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.

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.