TruBlo will fund your ideas for reliable content on future blockchains
TruBlo is a research project funded by the European Union. We are part of the NGI (Next Generation Internet) initiative. Our goal is to provide initial funding for the development of new software, platforms or tools for distributed trust.
To get there TruBlo will conduct three open calls. The first call will start on January 18, 2021. On this website you’ll find all the information, about the dates and how to participate
Focus of TruBlo
Trust is essential for our society, for how we work, interact and trade with each other.
But more recently we experience a crisis of trust, because of more and more disinformation. For the individual it is impossible to check everything before reading, seeing, hearing. We must start to innovate, to develop next generation software, platforms and tools, using blockchain technology. Under the European Commission Next Generation Internet initiative, TruBlo started in September 2020.
Funding for innovators
Blockchain For Trustable Content
Professional Support
Three open calls for innovation
To select the teams receiving funding TruBlo will initiate three open calls, the first call starting in January 2021. Selected participants can get up to 175.000 Euro for their project. The total available amount of funding is 4,2 million Euro.
From the first interaction to the selection of the best ideas. We want to bring together innovators in a unique community of early technology research. Contribute to the next generation internet. Read our FAQ to see who can participate and what the criteria are.
Target participants are researchers, innovators and developers either as natural person(s) or from academia as well as from high tech companies including SMEs, legally established in an EU Member State, H2020 associated countries or Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) linked to the Member States.
What is distributed trust?
“The blockchain is at the forefront of a revolution affecting the way we carry out transactions. It enables individuals to carry out operations among themselves, particularly those of a financial nature, which are guaranteed without the involvement of a trusted third party. This speeds up such interactions, and reduces their cost.”
“The easiest way to think of it is trust that flows through networks, marketplaces and platforms. And so it takes trust away from a top-down institution and decentralizes it using technology.”
TruBlo 1st Call
Opening date: 18 January, 2021, 12:00 CET
Closing date: 19 March 2021, 17:00 CET
Short description: The TruBlo project aims to nurture and facilitate research on blockchain technology which will lead to more scalable blockchain based solutions and applications, that will contribute to ensuring the exchange of trustworthy and reliable content on social networks and media. The objective of TruBlo Open Call 1 is to invite academic teams, researchers, SMEs and startups to define and implement small scale research projects on two related focus areas:
- Trust and reputation models on blockchains
This focus area targets innovative applications, technologies, technical approaches and methodologies that increase the levels of trust in blockchain-based information exchange, with emphasis on user generated content on the Internet and social media, considering also data from IoT infrastructures.
- Proof-of-validity and proof-of-location
This focus area is on innovative mechanisms to increase transparency and trustworthiness of user generated genuine content. The users, as being part of a blockchain, can apply additional verification mechanisms to increase transparency, validity and high level of trustworthiness, such as Proof- of-Location and Proof-of Validity.
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