ARTSHARE INVESTIGACAO TECNOLOGIA EARTE LDA

Their core work

Artshare is a Portuguese SME that operates at the intersection of art, technology, and digital media. They specialize in bridging creative industries with emerging technologies — from brain-computer interfaces and art-science collaboration to immersive media production, digital asset management, and XR authoring tools. Their work focuses on enabling co-creation between artists, technologists, and researchers, and on building platforms for managing, discovering, and distributing digital media content including VR and 360-degree experiences.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Artshare began in 2016 with a strong art-science experimentation focus — brain-computer interfaces, hackathons, neural computing, and public engagement through projects like BrainHack and VERTIGO. By 2020, their work shifted decisively toward digital media infrastructure: asset management, media rights via blockchain, immersive content (VR/XR), and social media analytics in MediaVerse. The trajectory shows a company moving from creative experimentation and innovation brokerage toward building concrete digital media tools and platforms.

Artshare is moving from creative facilitation toward building digital media infrastructure — expect future work in XR content platforms, blockchain-based rights management, and AI-assisted media tools.

How they like to work

Artshare has participated exclusively as a partner, never as coordinator, across all four projects. They work in medium-to-large consortia (43 unique partners across 14 countries), which suggests they are valued contributors who integrate well into diverse teams rather than leading them. Their consistent participant role and broad partner network indicate a flexible organization that adapts to different consortium needs — likely contributing creative-technical expertise rather than managing large-scale project logistics.

With 43 unique consortium partners across 14 countries from just 4 projects, Artshare has built a remarkably wide European network for its size. Their partnerships span the art-tech and digital media ecosystem broadly rather than concentrating in any single country cluster.

What sets them apart

Artshare occupies a rare niche: they are one of few SMEs that genuinely bridge artistic practice with digital technology R&D in EU projects. While many organizations claim interdisciplinary reach, Artshare's project history shows consistent work connecting creative communities with technical infrastructure — from brain-computer interfaces to XR authoring. For consortium builders, they bring something hard to find: a team that understands both the creative user perspective and the technical platform requirements for digital media.

Highlights from their portfolio

• VERTIGO
  Their largest project by far (EUR 920,625), running four years and focused on systematically integrating artists into industrial research and open innovation.
• MediaVerse
  Represents their most technically ambitious work — a full media platform combining VR/XR, blockchain rights, content moderation, and social media analytics.
• BrainHack
  Unusual topic combination of art and brain-computer interfaces, demonstrating Artshare's willingness to explore experimental art-science frontiers.