Germany
Name of organisation ACit - Advance Concepts for interactive
technology GmbH
Address1 Spiekerhof 6-8
Address2
Town Muenster
Postcode D-48143
Country Germany
Phone 0049.251.42310
Fax 0049.251.37223
E-mail emm@acit.net
URL www.acit.net
Managing Director Elke-Maria Melchior
Delegate 1 Elke-Maria Melchior
Job title Director
Responsibilities Management, Business
Strategy, Research and
Development,
Consultancy
Delegate 2
Job title
Responsibilities
Company size 1-10
Key activities Technology transfer, research, consultancy and training for
user
and customer oriented product creation including process
improvement; user validation / quality of use assessment for
electronic information applications and electronic publishing.
Key products SANe Tool Kit: Software Tool for design, test and evaluation of
user
interfaces for interactive applications. User interface
modeling,
simulation, calculation of metrics and reference values
Web Set: Software tool which provides metrics for measuring
critical
success factors of internet applications
EU projects ESPRIT 5429 Project MUSiC - Measuring the Usability of
Systems in Context
DRIVE V 2065 GEM - Generic Evaluation Methodology for
Integrated Driver Support Applications
ELPUB 105 - Usability Study - Handbook for Usability
Engineering in Information Engineering
ESPRIT / ESSI Project 21580 BEST GIS - Best Practice in
Software Engineering and Methodologies for developing GIS
applications
IE 2044 EUROPE-MMM Efficient usage of remote and online
publication of multimedia material
IE 2013 BASELINE - Baseline data for user validation in
Information Engineering Projects
IE 8014 UPI - Best Practice for User Validation in Information
Engineering and Electronic Publishing
Non-EU funded projects Qualitymanagement of software for vocational education.
Research Project 4.905 BIBB Bundesinstitut f|r Berufsbildung,
Berlin.
Countries of Interest
Yes Austria No Belgium Yes Czech Republic
No Denmark Yes Estonia Yes Finland
No France No Germany No Greece
Yes Hungary No Iceland No Italy
Yes Latvia Yes Lithuania No Luxembourg
No Netherlands No Norway Yes Poland
No Portugal No Republic of Ireland Yes Romania
Yes Slovakia Yes Slovenia Yes Spain
Yes Sweden Yes Switzerland No UK
Specific Sectors
Yes Authoring and Design Systems
Yes Content Management and Personalisation
No Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage
Yes Education and Training
Areas of Interest
No 3D and virtual reality
Yes Applications software
No CD-ROM/DVD/Multimedia
No Content Owner
No Search engines
Yes Security and payment systems
No Systems hardware
No Systems integration
No Transaction and e-commerce
No User interfaces
No Web design
Areas of Specialisation
No 3D and virtual reality
No Applications software
No Artificial intelligence
Yes CD-ROM/DVD/multimedia
Yes Content Owner
No Search engines
No Security and payment systems
No Systems hardware
No Systems integration
No Transaction and e-commerce
Yes User interfaces
No Web design
Name of organisation ALTUS Analytics
Address1 Ehrenbergstr. 33
Address2
Town Berlin
Postcode 14195
Country Germany
Phone ++49 30 84199810
Fax ++49 30 84199899
E-mail spangenberg@altus.de
URL www.altus.de
Managing Director Thomas Look
Delegate 1 Jochen Spangenberg
Job title Head of Projects
Responsibilities Co-ordinating all
(multi)media research
projects
Delegate 2 Thomas Look
Job title Executive Director, ALTUS
Analytics
Responsibilities Running ALTUS Analytics
Company size 11-50
Key activities ALTUS Analytics is a company involved in a variety of
(multi)media-related activities. It specialises in media, finance
and research topics, while the newly-founded subsidiary
ALTUS Media GmbH is concentrating on Internet-related
activities (webcasting etc.)
