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In an era dominated by deepfakes & #AI, a key challenge is ensuring the authenticity of images

✅ DeepShield, Trustworthy Media Verification Through AI Forensics & C2PA Provenance, responds to this problem with a hybrid approach that combines: AI-based deepfake detection resilient to social-media laundering & C2PA-compliant provenance verification.

Watch our interview with Giulia Boato & Andrea Montibeller from Truebees: https://youtu.be/YYQoOF-gZh0
Check the portfolio: https://ngisargasso.eu/innovator/deepshield/

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DecentraLabs: Decentralized Marketplace for Online Laboratories! 🌐👩‍🎓

This #NGISargassoInnovator is a pioneering platform that transforms how online laboratories are accessed, shared & monetized across the global education & research ecosystem using #blockchain, smart contracts & tokenomics.

Led by Luis de la Torre, from Nebulous Systems 🇪🇸 & The University of British Columbia 🇨🇦.

Watch our interview with Luis: https://youtu.be/ybCCGwtg2_Q
Check the DecentraLabs portfolio: https://ngisargasso.eu/innovator/decentralabs/

Have you ever thought that online agreements can be complicated?

The #NGISargassoInnovator COAT offers a solution to this problem: The COAT Toolkit, Comprehensive Online Agreement Transparency.

COAT introduces an #AI-powered transparency layer that automatically analyzes online agreements & delivers: privacy scores, alerts, and plain-language summaries.

📹 Watch our interview with Alessandro Sangiorgi: https://youtu.be/J6tN5qvM1eo
🌊💡 Check COAT's #NGISargasso portfolio: https://ngisargasso.eu/innovator/coat/

How can readers verify who authored or modified content in open knowledge platforms, such as #Wikipedia? 💻

The #NGISargassoInnovator WikiDIDs addresses a key challenge in collaborative platforms: readers cannot easily verify who authored content & whether it is authentic or manipulated.

📹 Watch our interview with Žarko Koneski, Founder at Gebchain, to discover how WikiDIDs is solving this problem: https://youtu.be/6PEMmyH9wxw
🌊💡 Check its #NGISargasso portfolio: https://ngisargasso.eu/innovator/wikidids/

🚀 Introducing G-SIGN – IP, one of the #NGISargassoInnovators from our Open Call 5!

G-SIGN-IP, or Global Smart InterGovernment Network for Secure Data Exchange, develops a #blockchain & #AI-powered platform enabling secure cross-border authentication, authorisation & patent application management between Turkey & the US.

📹 Watch our interview with its Turkish counterparts Murat Tosun and Tunç Medeni: https://youtu.be/7MZTku-5gow
🌊💡 Check its #NGISargasso portfolio: https://ngisargasso.eu/innovator/g-sign-ip/

FUSION: Facilities Using Sustainable Integrated Operations Network 🌐

FUSION has created a unified, embedded #IoT platform enabling seamless bidirectional interoperability between SmartONE’s edge devices and INTELIGG’s cloud intelligence, establishing a high-frequency telemetry pipeline, building interpretable machine-learning HVAC models & executing optimisation commands back to the building in real time.

📹 Interview: https://youtu.be/N8mCBVefP2c
🌊 #NGISargasso portfolio: https://ngisargasso.eu/innovator/fusion/

Discover the #NGISargassoInnovator DPDB! 🌊💡

DPDB, Towards a Standard Interface for Differential Privacy Systems with Database Interoperability, tackles a major barrier to real-world adoption of Differential Privacy: the lack of interoperability between DP systems & the SQL engines that power virtually all organisational data infrastructures.

Watch our interview with Carola Compá, Head of Business Development at DPella: https://youtu.be/5dufAzCXAjw
Check DPDB's portfolio: https://ngisargasso.eu/innovator/dpdb/

COBOTPLANET: Connected #robotics for autonomous networks! 🤖

This #NGISargassoInnovator develops a framework for intelligent, #5G-connected multi-robot networks, enabling autonomous drones to provide services such as connectivity extension, sensing & user localization.

Partnered by Omid Esrafilian, Lead Research Engineer at EURECOM 🇫🇷 , and Northeastern University 🇺🇸.

📹 Watch our interview with Omid: https://youtu.be/d9q-847Yru4
🌊💡Have a look at its #NGISargasso portfolio: https://ngisargasso.eu/innovator/cobotplanet/

🛜 🔐 Did you know that SeEDS means Secure and Efficient Data Spaces?

This #NGISargassoInnovator implements a fully ETSI-compliant Data Space on top of the Named-Data Networking architecture, extending a previous #NGISargasso project (SNDS) with richer data APIs, built-in trust management & distributed resilience mechanisms.

📹 Watch our interview with George Xylomenos, the project leader: https://youtu.be/t0noN7t3aI4
🌊 💡 Have a look at SeEDS portfolio: https://ngisargasso.eu/innovator/seeds/

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Happy Holidays from NGI Sargasso! ✨

As 2025 is coming to an end, we would like to thank all the #NGISargassoInnovators who applied for our five open calls to join us in our mission to create a human-centric #InternetOfTrust for our future generations.

We wish you a refreshing holiday break surrounded by your family and friends!

🌊💡 Discover their solutions shaping an #InternetOfHumans: https://ngisargasso.eu/innovators/

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The last event attended by #NGISargasso! 🌍

Last week, David Nogales Bonilla, Innovation Project Manager at our partner Mobile World Capital Barcelona, travelled to Munich to attend #UltimateDemoDay.

David networked with the #startup ecosystem, and spoke about the 53 #NGISargassoInnovators shaping the #NextGenerationInternet across Europe, USA & Canada.

🌊💡Have a look at their #InternetOfHumans solutions in their portfolios: https://ngisargasso.eu/innovators/

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Did you attend #4YFN24 last month in Barcelona?

