The main mission of the Next Generation Internet for ALL, NGI4ALL, is to optimize the NGI brand equity, through the establishment of the NGI Outreach Office as a highly-qualified and well-positioned team of professionals to support and coordinate the definition and execution of the communication programme, strategy, branding and marketing activities. NGI4ALL will give a major impulse to the NGI growth, increasing its visibility and establishing a strong reputation in view of more ambitious plans beyond H2020. The NGI will be branded and voiced in a way that all research and innovation efforts in Europe and worldwide contributing to engineer a trusted, resilient and transparent Internet of the future will identify themselves in the NGI ideals and value proposition. This is the ambitious mission that will be accomplished by providing professional communication and marketing services, including curated contents, last generation online and offline media tools, coaching services and a broad pallet of collaterals. The NGI Outreach Office will be structured as a 360-degree communication agency at the service of the community to improve promotion of the NGI; coordinate strategic marketing decisions and plans across the whole programme; facilitate dissemination and transfer of know-how and technologies and foster the establishment of dialogues with prominent experts and relevant initiative in Europe and worldwide. The NGI4ALL consortium has been thoughtfully assembled to ensure a full coverage of all the competences required to achieve the goal of the project, whilst being compact and efficient. The partners bring strong individual skills to succeed in solving the various challenges, yet at the same time their skills combine into a perfect match to complete the ambition of NGI4ALL. To contribute shaping the Internet of the future as a more inclusive, trusted and open platform is a unique chance for the NGI4ALL partners that are all strongly committed to make it happen!

NGI4ALL.E aims to support NGI communication, marketing, and community building, helping the EC to engage a diverse community of stakeholders, spanning from researchers and innovators to policy makers and end users. By building on the experience gained by running the NGI Outreach Office, NGI4ALL.E will guarantee continuity of several essential activities, while injecting new ideas, tools and actions, based on the evolution of the demand and of the overall NGI context. It will strengthen and grow the NGI ecosystem in a sustainable and impactful way, maximizing and amplifying work and results of ongoing NGI projects, while attracting to the initiative newcomers especially from under-represented groups/areas. NGI4ALL.E will help sharpen the NGI vision and tie it to broader conversations about the development of ethical, human-centred digital technologies, improving NGI visibility, accessibility, and relevance towards non-technical audiences, in larger and more diverse contexts.

Access to Space is now easier and easier, and is not possible anymore to design and launch disposable spacecraft without considering the consequences: On-Orbit Servicing (OOS) is a first step towards this change of paradigm, as the technologies, typically autonomous rendezvous, refuelling, Orbital Replaceable Unit (ORU) exchange, repair and waste management with autonomous robotic tools will be used in future smart, flexible and modular space infrastructures. The growing demand for satellite life extension from commercial customers, making OOS an emerging market, is an opportunity to support those developments. To that purpose, designing in a phase B2/C the right mission and maturing the technologies to enable a go-to-market for future OOS missions is the main goal for €ROSS IOD. The objective is to enable the in-orbit demonstration of all the key capabilities: coordinated close rendezvous between two free flying spacecraft comparable in mass and inertia (a first in Europe) and autonomous robotic operations such as capture, refuelling and change of payload with a poly-articulated arm. In order to ensure a sound and low-cost solution, the project leverages on the previous developments carried out for the last 6 years within the Strategic Research Cluster (SRC) on Space Robotics technologies, particularly in continuity of the past project EROSS and the current project EROSS+. The final aim of the €ROSS IOD project is to prepare and carry out the last remaining steps to fly a European pioneering mission by 2026 with a customer-driven approach. Thales Alenia Space, with GMV, DLR and 14 European technology providers (research centres, large, medium and small companies including one start-up), is following its plan to commercialise a multipurpose servicer for LEO and GEO servicing by 2026, and this project is a major stepping stone to provide the first go-to-market.