Network
UNU-MERIT
UNU-MERIT is a research and training centre of United Nations University). UNU is an international community of scholars engaged in research, postgraduate training and the dissemination of knowledge aimed at resolving the pressing global problems of human survival, development and welfare. UNU-MERIT was formally established on 1 January 2006 following the integration of the former UNU- Institute for New Technologies in Maastricht and the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology, MERIT. UNU-MERIT is located at, and works in close collaboration with the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands.
University of Maastricht
The University of Maastricht (UM) is a relatively young and swiftly growing university. It has held a unique position among the Dutch universities, especially thanks to its Problem Based Learning (PBL) concept, according to which students are working cooperatively in groups to seek solutions to real world problems. EC/DC especially collaborates with the departments of cultural studies and knowledge technology.
The European Journalism Centre
The European Journalism Centre (EJC) is an independent, international, non-profit institute dedicated to the highest standards in journalism, primarily through the further training of journalists and media professionals. Building on its extensive international network, the Centre operates as a facilitator and partner in a wide variety of training and applied research projects.
Technical University Eindhoven
The newly established TU/e department of Industrial Design is building a research programme focused on the relationship between users on the one hand and future intelligent products and services on the other. It defines the subject of designed intelligence as of great importance for future products, systems and services and has therefore made this a specific field of research of the Designed Intelligence group (DI), EC/DCs main collaboration unit.
SMIT
SMIT stands for Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication. This research centre is part of IBBT, the newly established Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology. SMIT specialises in social scientific research on socio-economic and policy aspects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and underlying infrastructures. It combines both fundamental and applied research, and has been active in short and long term, as well as national and European research projects.
Expertise Centre for Digital Media (EDM)
The Expertise Centre for Digital Media (EDM) is a research institute of the Hasselt University , Belgium. EDMs objective is to be a leading research institute in multimedia, human-computer interaction, telematics, virtual environments and computer graphics. Its research team collaborates with a score of regional and international knowledge partners and also has developed a number of spin-off companies.
The Centre for Usability Research (CUO)
The Centre for Usability Research (CUO) is a research department of the faculty of Social Sciences at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium . The CUO pursues the design of user-friendly applications as well as the evaluation of applications on their user-friendliness. The user plays a central role within each phase of the development or evaluation process.
The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)
The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) is one of the seven scientific institutes of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre s (JRC). Its mission is to provide customer-driven support to the EU policy-making process by researching science-based responses to policy challenges that have both a socio-economic and a scientific or technological dimension. The Institute's main activities therefore relate to providing strategic support for the conception and development of EU policies. Its core competence is the ability to work at the intersection between the socio-economics of an issue and the science and technology involved.
World Association of Newspapers
Founded in 1948, the World Association of Newspapers groups 72 national newspaper associations, individual newspaper executives in 100 nations, 13 news agencies, and nine regional press organisations. It is a non-profit, non-government organisation. EC/DC collaborates especially with its affiliate organisation The World Editors Forum and its vanguard research unit, the Shaping the Future of the Newspapers-project.