67 Open Technology Projects awarded NGI grants

In the December 2025 and February 2026 open calls, six projects have been selected to contribute to the two pilots: Fleetbase × Taler is making low-cost, privacy friendly payments for logistics software, Taler PoS addresses Point-of-Sale software, and two other projects are delivering integration of GNU Taler in the functional package management system GNU Guix and automated UI testing and type generation for Taler's iOS app. Scientists and engineers will be happy to see accessibility improvements to the LaTeX ecosystem, a framework for Zotero plugins, tools for Selective Data Disclosure, the cross-platform GPU multi-physics simulation engine Nexus, the tool QUATT which helps to design and understand solid-state quantum circuits, procedural and mathematical visualizations, and integrationg of the volume computation and high dimensions sampling solution Ovolesti in GNU Octave. The aim of Funk is to develop a compiler for a language with first-class timing concerns and where the targets are deterministic processors, allowing hard-real-time guarantees to be made at compile time by automated analysis, and to carry out this development to European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS) assurance standards, building on previous work done for ESA’s Comet Interceptor mission. The FiberQ QGIS plugin (GPL-3.0-or-later) has been in production since v1.0 in December 2025, with several feature releases since, and provides a dedicated infrastructure data model and repeatable workflows that take design through to documentation and QA without leaving open formats. Planned deliverables include symlink and full POSIX ownership support, Linux portability via libfuse, named and exportable sessions (enabling reproducible and shareable filesystem states), a rich session audit toolchain with native or portable GUI, cryptographic session signing for verifiable change records, and expanded synthetic dev namespace exposing live system state as readable files - bringing the Plan 9 philosophy of "everything is a file" directly into the merged view. ▸ For more details see: https://nlnet.nl/project/Castopod-v2 Sharing slide presentations during video calls today relies on screen-sharing a video stream: viewers see opaque pixels, are locked to the presenter's pace, and are limited by network bandwidth and codec quality, which makes the content inaccessible to screen readers and unsuitable for users who need extra time to understand each slide.