⏳ 🛎 Hurry up, for time is running short! Only two weeks left to apply for the OWS.EU #OpenCalls, which close on 4 April!
🗣 The OWS.EU Open Calls 2 and 3 address innovators and/or researchers as well as data/computing centres.

Successful applicants are granted fundings of up to 150,000 Euros for a period of 12 months time.

Have a look at the details & requirements:
📣 Call2:https://openwebsearch.eu/community/3rdparty-calls/call2/
📣 Call 3: https://openwebsearch.eu/community/3rdparty-calls/call3/

⏳ Deadline: 4 April, 17:00 CET

#OpenWebSearch

📌 Pre-Announcement: OWS.EU to launch 2 Third-Party #OpenCalls in February

After the successful onboarding of 6 Third-Party Partners last November, OWS.EU will call for proposals again:
📣Calls #2 & #3 invite researchers, innovators + data centres to submit their applications to participate in the #OpenWebSearch mission & receive project fundings.
https://openwebsearch.eu/pre-announcement-third-party-calls

Stay up to date on OWS.EU developments via our monthly community update calls:
https://openwebsearch.eu/community/owseu-community-updates

#ThirdPartyCall

🏁 Common Goals with #CommonCrawl!
We are listed as one of the official partners of Common Crawl:
https://commoncrawl.org/collaborators

“Common Crawl is not only a major resource for web-innovations, but also an inspiring partner. We are particularly looking forward to co-operate on license-aware crawling and to integrate their crawls into our open web index,“ says Michael Granitzer, ows.eu’s principal investigator.

Common Crawl Foundation is an NGO that crawls the web & provides its archives & datasets.

#SaveTheDate + get your papers + software ready! #wows24 – 1st International Workshop on #OpenWebSearch
https://opensearchfoundation.org/wows2024

Phd students, early-stage (Master’s/Bachelor’s) students
#ComputerScience #InformationScience #InformationRetrieval #NLP

Organisers
Sheikh Mastura Farzana, @DLR @maik_froebe Fröbe, Uni Jena
@gijs, @Radboud_uni
@grani, Uni Passau
@djoerd @djoerd @djoerd, Radboud Uni
@potthast, @unileipzig Saber Zerhoudi, Uni Passau

@openwebsearcheu
@ecir2024 @EC_NGI @SIGIRlist

Meet the #StormCrawler users is back on our blog! We are delighted to share this Q&A with members of the OpenWebSearch.eu team. Come and read about their project and how they use both #StormCrawler and #URLFrontier to help deliver a truly open, transparent and legally compliant alternative to the big search engines.

#opensource #openwebsearch #opendata #innovation

https://digitalpebble.blogspot.com/2023/11/meet-stormcrawler-users-q-with-open-web.html

@openwebsearcheu

Let´s get legal once more!
👋 Meet OWS.EU Third-Party Partner LISA

📍The project´s objective is to help deliver tangible guidelines for OWS.EU from a legal, social & security viewpoint. The project tackles questions such as ownership of digital content, sharing the index + governance structures.

📍Prof. Dr. Matthias Wendland, LL.M. (Harvard) is Professor of Information Technology Law at the University of Oldenburg + Head of the Digital Law Hub at the University of Graz.

https://openwebsearch.eu/partners/owseu-project-lisa/