Our Projects
We are advancing Open Search with these projects
Ethics in Search
Focus on people: A compass of values for internet search
Fair, transparent, diverse. This is what the internet search of the future should look like. That is why the Open Search Foundation is committed to creating an open search index and is launching the #ethicsinsearch project. Funded by the Mercator Foundation, it is intended to provide the values-based foundations for the new “internet index” …
OpenWebSearch.EU
Promoting Europe’s Independence in Web Search
With European 13 partners, we have joined forces to develop an open European infrastructure for web search. The initiative will contribute to Europe’s digital sovereignty and promote an open, people-centred search market. OpenWebSearch.eu, the first project funded by the EU to make tomorrow’s web search work.
PriDi
Digital infrastructures that promote privacy
At the interface between law and business informatics, the PriDi project is researching how an open web index can be designed in conformity with fundamental rights and in a way that protects privacy, for example how values such as privacy and data protection can be anchored in such a web index in the sense of “value-by-design”.
