The Next Generation Internet (NGI) Forum 2025 took place in Brussels on 19 & 20 June, bringing together over 200 on-site participants plus several hundred online. Topics centered around the shift from research and experimentation to the deployment of sovereign, open digital infrastructures. Over the course of two days, 37 speakers and panelists shared their insights […] The post Towards a federated European Open Internet Stack – Conclusions from NGI Forum 2025 in Brussels appeared first...| OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search
In October 2025, the ever growing open search community will gather at CSC – IT Center for Science in Helsinki/Finland for its annual autumn meeting. For the seventh time, the International Open Search Symposium #ossym will provide a forum to discuss and further develop ideas and concepts of open internet search. Registration for the event […] The post #ossym25 takes to Finland – Register now for the 7th International Open Search Symposium appeared first on OpenWebSearch.eu – Promotin...| OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search
In the context of NGI Forum 2025, the OpenWebSearch.eu team was invited to co-organize a range of sessions surrounding the idea of a federated European Open Web Infrastructure, scheduled for the second conference day. Under the Horizon Europe funding program, the Next Generation Internet (NGI) Initiative organizes a yearly forum in Brussels that brings together […] The post OpenWebSearch.eu goes NGI Forum 2025 appeared first on OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web...| OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search
After 2,5 years of intensive research and programming efforts, the entire Openwebsearch.eu project team is excited to grant access to its pilot of the first-ever federated pan-European Open Web Index (OWI). From June onward, commercial and scientific development teams of any size as well as interested individuals are welcome to access and make use of […] The post June Event Announcement: The Open Web Index goes public! appeared first on OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence...| OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search
The German Corporate Digital Responsibility Award honours the initiative in its ‘Responsible Innovations’ category On 29 January, Bayern Innovativ GmbH and the German Association for the Digital Economy (BVDW) organised the third German Corporate Digital Responsibility Award – an important industry prize for innovative, ethical projects within the digital sector. A total of 26 nominees […] The post Big win for the Open Web Search Initiative appeared first on OpenWebSearch.eu – Promo...| OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search
The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) is the second partner we are introducing following our portrait of the University of Passau. The LRZ forms part of the BADW (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften), providing technical support and supercomputing power, delivers a robust infrastructure for the Open Web Index. The research team of LRZ is guided and supported […] The post OWS.EU Partner in Focus: Leibniz Supercomputing Centre appeared first on OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s I...| OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search
OpenWebSearch.eu was mentioned on the website of German newscast ZDF heute Book author and journalist Stefan Mey wrote up a portrait on the OpenWebSearch.eu project, which has just entered its third year. The Horizon Europe funded project forms part of the Open Search Initiative initiated by Starnberg based Open Search Foundation. The organization has been […] The post EU research power against Google’s dominance | ZDF heute appeared first on OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Inde...| OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search
New partners from academia and industry collaborate closely with the EU-funded project OpenWebSearch.eu to progress open and free web search guided by European values. Starnberg / Germany, December 2024 – The OpenWebSearch.eu project sets out to pilot a European Open Web Index (OWI) as foundation for the development of innovative search and AI applications that […] The post Nine new Third-Party partners support the Horizon Europe funded project „OpenWebSearch.eu“– receiving 950,000 ...| OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search
The National Contact Point Digital and Industrial Technologies (NKS DIT) of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research introduces the OpenWebSearch.EU project in their yearbook, which features “success stories“ from the Horizon Europe EU program. With the purpose of presenting stories of particularly successful EU projects to the German Federal Ministry of Education and […] The post From EU project to EU search engine | NKS DIT “Success Stories“ Yearbook appeared first on...| OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search
Together for free and open web search: OWS.EU Community Meet-Up, that took place during #ossym24, was a great success!| OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search
»Free, open and unbiased access to information – we have lost these core principles in web search and urgently need to restore them. This is why openwebsearch.eu is creating an open European infrastructure for internet search, based on European values and jurisdiction.«| OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search
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