Are you a deep tech startup with innovative media solutions? Are you driven to take on challenges with a prominent impact on the media sector? Then join our inspiration journey on accessibility and inclusion, and learn how your deep tech innovation can make the difference.

The New Media Initiative (NEM) has identified a series of core technological challenges we need to tackle in the coming period. Some of those challenges are:

• Automatic translation to sign language, and from sign language to text
• Automatic translation of subtitles (multi-languages) to improve access to foreign language content
• Developing screen readers that enable people with a visual impairment to read subtitles
• Improving multimedia accessibility by design-for-all
• Creating accessible universal remote controls
• Building on existing media access services and innovation systems (open source and others)

This inspiration journey will focus on how to make media platforms more accessible to people with disabilities. The public broadcaster VRT, one of MediaMotorEurope’s partners, works with civil society and startups to make their platforms more accessible to people with disabilities.

• Debbie Gijsbrechts, a UX Designer at VRT, will explain how VRT is improving accessibility of its services and what the current needs are.
• Marijn Goossens,co-founder of the start-up Soulmade, has helped build internal awareness around accessibility with the developers team of VRT.

This event is part of a series of inspiration events organised as part of the MediaMotorEurope coaching programme. MediaMotorEurope is a collaboration between VRT, MediaCity Bergen, F6S, FastTrack Growth, Thermi Business Incubator, Sofia Knowledge City Cluster and Athens Technology Center. The project has received funding from the Horizon 2020 programme and is framed under the Startup Europe initiative.

See you there!