NGI TRANSOCEANIC

Overview

NGI TRANSOCEANIC will build an EU-USA ecosystem of top researchers, hi-tech start-ups / SMEs and Internet-related communities collaborating on the evolution of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) according to a human-centric approach.

It will be facilitating twinning research and innovations activities, organizing of 3 longer term EU – USA Financial Support to Third Parties (FSTP) open calls, and funding projects in which NGI innovators will team up and fulfil high impact projects between EU and USA stakeholders.

NGI TRANSOCEANIC will provide, manage and publicise to the targeted user communities an organisational and financial funding platform. The platform will stimulate and support an efficient process for regular research cycles of cascade funded projects engagements between EU and USA innovators. The projects will be related to common priority topics of mutual benefit derived from within the EU’s NGI related projects and initiatives and counterpart USA’s related programmes, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) programmes. Consequently, NGI TRANSOCEANIC will have the flexibility to build upon any other existing or future USA-EU activities as they become available.

The funded projects will emerge from clearly established selection criteria, through a transparent and efficient process utilising an already developed mature, field-tested cascading grant platform and digital processes. A continuous monitoring activity of the funded projects will be implemented, paired to an effective dissemination, communication and exploitation plan, to maximise impact within the project itself and with the larger scale NGI initiative in the EU and Internet related activities in the USA.

Implementation

NGI TRANSOCEANIC builds on the success of the pre-cursor initiative NGIAtlantic.eu [2020-2023], delivered by the same EU partners, and two USA partners, as a strong and consolidated European Union (EU) and United States of America (USA) Financial Support to Third Party (FSTP) ecosystem with 35 funded EU – USA projects on NGI topics.

The main ambitions of NGI TRANSOCEANIC are the following:

1. Comprehensive team approach on involving the key stakeholders from EU and USA in the consortium and already established and expanding EU – USA Twinning Lab, capitalising on their track record, complementarity and networking potential.
2. Having an EU – USA joint calls approach between the EU NGI programme and NSF Internet programmes.
3. Implementation of three dedicated longer term (18 months) open call cycles to be delivered over the 48 months of the project covering expansive NGI topics with €3,200,000 in FSTP funding earmarked.
4. This will be delivered through three different project modalities including projects for advanced technology development, joint demonstrators and joint contributions to standards covering the priority topics of trust and privacy enhancing technologies, data sharing and portability, sustainable and climate friendly internet, electronic identities, internet architecture renovation and decentralised technologies.

Key Objectives

Objective 1: EU – USA Next Generation Internet (NGI) Landscape Framework.
Objective 2: Realise EU – USA Open Calls and provide financial support to third-party projects.
Objective 3: Twinning activities and support services for the EU – USA stakeholders.
Objective 4: To ensure maximum impact and sustainability of the EU – USA NGI activities, and to promote the standardisation and industrial application of the NGI TRANSOCEANIC results.