Panel: Securing Europe's Open Source Infrastructure: A Technical Case for an EU-Wide Sovereign Tech Fund
summary
Feasibility study (June 2025) argues for an EU Sovereign Tech Fund that preserves Germany’s low‑overhead model and targets at least €350M target from the EU plus member‑state and industry co‑funding. It recommends five activity buckets (mapping, maintenance, security, improvements, ecosystem strengthening), seven operational criteria (low bureaucracy, transparency, flexible grants), two delivery models (standalone fund or hybrid consortium), and concrete examples: FreeBSD received ~€700k for infra work and SAP is funding 13 small upstream projects; mapping OSS dependencies is core.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:06Feasibility study findings
- 13:38Industry perspective on funding
- 21:49Project experiences
- 26:50Cyber Resilience Act synergy
- 29:17Q&A
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