This year, the funding campaign allocated nearly 1 million Euros to support 18 projects and 10 stipend recipients, selected from 138 applications. netidee is open to all — private individuals, students, researchers, social entrepreneurs, associations, start-ups, companies, and universities.

Guided by principles of openness, transparency, and sharing, the netidee funding program supports projects that contribute to the development of the Internet in meaningful ways and aims at driving positive social development. Key considerations in funding decisions include the project’s potential to deliver significant contributions, the tangible results it promises, and its suitability as a foundation for further initiatives.

The “netidee Projects” category supports innovative projects leveraging the Internet to create societal value, while the “netidee Stipends” program awards grants to students at Austrian universities for master’s theses, diploma projects, and dissertations focusing on Internet-related topics.

Congratulations to all recipients!

Stipend Recipients

• Andreas Happe for his project “HackingBuddyGPT LLM Agents for Offensive Security”
• Sabrina Herbst for her project “Learning in the Quantum Regime”
• Meerzhan Kanatbekova, for her project “QUDAPI – Efficient Data Pipeline in Quantum-enhanced Cloud Computing”
• Anastassiya Pustozerova for her project “Advancing Privacy in Federated Learning”
• Tanja Šarčević for her project “Empowering Data Ownership and Intellectual Property Protection in Open Data Sharing”
• Carlotta Tagliaro, for her project “Analyzing and Understanding the Internet of Insecure Things”

Funded Projects

• Joel Klimont for his project “DroneLink”
• Steven Ludwig and Geoffrey Karnbach for their project “Qriouso – Non-Spoiling AI für curiosity-driven learning”