Entries by ows.eu Team

Towards a federated European Open Internet Stack – Conclusions from NGI Forum 2025 in Brussels

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 […]

#ossym25 takes to Finland – Register now for the 7th International Open Search Symposium

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 […]

OpenWebSearch.eu goes NGI Forum 2025

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 […]

June Event Announcement: The Open Web Index goes public!

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 […]

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 […]