The Consortium as a Whole
The Consortium is made up by research providers, product developers, service providers and end users. Having such composition the Consortium is able to carry out the proposed research. All partners are well established in their respective fields. Coordinating (Lead) partner is PRISMA ELECTRONICS SA, a medium size enterprise with prime focus on electronics and information technology. PRISMA has participated in numerous R&D projects both as technical partner as well as project coordinator and its management team has over 10 years of related experience. Five (5) academic institutions will act as research providers, one(1) SME will act as product developers and two (2) large companies as end users. Also another two (2) companies that will be involved as sub-contractors will act as end users of the project proposed outcome. The proposed project outcome will be a R&D effort by the five academic institutions (NKUA, CTI, KAVTECH, ICCS-MFOL, CERETETH) that will be transformed and integrated into working product prototype by the two SME’s (PRISMA, MOBICS) and be used by the two large companies (ANEK,
DANAOS). Of course all above partners will have an active role in every project phase and stage. The two sub-contractors (Hellenic Seaways & EPOS) will also use the final project prototype so that its concept and successfulness will be not only proven but more easily accepted as a complete solution to the problem that the R&D effort tries to solve.