Budget
In order to want to enable you to make such contributions to the goals you share with Mobifree, we will award 670 000 euro in small to medium-size R&D grants towards solutions that give European citizens and organizations more choice in, and access to, human-centered and ethical mobile software. We are seeking project proposals between 5.000 and 50.000 euro's — which should get you on your way.
Key dates and deadline
The tenth call of NGI Mobifree opened up on October 1st 2025, with a deadline of December 1st 2025 12:00 CEST (noon)
Details
Mobifree is a pilot programme designed to push beyond the status quo of mobile software, and create a virtuous cycle of innovation through free and open source software, libre hardware and open standards. It has brought together a number of the "movers and shakers" of the open mobile ecosystem, in order to deliver a comprehensive development effort and advance a number of important free and open source technologies. Our goal is to help mobile technology evolve to a more healthy state, provide people with concrete new tools and more reliable infrastructure, in order to provide better security and allow users more agency and choice. Projects should focus on research and development, aiming to produce open-access scientific outcomes and open-source software/hardware.
Eligibility
In the fisrt stage hard eligibility (“knock-out”) criteria specific to the sub-granting call are checked. Project proposals are written in English and: should be in line with the NGI vision and the sub-granting call applied for should have research and development as their primary objective should satisfy any other hard eligibility criteria specific to the sub-granting call, such as having a clear European Dimension.
Additional information
Projects are judged on their technical merits, strategic relevance to the Next Generation Internet and the topics within Mobifree, and overall value for money. The key objective is to deliver potential break-through contributions to the open internet. All scientific outcomes must be published as open access, and any software and hardware must be published under a recognised open source license in its entirety
How to apply?
https://nlnet.nl/mobifree/