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| The company |
| The company was originally established in 1992. Systema’s head office is located in Athens Greece, where it has undertaken numerous ‘bespoke software’ projects for the development of custom applications. The company has developed from 2002 a strategic business plan to provide integrated solutions in the areas of Culture, Tourism and Education aiming at unfolding technology opportunities for the citizen, today. |
| Our Vision |
| The principle aim of the business plan is to invest on people and know-how, for successfully providing innovative ICT solutions utilizing the most advanced information technologies. |
| Our Certifications |
| During the years, the company has been recognized as a European ICT Small to Medium scale Enterprise (SME), articulating its business processes to focus on the “Design and Development of bespoke Information and Communication Technology products and services”. To that end it has successfully participated to European Research and Technological Development Frameworks. Systema has acquired from the internationally accredited certification body ‘TUV-Germany Management Service’, based in Munich Germany, the ISO 9001:2000 standard. The certification (Registration No: 12-100-21779 TMS) has been accredited for the establishment of a Quality Management System for: “Design and Development of Information and Communication Technologies, products and services”. |
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e-Learning and e-Culture |
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| Goal |
| In the e-Learning area, Systema Technologies aims at providing solutions for both the student and the teacher, especially in a collaborative distance-based environment, setting and adopting the state-of-the-art and beyond of e-learning systems. |
| Concerning e-Culture, Systema Technologies aims at promoting the use of new technologies for improving access and supporting preservation of Europe's cultural, artistic and scientific resources, with a special interest for the Greek resources. Its activities focus on developing cultural heritage artifacts digitization, preservation, documentation and management systems, on producing valuable digital cultural content and on developing its systems and solutions according to international standards and good practice guidelines, and in that way keeping an important technological advantage. |
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| Experience/Expertise |
| Systema Technologies has a longtime experience in successful implementation of important e-learning and e-culture. The fields of its expertise range from virtual reality technologies and interactive applications (VR, AR) to design and implementation of network applications and services according to open and multilevel software architectures. The factors that contribute to the company’s technological precedence are its ability to coordinate effectively large scientific teams and to design and implement complex technological solutions. |
| Our experience with research in highly challenging e-learning applications has taught us to give the outmost care to the end users learning needs and demands. Systema Technologies has been a leader of applying new pedagogic paradigms that are based on innovative technological tools, within prominent European e-Learning Research Programmes. Systema Technologies has, also, a long-time experience in projects addressing the Institutional and Home Markets of Learning. |
| In the field of e-Culture, Systema Technologies has been participated in numerous successful research and private digitization projects for preserving and enhancing the cultural heritage, especially of Greece. It has formed a great number of strategic partnerships with very important national and European cultural institutions. |
| Systema Technologies develops digitization, documentation and content management systems and produces digital cultural content according to international standards and good practice guidelines, in that way keeping an important technological precedence. Systema has also designed and developed the information and document management system SCCM© (Systema Cultural Content Management System) specifically for Memory/Culture Institutions. |
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| Showcases |
| Among the showcases of our company the following ones represent the most technologically advanced in the areas of e-Learning and/or e-Culture: |
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SCCM |
Date of Release: 2006 |
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SCCM (Systema Cultural Content Management) is a web based platform aiming to support the digitisation, electronic record storage, scientific annotation and management of digitized cultural heritage artifacts.
The aim of SCCM is to support digitisation and cooperative electronic documentation routines, in order to promote innovative ways of exploiting Cultural Heritage Collections. SCCM has been successfully used in large museum projects providing to the end-users innovative annotation methods in the context of a collaborative environment.
Support for the digitisation and documentation of cultural files and collections is achieved through an open architecture web-based environment. The environment is user-friendly and widely compliant with established international standards and practices in the field Cultural Heritage information technology applications. In a nutshell SCCM supports the following features:
- Management of Digital Cultural Content
- Compatibility with international standard models of image, audio and video digitisation
- Cooperative environment and services for electronic documentation
- Compatibility with Metadata Support and the international standard of documentation
- CIDOC/CRM
- Compatibility with older data-base platforms and documentation systems
Expandability potential, in order to ensure future compatibility with new and emerging technologies in the area of digitisation and documentation of cultural content
http://www.systema.gr/sccm.html
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ELISA |
Date of Release: 2006 |
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The ELISA project improves the access to knowledge and the information society of SMEs in South-East Europe, through close cooperation of academic and business communities at a transnational level, by transferring EU best practice training know-how and by developing national training strategies. Emphasis is given to SMEs from rural and distant areas in Albania, FYROM, Bulgaria and Serbia-Montenegro (beneficiary countries).
