This company, established in 2008, is a spin-off company of an Italian university. It has considerable experience in the field of computer graphics and virtual and augmented reality applied to the cultural heritage and industrial engineering fields. In recent years it has focused part of its research and business activities in the blue economy sector.

Since 2012, the company has focused on underwater technologies, developing innovative systems for underwater 3D reconstruction and technologies to help the divers during the exploration of underwater archaeological sites. Moreover, the company has considerable experience in developing virtual underwater visits to simulate a diving session on underwater archaeological sites using technologies, like virtual reality. The company has also expertise in designing and developing serious games and digital storytelling to provide the wide public with innovative ways to access the cultural heritage and underwater cultural heritage (UCH).

This Italian company is the coordinator of a project funded under the call "European Cooperation projects (CREA-CULT-2021-COOP)", Programme "Creative Europe Programme” (CREA). This project aims at creating a trans-national and cross-sectorial collaboration framework in which cultural institutions, scientific and research bodies, creative professionals, and technology experts can co-produce Culture and Creative Applications and digital products to communicate, disseminate and promote Cultural Heritage, with a special focus on the Underwater Cultural Heritage, and, simultaneously, raise awareness about relevant social problems such as pollution and other environmental threats that affect the oceans. Preservation and protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH) are directly linked to major threats to the marine environment, including pollution, ghost gears, fisheries, unsustainable yachting/boating etc.

This cooperation strategy should be based on innovative co-production approaches that facilitate the actors involved to combine their efforts, implement participatory design methods, deal transparently with intellectual property (IP) and copyright issues, thus achieving their common goal of producing cultural products designed to improve communication, promotion and awareness of UCH. The company has launched an open call aimed to select cultural institutions or organizations (e.g.: museums, universities, public bodies, research centers, NGOs, etc...) involved in the research, conservation, protection and/or dissemination of the UCH linked to the Mediterranean cultures, that wish to support the project by joining the partners in the co-production of the serious game.

Partner sought:

• The Italian company is looking for institutions/organizations such as museums, universities, public bodies, research centers, NGOs, etc. involved in the research, conservation, protection and/or dissemination of the UCH linked to the Mediterranean cultures, that wish to support the project by joining the partners in the co-production of the serious game.
• These institutions/organizations will be able to promote their UCH by including the digital model of one of their sites in the Serious Game that will be co-produced in the project. Each applicant can propose 1 to 3 UCH sites linked to Mediterranean cultures particularly relevant from the historical and natural/ecological point of view
• Applicant institutions can decide to participate in two different ways:
• 1) by putting an existing 3D model of the proposed UCH site at the project’s disposal so that it can become one of the serious game locations and participating at the online training;
• 2) by participating in the training courses, during which the site survey will be performed and the 3D model will be produced and used in the serious game.
• The interested institutions/organizations will be guided to the dedicated platform in order to apply to the call.

Link to the opportunity

Contact

Suport en la inscripció: valoritzacio@udg.edu