OpenWebSearch.EU “Piloting a Cooperative Open Web Search Infrastructure to Support Europe’s Digital Sovereignty”- Community Programme 1st Open Call
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Summary
The OpenWebSearch.eu project consortium aims to integrate new third-party project teams into the OpenWebSearch.eu landscape and to integrate them into future sustainable R&D activities. OpenWebSearch.eu proposes to develop and pilot the core of a European Open Web Index (OWI) and the foundation of an open and extensible European Open Web Search and Analysis Infrastructure (OWSAI.
Detailed Call Description
This first call consists of two tracks:
Track 1: Conceptual contributions on legal or economic aspects of Open Search
The consortium seeks for two possible kinds of studies:
- Legal Studies to analyse and understand legal constraints and requirements for building and operating an OWI. In particular, research studies which analyse the legal constraints and requirements of crawling, storing, aggregating, enriching and sharing web data operationally in an OWI.
- Economic Studies for setting up and maintaining an OWI as public European infrastructure. This includes but is not limited to studies for analysing and estimating the costs associated with setting up, operating and maintaining a distributed open web index infrastructure across Europe and analysing and estimating the market potential and economic impact of such an infrastructure.
Track 2: Technical approaches to legally compliant data acquisition considering societal constraints
Web crawling is the predominant method for web search engines to gather content for their index. However, webmaster and content owners have only limited control over the crawling process via mostly proprietary services. OpenWebSearch.eu is looking for concepts and approaches for opening the proprietary components and provide webmasters and content owners with more control over the crawling process and the usage of their content. Envisioned solutions should be technical in nature, including new metadata schemata/ontologies, algorithms / services for collecting website metadata, services and tools for webmaster and content owners to define legal constraints for crawling as well as open datasets and machine learning models for analysing and filtering web pages during the crawling process.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
Track 1 – Projects budgets are expected to range between €25,000 and €75,000.
Track 2 – Projects budgets are expected to range between €60,000 and €120,000.
Thematic Categories
- New Entrepreneurship
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Small-Medium Enterprises and Competitiveness
Eligibility for Participation
- Investment Funds
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Eligibility For Participation Notes
The third-party calls particularly focus on the following categories of applicants:
- Academic researchers and research groups in universities or research centres or R&D focused organisations;
- Renowned experts, individuals and scholars or associations;
- High-tech start-ups, SMEs, or industry with a focus on Web technology or software development ;
- Outstanding individual open-source innovators / researchers and experienced individual developers / researchers;
- Other multidisciplinary actors.
Applications can also involve teams of different organisations or teams of natural persons. In case of team applications (i.e., multiple natural persons without an organisational entities or multiple organisational entities), one team member must take the role of main contact point and legally responsible party.
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EU Contact Point
THE EU ECO-TANDEM CONSORTIUM: info@eu-ecotandem.eu
https://www.eu-ecotandem.eu/contact-us
(Date of publishing: 09/03/2023)