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AUSTRIA

Austrian Multimedia Association (AMMA) is the official Austrian interest group for professional multimedia producers. It serves the needs of more than one hundred of Austrians finest multimedia - designers and producers.

www.amma.at


IFPI Austria –Verband der Österreichischen Musikwirtschaft represents the Austrian music industry. The 15 members of IFPI Austria are independent Austrian record companies and the subsidiaries of the world-wide active major-companies. Their mission is to foster a business and legal climate that supports and promotes their members' creative and financial vitality.
The priorities of IFPI Austria are
• Promoting fair market access and adequate copyright laws
• Fighting music piracy
• Promoting the value of music in economic, social and cultural life

www.ifpi.at

BELGIUM

Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI) is the world’s largest youth and music network, and is regarded by UNESCO as today’s most important international youth culture organization. Over 70 national members, associate members and contact organizations are currently part of the global Jeunesses Musicales network.

Thousands of Jeunesses Musicales events are held each year around the world, offering young people various learning opportunities, chances to perform and innovative listening experiences. These activities can be divided into four main categories: young audiences, young musicians, youth orchestras and ensembles, and youth empowerment through music initiatives.

By creating musical meeting points for young people where they can share unique moments and exchange musical traditions, ideas and life experiences, JMI highlights the role music can play in the promotion of cultural diversity and mutual understanding and for almost 60 years JMI has enabled young people to develop through music across all boundaries.

www.JMI.net

BULGARIA

SCAS (Student Computer Art Society) is a national student non-profit, non-governmental association which supports youth projects in the field of computer arts, modern media and new technologies.

www.scas.acad.bg

CROATIA

Internet Institute is a non-governmental organization established end 2001 with the mission to implement and deploy information and communication technologies for active transformation of Croatia and SEE region into societies of knowledge and information The Institute has a longstanding expert experience in IT field, with particular emphasis onInternet technologies, and an innovative approach to development projects. We actively participate in significant international initiatives, as well international project consortia in the area of ICT4D [World Summit Award, Top Talent Award, idealist-extend, Development Gateway and Country Gateways Network]. In addition, ITI developed own advanced technology platform wNews CMS as a professional solution for users' independent maintenance of online content.

www.hr-gateway.org

CZECH REPUBLIC

The fundamental objective of the Technology Centre (TC) is to promote the industrial utilization of R&D, to provide complex technology transfer services and to stimulate the creation and growth of small enterprises in technology-based businesses.

www.tc.cz/content

FINLAND

MindTrek Association brings together people interested in digital media. Association's membership is open to all with a genuine interest in the new digital era. The MindTrek Association has an important role as a coordinator of the MindTrek Media Week every November in Tampere, Finland.

www.mindtrek.org


SATU is the association of Independent Producers (multimedia, audio, television) in Finland. The goal of the association is to act as an umbrella to its members and look after their interests, develop the markets of the field and to raise the general image of the field.

www.satu.fi


ISEA2004, the leading symposium on new media culture, is shaping up to be an incomparable mid-August destination for a programme-filled experience on electronic arts, music, research and technology. ISEA2004 takes place in Helsinki, Tallinn and on a cruiser ferry connecting harbour cities. The cruise on the Baltic Sea provides a multicultural forum for networking and pleasure. The unique experience extends from custom-made buffet-dinners to ferry's gym, night clubs, pools and sun decks. Even the television programme on the ferry is a part of the comprehensive experience.

www.isea2004.net

FRANCE

CFPJ (Centre de formation et de perfectionnement des journalistes) is France’s largest training and continuing education centre for journalists. The school organizes training courses in Paris and sets up all types of further education in journalism.

www.cfpj.com 


Press Intelligence is the first French independent media company that established its position in 1997 on the market of mass media and information technology.

www.icontenus.com

GERMANY

MFG (Medien und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Wuerttemberg) is considered to be the "centre of competence" in terms of media development in the south-west German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. It addresses all TIME industries: telecommunication, information technologies, media and entertainment.

www.mfg.de


WIERZBICKI.ORG (formerly Media Integration, founded 1984) has over a decade of experience in the field of multimedia development and teaching. WIERZBICKI.ORG offers professional solutions for technology and knowledge-transfer oriented multimedia projects. The company’s best-in-class solutions within the areas of multimedia and digital art meet the requirements of all kind of clients. A number of projects have won prestigious awards, among others the WorldMediaFestival Grand Award 2004 in Hamburg, Germany (category Website).

