Participate in the co-development of a new software ecosystem for trusted, traceable, and transparent ontological knowledge management.
Sponsoring Agency: Next Generation Internet (NGI)
Type of Fund: Grant
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 09/15/2021
Size of the Fund: USD $50,000 to $500,000
Participate in the co-development of a new software ecosystem for trusted, traceable, and transparent ontological knowledge management.
ONTOCHAIN empowers internet innovators to develop trustworthy blockchain-based knowledge management solutions that will be part of a novel software ecosystem. The concept underlying this ecosystem is a better share of knowledge and value on the internet and that for various domains such as health, economy, mobility, public services, energy and sustainability, news, media, entertainment, Industry 4.0, tourism.
Through this second Open Call, up to 12 projects will implement an infrastructure that will host ONTOCHAIN’s trustworthy data, metadata and services, and specific software solutions that can be used widely, further extending the use cases and the architectural features designed by the teams selected through the first Open Call.
ONTOCHAIN – Trust traceable and transparent ontological knowledge on blockchain, is a European project funded by the European Commission under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, and part of the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative.
Open Call Topics
• Topic 1 – Decentralised oracles for ONTOCHAIN
• Topic 2 – Market mechanisms for ONTOCHAIN
• Topic 3 – ONTOCHAIN interoperability & API Gateways
• Topic 4 – ONTOCHAIN Network Design and scalability
• Topic 5 – Semantic based marketplaces for ONTOCHAIN
• Topic 6 – Data provenance in ONTOCHAIN
Benefits
• Financial support
o Grants up to €145.000. The maximum amount of funding that each beneficiary may receive is subject to the legal status of the applicant and the kind of project implemented.
• Access to Infrastructure
o All the teams selected will have access if willing and needing so, to the iExec blockchain platform, for their off-chain developments, and to the MyIntelliPatent web application, populated with updated blockchain applications, for patent analysis and monitoring.
• Business services
o To support the teams to exploit their use cases and successfully reach the market, different trainings and sessions with mentors will be organised. Depending on the team profile, aspects such as value proposition, pitching or IPR (among others) will be explored.
• Communication services
o Major visibility, promotion and networking opportunities are offered as part of the ONTOCHAIN project and the Next Generation Internet initiative.
Who Can Apply?
• Internet technologists, researchers, developers and innovators.
• Applicants can apply as individuals or linked to a legal entity. Hence, the participation is possible in several ways:
o Team of natural person(s): Team of individuals, all established in any eligible country. This does not consider the country of origin but the residence permit.
o Legal entity(ies): One or more entities (consortium) established in an eligible country. Universities, research centres, NGOs, foundations, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (see definition of SME according to the Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC), large enterprises working on Internet or/and other related technologies are eligible.
o Any combination of the above.
• Only Applicants legally established/resident in any of the following countries (hereafter collectively identified as the “Eligible Countries”) are eligible:
o The Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU), including their outermost regions;
o The Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) linked to the Member States;
o H2020 associated countries (those which signed an agreement with the Union as identified of the Horizon 2020 Regulation): according to the updated list published by the EC2;
o The UK Applicants are eligible under the conditions set by the EC for H2020 participation and as long as they comply with the same eligibility rules as the other Applicants.
More information at: https://ontochain.ngi.eu/apply
Eligible Countries:
Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom
Business Categories:
ICT, Business, Small and Medium Enterprises
