What we do

European projects

Research, development and innovation

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

CAPTOR

Collective Awareness Platform for Tropospheric Ozone Pollution

The CAPTOR project is generally oriented towards the problem of air pollution and, in particular, the monitoring of tropospheric ozone. The objective 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.

Consortium participants:

  • Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Catalunya

  • Consell Superior d'investigacions Científiques - Catalunya

  • 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 continues for 3 years. It receives funding from the Horizon 2020 Programme of the European Union (Funding Agreement 68810).

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RIFE

aRchitecture for an Internet For Everybody

The RIFE project is oriented towards the great challenge of 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.

Consortium participants:

  • 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 has been developed from January 2015 to March 2018. It has received funding from the Horizon 2020 Programme of the European Union (Funding Agreement 644663).

Clommunity

European Future Internet Research and Experimentation

Consortium participants:

  • 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.

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Commons For Europe

European Competitiveness and Innovation Programme

Consortium participants:

  • 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

Confine

European Future Internet Research and Experimentation

Consortium participants:

  • 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

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Articles and publications

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.

2015
Catalan version

[PDF] R. Baig et al., guifi.net, a crowdsourced network infrastructure held in common, Computer Networks (2015),http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2015.07.009(Original version in English).