The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund (CPF) supports projects from the RIPE NCC service region working for the ‘Good of the Internet’ with a total fund of €250,000. We opened the call for applications in June 2020. The application period was open for just over 8 weeks and more than 35 applications from 21 different countries were received.

The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Selection Committee has reviewed the applications and is happy to announce that the following eight projects have been selected as the 2020 funding recipients. 

Congratulations to the selected projects:
- BGP Hijacking Observatory, University of California San Diego’s Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)
- Closed Resolver Project, Grenoble Alpes University, Computer Science Laboratory (LIG Lab)
- Cryptofuzz, Guido Vranken
- FRRouting Fuzzing, Sartura d.o.o.
- Improve Tails for censorship circumvention, Riseup Labs
- NRTM v4, Sasha Romijn, DashCare B.V.
- Some Congestion Experienced (SCE), netDEF
- Virtual School of Internet Governance, Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities

You can read more about the selected projects here:
https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf/funding-recipients-2020 

All projects funded through the CPF also share updates on RIPE Labs. You can find articles by previous recipients by using the ‘Community Projects Fund’ tag:
https://labs.ripe.net/

I would also like to thank the members of the Selection Committee for volunteering their time to support the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund.

Best regards,