“Tessera and “Open Innovation in Culture”

The research proposal submitted under the special initiative ‘Open Innovation in Culture’ by a collaborative consortium, with Tessera participating as the Project Coordinator, has been approved for implementation.

The initiative aims at the «implementation of landmark research, technological development, and innovation projects through the development of products, services, methods, original research devices, new technologies, or other innovative applications and processes. Its key intervention pillars include the diagnosis, preservation, documentation, and promotion of monuments, artworks, artifacts, and other historical cultural elements»

The funded research project is titled “Mixed Reality and GeoINformatics for Monument Demonstration” (acronym: MERGIN’ MODE, Project Code: T6YBP-00297). It concerns the development of a cultural information system aimed at the demonstration of monuments through the merging (MERGIN’) of the real and the virtual into a Mixed Reality (MixEd Reality) environment, supported by GeoINformatics technologies

Project duration: 30 months, starting on October 11, 2019, and ending on April 10, 2022.

The proposal was submitted by the following partners

• Archaeological Service of the Thessaloniki Region of the Ministry of Culture and Sports
• Department of Surveying Engineering and GeoInformatics, School of Engineering, International Hellenic University
• Department of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• GeoSense company, specializing in Drone technology and Surveying Equipment
• Tessera Multimedia, the project coordinator, operating in the field of new information technologies, specializing in the design and development of software.

The project is implemented within the framework of the special actions ‘Aquaculture’, ‘Industrial Materials’, and ‘Open Innovation in Culture’, and is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the European Union and by national resources through the Operational Programme ‘Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (EPAnEK)’ of the NSRF 2014–2020.