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Sovereign Tech Agency
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The Sovereign Tech Agency is a subsidiary of the German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation, funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, aimed at providing financial support to open-source software. The initial funds were allocated by the Bundestag in May 2022.[1][2]
Purpose of funding
According to the Federal budget of Germany plan, the program aims to promote and secure open-source foundational technologies.[3] It intends to make the open-source ecosystem more resilient against external attacks, thereby enhancing cybersecurity and resilience across the German economy. This initiative fulfills a demand from the coalition government.[4] This is also an approach to the classic free-rider problem faced by many open source projects.[5]
The funding is described as time-limited and targeted at specific challenges or security vulnerabilities.[6][7]
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Scope and organization
In 2022, the program had a budget of 13 million Euros,[8] which increased to approximately 22 million euros in 2023 and is expected to reach up to 16 million euros in 2024. The executive team consists of:
- Adriana Groh (co-CEO), previously from the Open Knowledge Foundation's Prototype Fund[9]
- Luisa von Beust (co-CEO), previously at several commercial organizations
- Fiona Krakenbürger (CTO), previously worked at the Open Technology Fund[10][11]
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Supported projects
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As of April 2025, the following projects received funding:[8][12]
- ActivityPub testsuite: 152,000 Euro
- Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM): 562,800 Euro[13]
- coreutils: 99,060 Euro
- cURL: 195,500 Euro
- domain: 993,600 Euro
- Drupal: 278,700 Euro[14]
- The Eclipse Foundation: 515,200 Euro[15]
- FFmpeg: 157,580 Euro[16][17]
- Fortran ecosystem (e.g. Fortran Package Manager, fpm): 816.000 Euro[18] 182,930 Euro
- FreeBSD: 686,400 Euro[19]
- GNOME 1 million Euros[20][21][22]
- GNU libmicrohttpd: 300,000 Euro
- GopenPGP/OpenPGP.js: 176,955 Euro
- GStreamer: 203,000 Euro
- JavaScript ecosystem (see also OpenJS below, for additional investment): 176,955 Euro
- JUnit: 180,000 Euro
- Log4j: 596,160 Euro
- Mamba: 349,875 Euro
- OpenBGPd: 200,000 Euro
- OpenBLAS: 263,000 Euro
- OpenJS (investment in JavaScript, see it also above): 874,940 Euro[23][24][25]
- OpenJS Foundation: 874,940 Euro
- OpenStreetMap: 384,000 Euro
- OpenMLS: 195,000 Euro
- OpenSSH: 200,000 Euro[26]
- Pendulum: 449,850 Euro
- PHP: 205,000 Euro[27][28]
- Prossimo, part of Internet Security Research Group: 1,436,729 Euros
- Python Package Index: 1,056,672 Euro
- Reproducible builds: 353,430 Euro
- RubyGems & Bundler: 668,400 Euro
- Samba: 688,800 Euro[29]
- Sequoia PGP: 900,000 Euro
- systemd: 455,000 Euro
- WireGuard: 209,000 Euro
- Yocto Project: 759,000 Euro[30][31]
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