MediaVerse Consortium

The Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH), founded in 2000, is the only research centre in Northern Greece, and one of the largest in the country. CERTH has important scientific and technological achievements in many areas including: Industry, Mechatronics, Information & Communication, as well as several cross-disciplinary scientific areas.

CERTH will coordinate the project and be in charge of all project management activities. As such CERTH will be very active in all technology development activities as well as organising external pilot activities.

The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) is one of the major public universities of Spain. UAB will participate through the TransMedia Catalonia research group, which has been researching media accessibility for more than 10 years.

Next to organising the Catalan pilot on accessible co-creation, UAB will guide the management of the three large-scale pilots and advise the consortium on ethical issues.

UAB will also play an important role in communicating with user associations and end users, since the project will follow a user-centric methodology.

LINKS Foundation is a private, non-profit institution focused on amplifying the impact of applied research carried out in the areas of ICT and environmental sciences, valorising research outcomes through synergies with enterprises, start-ups, public administrations, and NGOs.

LINKS will focus on the success of MediaVerse in the migration from project to marketable service.
LINKS will also support the technical development of content discovery, interlinking as well as in the development of the digital rights management solution.

Founded in 1987, ATC is an Information Technology Company (SME) offering solutions and services in specific business sectors, including Media, Banking, Utilities and the Public Sector.

In MediaVerse ATC will lead the development in the field of content management system setup and its integration.

Vragments GmbH is a Berlin-based Virtual and Augmented Reality Studio. Founded in 2016, the company focuses on developing interactive AR and VR projects.
Vragments will be a key technology partner in MediaVerse, responsible for development and provision of computational services for content adaptation and provision, development of the MediaVerse XR authoring platform, and application integration and procurement of products via continuous integration toolchains.

As Germany’s international public service broadcaster Deutsche Welle‘s general aim is to foster understanding and exchange between cultures and people.

In MediaVerse DW will organise the development of market-relevant use case scenarios as well as the communication of project interests and results, e.g. through editing this website and the project’s Social Media channels. 

Timelex is a boutique law firm based in Brussels, specialised in information and technology law in the broadest sense, including privacy protection, data and information management, e-business, intellectual property and telecommunications.

Timelex will act as a lawyer to the consortium in this Action. It will deal with all legal aspects, including, but not limited to, data protection and IPR (copyright) challenges.