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// About the call
The application process to the 4D Call is intentionally quick and easy to encourage participation from anyone who has a project that might be eligible. If the project has possibilities, we will proceed to a detailed interview. In any case, we guarantee a response to each request received.
__GOALS
The goal of the 4D Digital Rights by Design Call is to provide support for the developments or initiatives focused on action in terms of digital commons and rights, such as:
Technological developments
Protocols to change institutional and/or general habits
Strategic litigation
Legislative amendments and advocacy
Surprise us with other types of solutions we cannot imagine
The central idea is to intervene so that digitalisation is democratic and/or digital rights are applied systemically (possibility of scaling with wide impact), by design and by default, in the public and/or private sphere. We’re looking for technologies, actions and/or action protocols, beyond theoretical research or reports.
__FINANCIAL PROVISION
The 4D Call will allocate prizes ranging from €5,000 to €10,000(*) to projects to implement projects by European entities, consortia or individuals, whether either already running or already partially funded.
_5.000€ - 10.000€
_For entities, consortia or individuals in Europe.
90% will be issued at the time of public presentation (October 2026) and the remaining 10% at the time of agreed completion with the recipient individual/entity.
All projects must include licenses which are not strict copyright. Priority will be given to those projects that use free-software and free licences. The use of more restrictive licences is accepted but requires justification.
* Taxation on this provision will depend on the legal status of the awarded proposal
{ TERMS }
until 25 Sep
_Call open until 25 Sep 2026
Availability to present the project on 29 October 2026 in Barcelona in-person is required.
# ABOUT US
We promote this call:
ACCENT OBERT
Accent Obert (formerly Fundació .cat until June 2025) is a private non-profit foundation whose mission is to defend our way of being in the digital world. It promotes an open and diverse internet where the Catalan-speaking community has its own voice, supporting initiatives that connect language, technology and society. Our areas of action include: the management of community infrastructure —such as the .cat domain—, the defence of the digital rights of the Catalan-speaking community, the promotion of digital talent in Catalan, and the development of tools that enable full digital life in Catalan.
XNET, Institute for Democratic Digitalisation
Xnet is a network of specialists and activists that proposes advanced solutions in different fields related to democratic digitalisation, digital rights, and updating democracy to the 21st century, such as privacy, the use of data, AI and net neutrality; freedom of expression and information vs fake news, propaganda and disinformation; the defence of whistleblowers, leaks and anti-corruption; technopolitics and advocacy, updating democracy with the political R&D method, transparency and participation; free culture.
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// FINALISTS
La Mar de Citas and Primer Paso [AWARDED]
Mar de Citas
In Spain, every administrative procedure that must be done in person requires a prior appointment. Appointments have to be requested online. It is impossible to get one without paying someone who does nothing else. La Mar de Citas is an Android app that does what the institutions do not: it notifies you when appointments for immigration procedures become available in any province of Spain.
Primer Paso
A technological platform supporting the 2026 extraordinary regularisation in Spain. It is built from civil society to contest a bureaucracy that turns access to rights into filters, tests and attrition. It does so with a guidance form written in plain language and with tools that automate specific bottlenecks. It arises in response to a system that forces people to bear the complexity, the interpretation and the administrative work of the process.
Catalonia - Barcelona
Pessimists Archive [AWARDED]
Every time a technology appears that is capable of distributing knowledge and power, a hegemonic technophobic discourse appears alongside it, announcing the end of the world. It happened with writing, with the printing press, with the telephone, with radio and, of course, it is happening with the Internet and AI. Technophobia is not innocent, it is deliberate: the ignorance and conservatism inherent to the human condition and to many opportunists willing to do anything are purposely spurred on to create the perfect alibi for power to control the tools instead of putting them in people’s hands. Fear is used to justify indiscriminate bans, mass surveillance and connivance with major technological abuses.
Pessimists Archive is the most exhaustive repository on this.
Fairplayer
by RadisolarA music player for a decentralised ecosystem, conceived as an alternative to Spotify. It does not store music on its own servers: it looks for it on servers run by the artists themselves and brings it together so it can be easily discovered and listened to. They are also working on creating common protocols to connect to other platforms.
Catalonia - Barcelona
identitat.digital
by New Spirit Studio SLA citizen search engine with profiles of apps and digital services. Each profile states what data the service collects, which corporate group it belongs to, its privacy policy, the security breaches and sanctions it has had, and a score calculated using a public methodology. It suggests alternatives and links to the tools for downloading your data or requesting its deletion.
Catalonia - Sabadell
SigStack and Stacks
by Bread CooperativeSigStack
A Signal bot designed for groups whose members speak different languages. It translates messages, creates threads per language and transcribes voice notes, in 32 languages. It runs inside a trusted execution environment (TEE), so that not even the operator can read the messages.
https://breadchaincoop.github.io/sigstack-bot/sigstack/
https://github.com/BreadchainCoop/sigstack-bot
Stacks
A “savings circle” app: each month a group puts in the same amount and, taking turns, each person takes the pot. It runs on blockchain, with the $BREAD token.
Spain
Catalan Public Domain
by Fundación ConectorA web application built on Wikidata to find out which authors and works of Catalan culture are already in the public domain. It allows filtering by genre, date, place and format, and identifies which institutions hold the works. One of its arguments is that artificial intelligence feeds on Wikidata: writing there means influencing what AIs will answer about Catalan culture.
https://www.hiperterminal.com/hiperterminal/dominiopublico/catala/
https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/hiperterminal/catalan-public-domain
Catalonia - El Prat de Llobregat
Legal mechanism to protect guifi.net [AWARDED]
by Fundació guifi.net and the Laboratorio Jurídico Europeo para los Bienes Comunes (European Legal Laboratory for the Commons)A legal project to shield the guifi.net model, the largest community-owned, open and neutral telecommunications network. Guifi.net has two lawsuits pending against a major operator and is preparing a third.
Catalonia - Gurb
kosmos.coop
by Opengea SCCLA platform for social economy organisations and enterprises to work as a network. It includes a map to find who to collaborate with, groupings by territory and sector, contracts, shared project management, revenue sharing and a governance module. It has 28 modules in prototype.
Catalonia - El Raval, Barcelona
CoTeach / Mots
by the promoting team (cooperative being set up with Coòpolis) — Raimon Martín Puente, Tommaso Rocchi and Pelayo GarcíaA platform cooperative for language teachers, as an alternative to platforms such as Preply or italki. The teachers are members, would control their data and could take it with them. It gives importance to minoritised languages (Catalan, Asturian, Aragonese, Galician, Basque) and to welcoming migrants.
Catalonia - Sant Llorenç d’Hortons
Jaaklac Initiative
by Soledad MagnoneAn international network of volunteers for critical digital education related to wellbeing and academic freedom.
Finland - Uruguay
EduTicTac Commons
by EduTicTacA community of around 1,250 teachers from the Valencian Country that since 2010 has maintained free/libre educational services as an alternative to Google and Microsoft in state schools.
Valencian Country - Elx (Elche)
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