Results
Results
MediaFutures Results:
tools, best practices, and interesting experiences to tackle misinformation
MediaFutures has received funding from the Europèan Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme that, over three years (started on 1st September 2020), has delivered multiple outcomes that benefit start-ups, artists, innovation hubs and the media landscape. MediaFutures offered support to 51 startups or SMEs and 43 artists through three Open Calls, distributing a total amount of €2.5M.
The impact of the programme is far-reaching, fostering collaboration and innovation across the media value chain.
Toolkit
Discover how to address challenges of disinformation with our toolkit
The MediaFutures Toolkit is a resource for innovators and 
artists, and everyone working in-between business and arts. It focuses on art/AI interactions and their application to counter misinformation. It enables the use of the arts, and trans-disciplinary STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics) approaches more widely, to increase understanding of and participation in AI by a larger part of the public.
The toolkit is driven by the expertise of the MediaFutures partners across a range of fields, and collates insights gained from our work with start-ups and artists in the MediaFutures support programme.
Lessons Learned
Open Calls, Project Evaluation & Diversity
We have interviewed Igor Idareta, European R&D Project Consultant at Zabala Innovation as well as Tara Lee, Senior Consultant at the Open Data Institute to give us some insights on the experiences we made running Open Calls, finding and evaluating suitable startup and artist teams as well as the role of diversity and inclusion in projects like MediaFutures.
Collaboration between Startups and Artists
We have interviewed Hugues Vinet, Director of Innovation and Research Means at IRCAM and Nico Lumma, Managing Partner at NMA to give us some insights on the experiences we made running a support programme for collaborative projects between startups and artists.
The MediaFutures Support Programme
We have interviewed Darren Temple, Consultant at the Open Data Institute to give us some insights on the experiences we had with running a support programme that included training, mentoring and advice.
MediaFutures Approach
We have interviewed Elena Simperl, Professor of Computer Science at King’s College London as well as Julià Vicens, Research Scientist at Eurecat to give us some insights on the experiences we made running design experiments with several projects in order to perform research on the fields of computational social science, human-computer interaction or artificial intelligence as well as the overall approach applied in the MediaFutures’ support programme.
