Objective The global advertising industry is a highly competitive business and the European market represents almost one quarter of the world’s estimated global ad-spend. Despite Europe’s global market share, the pressures experienced by the SME European media advertising sector are considerable, particularly for those marketing paper billboards using toxic ink and glue waste. These pressures, including international competition, industry consolidation and increasing incorporation of costly digital signage technologies into the advertising industry, are important factors impacting SMEs, given their limited access to investment capital. Consortium SMEs have therefore identified a clear need for an outdoor media technology that can replace paper billboards, is affordable, as equally market-effective as digital advertising and that can generate consumer appeal. However, consortium members lack investment capital and expertise to guide them in the development of such a technology, constituting this a significant threat to their competitiveness within the industry. To meet such competition, the proposed ECOBOARD solution will create a pixel-based advertising board capable of displaying static images in near real-time with relatively low initial and operational costs. ECOBOARD will use existing innovative technology combined with creativity and precision engineering to produce a new eco-friendly advertising tool that does not harm the environment. The commercial objective of this ECOBOARD is the development of a state of the art advertising outdoor media tool which provides an affordable alternative to paper billboards, and that can increase the competitive advantage of consortium SMEs in light of increasing sector dominance by large enterprises, thereby opening up new markets both within Europe and worldwide. Programme(s) FP7-SME - Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs Topic(s) SME-1 - Research for SMEs Call for proposal FP7-SME-2008-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme BSG-SME - Research for SMEs Coordinator ATEKNEA SOLUTIONS HUNGARY KFT EU contribution € 40 568,00 Address Tetenyi ut 93 1119 Budapest Hungary See on map Region Közép-Magyarország Budapest Budapest Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Miklós Zoltai (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all MAYDOWN PRECISION ENGINEERING LTD United Kingdom EU contribution € 182 027,40 Address Carrakeel drive 11 BT47 6UQ Londonderry See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Sean Phelan (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Screen Technics France EU contribution € 214 248,05 Address Allee des santonniers, sect. d 06700 Saint laurent du var See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Roberto Airoldi (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data TruckMedia Kereskedelmi és Szolgáltató KFT Hungary EU contribution € 243 464,55 Address Régi posta 13 1052 Budapest See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Gabor Hetyey (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Impactmedia SA Spain EU contribution € 222 879,55 Address Lincoln 11 en3 08006 Barcelona See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Rafael Martin-Alos De Budalles (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data BROADCASTING CENTER EUROPE SA Luxembourg EU contribution € 53 132,00 Address Boulevard pierre frieden 45 1543 Luxembourg See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Frederic Lemaire (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data NTRAM GENERAL S.A. Spain EU contribution € 11 124,80 Address Calle victor pradera 45 08940 Cornella de llobregat barcelona See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Eva Romagosa (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ATEKNEA SOLUTIONS POLAND Sp. z o.o. Poland EU contribution € 8 798,40 Address Ul. wadowicka 3 30 347 Krakow See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Miroslaw Wasniowski (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data