Key products Consulting in the media-related domain;
Project management;
Research advice;
Conference planning and organisation;
Finacial advice services;
Webcasting (all kinds of events from conferences to events)
EU projects ALTUS is currently involved in:
1.) MIRAGE (IE 8036 Telematics _ Information Engineering):
A Combined Multimedia Development Environment for TV,
Radio and On-Line Production and Delivery
2.) TRIMEDIA (EP 26942 Esprit): An Advanced Electronic
Commerce Environment for Bi/Trimedial Programming,
Delivery, Interaction, Co-operation and Commercial
Transaction in the Broadcasting Sector (Radio, TV, On-Line)
3.) ESTIMA RATIO (EP 24358 Esprit): Emerging Software
Technologies in Media Forecasting and Classification _
Risks, Rewards, Solutions
4.) CARO (EP 25395 Esprit): Electronic Commerce and the
Alignment of Radio Production and Distribution _ On-Line
Services, Audio / Music-On-Demand and Electronic
Programme Exchange
5.) OPAL (EP 25389 Esprit): On-Line Programmes, Digital
Archives and Distributed Editorial Collaboration
Non-EU funded projects
Countries of Interest
Yes Austria Yes Belgium Yes Czech Republic
Yes Denmark Yes Estonia Yes Finland
Yes France No Germany Yes Greece
Yes Hungary No Iceland Yes Italy
Yes Latvia Yes Lithuania Yes Luxembourg
Yes Netherlands Yes Norway Yes Poland
Yes Portugal Yes Republic of Ireland No Romania
No Slovakia No Slovenia Yes Spain
Yes Sweden Yes Switzerland Yes UK
Specific Sectors
Yes Authoring and Design Systems
Yes Content Management and Personalisation
Yes Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage
No Education and Training
Areas of Interest
Yes 3D and virtual reality
Yes Applications software
No CD-ROM/DVD/Multimedia
Yes Content Owner
No Search engines
Yes Security and payment systems
No Systems hardware
Yes Systems integration
No Transaction and e-commerce
Yes User interfaces
Yes Web design
Areas of Specialisation
No 3D and virtual reality
No Applications software
No Artificial intelligence
Yes CD-ROM/DVD/multimedia
No Content Owner
No Search engines
No Security and payment systems
No Systems hardware
No Systems integration
Yes Transaction and e-commerce
Yes User interfaces
Yes Web design
Name of organisation Consulting Trust Management Consultants
Address1
Address2 Weisses Venn 105
Town Herzebrock
Postcode D-33442
Country Germany
Phone +49-5245-1564
Fax +49-5245-1564
E-mail b.stukenbroeker@t-online.de
URL
Managing Director Dr. Berthold Stukenbroeker
Delegate 1 Dr. Berthold Stukenbroeker
Job title Partner
Responsibilities IT-, EP- and
Internet-Consulting,
Strategy Development
Delegate 2
Job title
Responsibilities
Company size 1-10
Key activities Strategy Consultancy for those clients who are interested in
Multimedia, Internet, Electronic Publishing etc.
Key products Strategy Studies:
1) New Opportunities for Publishers in the Information
Services Market
2) Corporate Publishing
3) Multimedia and Strategies
EU projects Strategy Study 1993: New Opportunities for Publishers in the
Information Services Market
Non-EU funded projects
Countries of Interest
No Austria No Belgium No Czech Republic
No Denmark No Estonia No Finland
No France No Germany No Greece
No Hungary No Iceland No Italy
No Latvia No Lithuania No Luxembourg
No Netherlands No Norway No Poland
No Portugal No Republic of Ireland No Romania
No Slovakia No Slovenia No Spain
No Sweden No Switzerland No UK
Specific Sectors
No Authoring and Design Systems
No Content Management and Personalisation
No Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage
No Education and Training
Areas of Interest
No 3D and virtual reality
No Applications software
No CD-ROM/DVD/Multimedia
No Content Owner
No Search engines
No Security and payment systems
No Systems hardware
No Systems integration
No Transaction and e-commerce
No User interfaces
No Web design
Areas of Specialisation
No 3D and virtual reality
No Applications software
No Artificial intelligence
No CD-ROM/DVD/multimedia
No Content Owner
No Search engines
No Security and payment systems
No Systems hardware
No Systems integration
No Transaction and e-commerce
No User interfaces
No Web design
Name of organisation Fraunhofer IAO Stuttgart
Address1
Address2 Nobelstrasse 12
Town Stuttgart
Postcode 70569
Country Germany
Phone 0049 711 970 01
Fax 0049 711 970 2299
E-mail Isabella.Hofstetter@iao.fhg.de
URL www.iao.fhg.de
Managing Director Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bullinger
Hans-Jvrg
Delegate 1 Isabella Hofstetter
Job title Project Manager
Responsibilities Online Publishing
Delegate 2
Job title
Responsibilities
Company size 101-500
Key activities applied research in all finds of design, planning and
realisation in new media
Key products all new business processes methods and applied computer
science such as multimedia applications, training, VR,
CSCW, Tele-cooperation, etc.
