Get involved
Interested in joining the community or just to get more in-depth knowledge about Open Web Search?
We offer various ways to get involved. Whether you join the discussion at the monthly Community Updates every first Monday of the month, participate as a third-party partner by applying for an open call or otherwise contribute resources and research as a data centre, researcher, innovator or industry partner – you are welcome!
Open calls
Apply to our open calls and get funded under the OpenWebSearch.eu Community Programme. Successful third-parties will be integrated into ongoing and future activities for sustainable Research and Development on Open Web Search.
Monthly Community Updates
Our four-weekly Community Updates bring you up to date in just 45 minutes. Join the monthly Community Updates in discussions and ideas every first Monday of the month.
Support the ows.eu initiative
As Data centre you can help hosting a distributed Open Web Index – this could be also for specific communities, regions or purposes
As a Researcher or technical innovator you can help to develop new search and retrieval paradigms or content analysis algorithms
As a Industry and business partner you can support to discover the commercial potential of an Open Web Index in new (or old) business models
As a Policy makers can help shaping the governance of an unbiased, fair and privacy-preserving open search ecosystem