NETWORKING
AIM:
to offer a set of high value-added services to the digital
media industries through events and a qualified network of
associations & professionals.
Events
Throughout the year, the EMF organises and participates in
many events, prime networking occasions for companies and
professionals involved in multimedia. The EMF may also organise
tailor-made events around your own needs.
Multimedia
Associations
An extensive network
of multimedia associations, of which EMF is an active
protagonist, offers support to the multimedia community accross
Europe and the world. In Europe, it is relayed by the European
Multimedia Associations' Convention (EMMAC).
Executive
Advisors
The EMF has assembled a strong team of Executive
Advisors. These professionals have been selected on the
basis of their industry positions, invaluable skills and thorough
industry knowledge. They offer a large portfolio of services
to help digital media companies through their business needs.
Special
Interest Groups
The EMF manages a series of SIGs in which members
collaborate in the pursuance of common goals. For more information,
check:
- eConTec:
The EUREKA Umbrella supporting Excellence in eContent and
eBusiness Technologies
- COMPTRAIN:
the multimedia skills and jobs platform
- WISE:
the network for women entrepreneurs
- LEKTOR: the legal
knowledge transfer Accelerator for SMEs.
VISIBILITY
AIM:
to identify excellence in multimedia and promote it through
collective action and a number of high visibility events and
features.
European
Showcase of Excellence in
Multimedia
Check-out-Europe.com
is the prime global promotional platform for Europe's most
performing multimedia companies (prize winners, market leaders,
etc.).
European
Seal of E-Excellence
In collaboration with EMMAC, the platform grouping Europe's
leading national and regional multimedia associations, the
European Multimedia Forum manages the European
Seal of E-Excellence, a yearly award to distinguish European
companies with an excellent track record in innovation marketing.
ACCESS
TO MARKETS
AIM:
to promote the European digital media industries in markets
which present a high growth potential & to develop mutually
beneficial trading relationships with key actors in key markets.
E-Accelerator
Through the E-Accelerator,
the EMF offers advice, assistance and an operational infrastructure
to expanding ICT and digital media companies that want to
penetrate new markets in Europe, America and Asia. The Accelerator
offers a portfolio of business development support services
for European and foreign ICT & digital media companies
based on the skills of its Executive Advisors and on strong
collaborative links with a network of local, national and
regional multimedia associations and organisations with a
track-record in the field of trade promotion.
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ACCESS TO JOBS
AIM: to assist job seekers,
job offerers and training institutions through
a portfolio of online tools
Skills
& competences questionnaire
The EMF promotes harmonised job descriptions in relation to
multimedia / new technologies that define competences and
skills based on market needs. Our questionnaire
aims at assessing market needs.
Self-assessment
This self-assesment
tool tool is designed to allow job seekers to compare
their professionnal profile to those which have been identified
by a survey conducted by the main professionnal internet and
multimedia associations in Europe.
Job-exchange
platform
Jobs-ict.eu is a specialised
online jobs service in the information and communication technologies
(ICT) sector. It is supported by EMF and EMMAC. It matches
job offers and demands, and opens new opportunities between
job seekers and employers.
Directory
of training curricula for new technologies
The Directory
publicises multimedia training courses available in Europe.
If you are a training institution, promote your training courses
in our Directory and earn the EMMAC "Label of Industry
Compliance"!
ACCESS
TO FUNDING
AIM: to assist digital media companies in obtaining
public and private funding.
Corporate,
VC
and Financial Investment
Through the E-Accelerator
and its Executive Advisors, the EMF assists digital media
companies in attracting investment. This involves reviewing
the financial viability of businesses, providing assistance
in writing business plans, coaching for "elevator pitches",
introduction to financiers, etc..
European
Project Factory
Through the Project
Factory and the
EUREKA eConTec Umbrella, the EMF has been operating for
many years a "European Project Factory" through
which it helps ICT & digital media companies benefit from
EU and EUREKA funding programmes - with a first rate track
record of success! The EMF helps companies and institutions
benefit from EU funding opportunities by providing timely
information on current and future European programmes and
calls; assessing the "relevance" of ideas and technologies;
facilitating project consortia building;advising on the development
and drafting of project proposals; providing the interface
with EU Commission and EUREKA services; providing an experienced
"administrative" project management capacity. Submit
your project idea and receive FREE ASSESSMENT through filling
in the QUESTIONNAIRE
EUREKA
eConTec Umbrella
The EMF provides the secretariat of the EUREKA eConTec
Umbrella, a network that focuses on facilitating a smooth
interaction and active collaboration between the two main
components of the digital media value chain: the digital content
users and industries (content owners, aggregators) and the
infrastructure suppliers (devices, systems, networks). At
the heart of this interaction are innovative companies that
develop “eContent and eBusiness Technologies”.
The Umbrella facilitates their market orientated R&D projects
and supports their acquisition of EUREKA funding.
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