The second call of NGI Mobifree opened up on April 1st 2024 , with a deadline of June 1st 2024 12:00 CEST (noon) .
Mobifree is a pilot programme designed to push beyond the status quo of mobile software, and create a virtuous cycle of innovation through free and open source software , libre hardware and open standards . It has brought together a number of the “movers and shakers” of the open mobile ecosystem, in order to deliver a comprehensive development effort and advance a number of important free and open source technologies.
Together we work towards better technologies to restore and maintain European sovereignty and to secure democratic ownership of the digital society. Our goal is to help mobile technology evolve to a more healthy state, provide people with concrete new tools and more reliable infrastructure , in order to provide better security and allow users more agency and choice.
In order to want to enable you to make such contributions to the goals you share with Mobifree, we will award 670 000 euro in small to medium-size R&D grants towards solutions that give European citizens and organizations more choice in, and access to, human-centered and ethical mobile software. We are seeking project proposals between 5.000 and 50.000 euro’s — which should get you on your way. Noteworthy fact: several of the projects inside Mobifree were themselves bootstrapped on precisely such a grants from NGI, so now it is your turn to make an impact and start off your project.
Source1: https://mobifree.org/
Source2: NLnet; NGI Mobifree