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RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund

The 2024 call for applications is now open.

Apply before 31 July 2024
CPF 2024

The RIPE NCC has supported a range of projects and innovative ideas over its 25-year history, and we are now formalising these efforts through the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund. We know there's no shortage of brilliant minds in the Internet technical community working on groundbreaking projects, but securing funding to support these projects can be challenging.

The RIPE NCC will provide €250,000 per year to support projects of value to the operation, resilience and sustainability of the Internet, with a focus on tools and services benefiting the technical community in our service region.

Funding and Recipients

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2023 Recipients

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Selection Process

A selection committee comprised of a RIPE NCC Executive Board Member and volunteers from the RIPE community review and select funding recipients.

Selection Process

Selection Committee

The selection committee is comprised of five volunteers from the RIPE community and a member of the RIPE NCC Executive Board.

Selection Committee

Previous Recipients

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Previous Recipients

The Good of the Internet

The Community Projects Fund has supported over 25 projects working ‘for the Good of the Internet’.

ARTEMIS

ARTEMIS

This project will enrich the functionality of ARTEMIS to evaluate and monitor the impact of a BGP prefix hijacking incident on the data plane. Data-plane monitoring will be enabled through traceroutes to affected IP prefixes.

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Internet Health Report

Internet Health Report

The Internet Health Report leverages data collected by large measurement platforms (e.g. RIPE Atlas, RIS, and RouteViews) to automatically pinpoint connectivity issues or routing changes that may have detrimental effects on other networks. T

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Cryptech

Cryptech Project

The main goal of CrypTech is to create an open-source design for a hardware cryptographic engine for Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).

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