VR, AR and MR are reshaping the user and customer experience of brands and content, how audiences consume digital content, from film and games to advertising, and will permanently transform education and social media. Immersive storytelling not only improves entertainment experie … | Continue reading
The NEM White Paper on “Policy dialogue in Convergence and Social Media: requirements” has been published. The final document can be found in the NEM / Vital Media collaboration platform and accessed through the NEM Initiative website at https://nem-initiative.org/documents/posit … | Continue reading
Technically Sponsored by the **** IEEE Communications and IEEE Signal Processing Societies **** 29-31 May, 2018, Sardinia, Italy **** www.qomex2018.org **** _______________________________________________________ Important Deadlines: Special session proposal: November 15, 20 … | Continue reading
The NEM position paper on Immersivity has been published. The final document can be found in the NEM / Vital Media collaboration platform and accessed through the NEM Initiative website at https://nem-initiative.org/documents/position-papers/. If you do not have access to the col … | Continue reading
The NEM Art & Design Competition will be held at NEM Summit 2017 – deadline for contributions is on 31 October 2017 Are you a technology geek, an artist, a pair of artists & technologists, a graphical designer, or just someone interested by 3D and virtual worlds, by the Internet … | Continue reading
Are you an R&D ICT-Project coordinator or partner? Apply and have the chance of hosting a funded Artistic Residency to boost your innovation process and the dissemination of your technology! VERTIGO promotes the arts as impetus and catalysts for a creative conversion of science a … | Continue reading
Horizon 2020 is the European Union framework programme funding research and innovation. Within its future plan for 2018-2020, the part addressing information and communication technologies foresees funding to support the European research and industries in the fast moving domain … | Continue reading
The NEM position papers on Content Distribution and Hyper Personalization have been published. The final documents can be found in the NEM / Vital Media collaboration platform and accessed through the NEM Initiative website at https://nem-initiative.org/documents/position-papers/ … | Continue reading
CreativeXR gives creative talent the opportunity to experiment with immersive technologies to create new experiences that inspire audiences Focused on the creative industries, particularly the arts and culture sector; the programme gives the best creative teams the opportunity de … | Continue reading
NEM Newsletter #2 The 2nd edition of the NEM Newsletter is available for download here. | Continue reading
i3 are hosting an event in Rome, the topic is New and Current Funding Streams for Media Innovation. The aim for this workshop and masterclass is to introduce media startups to new and current investment streams in the media sectors and to consider the ‘investment readiness’ of th … | Continue reading
INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to: CONTENT 2018, The Tenth International Conference on Creative Content Technologies The submission … | Continue reading
Dear NEM members If you are you planning to attend IBC in Amsterdam this year, would you like to meet up with your NEM colleagues? Some NEM members will be getting together on Monday 18th September 2017 at 12:00, meeting at Quobis’ stand in Hall 14 (Stand 14.N18). Please do come … | Continue reading
This award recognizes the exciting work of Europeana at the interface of technology and cultural heritage. At API World 2017, the API Industry’s largest award event, the Europeana REST API will be crowned API winner in the Data APIs category. Among hundreds of nominations, the AP … | Continue reading
After two issues gathering more than a thousand participants, 49 speakers and 37 partners, La French Tech Rennes St Malo decided to come back with a third edition on the 8th of December 2017 in Brittany’s capital city – Rennes. The main themes of this year’s event will be rob … | Continue reading
THE ARTS+ and NEM invite you to participate in the CALL for interest for the Working Summit on Innovation in the Cultural and Creative sectors: How to support technologically triggered innovation. Wednesday 11 October 2017, Frankfurt am Main, Germany THE ARTS+, the business festi … | Continue reading
On the 9th of June, during the Futur en Seine festival, Paris&Co hosted the NEM Creative Industries Meetup, organized by Cap Digital and the NEM Intiative. Numerous stakeholders from creative industries sector gathered to exchange, network and test innovative solutions. After a s … | Continue reading
CALL FOR PAPERS for 14th annual EuroVR conference 12-14 December, 2017, Laval, France http://eurovr2017.laval-virtual.org/ Download CfP as pdf here. ************************************************************************ After Bremen (2014), Lecco (2015) and Athens (2016), we ar … | Continue reading
Conference on internet, the economy and society in 2027 28 and 29 June 2017, Brussels, Belgium http://netfuturesconference.eu Internet, the economy and society in 2027 We are going through a technological revolution that will fundamentally change the way we live, work, and relate … | Continue reading
THE BEST IN HERITAGE With IMAGINES Dubrovnik, Croatia, 28-30 September 2017 The Best in Heritage conference runs over three days and includes a day focused on multimedia and new technology achievements and two days of projects from around the world. The handpicked selection of mo … | Continue reading
On 7 December 2017 in the afternoon, Images & Réseaux will organize a brokerage event in Nantes to cover the following topics : Security content and blockchain challenges and opportunities. The agenda will be as follows: 14:00 – 14:20 : Opening session, presentation of NEM Initia … | Continue reading
Wednesday, 11 Oct 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair (THE ARTS+ hall 4.1) Working Summit on Innovation: How to support technologically triggered innovation in the cultural and creative industries THE ARTS+, the business festival for the creative and cultural scene, will host a Working Sum … | Continue reading
Music WorX is the accelerator of the city of Hamburg for innovative start-ups in the music industry. Application process open until June 5th The Music WorX Accelerator offers an intensive professional and financial support for start-ups and their innovative business idea. A maxim … | Continue reading