EU projects over 40 European projects
Non-EU funded projects there are more than 100 projects per year, mainly funded by
industry
Countries of Interest
Yes Austria Yes Belgium Yes Czech Republic
Yes Denmark Yes Estonia Yes Finland
Yes France No Germany Yes Greece
Yes Hungary Yes Iceland Yes Italy
Yes Latvia Yes Lithuania No Luxembourg
Yes Netherlands Yes Norway Yes Poland
Yes Portugal Yes Republic of Ireland Yes Romania
Yes Slovakia Yes Slovenia Yes Spain
Yes Sweden Yes Switzerland Yes UK
Specific Sectors
Yes Authoring and Design Systems
Yes Content Management and Personalisation
No Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage
Yes Education and Training
Areas of Interest
No 3D and virtual reality
No Applications software
No CD-ROM/DVD/Multimedia
No Content Owner
No Search engines
No Security and payment systems
No Systems hardware
No Systems integration
No Transaction and e-commerce
No User interfaces
No Web design
Areas of Specialisation
Yes 3D and virtual reality
Yes Applications software
No Artificial intelligence
Yes CD-ROM/DVD/multimedia
Yes Content Owner
Yes Search engines
Yes Security and payment systems
No Systems hardware
No Systems integration
Yes Transaction and e-commerce
Yes User interfaces
Yes Web design
Name of organisation NETCOM Institute Leipzig
Address1 Salomonstrasse 21
Address2 Leipzig
Town Germany
Postcode
Country Germany
Phone 49-341-9927901
Fax 49-341-9926152
E-mail wolfgang.medienstadt@okay.net
URL
Managing Director Hans Joerg Stiehler
Delegate 1 Wolfgang Kleinwaechter
Job title Director
Responsibilities Research
Delegate 2
Job title
Responsibilities
Company size 1-10
Key activities Research on Internet Applications, Regional Development
and Information Society, Internet Governance and
eCommerce.
Key products Studies
Conferences
EU projects ETHOS
IRISI
Non-EU funded projects
Countries of Interest
No Austria No Belgium No Czech Republic
No Denmark No Estonia No Finland
No France No Germany No Greece
No Hungary No Iceland No Italy
No Latvia No Lithuania No Luxembourg
No Netherlands No Norway No Poland
No Portugal No Republic of Ireland No Romania
No Slovakia No Slovenia No Spain
No Sweden No Switzerland No UK
Specific Sectors
No Authoring and Design Systems
No Content Management and Personalisation
No Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage
Yes Education and Training
Areas of Interest
No 3D and virtual reality
No Applications software
No CD-ROM/DVD/Multimedia
Yes Content Owner
No Search engines
No Security and payment systems
No Systems hardware
No Systems integration
No Transaction and e-commerce
No User interfaces
No Web design
Areas of Specialisation
No 3D and virtual reality
No Applications software
No Artificial intelligence
No CD-ROM/DVD/multimedia
Yes Content Owner
No Search engines
No Security and payment systems
No Systems hardware
No Systems integration
No Transaction and e-commerce
No User interfaces
No Web design
Name of organisation Pixelpark GmbH
Address1 Reuchlinstr. 10-11
Address2
Town Berlin
Postcode D-10553
Country Germany
Phone +49/30/34981542
Fax +49/30/34981697
E-mail michel@pixelpark.com
URL http://www.pixelpark.com
Managing Director Paulus Neef
Delegate 1 Oliver Michel
Job title Managing Director R&D
Responsibilities Product Management,
Senior Project
Management, HR
Management Research &
Development
Delegate 2
Job title
Responsibilities
Company size 101-500
Key activities Pixelpark is a consulting company, multimedia agency and
software developer all in one, specialised in the development
and implementation of custom-tailored multimedia solutions.
With a staff of over 170 (full-time and freelancers) in Berlin,
Hamburg, Stuttgart, Paris, London and New York and two
subisidiaries in Switzerland, Pixelpark-MMK, and
Pixelpark-Bitlab, Cologne, the multimedia agency implements
individual solutions as well as complete concepts in the
commercial areas of electronic commerce, electronic finance,
electronic marketing,electronic advertising and
event-marketing.
By the recent creation of Pixelpark Consult the chain of
services offered by the company has been expanded.
Pixelpark Consult works to identify and develop strategies and
design of business processes for the client in the area of
digital media.
The company offers all multimedia services from one source:
Consulting, conception, creation, project management,
software development, updating, maintenance as well as
long term customer service.
Furthermore, the agency offers services such as training,
innovation research and online media planning. By
establishing competence centers in Intranet-solutions and
Media-streaming Pixelpark is prepared for the emerging
markets of Internet-enabled business processes.