This overall objective will be achieved through the following actions:
- Awareness creation on the benefits of ICT business use by SMEs.
- Customization of a multilingual, highly-interactive and easy-to-use e-Learning-platform for the needs of SMEs.
- Creation of a customizable multilingual training material for improving ICT skills within SMEs.
- Pilot implementation of ICT training actions.
- Design of SME ICT training strategies for the beneficiary countries.
Diffusion of the know-how gained to policy makers and interested organizations.
www.elisa-project.net
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APEIRO |
Date of Release: 2006 |
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The aim of the project is to develop applications for the simulation of Ancient Greek Technology Works with the use of advanced VR technologies and user friendly interfaces enabling the as much realistic as possible simulation and demonstration of the these works. Special attention will be paid on the emergence of the instructive/ pedagogic use and diachronic development of each work.
http://leon.lesson.gr/apeiro-project/
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REACH |
Date of Release: 2006 |
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Objective of the project REACH (New Forms of Distributed Organization and Access to Cultural Heritage) is the development of a system of unified access and management of information that concerns the Greek cultural heritage. This system, exploiting the results of internationally recognized research, will interconnect all the Greek databases of cultural content offering unified access and modern methods of search and organisation of content to all users. It will promote worldwide the access, promotion and study of Greek cultural content. Simultaneously it will allow its commercial exploitation.
The final system will offer a central point of access to the already existing, scattered collections of cultural content.
http://reach.systema.gr
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POLYMNIA |
Date of Release: 2006 |
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The aim of the project is to develop a set of innovative tools which will facilitate many aspects of music research and daily practice, such as musicological research, music creation, music performance, education, retrieval from music data bases, etc. The proposed tools will work either in a stand-alone mode or in cooperation with a special-purpose Internet portal.
http://www.systema.gr/act_projects.html
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SYNENNOISI |
Date of Release: 2005 |
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SYNENNOISI is an educational platform integrating electronic linguistic resources of the Greek Sign Language (GSL), along with 3-D avatar and animation technologies in order to provide the means to construct and maintain educational material in GSL. The platform addresses to the deaf population in order to cover the presently enormous needs in respect to educational means and material as far as this specific group is concerned. A second user group the platform is addressed to, is the one of hearing learners of GSL as a second language.
http://leon.lesson.gr/synenoisi/
http://leon.lesson.gr/elearning/test.htm
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LAB@FUTURE |
Date of Release: 2005 |
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Lab@Future (funded under EC IST Programme) demonstrates the pedagogical theories of social constructivism, in combination and dialogue with the activity theory, focusing on expansive learning, within a mixed and augmented realities set-up. In the existing experiments of Fluid Dynamics, 3D Geometry, Environmental awareness, and Historical Educational walks, there are real objects that the teacher or student are able to interact with (e.g. PLC controlled torques), using special interface devices (in VR) or mobile devices for collaboration between distant places (e.g. between a school and a museum), in order to specify or carry out an experiment. Moreover, there are cases where real physical geometric objects are superimposed with virtual extensions to set, view and resolve mathematic exercises.
www.labfuture.net
www.labfuture.net/showcase/
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IMUTUS |
Date of Release: 2005 |
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IMUTUS (funded under EC IST Programme) is an interactive music tuition multimedia system for training users on traditional instruments, which do not possess a MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) output. Systema Technologies has developed a VR interface to view and control traditional musical instruments; the practicing environment is complemented by a 3D fingering viewer that is able to render fully navigable and dynamically created animations of a realistic model of the recorder and hands for any music piece, also providing the option to include suggested viewpoints and textual comments at predefined times.
www.exodus.gr/imutus
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MIRTH |
Date of Release: 2005 |
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MIRTH developed new and improved Musculo-skeletal Injury Reduction Training Tools for Health and safety estimation. The learning environment pertains VR human H-Anim standard models.
