MEDIAROAD CLOSING CONFERENCE

ACCELERATING EUROPEAN MEDIA INNOVATION

MEDIAROAD CLOSING CONFERENCE & EBU MEDIA INNOVATION EVENT

 

Tuesday 8 October 2019, 09.00 – 17.00
Hotel Renaissance, Rue du Parnasse 19, 1050 Brussels

 

Innovation is essential to ensure the sustainability and development of Europe’s media and creative industries in an increasingly global and competitive market place.

Join us for the Accelerating European Media Innovation event and find out more about the latest media technology developments.

Come and discuss the future media research and innovation projects and policy priorities for 2021-2027.

Experience the exciting on-site demos and listen to experts’ and professionals’ analysis of trends influencing the media space.

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Sandbox Prizes awarded @IBC2019

MediaRoad Sandbox Prize winners announced

The winners of the MediaRoad Sandbox Prizes were announced on Sunday 15 September, during an award ceremony taking place at IBC2019 in Amsterdam.

  • The 1st Prize was awarded to Newsbridge, a startup collaborating with France Televisions’ Sandbox, for its Newsbridge IdX project, an automatic cognitive indexing service
  • The 2nd Prize was awarded to On-Hertz, collaborating with the Vlaamse Radio Televisie (VRT) Sandbox, for their full radio studio on a tablet, providing a cost-effective and straightforward solution in mobility
  • France Télévisions Sandbox was also rewarded as the Sandbox creating the most Quality Label projects. This Sandbox was always among the most active in collaborating with startups and exploring innovative solutions, certifying 5 projects with the Quality Label as part of the MediaRoad project.

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MediaRoad’s response to the Stakeholders’ Consultation on Horizon Europe Co-design 2021-2024

Written by Heritiana Ranaivoson & Luciano Morganti


Have your say on future objectives for EU-funded research and innovation

On the 28th of June 2019, the European Union, in the preparation of the implementation of Horizon Europe, launched an online consultation to prepare a ‘Strategic Plan’ for Horizon Europe that will guide the work programmes and calls for proposals for Horizon Europe’s first four years (2021-2024). It is complemented by an online consultation on Horizon Europe Co-design – Implementation, open until the 4th of October 2019.

This post recaps MediaRoad’s response, generally asking for a more systematic presence of the media sector in Horizon Europe’s work programmes.  It follows the structure of the guidelines.

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