Since 2020, Next Generation Internet (NGI) programmes, part of European Commission’s Horizon programme, fund free software in Europe using a cascade funding mechanism (see for example NLnet’s calls).
Quite a few of KDE’s projects have benefited from NGI’s funding, including NeoChat, Kaidan, KDE Connect, KMail, and many others. KDE e.V. is a European non-profit with limited resources that relies on donations, sponsors and funding like that offered by NGI, to push the development of our projects forward.
However, this year, according to the Horizon Europe working draft detailing funding programmes for 2025, we notice that Next Generation Internet is not mentioned any more as part of Cluster 4.