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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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Freedom of information and democracy within the digital sphere requires open access to online resources. The #FreeWebSearch Day on 29 September brings this topic to the agenda. In 2023 the Open Search Foundation (OSF) – one of our 14 consortium partners, brought to life the International #FreeWebSearchDay, which on 29 September each year stands for free and […]
OpenWebSearch.eu was portrayed in German science magazine Spektrum.de Read our short summary of the article highlighting the project goals and milestones: The article is titled „The dream of an open search engine“. What follows is a thorough look into why Europe desperately needs a web index of its own and how the OWS.EU project that […]
At the interface between law and business informatics, the PriDI project is researching how an open web index can be designed in conformity with fundamental rights and in such a way that it protects privacy. This includes how values such as privacy and data protection can be anchored in such a web index in the […]
The Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) is the European Commission’s primary source of results from the projects funded by the EU’s framework programmes for research and innovation, from FP1 to Horizon Europe. OWS.EU – as Horizon Europe project – is currently calling on third-parties to contribute innovations and infrastructure to help further develop […]
“The OpenWebSearch.eu project and the Open Search Foundation — both founded and based in Europe — come from a background of open source, open data, open access, and open science. These values have always resonated with my academic career, but of course also with LRZ as an institution“, says Dieter Kranzlmüller – Chair of the […]
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The project OpenWebSearch.EU has received funding from the European Union's Horizon research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101070014.
