The Foundationguifi· net as a participant in research, development and innovation projects in the field of telecommunications, networks, sustainable development and citizen participation in the management of telecommunications infrastructures works together with leading institutions in its field, both local and European.

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The CAPTOR project is generally oriented towards the problem of air pollution and, in particular, the monitoring of tropospheric ozone. The goal of the CAPTOR project is to promote grassroots collaboration between local communities, citizens, NGOs and scientists to increase awareness and find solutions to the problem of air pollution.

Participants in the consortium:

• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Catalonia

• Consell Superior d'Investigacions Científiques - Catalonia

• Zentrum für Soziale Innovation - Austria

• Université Blaise Pascal - France

• Ecologistas en Acción - Spain

• Legambiente - Italy

• Global 2000 - Austria

The CAPTOR project started in January 2016 and during a period of 3 years. It receives funding from the Horizon 2020 Programme of the European Union (Funding Agreement 68810).

The RIFE project addresses the major challenge for society to provide affordable Internet access to all people who cannot afford it, through the resolution of technological challenges to increase the efficiency of the underlying transport networks and the architectures and protocols involved.

Participants in the consortium:

• University of Cambridge - United Kingdom

• Aalto University - Finland

• InterDigital - United Kingdom

• Avanti - Cyprus

• Thales Alenia Space - France

• Martel Consulting - Switzerland

• Technische Universität München - Germany

The RIFE project was developed between January 2015 and March 2018. It received funding from the Horizon 2020 Programme of the European Union (Funding Agreement 644663).

Participants in the consortium:

• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Spain

• Fundació Privada per a la Xarxa Oberta, Lliure i Neutral, guifi.net - Spain

• FunkFeuer - Austria

• Swedish ICT (SICS) - Sweden

• KTH Royal Institute of Technology - Sweden

• The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics - Italy

Participants in the consortium:

• ESADE - Spain

• Forum Virium - Finland

• Fraunhofer Fokus - Germany

• Manchester City Council - United Kingdom

• City of Amsterdam Economic Affairs - Netherlands

• Waag Society - Netherlands

• Provincia di Roma - Italy

• Caspur - Italy

• Lynx - Italy

• Ajuntament de Barcelona - Spain

• Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Spain

• Fundació Privada per a la Xarxa Oberta, Lliure i Neutral, guifi.net - Spain

• Nesta - United Kingdom

• Dotopen - Spain
  

Participants in the consortium:

• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Spain

• Fundació Privada per a la Xarxa Oberta, Lliure i Neutral, guifi.net - Spain

• FunkFeuer - Austria

• Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network - Greece

• The OPLAN Foundation - United Kingdom

• Comunicació per a la Cooperació Pangea - Spain

• Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics FKIE - Germany

• iMinds - Belgium
  

2016

[PDF] Making Community Networks Economically Sustainable: The Guifi.net Experience. Roger Baig, Lluís Dalmau, Ramon Roca, Leandro Navarro, Felix Freitag, Arjuna Sathiaseelan. GAIA '16 Proceedings of the 2016 workshop on Global Access to the Internet for All.