WIERZBICKI.ORG promotes the performance and skills of young people and supports their pursuit of personal and professional development. 2003 Dr.-Ing. Robert J. Wierzbicki, head of WIERZBICKI.ORG, has been appointed Professor of Online Media, Department of Media, at the University of Applied Sciences Mittweida.

WIERZBICKI.ORG is networking with EADiM (European Academy of Digital Media, TTA (TopTalentAward), MAM (Media Alliance Mittweida), MOST (Mobile Open Society Through Wireless Telecommunications) and EUROPRIX.

www.wierzbicki.org

HUNGARY

Hungarian Association of Content Industry - Originated from the General Assembly of the Hungarian Association of Database Suppliers, the Hungarian Association of Content Industry represents the interests of this fast developing part of industry in Hungary.

www.matisz.hu

IRELAND

The Irish Computer Society is the national body for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Professionals in Ireland. Since its foundation the ICS has promoted the continuous development of professional ICT knowledge and skills in Ireland by organising seminars, lectures and related activities.

www.ics.ie

ISRAEL

MAKASH the pioneer organization for computer mediated communications (CMC) in Israel has been developing CMC applications in education since 1990. We are glad to partake our experience with other organizations and educators.
MAKASH grew up from an increasing awareness of the opportunities opened by the technologies of computer communications for accessing knowledge, social integration, advancing education, applied research and as a generalized problem solving tool

MAKASH is the National Coordinator for Israel in Netd@ys Europe and maintains the National Netdays Page for Israel, represents Israel in the EUN Read More..., Participate in the projects and events of: eLearning awards2004 and meny more europienwide projects.

makash.org.il

ITALY

Ars Media is an Italian company, with more than 10 years of experience in design and development of multimedia titles for marketing support, infotainment, edutainment and cultural promotion. Ars Media works in collaboration with professionals and researchers worldwide, especially with European and Hispanic/Latin American countries.

www.ars-media.it


CPR (Consorzio Pisa Ricerche): is a non-profit organization created to promote and coordinate the transfer of innovative technology and expertise from the university and research environment to industry and other areas of application.

www.cpr.it


Universita degli Studi di Milano. The Department of Information Sciences includes more than a thousand students. Its main areas of specialization are database technologies, networks, computer music and digital media.

www.dsi.unimi.it


Interactive MusicNetwork was funded by the European Commission and established to help bringing music into the interactive multimedia era. The MUSICNETWORK is a Centre of excellence to bring the music content providers, cultural institutions, industry, and research institutions together. The MUSICNETWORK draws on the assets and mutual interests of these actors to exploit the potentials of multimedia music content with the new technologies, tools, products, formats and models.

www.interactivemusicnetwork.org


For the first time in Italy the MEDIA training programme is funding distance education applied to new advanced technologies in the audiovisual sector with LUMIERE. Thanks to FOR.COM. Consortium, “Learning in a Unified MultImedia EnviRonmEnt”, in the audiovisual world, is today possible. The general objective of the LUMIERE project, co-funded in the framework of the Media Plus Programme of the European Community, is to give en effective answer to the audiovisual industry needs in order to foster its competitiveness enhancing the continuous vocational training of professionals working in the field. The specific objective is to produce a new vocational training course in new technologies for the production and distribution of audiovisual products.

www.forcom.it/lumiereproject/index.htm


Pirelli Internetional Award

Since 1996, the Pirelli Internetional Award is the world’s first Internet multimedia award aimed at the diffusion of scientific and technological culture worldwide. Awards are granted every calendar year to the best multimedia presentations that concern three main themes for the diffusion of science and technology: multimedia oriented toward education, the environment, and the enabling information and communication technologies that package, deliver, present and define multimedia itself.

www.pirelliaward.com

LITHUANIA

The mission of the association Infobalt is to represent and defend the interests of the IST industry in Lithuania and abroad. Therefore, INFOBALT pursues the creation of optimally favourable conditions for the growth of the IST industry.

www.infobalt.lt


The International Centre of Knowledge Economy & Management of Vilnius University (ICKEM) is an associative network organizational structure that leverages knowledge expertise and cooperation of high calibre talent from diverse scientific origins and compositions of skills and competencies according to specific educational and scientific objectives.

