RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund
The RIPE NCC Executive Board decided to discontinue the Community Projects Fund at its 183rd meeting on 20-21 March 2025. Read the news announcement.
The RIPE NCC has supported a range of projects and innovative ideas over its 25-year history, and we are now formalising these efforts through the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund. We know there's no shortage of brilliant minds in the Internet technical community working on groundbreaking projects, but securing funding to support these projects can be challenging.
The RIPE NCC will provide €250,000 per year to support projects of value to the operation, resilience and sustainability of the Internet, with a focus on tools and services benefiting the technical community in our service region.
Funding and Recipients
View funding recipients and read about how projects are selected.
Selection Process
A selection committee comprised of a RIPE NCC Executive Board Member and volunteers from the RIPE community review and select funding recipients.
Selection ProcessSelection Committee
The selection committee is comprised of five volunteers from the RIPE community and a member of the RIPE NCC Executive Board.
Selection CommitteeThe Good of the Internet
The Community Projects Fund has supported over 25 projects working ‘for the Good of the Internet’.
ARTEMIS
This project will enrich the functionality of ARTEMIS to evaluate and monitor the impact of a BGP prefix hijacking incident on the data plane. Data-plane monitoring will be enabled through traceroutes to affected IP prefixes.
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Internet Health Report
The Internet Health Report leverages data collected by large measurement platforms (e.g. RIPE Atlas, RIS, and RouteViews) to automatically pinpoint connectivity issues or routing changes that may have detrimental effects on other networks. T
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Cryptech Project
The main goal of CrypTech is to create an open-source design for a hardware cryptographic engine for Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).
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