Objective Currently, over 40 years of television records are deteriorating and will be lost. Existing solutions for film digitization arecomplex and extremely expensive, especially for processing very large collections, such as television materials kept by themajor broadcasters. Nevertheless, there is a high commercial as well as public/societal interest in preserving those mediacontents. Hence, several broadcasters have launched large scale digitization projects – representing multi-million Euroefforts over several years – to save their media collections. Nevertheless, it is estimated that there are 50 to 100 millionhours of content on film worldwide, not including feature films, and only a few percent of these contents will be digitized withthe existing solutions.FASTFORWARD wants to seize this market opportunity by offering an integrated solution consisting of proprietary hardware,cloud-based software and support in one, easy-to-scale service. Our solution will disrupt the current digitization workflowscreating a new paradigm that will bring unprecedented speed (10x faster) and low cost (tenfold cost reduction) compared totraditional film digitization processes.Our solution consists of proprietary hardware components that can be readily adapted to commonly used equipment for filmvisualization – namely a high-speed camera adapter, a light source adapter, and a sound recording adapter. In addition,FASTFORWARD has been developing a cutting-edge platform infrastructure for content storage and management, with theaim of creating added-value to our clients in the post-digitization phase.The worldwide market for digitization of content on film is estimated at over €1 billion. This represents a huge businessopportunity for FASTFORWARD, which expects to grow from its current start-up phase towards a solid business, with a totalaggregated turnover of €55 million (2019-2023) and 30+ employees by 2023, and large potential to keep steady growthbeyond. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabaseshumanitiesartsvisual artshumanitiesartsmodern and contemporary artcinematographyhumanitiesother humanitieslibrary sciencesdigital humanities Programme(s) H2020-EU.3.6. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Europe In A Changing World - Inclusive, Innovative And Reflective Societies Main Programme H2020-EU.2.3.1. - Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument Topic(s) SMEInst-12-2016-2017 - New business models for inclusive, innovative and reflective societies Call for proposal H2020-SMEInst-2016-2017 See other projects for this call Sub call H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017 Funding Scheme SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1 Coordinator FASTFORWARD APS Net EU contribution € 50 000,00 Address Vestergade 12 2nd 1456 Kobenhavn Denmark See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes Region Danmark Hovedstaden Byen København Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 71 429,00