The sphere of activity as envisaged for the ICKEM includes international academic, research and business projects with the focus being given to the states of Central and Eastern Europe. The mission of the ICKEM is to become a hub of competence and innovations in Vilnius University engaged in the development and implementation of modern study programmes; to train specialists and perform strategic research that could make a significant impact on the advance of Lithuanian knowledge economy and information society; as well as promotion of knowledge management as a subject of study and research.

www.tzc.vu.lt

LUXEMBOURG

The Luxembourg Portal for Innovation and Research is fully dedicated to innovation and research activities and projects. This online first-stop shop also aims to enhance the global visibility of Luxembourg technologies, and create a “R&D cooperation community” in Luxembourg.
Numerous bilingual (English/French) and regularly updated data is available free of charge, as well as interactive tools including the “Index of technological capabilities”, the “Technology market” and the “Guide to support”.

www.innovation.public.lu


Content Village is an awareness raising measure supported by the European Community's eContent programme

The Content Village is an interactive Web platform supported as an Accompanying Measure of the European Community's eContent programme. eContent is a market-oriented programme which aims to support the production, use and distribution of European digital content, and to promote linguistic and cultural diversity on the global networks.

Results dissemination is an integral part of the eContent programme. In this context, the Content Village aims to extend awareness of results and best practice, support programme participants, and stimulate the European digital content industry through key information dissemination.

In brief, the Content Village is relevant to everyone who is involved in - or who takes an interest in - the increasingly important area of digital content, worldwide.

www.content-village.org

NETHERLANDS

Electronic Media Reporting is a consultancy in the field of electronic publishing and new media, active since July 1, 1990. The consultancy is specialised in content strategy and is active in the Benelux. Together with MMBO Electronic Media Reporting is setting up the europrix.nl – a multimedia award for the Netherlands.


The MMBO (Multimedia Branche Organisatie), the Dutch multi-media association, brings around 25 mostly small young firms active in the new media working area together. It acts as a representative of the government agencies, is a meeting place for managers and specialists and is so promoting the new media branch in the Netherlands.

www.mmbo.nl

POLAND

The Information Processing Centre (OPI) was founded in 1990 as a research and development unit supervised by the State Committee for Scientific Research. Its aim is the accumulation, storage, processing and dissemination of scientific and technical information under the condition of Polish science and results of the scientific research conducted in this country and abroad.

www.opi.org.pl


Central and Eastern European Networking Association (CEENet) is an association of national organizations which focuses on the academic, research and educational networking. The primary mission of CEENet is to co-ordinate the international aspects of these networks in Central and Eastern Europe and in the adjacent countries.

www.ceenet.org


The MOST Programme (Mobile Open Society Through Wireless Telecommunications) objectives are:

To boost the establishment of the mobile information society;

To work out and introduce new sustainable models, services, and facilities in Central & East European countries.

MOSTworks on setting up a sound and workable regional mechanism that organizes broad cooperation between universities, research centres and laboratories, wireless telecommunications providers and content providers.

www.most-program.org

ROMANIA

The Institute for Computers (ITCNet) is one of the first important Romanian ISPs offering a broad range of Internet services. The ITCNet is the reseller of Enterprise Resource Planning systems, internet service provider, developer of software applications and web sites, provider of multimedia services and producer of CD-ROM titles.

www.itc.ro


The Romanian Association for Interactive Multimedia (ARMI) was founded in November 2000 with the goal to contribute to the creation and consolidation of a scientific, legal and market environment capable to help the development of an multimedia products and services industry in Romania and to support the spreading of multimedia technologies on a wide range of fields.

