The EPFL+ECAL Lab is part of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and aims to open, with design, new perspectives for emerging technologies from research labs.
L’EPFL+ECAL Lab offers several training including a Certificate of Advanced Study in Augmented Reality.
iMinds is the Belgian region of Flanders’ digital research & entrepreneurship hub. They drive digital innovation for society and economy, through strategic and applied research on key digital technologies. 900+ academic researchers at 5 Flemish universities join forces with industry and SMEs in cooperative research projects to turn digital know-how into future-proof products and services. iMinds also encourages tech entrepreneurs to bring their smart innovations to life and helps them start and grow their digital businesses in local and global markets. A large part of media-related research activities are lead by Brussels-based iMinds-SMIT, a research centre of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is a merger of the previous Gjøvik University College, Ålesund University College, Trondheim University College, Norwegian Institute of Technology, and the University of Trondheim. It is Norway’s largest university. Today the full range university NTNU encompasses 8 faculties and 73 departments in the areas of technology, science, arts and humanities, social sciences and medicine. NTNU has approximately 44000 students. NTNU has a staff of 7000 persons, over half in academic or scientific positions. In 2015, more than 300 PhD-degrees were awarded. NTNU is participating in GAMI through the research and innovation at the Sense-IT lab headed by Prof. A. Perkis. The main focus towards media are innovations in sensor based digital storytelling including VR/AR and 360 audiovisuals.
The Media Innovation Studio is an international research centre and learning lab based in the College of Culture and the Creative Industries at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in the UK. The Studio hosts academics and practitioners from the arts and sciences working across traditional disciplinary ‘silos’ creating new knowledge, developing new products and testing ideas in the real world.
AFP is a global news agency delivering fast, in-depth coverage of the events shaping our world from wars and conflicts to politics, sports, entertainment and the latest breakthroughs in health, science and technology. Born in 1944, on the remainings of the Havas news agency founded in 1835, AFP has a network of 200 bureaux around the World, with 1575 journalists (out of 2326 employees) producing each day some 5000 dispatches, 3000 pictures, 250 videos and 80 graphics and videographics.
AFP Medialab is a small team of journalists and engineers building innovative user experiences to valorize AFP’s content, new tools for the newsroom, news products concepts like interactive video or automated geolocalized news displays. AFP Medialab is currently involved in two research projects, one National Research Agency funded project ASRAEL (on data and knowledge extraction on events in newswires) and one European Horizon 2020 funded project, InVID, dealing with video verification on social networks for the news industry.
AFP Medialab joined GAMI to collaborate and network with the most innovative academics teams, media industry companies, SMEs and startups.
The Stibo Accelerator – operated by CCI’s owner, the Stibo Foundation – invites talented students and startups to work on research projects uncovering the news industry potential in cutting edge trends and technologies. GAMI represents the most important need in the news industry today: the need to explore and embrace every corner of the disruptive digital transformation the news industry is going through. Both CCI and the Stibo Accelerator supports this initiative actively and we are eager to collaborate with any organisation sharing this passion.
The Media Innovation Lab, part of the Media Hub Austria of the Mediengruppe Wiener Zeitung, supports start-ups and visionaries in the realization of new ideas, formats, and technologies for the entire Austrian media industry. With an incubator and funded fellowship program, it offers targeted expertise, a co-working space, an alumni network and media contacts. Since its launch in 2021 more and more tech start-ups, but also content start-ups with a focus on novel user experiences or community building, have been applying for these funding programs. The Lab strives for more international collaborations, works with universities and partners and promotes synergies for the global market success of the participants. This holistic approach ensures a smooth process from the idea to market maturity and creates a dynamic environment in which innovation can flourish.
The NEM Initiative (New European Media Initiative) was established as one of the European Technology Platform under the Seventh Framework Programme, aiming at fostering the convergence between consumer electronics, broadcasting and telecoms in order to develop the emerging business sector of networked and electronic media. In order to respond to new need and requirements of the Horizon 2020 programme, the NEM initiative enlarged its focus towards creative industries and changed its name from Networked an Electronic Media Initiative to New European Media, dealing with Connected, Converging and Interactive Media & Creative Industries, driving the future of digital experience.
The NEM constituency includes all major European organisations working in the networked and electronic media area, including content providers, creative industries, broadcasters, network equipment manufacturers, network operators and service providers, academia, standardisation bodies and government institutions. Those actors share a common Vision and have been producing a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) as well as position papers, in order to accelerate the innovative development of the new sector in a harmonised and fruitful way and to place European industry at the forefront of the information era.
Located in Munich, the Media Lab Bayern is a co-working and incubation space dedicated to media innovation startup companies. Focused on enhancing digital journalism and developing media projects, the Lab uses a multidisciplinary approach to encourage and support the evolution of projects from the initial idea to the foundation and launch of a start-up company.
The lab provides a creative and supportive space for startups, offering aid and advice for teams developing media innovation project ideas. It is aimed at both students and professionals from the media, journalism, information technology, design and business development sectors.