The project has a consortium of eight partners in Europe.

The Team Behind SERMAS

UNIMORE

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MODENA E REGGIO EMILIA

WHO WE ARE

UNIMORE is an Italian University organised on a “site network” model embracing the cities of Modena and Reggio Emilia in close cooperation with more than 300 economic clusters in the areas of mechatronics, logistics and automotive.

OUR ROLE IN SERMAS

UNIMORE is responsible for development the SERMAS XR agent architecture, studying human mechanisms in interaction processes and the project coordinator.

Valeria Villani

Cristina Iani

TUDa

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT

WHO WE ARE

TUDa is the home of the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab that carries out cutting-edge research in deep learning for natural language processing with a strong emphasis on conversational artificial intelligence, question answering, cross-document natural language processing, as well as novel datasets and problem definitions.

OUR ROLE IN SERMAS

TUDa/UKP ensures the integration of different modules in the SERMAS XR Agent. It contributes to other tasks, including defining the requirements for dialogue agents according to the specific use case scenarios and elaborating non-verbal information linked with verbal communication.

DW

DEUTSCHE WELLE

WHO WE ARE

DW is Germany’s international broadcaster. As of 2022, the media house offers high-quality journalistic content in 30+ languages on all kinds of platforms, reaching some 289 million users per week. DW also runs Deutsche Welle Akademie (DWA – a leading European institution for media development).

OUR ROLE IN SERMAS

DW is responsible for developing relevant requirements for socially-acceptable XR systems and scenarios for the social acceptance of the systems of our case studies.

Axel Primavesi

Farina Hamann

Alexander Plaum

Bahia Albrecht

F6S

F6S NETWORK IRELAND LIMITED

WHO WE ARE

F6S is a leading global founder and startup network that helps public sector entities around the world to promote, communicate and disseminate technical and research projects. F6S stands for F-ounder-S. Our mission is to help founders and startups grow to solve the world’s pressing social, economic, environmental, sustainability and innovation problems. In addition to F6S’ work with governmental entities, we also work with corporates, investors, research institutions, programs, universities and others in the global startup ecosystem. F6S tools deliver company growth through grants, partnerships, funding, investment, pilot contracts, partnerships, jobs & talent recruitment and company services.

OUR ROLE IN SERMAS

F6S leads the dissemination and exploitation and is responsible for recruiting innovators (researchers, entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs, etc.) to participate in SERMAS development and funding opportunities and engage in our ecosystem activities.

Cristiana Peres

Catarina
Reis

POSTE

POSTE ITALIANE - SOCIETA PER AZIONI