NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY – DERI – Coordinator

The National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway) (Irish Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh or OÉ Gaillimh) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland. The university was founded in 1845 as Queen’s College, Galway and was more recently known as University College, Galway (UCG) (Irish: Coláiste na hOllscoile, Gaillimh or COG) has distinguished record of achievement in research, in teaching and in service to the community.

DERI is a Centre for Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET) established in 2003 with funding from the Science Foundation Ireland. The vision of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute has been crucial in the semantic web and today’s is recognized as the largest leading international web science research institute interlinking web technologies.

RESEARCH AND EDUCATION LABORATORY IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES – AIT

Athens Information Technology (AIT) is an internationally-renowned non profit education and research center in the fields of information technology, telecommunications, and innovation management, AIT was founded in 2002 by the INTRACOM group of companies.

AIT’s commitment is to certain life values and free-market economies according to which science does not only relate to technological development, but also to human progress and empowerment by providing new opportunities to all

The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is one of the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology and is located in Lausanne, Switzerland. Founded in 1853 as a private school under the name École Spéciale de Lausanne, it became the technical department of the public Académie de Lausanne in 1869. When the latter was reorganized and acquired the status of a university in 1890, the technical faculty changed its name to École d’Ingénieurs de l’Université de Lausanne. In 1946, it was renamed the École polytechnique de l’Université de Lausanne (EPUL).

FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V – IOSB

As the largest institute within the Fraunhofer Group for Information and Communication, the Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, System Technology and Image Exploitation IOSB has been very successful in implementing the latest research results in ready-to-use solutions.

The IOSB disposes of a one-of-a-kind comprehensive portfolio of competencies that ranges from object and sensor physics via image acquisition and exploitation to information and knowledge management including anthropomatics.

Instituted in 2002, in Athens, Greece, company SENSAP Microsystems AE specializes in the development and distribution of equipment, software, and consumables for the printing and packaging industry, as well as logistics enterprises.

SENSAP’s professional, business consultants claim in-depth process analysis experience in a large variety of industrial sectors, while our highly motivated engineering team has world-class technological competence on both information technology and autoID systems integration

AcrossLimits is a dynamic Maltese commercial entity with its roots firmly derived from the new technology and media sector. In fact its core business is still centred around the areas of e-Business, Internet and Knowledge Management solutions for Small and Medium Enterprises. However in the last years, AcrossLimits has diversified and now is made up of 3 main divisions, namely Technology, European projects and Education.

AcrossLimits was established in June 2001 as a limited liability company, though its members already worked together prior to that date under a partnership agreement and in fact have been developing IT related systems since 1996. With representation offices in Italy, Spain and Greece, AcrossLimits is able to provide various services relating to Information Technology, especially focusing on its three core areas of eLearning, eHealth and Digital Culture.

CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is Australia’s national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world with more than 50 sites throughout Australia and overseas.

CSIRO’s research is performed by the 13 Divisions, which are the business units of CSIRO.

CSIRO is involved in more than 740 research activities, working with leading scientific organisations in over 80 countries with partners and customers ranging from foreign governments, small companies to large multi-nationals and international foundations.

The University of Zagreb is the oldest and largest university in South-Eastern Europe. Ever since its foundation in 1669 when King Leopold I Habsburg issued a decree granting the establishment of the Jesuit Academy of the Royal Free City of Zagreb, the University has been continually growing and developing, and now consists of 29 faculties and three art academies.

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing is the largest technical faculty of the University of Zagreb founded in 1956 when the College of Engineering of the University of Zagreb was divided into four faculties. It is recognized as the leading high education and academic research institution in the fields of electrical and computer engineering and computer science in Croatia.