SLOVAKIA

The Academy of Communication focuses concentrates potential of people with practical experience and professional knowledge. It summarises experience acquired by practice within our circumstances and within the European economic area as well. The Academy aids in developing and improving the abilities of people in different kinds of communication. This is done in order to simplify access and acquisition of new experience and knowledge for a wide range of people. The goal of the Academy is not to mediate information but to improve people‘s skills and competence.

The Academy of Communication provides professional education by offering requalifying and specialized courses focusing on:
- marketing communication
- visual communication
- electronic communication

www.akademia.ilern.sk

SLOVENIA

Multimedia Centre CyberSRCeLab – MC Kibla, was founded in 1996 as a project of Narodni dom Maribor and Open Society Institute Slovenia with the aim of training computer users in Maribor area with free Internet access, information and advisory services on usage and data bases, and education consultations.

www.kibla.org

SPAIN

The ASEDEM (Asociación Española de Empresas deMultimedia) is the cooperation unit of numerous companies in the spheres of informatics, hardware, software and service. It has two main areas of activities: information and education in all areas of multimedia and communication within companies and institutions.

www.asedem.org


The University of Vic (UVic) is a private university providing a public service. It is a Catalan university devoted to higher education and research, providing undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education.

The University of Vic comprises faculties, schools, departments, institutes, services and other bodies. Together, these foster and promote study, scientific and humanistic research, education and professional training for the social, cultural and economic progress of society in general.

The Faculty of Business and Communication Studies deals with the disciplines of applied economics, small and medium-sized enterprises and the area of communication.

http://www.uvic.es/

SWITZERLAND

SwissMedia, the Swiss Association for creation and engineering in communication, encourages the creation and the operation of diverse economic sectors as well as European training based on new digital technologies of communication by grouping companies and specialized institutions.

www.swissmedia.ch

TURKEY

Yildiz Technical University, the Communication Design Department was established in 1998 and accepted its first students in the same year. Being the first Multimedia School in Turkey, the department aims to train contemporary individuals who have ability to design in the digital media.

www.ilet.yildiz.edu.tr


Visual Communication Design Department at Yeditepe University is based on the rapid developments that the tools, systems and the institutions of modern communications are undergoing and the social transformations that these developments bring about. The curriculum reflects an interdisciplinary approach to develop the background, ability and versatile skills for digital media. The team also organizes the Annual International Symposium of Interactive Media Design.

newmedia.yeditepe.edu.tr

UNITED KINGDOM

CODEWORKS Connect is the trade organisation for digital businesses in the North East. Connect actively supports the competitiveness and sustained growth of the region’s digital SMEs with a focus on three key areas:

- Access to finance
- Business development and marketing
- Networking and skills

Members are drawn from the entire spectrum of the North East’s vibrant digital media and technology industries including software, web design and games development.

CODEWORKS Connect provides a voice for the sector, raising the profile locally, nationally and internationally to create real business results for member companies. Lobbying government, supporting trade missions and pro-active media relations all contribute to putting Connect members in a winning position.

CODEWORKS is the North East’s Centre of Digital Excellence. Connect is a crucial part of CODEWORKS’ ten year strategy to build competitive advantage through the creation and application of world-class digital technologies and media, by bringing together the region’s businesses, academic and policy stakeholders into co-coordinated initiatives. CODEWORKS is active in three key areas - digital industry support, corporate finance and digital innovation.

www.codeworksconnect.net


BIMA works to support the creative excellence and craftsmanship within digital media. It represents the many different strands of the interactive media industry and, by support, education and encouragement, it maintains and raises the standards of excellence. BIMA’s aims are to act as a portal between government, corporates and creative media, promote dialogue within the interactive media industry, recognise and reward creative excellence within all fields of the industry, encourage new creative talent to enter the industry, link groups of creatives throughout the UK, act on behalf of the industry for its customers, seek opportunities for funding to promote the interests of UK new media abroad, set up opportunities for training, networking and recruitment and set standards in industry; e.g. copyright issues, contractual matters, codes of conduct.

http://www.bima.co.uk/


Submerge is an annual playground for digital art, science and technology, which bring together the arts, industry and research; to create, inspire and generate - beyond expectations.

www.submerge.org.uk