Today the awardees of EU funding were announced for the Ontochain blockchain framework. As part of the EU’s ‘Next Generation Internet’ (NGI), Ontochain aims to develop a technical framework for secure, transparent and interoperable knowledge management using blockchain. For each project the funding amounts to €123,000 equity free for seven months, and additional second stage funding for six projects.
There were 137 proposals from 21 countries that were whittled down to 18 by a team of 50 experts. Today 14 are being announced, with another four still to be confirmed.
ONTOCHAIN Open Call 1 was open for a period of two months, looking for proposals to design the ONTOCHAIN architecture around six main topics. The projects selected to this first cohort are:
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