Projects of MFG Baden-Württemberg
MFG Baden-Württemberg, the Public Innovation Agency for ICT and Media in the Southwest of Germany, is involved in several projects, both as project lead and cooperating partner constantly. Currently MFG's emploees manage more than 30 initiatives and development programmes as well as research and technology projects.
Current Projects
Boo-Games
The Boo-Games project aims to support the public regional development authorities in understanding the importance of the games industry for the European economy. For this reason Boo-Games focuses on different elements which are relevant for the industry.
bwcon
Baden-Württemberg: Connected, or bwcon for short, is the top business initiative promoting Baden-Württemberg as a high-tech location. As one of the most successful European technology networks, bwcon connects more than 480 companies and research institutes. Currently more than 4,600 experts are benefiting from systematic networking via bwcon ...
CCAlps
CCAlps aims to create a real and virtual network of hubs of cultural and creative industries in the Alps able to focus on specific issues and opportunities for local and transnational development. The project will connect and create collaboration between cultural and creative industries, carriers of ideas, producers, policy makers and universities.
CreativeCH
CreativeCH aims to strengthen the cooperation and mutual innovation between institutions in the field of digital cultural heritage, Science and SMEs from the creative industries and demonstrate how these sectors can benefit from each other not only from the economic perspective but also content wise.
Creative Industries Network Baden-Württemberg
Innovations in the ICT and creative sectors frequently occur at the interfaces between different disciplines and user industries. In the context of this initiative, MFG Baden-Württemberg and about 50 partners are networking the sub-sectors of Baden-Württemberg's cultural, creative and ICT industries systematically...
CyberOne
With CyberOne innovative business ideas for products and services in all high-tech areas get awarded. bwcon: high-tech award CyberOne won renown as one of the most important business plan competitions for the high-tech sector in Baden-Württemberg. Awarded since 1998, winners are pleased with prize money and non-cash prizes ...
Digital Content Funding (DCF)
With the 2011 newly created Digital Content Fund (DCF) MFG Film Fund and MFG Innovation Agency support the development and production of interactive media applications, such as digital games, mobile applications and interactive products on various platforms ...
DMMA OnlineStar
In 2010 DMMA OnlineStar got established as a result of merging the German Multimedia Award DMMA and the OnlineStar. From 1996 until 2009 DMMA was awarded to creative online and offline projects by BVDW (Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft e.V.) and MFG Baden-Württemberg ...
MEDEAnet
MEDEAnet aims to promote media-based learning to organisations and practitioners through local training and networking events, online resources and knowledge sharing.
ECCL
The European Creative Cluster Lab (ECCL) is the think tank and beta site for new approaches and processes for creative cluster management in creative and traditional industries in Europe.
EICI
The European Interest Group on Creativity and Innovation (EICI) e. V. is a pan-European initiative of about 10 regional and local development agencies, research institutions, companies and support organisations that foster the relationships ...
Europeana Creative
The Europeana Creative project will enable and promote greater re-use of cultural heritage resources by Europe’s creative industries. The online portal Europeana provides access to more than 26 million digitised cultural heritage objects from Europe’s libraries, museums, archives and audiovisual collections.
FORT
FORT supports the development of skills for dissemination and application of research results by creating an organizational culture that is positively aligned toward innovation. To achieve this, the consortium creates transnational innovation networks and cooperations, supported by activities such as pilot projects, cross-innovation vouchers ...
Heidelberg Innovation Forum
Since 2005, the Heidelberg Innovation Forum has succeeded in bringing together IT researchers and market players in the early phases of innovation. The goal of the event is to support technology licensing and start-up funding and improve cooperation between research institutes and business enterprises ...
KARIM
KARIM –is an exciting new initiative set up to facilitate knowledge transfer across North West Europe (NWE) and to help improve small and medium sized enterprises access to high value innovation support and technology and so make NWE more competitive.
Karl Steinbuch Research Programme
With the Karl Steinbuch Research Programme the MFG Foundation particularly fosters innovative research on current issues from the ICT and creative industries. With the programme the MFG Foundation enables a set of universities of applied sciences and the Cooperative State University Baden-Wuerttemberg to new directions in research ...
Karl Steinbuch Scholarship
The Karl Steinbuch Scholarship supports selected students in the implementation of innovative projects with IT or media relation that have a scientific or artistic value. Especially in demand are interdisciplinary projects that link the two cross-cutting areas computer science and media studies with other subject areas ...
Kindermedienland Baden-Württemberg
Kindermedienland Baden-Württemberg is an initiative for strengthening IT- and media literacy of children, teenagers, parents and other persons in charge of education all over Baden-Württemberg. State-wide the project aims to concentrate, bundle, connect - and if necessary also to build up - initiatives, ...
Learning 2.0gether
The main goal of Learning2.0gether is to help both younger and older generations in the job market. It will improve the chances for young unemployed people who already have skills in social media tools to gain employment whilst at the same time increasing the technological know-how of older SME workers.
Mediendaten Südwest
Since 1997 'Mediendaten Südwest' provides current baseline data for media in Baden-Württemberg as well as comparative data for the federal territory. Besides data on the media offer and use of media and general also information about traditional media ...
ONE
The ONE project aims at improving regional capacity for planning investments in ICT through sharing best practices for work of regional ‘observatories’.
OpenAlps
The nine partner institutions from Germany, France, Italy, Slovenia and Austria involved in the OpenAlps project share the common goal to assist SMEs of the Alpine Space on their way from internal, closed innovation to Open Innovation.
Open Source Integration Initiative (OSII)
The Open Source Integration Initiative (OSII) brings together a range of open source software applications for use by businesses. The aim is to create a low-cost modular solution – a stack – that meets the needs of many different operating processes ...
OSB Alliance
OSB Alliance’s slogan “Integrating Open Source And Proprietary Software” shows that everything the organisation does revolves around interoperability between open source and proprietary software. Therefore OSB Alliance connects vendors, users and additional stakeholders from the open source community ...
PROSE
PROSE expects to decrease the FLOSS adoption barriers in ICT projects. This will increase the sustainability of FLOSS developed within ICT, allowing software to exist beyond the projects’ lifetime, and the reach of ongoing R&D efforts and opportunities in Europe.
Route 2.0
Route 2.0 is going to develop a training programme for SMEs working in the tourism sector to strengthen their knowledge in the use of web 2.0 for marketing and communication issues. Parallel to offering a training programme a collaborative online platform will be developed.
SMARD
SMARD is an EU funded project that aims at supporting SMEs in the creative industries to better translate their research and development (R&D) activities, particularly in the field of networked media, into innovative products and services. SMARD pursues three main activities.
SUCRE
The SUCRE project is driven by a key objective, which is the consolidation of the European Cloud Computing and Open Source communities by creating a critical mass of stakeholders who will work together on promoting the use of Open Source in Cloud Computing.
State Portal Baden-Württemberg
Since 1999 MFG manages the Internet-based services of the Ministry of State Baden-Württemberg, over time with different tasks and duties. These include the management of the State Portal as well as the website of the Ministry of State Baden-Württemberg as part of the project 'Internet State Baden-Württemberg' ...
TCI – German Contact Point
TCI - The Global Practitioners Network for Competitiveness, Clusters and Innovation is the leading global network for practitioners, policy makers, researchers and business leaders working towards improving competitiveness in regions and clusters ...