Partners
Gestión del Conocimiento (Spain):
E-learning and affinity/virtual communities management.
Gestión del Conocimiento (GEC) is an SME (Small and Medium size) company based in Barcelona (Spain), 120 employees coming from the IT, journalism and pedagogy sector. The company was founded by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and Telefonica de España in 1997 with the mission to develop corporate e-learning projects, virtual communities and knowledge management projects.
Web: www.gec.es
TVC Netmedia (Spain):
E-content producer.
TVC Netmedia Audiovisual S.L. was founded in 1997 and it is a subsidiary of the Corporació Catalana de Ràdio i Televisió (CCRTV or Catalan Broadcasting Corporation www.ccrtv.com), whose corporate aims are to develop activities covering the introduction of digital technology and new communication media. TVCN activities are:
- SAM: weather forecast production and crossplatform edition
- i-DTV: design, development and edition
- SMS+TV: automatic production of TV contents and participation
- I+D+i: research projects (public fundings)
Fraunhofer Institute for open communications systems (FOKUS)(Germany):
Multimedia & IST Developer.
The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (FhG) is a link between science and industry that is between the research and the application of its results. It was founded in Munich in 1949 as a non-profit registered association. Today FhG is the leading organization of institutes of applied research and development in Europe. The employees carry out research and development projects on a contract basis on behalf of industry, the service sector and government. Future-oriented strategic research commissioned by the government and public authorities are carried out with the aim of promoting innovations in key technologies with an economic and social relevance in the next five to ten years.
University of Ljubljana (Slovenia):
IST Telecom R&D.
University of Ljubljana - UoL, Faculty of electrical engineering: LDOS
- The Laboratory for Digital Signal Processing.
The Digital Signal Processing Laboratory, the partner in the project
initiative, is a member of the Department of Telecommunications at the
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana. The highly
experienced team consists of 18 researchers (8 Ph.D, 5 M.Sc.). Through
intensive involvement in international R&D projects during the last
decade, the LDOS laboratory has become one of the leading developers of
the new interactive multimedia services for the emerging fields of
digital interactive television, (peer-to-peer) networking, content
search and storage in distributed systems, personalised multimedia
content retrieval and other multimedia related technologies. Important
basic research area of the group is also multimedia signal processing.
The emphasis of this research is on image and video processing, such as:
coding, visual object segmentation, tracking, object recognition, remote
video surveillance and medical teleconsulting. Real-time and parallel
algorithm implementations are also investigated.
Web UoL: www.uni-lj.si/DefaultA.asp
Web LDOS: ldos.fe.uni-lj.si
SONY Barcelona Technology Centre (Spain):
ITV Set-Top Boxes.
SONY España, S.A. was founded in 1967 under the name of KOSMOS Eléctrica, S.A. The objectives of the company were focused on the CE products manufacturing, especially in display products. Since 1992 research and development was added to the objectives of the company. That year was founded the Technology Centre dedicated to the development of display products, today this centre has more than 100 engineers. In 1999 was established the Digital TV Group with the aim to lead the technological change in the new era of Digital TV. This group has about 20 engineers working in the areas of RF circuit design and basic platform software R+D for digital television.
Web: www.sony.com
Hewlett Packard European Innovation Centre (Italy):
Wireless Terminals.
Hewlett Packard is a leading global provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and businesses. The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. HP-BEST, HP's European Innovation Centre, is doing applied research, technology transfer and integration in the following areas:
- Mobile services delivery platforms, end-to-end solutions to support service deployment and usage
- Wireless technology based solutions (802.11 WLAN, seamless roaming)
- Mobile enterprise, secure access to corporate networks for mobile users
- Content management and adaptation, multi-channelling portals
- Open Source technologies
- Next generation telephony (voIP, unified communication, SIP-based architectures)
- Enterprise Business portals, B2B and B2C
- Enterprise Application Integration
Web: www.hp.com
Atos Origin (Spain):
IST Consulting and Integration.
ATOS ORIGIN provides all the "design, build, and operate "elements of a business solution. The company offers three major Service Lines: Consulting, System Integration and Managed Operations. ATOS ORIGIN is a strong partner in helping enterprises gain an important competitive advantage through the use of industry best practices. Our keen industry focus and our experience in transforming enterprises give us an in-depth view as to how business has developed and is continuing to evolve. Our services and solutions add value across many industry sectors including CPG/Retail, Discrete Manufacturing, Financial Services, Process Industries, the Public Sector, Telecom, Utilities and Media.
Web: www.atosorigin.com
International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (Spain):
Mathematical models simulation R&D.
International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering, CIMNE is a research and technology transfer centre located in Barcelona, Spain. A consortium between the Autonomous Government of Catalonia and the Technical University of Catalonia, CIMNE was founded in 1987 with UNESCO's support. Although a public institution, over 90% of its funding stems from non-publics sources. CIMNE employs some seventy scientists working on a wide range of problems of computational engineering, and lately also computational finance and multi-agent simulation of business strategies. In the last ten years, CIMNE has taken part in over 350 RTD projects with a total of over 160 companies and organisations involved. The outcome of the research is documented in over 700 scientific publications, technical reports and educational software codes published by CIMNE.
Web: www.cimne.upc.es
Tomorrow Focus AG (Germany):
Publishing Company.
TOMORROW FOCUS AG is one of the leading companies regarding print and online media products in Germany. The company publishes information, content-management and communication solutions for corporate clients and market media products for attractive target groups with high coverages and cross-media platforms to partners. Currently, TOMORROW FOCUS publishes 15 high-coveraged internet portals, including established branded products like Focus, the largest german news magazine, TV Spielfilm, the most widely read magazine in Europe, Tomorrow, Max, Amica and Playboy. With its main shareholder, BURDA Media, it has a strong market position concerning high-quality editorial content and online magazines, also on the European market. About 80% of the german speaking population know at least one of its brands, about 98% of the online customers in the target group 14-49 do. Within TOMORROW FOCUS AG, the business unit 'next media' is responsible for application service providing based on new technologies, as well as the creation of new media formats and all R&D activities mainly in the fields of mobile Internet and interactive multimedia content (such as iTV).