ELAN Network is an initiative funded by the European Commission to generate tech-based business opportunities between Europe and Latin America & the Caribbean, as well as create strategic partnerships between intermediary organisations to enable these business opportunities to oc … | Continue reading
23rd NEM General Assembly was held in Brussels on 11 May 2017 We would like to thank to the General Assembly participants for nice discussions we had during the event. The presentation slides from the event are available here. | Continue reading
The portal is open to provide Expression of Interest in creating project proposals and consortiums in the NEM research and innovation areas targeting the Horizon 2020 Objective ICT-20-2017 “Tools for smart digital content in the creative industries” and Objective ICT-23-2017 “Int … | Continue reading
INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to: SOTICS 2017, The Seventh International Conference on Social Media Technologies, Communication, a … | Continue reading
Creative Industries MeetUp at Futur en Seine Festival Friday 9 June Le Cargo, 157 Boulevard Macdonald, 75019 Paris, France Immersive Technology for Creative Industries Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, When Technology Meets Content You are a large company, a start-up, a public … | Continue reading
The New Realities roundtable, panel discussion and 1:1 brokerage meetings are the fringe events that Digital Catapult is holding in conjuction with the D&AD Festival – one of the world’s largest and most prominent awards ceremonies for the creative industries. Digital Catapult to … | Continue reading
Heraklion, Crete, Greece — July 3, 2017 Co-Located with IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2017) http://www.ics.forth.gr/iscc2017/ Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Communications Society Theme and Scope =============== Digital e … | Continue reading
Mr. Jesus Villasante, Head of Unit at the EC, is pleased to inform you that the outcome report of the NGI consultation has been published. Please find it on Futurium. You can find information on the current call for NGI support actions, ICT-41-2017. The submission deadline is 25 … | Continue reading
CARTOON 360 is a new pitching event where producers will be able to pitch their cross-media animation project in front of 25 experts from various digital universes. The 2 1/2 day-event will focus on 2 parts: Pitching sessions of cross-media projects, including an interactive disc … | Continue reading
Cartoon Movie is neither a fair nor a festival, but rather a pitching & co-pro forum for animated feature films. For two days, producers have the opportunity to pitch their film project in order to speed up financing, find co-producers and interest international distributors. Sin … | Continue reading
I3 is supporting R&D transfer from lab to market in the area of Social Media and Convergence. Innovative solutions are being supported via workshops and by providing recommendations to policymakers. All interested startups and other relevant stakeholders are invited to participat … | Continue reading
Brussels, February 16th 2017 iMinds-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 9, 1050 Brussels, Belgium One of the aims i3 project (i3project.eu/) is to engage the stakeholder community of policy makers and entrepreneurs in a Policy Dialogue to address regulatory, normative and … | Continue reading
at ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video (TVX 2017) June 14th 2017 in Hilversum, Netherlands (www.iet-multimedialabs.org/current-research/idb-workshop) Traditional broadcasters are losing their younger audiences. New ways of user … | Continue reading
Cap Digital, Images & Réseaux, Imaginove and Pole Media Grand Paris attended the 2016 edition of the NEM summit in Porto on Nov. 23-25 devoted to driving the future of digital experience. The New European Media (NEM, www.nem-initiative.org, @NEM_ETP) initiative is a Horizon 2020 … | Continue reading
On December 15, Danish Sound and CopenX has joined forces to put together CopenXSound 2016 – Immersed in Audio. The ambition is to increase the awareness of the importance of immersive audio, as well as empower professionals to start implementing immersive audio solutions to new … | Continue reading
TVX is the leading international conference for presentation and discussion of research into online video, TV interaction and user experience; and as such, it has always been a great venue for NEM members to present and share media research & development results. 14-16 June 2017 … | Continue reading
The 12th annual Digital TV Central and Eastern Europe event is taking place in Budapest, Hungary from 25-26 October 2016 (https://tmt.knect365.com/digital-tv-cee/). This is the only forum of its kind to unite fixed and mobile TV operators in identifying business strategy for the … | Continue reading
A new NEM Expression of Interest Portal was created in order to be able to submit your idea or view available information, please, follow the link. | Continue reading
The largest VR & AR Event in Europe VR & AR World brings together the leading exponents of Virtual and Augmented Reality worldwide, featuring technology case studies, debates and demonstrations to unite the ecosystem and maximise the full commercial potential of this rapidly dev … | Continue reading
Brussels, July 7th 2016 iMinds – Pleinlaan 9, 1050 Brussels, Belgium The i3 (Impact Innovate Invest) consortium would like to invite you and your consortium partners, to our first workshop of information exchange between ICT-19 projects (Technologies for creative industries, soci … | Continue reading
Towards European Strategic Cluster Partnerships (ESCP) for smart specialization investments A new call for the expression of interest has been launched by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs. Its main objective is … | Continue reading
The Converging Media and Content Unit of DG CONNECT is looking for your input to start the drafting of the new H2020 Work Programme. A survey has been prepared to be filled in at this link (https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/FutureMedia-H2020). Deadline for contribution is the … | Continue reading
i3 Impact Innovation Invest is a 30 months Coordination and Support Action for ICT 19-2015 technologies for creative industries, social media and convergence. In accordance with the European Council’s conclusion that “Europe needs an integrated approach from research and innovati … | Continue reading
In the framework of the preparation of 5G PPP Phase 3 (2018-2020 Work Programme), we would like to get your views on what should be done in 5G PPP Phase 3 through a simple questionnaire. The results of this questionnaire will be used to draft a contribution for the European Commi … | Continue reading