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EU funding (€8,502,622): Piloting a Cooperative Open Web Search Infrastructure to Support Europe's Digital Sovereignty Hor1 Sept 2022 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"
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Piloting a Cooperative Open Web Search Infrastructure to Support Europe's Digital Sovereignty
Web search has become an essential technology and commodity, driving not only future innovations but forming a backbone for our digital economy. Regrettably, currently few non-European gatekeepers control Web search, which creates a biased, one-sided information access centred around economic success rather than the needs of citizens or European values and jurisdiction. This one-sided ecosystem puts pressure on many small Web contributors from science, economy, art, culture, media and society requiring them to optimize their content for a few gatekeepers. A system greatly benefiting the gatekeepers thereby creates a vicious cycle, which leads to locked-in effects and a closed search engine market. To promote an open human-centred search engine market and provide a true choice to users when selecting search engines based on their own preferences, OpenWebSearch.EU proposes to develop and pilot the core of a European Open Web Index (OWI) and the foundation for an open and extensible European open Web Search and Analysis Infrastructure (OWSAI). Our approach is based on four objectives, namely (1) to develop a core suite of search, discovery and analytics services to create, maintain and utilize the OWI; (2) to develop relevant search engine verticals and new search paradigms demonstrating the impact; (3) to establish a network of European HPC-infrastructure, research and business organizations to pilot the OWSAI based on Europes values, principles, legislation, ethics and standards; (4) to stimulate an ecosystem around the OWI. The envisioned infrastructure will not only contribute to Europes sovereignty for navigating and searching the web, it will also empower Europes researchers, innovators and business to systematically tap into the Web as business and innovation resource, without paying huge upfront costs. This will be particularly crucial for future AI innovations and relevant for other European infrastructure like e.g. the European Open Science Cloud, GAIA-X.
Funded Companies:
| Company name | Funding amount |
| BAUHAUS-UNIVERSITAET WEIMAR | ? |
| A1 Slovenija Telekomunikacijske Storitve d.d. | €500,000 |
| BAYERISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN | €2,027,143 |
| CSC-TIETEEN TIETOTEKNIIKAN KESKUS Oy | €697,775 |
| DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT e. V. | €703,004 |
| OPEN SEARCH FOUNDATION e. V. | €710,925 |
| ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLEAIRE | €839,025 |
| STICHTING NLNET | €15,000.00 |
| STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT | €670,500 |
| Technische Universitaet Graz | €447,000 |
| UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIG | €712,500 |
| UNIVERSITAT PASSAU | €667,500 |
| VSB - Technical University OF Ostrava | €512,250 |
Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101070014
The filing refers to a past date, and does not necessarily reflect the current state. The current state is available on the following page: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany.
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