With the aim of uniting and highlighting the Greek talent in the creative industries (creative industries) and its connection, through technology, with the sectors of Culture and Tourism, the Collaborative Formation of Recreational and Creative Technologies & Applications - gi-Cluster, managed within just five years of its launch to grow rapidly and to be among the fewer clusters worldwide in the field of creative industries who have received the top distinction of excellence "Gold label"By the European Cluster Analysis Secretariat (ESCA).
This top-notch gi-Cluster, which at the same time achieves Greece's position on the global "map" of Creative Industries, is the result of a steady development of the domestic value chain of the creative economy that, against the crisis, develops innovative products and services that are exported and distinguished on the world market while at the same time conducting research and development on an equal footing with the leading European research and academic pockets of excellence.
The innovation ecosystem of gi-Cluster, under its management Corallia, is now approaching 60 members and dozens of other partners, including small and medium enterprises, startups, academic institutions, research centers, technology institutes and other innovation institutions covering a wide range of the digital digital creative economy.
About half of the members of gi-Cluster focus on the Entertainment Technologies and Applications industry by developing software and applications of entertainment & educational character as well as technological solutions and gamification tools, while the rest are active in the development of Creative Content and Audiovisual Applications such as of Culture, modern services and applications for the Tourism industry and production of digital multimedia material.
It is characteristic that, according to a study by the European Commission, over the next three years, only the European digital creative market is expected to grow by 63 billion and create 5 millions of new jobs, due directly to the catalytic introduction of Information Technology Creative Industries.
Gi-Cluster is the only ecosystem in Greece that cultivates this new multi-sector collaboration environment in the creative economy, combining application development, online services and data management with visual arts, social and human sciences, audiovisual productions and other related sectors.
The ultimate goal of gi-Cluster is to exploit the proliferation factor of our country's strong competitive advantages in the fields of Tourism and Culture and to promote the Greek creative economy as a major lever for the development and research activity of Europe.
The acquisition of Gold Label was made possible thanks to the participation and contribution of all its members: Accusonus, Akazoo, Autofire, Auvious, Aventurine, Code Factory, COMIC, Corallia / RC Athena, CulturPlay, DNA Labs, EV ZIN, Eyelead Software, Flipped Horizons , Games2Gaze, GPC Works, Green Games, Icehole, Icon Platforms, ImmersionFX, InCity Applications, Innoetics, Intelearn, InternetQ, Intralot, Intralot Interactive, JoyFoundry, Kyttaro Games, Lancom, Lazyland, Mentat, Mobics, mobileFX, Moptil, Owiw , PeaceOFF, Pegneon, ReallyREAL, Simple Apps, Tamasenco Cyprus, Tamasenco Hellas, Trebbble, Tripart, Variably, Vermantia, 7L International, AIT - Laboratory of Research and Training in Information Technologies, Athens School of Fine Arts Of Virtual Reality of the University of Peloponnese, Laboratory of New Technologies of Panteion University, Laboratory of Microcomputers & Digital Systems of the National Technical University of Athens, Laboratory Department of New Technologies in Communication and Mass Media of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laboratory of Digital Image, Video and Multimedia Processing of the Research Institute of Communication Systems & Computers, Institute of Major Hellenism Ε. of TEI Piraeus, Panhellenic Association of Entertainment Software Creators.
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