Mediapro Research (MPRO) – Spain
MEDIAPRODUCCION, S.L., is a Spanish business group in the communication industry that includes all the technical and creative personnel necessary to set up and broadcast any type of audiovisual creation. MPRO has a presence in the audiovisual contents production sector; in sports and also manages cinema rights, consultancy services related to television and sports; creation, design and production of themed channels, different formats and genres for television; cinema production and interactive content; as well as in post-production services. Technical engineering in the broadcast field, broadcast and marketing services, communication and advertisement commercialization are other activities developed by the group.

Bit Management (BIT) – Germany
Bitmanagement Software GmbH, is a German leading developer of interactive, real-time 3D and multimedia software for a diverse range of markets and applications, based on the international Web 3D standards X3D, VRML and MPEG-4. BIT’s product portfolio empowers business to rapidly develop and deploy custom, high performance, Internet enabled 3D solutions that are tailored to their particular market and seamlessly integrated with their existing hardware and software investments.

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) – Sweden
Royal Institute of Technology, is Sweden’s largest technical university, providing about one third of the technical research and university-level technical training in Sweden. It awarded 1056 M.S. Degrees (29% women) and 209 Ph.D. degrees (28% women) during 2007. It has about 259 full professors and has a turnover of 312 million Euro per year. It received 145 million Euro in external research financing in 2007. The KTH central administration has officers dedicated to EU project issues and to legal issues that form a resource for the departments.

Expertise Centre for Digital Media (EDM) – Belgium
The Expertise Centre for Digital Media, is a self-supporting research institute of Hasselt University (UH) and is located at the Science Park in Diepenbeek, Belgium. EDM is active since 1987 in information and communication technology (ICT). As a research centre, EDM focuses on fundamental and applied research projects. The fundamental research strongly supports the applied research. The applied research consists mainly of contract research and development projects with large companies, SMEs and the government.

Fundació Barcelona Media Universitat Pompeu Fabra (BM) – Spain
Fundació Barcelona Media Universitat Pompeu Fabra, is a Spanish research centre created to foster the competitiveness of the Catalan media and communication industry through innovative research activities and projects. BM actively promotes technology generation and development; research and creativity; transfer of research results to industry; promotion of the research results to society at large; training in all areas of communication; and social awareness of the communication industry in a culture of innovation.

Retevisión I S.A. (RETE) – Spain
Retevisión I S.A., is the Spanish leading group in telecommunication infrastructures and services. RETE and Tradia are integrated in Abertis Telecom which forms part of Abertis, the European leader company in infrastructure management, and one of the most outstanding business groups in terms of profitability and financial capacity. RETE has a very competitive shift network for the transmission and distribution of radio and TV signals and provides the most cutting-edge audiovisual services in analogue and digital transmission of television and radio.

Svenska Tracab AB (TRAC) – Sweden
Svenska Tracab AB, is a Swedish company that creates real time digital sports content providing a unique end-user experience for the sports, media and entertainment industries. The sports content provided by TRAC is captured by its TRAC Image Tracking System™, a proprietary patented data capture and image processing technology. The uniqueness of its patented System is that it can detect the positioning of player activities in any sports arena, in real time, which in the case of football means positioning of 22 players, 3 referees and 1 ball 25 times per second and with an accuracy of below 1 decimetre.

EVS Broadcast Equipment (EVS) – Belgium
EVS Broadcast Equipment, is a leader in the design of hardware and software for the production and play out of sport, news and TV programs in both live and near-live environments. Their innovative Live Slow Motion system revolutionized live broadcasting and their technology is now widely used in nonlinear editing and High Definition Television across the television broadcast market worldwide.