TECNALIA, together with other European partners, is promoting the European Open Source Academy to strengthen the continent’s digital sovereignty
To foster the development of knowledge, debate and inspiration to promote the use of and contributions to open source. With this objective, TECNALIA, together with other European partners, has created the European Open Source Academy.
The initiative, which runs until 2027, is driven by the applied research and technological development centre TECNALIA, is funded by the EU, and involves European partners such as Barcelona Supercomputing Center, RISE, OpenForum Europe, APELL and Trust-IT. The project advocates the importance of open source software and hardware for Europe’s competitiveness and digital sovereignty.
The project celebrated its birth as well as the launch of the European Open Source Academy with the first European Open Source Awards, which recognised four experts for their contributions to the open source community.
The Open Source Achievement Award went to Daniel Stenberg, founder of cURL, a software component used worldwide. The Business & Impact Award went to Amandine Le Pape, COO and co-founder of Element, a secure and interoperable communication platform. The Skills & Education award went to David Cuartielles, co-founder of Arduino and professor of interaction design at Malmö University. And the Promotion and Awareness Award went to Lydia Pintscher, head of Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland.
As explained by TECNALIA’s researcher and director of the OSAwards project, Juncal Alonso, ‘TECNALIA is proud to be part of the OSAwards project and its mission to advance open source in Europe. The Academy and the Awards are vital steps in recognising the contributions of the open source community and fostering its continued growth.
