Associação CCG/ZGDV - Centro de Computação Gráfica

Their core work

CCG (Centro de Computação Gráfica) is a Portuguese research centre specialising in computer graphics, visualisation, and digital collaborative environments. Despite their name suggesting pure graphics work, their H2020 participation reveals a broader role as a provider of digital tools and platforms that support complex, data-intensive research and operational systems. In 5G-MOBIX they contributed to the digital layer enabling cooperative connected and automated mobility across cross-border corridors. In IS_MIRRI21 their role shifted to providing collaborative work environment capabilities for a pan-European microbial research infrastructure — suggesting they function as a versatile digital systems integrator across domains.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

CCG entered H2020 through the transport and digital connectivity domain, contributing to 5G-enabled cross-border mobility systems in 2018. By 2020 their second project took them into life sciences infrastructure — specifically the digital underpinning of microbial culture collection networks — with keywords around the Nagoya Protocol, biosecurity, and collaborative research environments. The shift is dramatic in subject matter but consistent in underlying role: CCG brings digital infrastructure and collaborative platform capabilities wherever complex multi-institutional data sharing is needed.

CCG appears to be positioning as a cross-domain digital infrastructure provider, moving from transport applications toward scientific research platforms — a direction that could lead toward health data, environmental monitoring, or open science infrastructure projects.

How they like to work

CCG has participated exclusively as a partner, never as project coordinator, across both H2020 projects. They operate inside very large consortia — 86 unique partners from just two projects implies consortia averaging over 40 members each — which suggests they are sought as a specialist contributor rather than a project driver. This profile fits organisations that bring a well-defined technical competence (digital platforms, visualisation, collaborative tools) to large industrial or research alliances that need that piece filled.

CCG has built a surprisingly broad network for an organisation with only two projects — 86 unique partners across 17 countries, reflecting their participation in large international consortia. Their connections span both the European transport/telecom ecosystem (5G-MOBIX) and the life sciences research infrastructure community (MIRRI).

What sets them apart

CCG's distinctive value is their ability to bring computer graphics, visualisation, and collaborative platform expertise into domains far outside traditional ICT projects — from autonomous vehicle corridors to microbial biodiversity networks. Based in Guimarães within a strong Portuguese research cluster, they occupy an unusual niche as a graphics and visualisation centre that functions as a cross-domain digital integrator. For consortium builders, this means CCG can fill the 'collaborative digital environment' role in projects where the primary topic is not digital at all.

Highlights from their portfolio

• 5G-MOBIX
  Highest-funded project (€376,000) and CCG's entry into the 5G and connected mobility space, placing them in a major European cross-border transport corridor programme.
• IS_MIRRI21
  Unusual cross-disciplinary involvement — a computer graphics centre contributing to microbial research infrastructure — highlighting CCG's versatility as a digital platform provider beyond their nominal domain.