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# Consortium completes 42-month Horizon Europe OpenWebSearch.EU project
- URL: https://www.nupath.eu/consortium-completes-42-month-horizon-europe-openwebsearch-eu-project/
- Published: 2026-08-31T04:41:26.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-31T14:27:45.000Z
- Author: Christian Triantafillou Schade
- Tags: News, #source_openwebsearch.eu

A 14-organisation consortium completed the Horizon Europe-funded OpenWebSearch.EU project after 42 months, delivering a federated European Open Web Index pilot with 39 billion URLs crawled across 185 languages. The pilot demonstrates technical, economic and sovereignty benefits for Europe’s digital autonomy and trustworthy AI, according to the project’s media release. **(OPENWEBSEARCH.EU)**

[Leap forward in European Web sovereignty: Horizon Europe funded project “OpenWebSearch.EU” ends after 42 months and puts forth a federated Open Web Index pilot I Media Release - OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web SearchA consortium of 14 research organisations and computing centres have developed and implemented the Open Web Index pilot “OWI” as a fundamental resource for traditional and AI web search applications; overall project results point to strong economic and sovereignty benefits Passau / Munich — August 2![](https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=https://openwebsearch.eu/leap-forward-in-european-web-sovereignty-horizon-europe-funded-project-openwebsearch-eu-ends-after-42-months-and-puts-forth-a-federated-open-web-index-pilot-i-media-release/&sz=64)openwebsearch.eu](https://openwebsearch.eu/leap-forward-in-european-web-sovereignty-horizon-europe-funded-project-openwebsearch-eu-ends-after-42-months-and-puts-forth-a-federated-open-web-index-pilot-i-media-release/?ref=nupath.eu)