CORPORACIO CATALANA DE MITJANS AUDIOVISUALS SA

Their core work

CCMA (known publicly as the Catalan public broadcaster operating TV3, Catalunya Ràdio, and related channels) brings real broadcast production infrastructure to EU research as a deployment and validation partner. Their two H2020 projects were both focused on making audiovisual content accessible to people with disabilities — covering subtitling, audio description, sign language, and immersive formats. In practice, they contribute live broadcast environments, existing content libraries, and editorial expertise that academic partners cannot replicate. Their value in a research consortium is the ability to test accessibility technologies on actual television production pipelines, not lab prototypes.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both projects were launched in the same year (2017) and ran through 2020, so there is no meaningful shift in focus across their H2020 participation timeline — the dataset captures a single, coherent phase. No keyword data was available to detect subtler topic drift within this period. The profile reads as a broadcaster that entered EU research with a specific, well-defined remit around accessibility, rather than an organization that has pivoted or broadened its scope over time.

With no timeline spread in the data, their direction is unclear beyond the 2017–2020 window; any future collaboration would likely extend the same accessibility-in-broadcast theme unless they have diversified outside H2020.

How they like to work

CCMA has participated exclusively as a consortium partner, never as coordinator, suggesting they enter projects to contribute domain-specific assets rather than to lead research agendas. With 15 distinct partners across 6 countries over just 2 projects, they operate in medium-to-large consortia and appear open to working with diverse teams. Their role is most likely that of an end-user or deployment partner — the broadcaster who validates that a technology works in a real production environment.

CCMA has built connections with 15 consortium partners spanning 6 countries through two projects, a reasonably broad network for an organization with only two EU engagements. Their partnerships are likely clustered around ICT accessibility research groups and other European public broadcasters or media organizations.

What sets them apart

CCMA is one of very few public broadcasters in the H2020 dataset — an organization that owns and operates real television channels, radio stations, and digital streaming platforms, giving it infrastructure that research institutions simply do not have. For any consortium developing media accessibility or immersive content technology, having an actual broadcaster as a partner dramatically strengthens the real-world validation claim in a proposal. Their Catalan-language context also makes them a useful partner for projects touching multilingual or minority-language media accessibility.

Highlights from their portfolio

• EASYTV
  The larger of the two funded projects (EUR 247,625), it targeted multi-platform media accessibility across converging TV and digital services — directly relevant to CCMA's core broadcast business.
• ImAc
  Addressed the emerging challenge of accessibility in immersive (360°/VR) media, putting CCMA at the intersection of broadcast expertise and next-generation content formats.