www.mirthproject.org
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VI-JET |
Date of Release: 2005 |
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VI-JET is a provider of services and knowledge transfer to the European jewelry industry on a commercial basis. For example:
offering of a number of unique products and services to clients
creating a network of experts, expertise and products in the EU to advise and help the sector stimulating R&D and training for the industry
www.ejtn.org/vijet/index.htm
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EASYCRAFT |
Date of Release: 2004 |
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The IST project EASYCRAFT addresses the challenges faced by the European craft sector SMEs, in order to increase their competitiveness in the global marketplace.
www.easycraft.org
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REGNET |
Date of Release: 2003 |
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The IST Project REGNET delivered a system, which provides a service infrastructure (technical & legal framework) to service centers supporting cultural institutions and industries. The REGNET system offers a portal to different services like data entry, search and retrieval, and e-business. It can be accessed via mobile telephones via wireless application protocol (WAP).
www.regnet.org
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GUIDEFREE |
Date of Release: 2003 |
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The IST project GUIDEFREE developed an e-based platform that provides information to the independent tourist visitor by organizing and releasing publicly available, relevant tourist-related information during the actual visits of tourist sites.
http://www.systema.gr/act_projects.html
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JEWELMED |
Date of Release: 2003 |
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The project showcased the identification, analysis, preservation, and dissemination of manufacturing technologies in goldsmithing and silversmithing from the 7th to the 1st century B.C. in the Mediterranean Area.
www.jewelmed.org
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INVITE |
Date of Release: 2001 |
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The IST project INVITE developed a co-operative learning suite for synchronous distance learning and training, through distributed, shared virtual environments.
http://www.systema.gr/act_projects.html
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| FP7 promising opportunities |
Towards the FP7, Systema technologies is interested in unfolding technology opportunities for learning, in terms of supporting the learner as an individual and the instructor in the learning /teaching process, as well as for the Europe’s cultural heritage in terms of supporting the long-term preservation of and improving access to digital material.
In the e-Learning sector, in particular, Systema is interested at providing ICT solutions that can contribute to making learning more efficient. The main aim is to offer learners enriching and motivating learning experiences, through a variety of delivery channels (including Internet and mobile phones) and through interactive and collaborative features. Systema has significant know-how and expertise, and all the necessary competencies to provide innovative e-learning solutions that fully satisfy the most demanding learner’s needs.
In the e-Culture sector, Systema is seeking for opportunities to successfully provide innovative ICT solutions, utilizing the most advanced information technologies and building on its technological know-how and its long-time expertise in the field, to meet the new challenges posed by the huge increase in digital cultural, artistic and scientific resources and the emergence of new channels of information delivery. To that end Systema is looking for collaboration opportunities and research partnerships with stakeholders like cultural content and service providers, ICT companies and research institutes. |
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| Our clients/partners |
Our clients comprise of educational institutes (schools, colleges, universities), museums, and research organizations, such as the European Community, the Greek Secretariat for Research and Technology, the National Ministry for Education, the Greek Pedagogic Institute, private schools, the Benaki Museum, the National Theater Museum and the Averoff Museum.
Our partners in the e-Learning sector include prestigious university departments and research institutes, such as ETH-Z (Switzerland), Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research UH.DE (Finland), ARTEC-Bremen University (Germany), University of Nottingham and Open University (UK), Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems TU Vienna (Austria) among others.
In the e-Culture sector our partners involve not only prestigious research institutes and academic departments but also cultural content or cultural service providers such as the European Jewellery Technology Network - GEIE, the World Crafts Council, the Music School of Fiesole (Italy), the Centre National de Creation Musicale (France), Thessaloniki Science Center & Technology Museum (Greece), the Benaki Museum (Greece), the Holy Synod of Greece, e.t.c. |
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| Contact Person |
| Please address all your inquiries, questions or proposals to the following contact point: |
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Ms. Maria Nani, Mr. George Koutalieris
and Dr. Costas Davarakis
e-Learning and e-Culture Sector Manager
Systema Technologies S.A.
Offices: 6, Thomaidou str., GR 11525, Athens, Greece
Voice: +30210-6743243
Fax: +30210-6755649
Email: maria.nani@systema.gr, george.koutalieris@systema.gr and costas@systema.gr
Web-site: www.systematechnologies.com |
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