Next Generation Internet

Launched in 2018, Next Generation Internet (NGI) is an initiative of the European Commission that aims to reshape the internet in such a way that it responds to the needs of the people it serves. As a human-centred initiative, it aims to deliver technologies that meet people’s needs in terms of privacy, trust, transparency, security and inclusivity.

Between 2018 and 2020, the Commission invested more than €250 million in NGI projects under Horizon Europe’s predecessor programme, Horizon 2020.

Under Horizon Europe, funding for NGI projects falls under pillar II, ‘Global challenges and European industrial competitiveness’, cluster 4: ‘Digital, industry and space’. Over the 2021–2022 period, in accordance with the work programme, efforts in the NGI field will focus on the following outcomes:

• a vibrant community of internet innovators and stakeholders, able to set the course of the evolution of the internet using a human-centred approach;
• a broad understanding and support for the NGI vision of a human-centred internet;
• enhanced EU-United States and EU-Canada cooperation in the development of NGI technologies, services and standards.

SEE ALSO

• European Commission
• European digital decade
• Horizon 2020
• Horizon Europe
• Horizon Europe – the framework programme for research and innovation, laying down its rules for participation and dissemination (summary)
• Next Generation Internet initiative – website (European Commission)
• The NGI initiative: an internet of humans – website (Next Generation Internet).