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 charter members and dozens more plusemployees actors, including small and medium-sized enterprises, startups, academic institutions, research centers, technology institutes and other innovation actors, covering a wide range of the domestic 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's made of feature that according to a relevant study by the European Commission, in the next three years, the European digital creative economy market alone is expected to grow by 63 billion euros and create 5 million new jobs, which is directly due to the catalytic introduction of IT in the 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 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, ΕΥΝΙΝ, 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, Owiwi, Paspartu, PeaceOFF, Pegneon, ReallyREAL, Simple Apps, Tamasenco Cyprus, Tamasenco Greece, Trebbble, Tripart, Variably, Vermantia, 7L International, AIT – Laboratory of Research and Training in Information Technologies, Athens School of Fine Arts, Human-Machine Communication & Virtual Reality Laboratory of the University of Peloponnese, New Technologies Laboratory of Panteion University, Microcomputers & Digital Systems Laboratory of the National Technical University of Athens, Laboratory of New Technologies in Communication and the media of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laboratory of Digital Image, Video and Multimedia Processing of the Research University Institute of Communication & Computer Systems, Foundation of Greater Hellenism, Institute of Industrial Systems, Institute of Speech Processing, Department of Electronic Engineering T.E. of T.E.I. Piraeus, Panhellenic Association of Entertainment Software Creators.