💶 At the startup event of #MWC2024, we organized a panel to speak about the #NGISargasso equity-free funding opportunities of up to €100,000 for Internet innovators to build a human-centric Internet.

Read all the details about it here 👉 https://ow.ly/qwvV50QRUTx

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New partnership signed with @NGI_Enrichers@mastodon.social ✨

🌊 #NGIEnrichers is the other @EC_NGI@ec.social-network.europa.eu program promoting Transatlantic cooperation on #NGI technologies & services.

🗓️ They are now getting close to their end, which means that it is time to celebrate their Final Event, on the 24th and 25th of June 2025 in Davos 🇨🇭: AI Horizon 2025.

Keep reading more about our partnership, their activities and their upcoming final event 👉 https://ngisargasso.eu/2025/06/13/ngi-sargasso-and-ngi-enrichers-collaborate-to-boost-the-next-generation-internet-transatlantic-technologies-and-services/

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🚀 Three years of #NextGenerationInternet transatlantic collaboration, innovation & impact!

The #NGISargasso journey brought together researchers, startups & innovators from Europe, the United States & Canada to shape a more open, trustworthy and human-centric Internet.

🌊 Watch our recap video and discover what we achieved together: https://youtu.be/MRdRu7kn7KE?si=aVXvFJmd8nTv4zJi

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Discover ArcFusion: #AI-Driven Shopfloor Intelligence for Smart Manufacturing!

🌊💡 This #NGISargassoInnovator addresses a critical challenge in modern #manufacturing: how to make advanced analytics & AI accessible to manufacturers & SMEs without the complexity and cost of traditional Manufacturing Execution Systems.

Watch our interview with Guenther Hoffmann (AvailabilityPlus GmbH & LexaTexer - Enterprise AI): https://youtu.be/LaVc5xejsPY

Check its #NGISargasso portfolio: https://ngisargasso.eu/innovator/arcfusion/

🔎The 3A – Authenticated Anonymity Architecture (AAA) project explores how to reconcile online anonymity with legally enforceable identification, allowing individuals to participate anonymously in digital public spaces while still enabling lawful investigation of criminal behaviour

Partnered by Università di Bologna 🇮🇹 & Dalhousie University 🇨🇦

Watch our interview with Fabio Vitali, Full Professor at Università di Bologna: https://youtu.be/5e2XHXv_9V4
Check the AAA portfolio: https://ngisargasso.eu/innovator/aaa/

SmartBreath AI is revolutionising respiratory care with #AI-driven compliance and data insights 🫁 🖥️

This #NGISargassoInnovator is a digital health project designed to modernise respiratory rehabilitation by transforming incentive spirometry into an intelligent, connected therapy tool.

🌊 💡 Check #SmartBreathAI's portfolio: https://ngisargasso.eu/innovator/smartbreath/
📹 Watch our interview with Roberto, their leader, to discover all about this project: https://youtu.be/ljjBONHjVUo

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QRISTIN project: Quantum Routines in Space-Terrestrial Integrated Networks!

🌐 Funded by #NGISargasso, QRISTIN explores how #quantum optimization algorithms can help solve complex problems in Space–Terrestrial Integrated Networks (STINs), and hybrid communication infrastructures combining terrestrial links with satellite systems.

📹 Watch our interview with the QRISTIN leader, Chiara Vercellino: https://youtu.be/QLZstCB_bNo

🌊💡 Check their NGI Sargasso portfolio: https://ngisargasso.eu/innovator/qristin/

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FRQGAN4AD, or Federated & Robust #Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks for Anomaly Detection in Future #Internet, explored how Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks can revolutionise anomaly detection in network traffic, helping to safeguard #NextGenerationInternet infrastructures from cyber threats.

📹Watch our interview with their project leader, Prof. Christian Esposito: https://youtu.be/SRDK59B21wg
🌊💡Check their #NGISargassoInnovator portfolio: https://ngisargasso.eu/innovator/frqgan4ad/

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New #NGISargassoInnovator: DIDSSI – Blockchain-based Decentralized & Self-Sovereign Identities!

🌎 DIDSSI developed a #blockchain-based decentralized identity protocol designed to support self-sovereign identities & simplify the entire lifecycle of international student mobility programs

📹 Watch our interview with Cristian Nicolae Butincu, the project leader from Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași: https://youtu.be/ZkVcVIJnUpg
🌊💡 Check their #NGISargasso portfolio: https://ngisargasso.eu/innovator/didssi/

#NGISargasso Final Newsletter - December 2025!📨

🌊 As NGI Sargasso officially comes to an end in December 2025, we look back with pride on 3 years of intensive collaboration across EU, US & CA to shape a more open, trustworthy & human-centric #NextGenerationInternet

We:

🚀 Launched 5 Open Calls
🌍 Received 394 submitted applications
💡 Funded 53 experiments
💶 Distributed €4.8M

Read our final newsletter to discover all our project achievements & outcomes: https://ngisargasso.eu/2025/12/30/ngi-sargasso-newsletter-december-2025-e4-8m-distributed-to-53-transatlantic-teams-to-create-a-human-centric-next-generation-internet/

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🌍💶 @NGI_Localforlocal@social.ngi.eu
helps cities strengthen regional economies with digital tools for local currencies.

They are one of the @EC_NGI@ec.social-network.europa.eu projects, as well as #NGISargasso, bringing EU values & norms to all citizens creating an #InternetOfHumans.

🌐 We have recently signed a collaboration agreement with them to strengthen the #NextGenerationInternet community.

👉 Discover more about #LocalforLocal in this article: https://ngisargasso.eu/2025/03/21/strengthening-the-ngi-ecosystem-ngi-sargasso-and-ngi-local-for-local-sign-a-collaboration-agreement/

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