All EU- and national R&D projects are allocated within the unit
Strategic Research & Development headed by Juergen
Buerstenbinder and managed by Oliver Michel. The main
goals of this unit are to prepare the future of the company, to
open new markets and applications and to increase the
competence of the employees. The unit itself employs people
from 6 European countries.
Key products Consulting, Development, Integration & Design, Hosting and
maintenance in the whole e-commerce value chain,
e-finance, e-marketing, online advertising, Intranet
development, Research & Development in Workflow and
Knowledge Management, Collaborative Virtual
Environements, Information brokerage, e-commerce shop
systems, Business-TV and Media Streaming applications
EU projects RACE II-projects: CIO
TAP-projects: TURTLE, MEDICO
TEN-IBC projects: MEDIATOR
ESPRIT-projects: GROW, ADDRESS, CYBERBRAND,
MEDICOM, CAMP, CAMP II, PACER, EMMUS, PEP-PRO
MEDIA II - projects: SINKING OF THE ESTONIA,
NEANDERTHAL-CONNECTION
Non-EU funded projects HiQoS - High Quality of Service - national german R&D project
funded by the BMBF (involving Siemens, University of
Paderborn a.o.), Start: May 1998, End: April 2001.
Countries of Interest
Yes Austria Yes Belgium Yes Czech Republic
Yes Denmark Yes Estonia Yes Finland
Yes France Yes Germany No Greece
Yes Hungary Yes Iceland No Italy
Yes Latvia Yes Lithuania Yes Luxembourg
Yes Netherlands Yes Norway Yes Poland
No Portugal Yes Republic of Ireland No Romania
No Slovakia Yes Slovenia Yes Spain
Yes Sweden Yes Switzerland Yes UK
Specific Sectors
Yes Authoring and Design Systems
Yes Content Management and Personalisation
Yes Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage
Yes Education and Training
Areas of Interest
No 3D and virtual reality
No Applications software
Yes CD-ROM/DVD/Multimedia
Yes Content Owner
No Search engines
No Security and payment systems
No Systems hardware
Yes Systems integration
No Transaction and e-commerce
No User interfaces
No Web design
Areas of Specialisation
Yes 3D and virtual reality
No Applications software
No Artificial intelligence
Yes CD-ROM/DVD/multimedia
No Content Owner
No Search engines
No Security and payment systems
No Systems hardware
Yes Systems integration
Yes Transaction and e-commerce
Yes User interfaces
Yes Web design
Name of organisation Trans-Europe Mobility Consulting GmbH
Address1 Postfach 57 12
Address2
Town Konstanz
Postcode 78436
Country Germany
Phone +49-7531-958854
Fax +49-7531-958829
E-mail temco@swol.de
URL http//:www.temco-gmbh.com
Managing Director Ralph Gambetta
Delegate 1 Ralph Gambetta
Job title Managing Director
Responsibilities Transport / Mobility
Delegate 2 Axel Koecher
Job title Business Manager
Responsibilities Communication
Company size 1-10
Key activities Transport Organisation Consulting
Transport Market Analyses
Transport Planning
Mobility Consulting
Communication and Information
Set up of Mobility Management
Key products As a consulting company normally no products are delivered
except documents, analyses, best-case studies, evaluation
plans
EU projects ICARE (Integration of Contactless Applications into Transport
Environment)
CALYPSO (Contact and contactless environments Yielding a
citizen Pass integrating urban services and financial
operations)
Non-EU funded projects Mobilitdtszentrale Konstanz (funding source: participating
companies)
Countries of Interest
Yes Austria Yes Belgium Yes Czech Republic
Yes Denmark Yes Estonia Yes Finland
Yes France Yes Germany Yes Greece
Yes Hungary Yes Iceland Yes Italy
Yes Latvia Yes Lithuania Yes Luxembourg
Yes Netherlands Yes Norway Yes Poland
Yes Portugal Yes Republic of Ireland No Romania
No Slovakia Yes Slovenia Yes Spain
Yes Sweden Yes Switzerland Yes UK
Specific Sectors
No Authoring and Design Systems
Yes Content Management and Personalisation
No Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage
No Education and Training
Areas of Interest
No 3D and virtual reality
No Applications software
No CD-ROM/DVD/Multimedia
No Content Owner
No Search engines
No Security and payment systems
No Systems hardware
No Systems integration
No Transaction and e-commerce
Yes User interfaces
Yes Web design
Areas of Specialisation
No 3D and virtual reality
No Applications software
No Artificial intelligence
No CD-ROM/DVD/multimedia
No Content Owner
No Search engines
No Security and payment systems
No Systems hardware
No Systems integration
No Transaction and e-commerce
Yes User interfaces
Yes Web design