Restack Open Call (2026-11R) - Delivering a strong, reproducible next generation Open Internet Stack through strategic digital commons
European Commission · Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON) · cascade funding under HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-11
Posted 3 Sept 2026 · 33 days left
In plain terms
The European Commission funds projects that develop, mature and scale open-source internet technology commons—from chips and middleware to applications—to build a trustworthy, vendor-independent digital infrastructure. Applicants must form consortia and be based in EU or Associated Countries, with 7 million euros available and applications due by 3 November 2026.
A generated summary of the donor's text; the original wording is below.
Summary
Open Internet Stack is an initiative by the European Commission to work towards an resilient operational stack of strategic technology commons worthy of trust — a stable and defendable foundation to foster healthy and strong democracies and economies, delivering the European vision of next generation digital infrastructures and connected collaborative computing networks. It aims to deliver an ecosystem of deployable, scalable, and secure technologies that allow for permissionless innovation, contribute to quality of life and deliver strategic autonomy.
The goal of Restack is to help deliver, mature and scale new internet commons across the technology stack: from libre chips to middleware without a vendor lock-in, from productivity tools to 'local-first' infrastructure — and of course the end user applications needed to consume those networked services. We restack because there is no other viable way. If we want to reclaim digital self-sustainability and yield the full benefits from technology as a society, we need to have an entire stack that is open from the ground up — period.
Only though enough critical mass of shared building blocks and collective pooling of resources and…
Excerpt from the donor's page. The full text, annexes and forms are on the original call.
Eligible regions
- eu_only
Who can apply
- ngo_cso
- academia_research
- private_company
- government
- consortium_required