NTUA is the oldest and most prestigious technical university in Greece. It was founded in 1837 and has since been contributing to the progress of the engineering science in Greece. The University comprises nine departments, each one covering a different aspect of the engineering field. The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of the National Technical University of Athens is well known in Greece and abroad for the research achievements of its faculty members and the good reputation of its students and alumni. The Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) is a research organisation associated with the School of ECE and has about 40 laboratories and research units presently active which are established by the implementation of several structural programmes. The Distributed, Knowledge and Media Systems Group (DKMS), is a research laboratory operating under ICCS.
The Valenciaport Foundation for Research, Promotion and Commercial Studies of the Valencia region (Valenciaport Foundation) is a private non-profit research centre created in 2004 through an agreement between the most representative associations and companies of the Valencia logistics-ports community and various institutions of the Valencia region, all of which are involved in logistics and maritime transport. The Valenciaport Foundation team is composed of R&D&I specialists and engineers in the fields of digital transformation, ICT, industrial, maritime and intermodal transport, logistics and transport economics. The Valenciaport Foundation manifests an R&D&I centre of excellence that not only undertakes its own academic research but also serves as a tool at the service of all agents involved in the transport and logistics chain and particularly within the maritime, port and transport domains, these being key competitive elements buttressing the internationalisation process of Spanish companies. On top of the activities linked to research and training, the Valenciaport Foundation also carries out international cooperation projects focused on the optimal and integrated development of transport, logistics and ports located in third countries.
TRAXENS was created with the vision that multimodal container industry could make huge gains in efficiency, service, and protection of the planet if every company and every person in the supply chain has the right information at the right time. Any solution created to fulfil this vision had to be designed for massive deployment. TRAXENS delivers the world’s most exhaustive, precise and timely information on containers and container transporters allowing all stakeholders in multi-modal transport to improve costs, optimize investment, and offer premium services. To attain this performance TRAXENS led a 3-year R&D program to develop specific technology required to produce cost effective, durable and autonomous devices for a wide range of container data capture and real-time transmission of this data from anywhere on the globe. TRAXENS works with industry leaders to create advanced technical standards with the objective of taking the entire shipping industry to new levels of productivity. CMA CGM and MSC are minority shareholders and are deploying TRAXENS solution across their container fleets starting early 2017.
NTT Data Spain (https://es.nttdata.com) is a large ICT Company and part of the NTT DATA group, that offers its clients comprehensive business solutions covering all aspects of the value chain, from business strategy to systems implementation. From a business perspective, NTT DATA Spain covers actions in economic sectors such as Industry, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Public Sector, Utilities, Insurance, Media, Telecom or Banking. NTT Data also counts on with several technological key lines, such as AI, Cybersecurity, blockchain, IoT or Cloud. It is active on EU undertaking a wide range of innovative activities, such as technological developments, pilots implementations, industry reports and surveys, business plans, commercialisation and exploitation programs, integration developments and coordination management. As a result, the company gathers experts on projects management, preparation and implementation of business and exploitation plans, software development and dissemination, as well as a wide range of technological knowledge, put at the innovation activities disposal.
The Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) is one of the largest research centres in Greece. It was founded in 2000 and is located in Thessaloniki, Greece. The mission of CERTH is to promote the triplet Research – Development – Innovation by conducting high quality scientific research and developing innovative products and services while building strong partnerships with industry (national and international) and strong collaborations with research centres and universities in Greece and abroad.
The Information Technologies Institute (ITI) was founded in 1998 as a non-profit organisation under the auspices of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology of the Greek Ministry of Development, with its head office located in Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 10/03/2000 it is a founding member of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) also supervised by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT). CERTH/ITI is one of the leading Institutions of Greece in the fields of Informatics, Telematics and Telecommunications, with long experience in numerous European and national R&D projects. It is active in a large number of application sectors (energy, buildings and construction, health, manufacturing, robotics, (cyber)security, transport, smart cities, space, agri-food, marine and blue growth, water, etc.) and technology areas such as data and visual analytics, data mining, machine and deep learning, virtual and augmented reality, image processing, computer and cognitive vision, human computer interaction, IoT and communication technologies, navigation technologies, cloud and computing technologies, distributed ledger technologies (blockchain), (semantic) interoperability, system integration, mobile and web applications, hardware design and development, smart grid technologies and solutions and social media analysis.
