
- understanding user requirements and improving usability/inclusive design;
- necessary measures in support of (broad)er deployability, e.g. packaging;
- participation in technical, developer and community events like hackathons, IETF, W3C, RIPE meetings, FOSDEM, etc. (admission fee, travel and subsistence costs);
- other activities that are relevant to adhering to robust software development and deployment practices;
- project management;
- out-of-pocket costs for infrastructure essential to achieving the above.
Project results must be made available under a free and open source license, so anyone can read and validate the source code, and anyone can use the code to create technology that fits their own purposes.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
Applications are accepted for proposals requesting between €5.000 and €50.000. Once you have successfully completed a project you may apply for additional funding.
Thematic Categories
- Information and Communication Technologies
- Information Technology
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Educational Institutions
- Legal Entities under Public Law
- Local Authorities
- Natual person / Citizen / Individual
- Non Profit Organisations
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Semi-governmental organisations
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Applications can be submitted by anyone that can bring a relevant contribution to the topics of NGI Fediversity, whether that is a natural person or an organisation of any type. There are no categorical exclusions of persons who may not receive support from NGI Fediversity.
Given equal proposals, inhabitants of the EU and countries associated to Horizon Europe are given priority, however if the project is of exceptional quality and the proposer holds unique technical expertise proposals from outside of those geographic areas can be eligible as well. Young people that have not yet reached the age of legal consent in their country of origin (typically 18 years old) on the date of the deadline may apply without any constraints; consent from a legal guardian such as a parent does not have to be provided prior to initial submission, but will be required to enter any further negotiations.Project proposals should be in line with the NGI vision and within the topic of trust and data sovereignty on the internet and deliver potential break-through contributions to the open internet.
Proposals should be complete and concise (no longer than the equivalent of two pages for the main application).