Entries by ows.eu Team

Big win for the Open Web Search Initiative

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 […]

OWS.EU Partner in Focus: Leibniz Supercomputing Centre

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 […]

EU research power against Google’s dominance | ZDF heute

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 […]

Nine new Third-Party partners support the Horizon Europe funded project „OpenWebSearch.eu“– receiving 950,000 Euro in funding over the next 9 months | Media Release

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 […]

From EU project to EU search engine | NKS DIT “Success Stories“ Yearbook

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 […]

Europe 2.0 – upgrading Europe’s internet search capacity” | Horizon Magazine

A recent Horizon Magazine article portraits the OpenWebSearch.eu project and lay out why building a European Open Web Index (OWI) opens up multiple new opportunities for future web search and data retrieval and how it contributes to promoting the diverse European linguistic and cultural landscapes. “We want to empower communities so that they can easily […]

Presenting the first Market Feasibility Study on a European Open Web Index

In the light of “Free Web Search Day” on 29 September, OpenWebSearch.eu and its partner Open Search Foundation present the results of a 9 month long in depth market potential study*, focussing on the economic impact of an Open Web Index for Europe. The Munich based consulting firm Mücke Roth & Company, who was selected […]

The macro-economic value of a European Open Web Index could amount to billions | Media Release

A comprehensive market feasibility study reveals: huge socio-economic potential of OpenWebSearch.EU for the European economy within first 4 years and beyond Starnberg, August 24 – Innovation and economic growth in Europe increasingly depend on digital sovereignty and direct access to open data. The Open Web Search project OWS.EU was set up between 14 consortium partners from IT, […]

Index intended to demonstrate alternatives to Google I Tagesspiegel.de

OWS.EU got introduced in a recent article in German online magazine Tagesspiegel.de The magazine that counts 386.000 daily readers provides information across a wide range of topics including politics, economy, digital technologies, society and culture.  On 9 August an article by journalist Stefan Mey titled “Index intended to demonstrate alternatives to Google – A quest […]

Events worth attending this autumn!

While we are still enjoying the sunny, hot summer days, we are also preparing a couple of interesting autumn events surrounding topics such as free & open web search (our main topic), open data and AI, as well as fundamental rights in the context of open web search and data protection. We invite you to […]