Sound In Europe
About Sound in European Funded Projects
Welcome to Sound, your strategic partner in European funded projects, including prominent programs like Digital Europe, Horizon Europe and European Innovation Council. As an expert team of product managers, project managers and innovation consultants, we play a vital role in ensuring that projects hit the sweet spot between feasibility, desirability, and viability, all while centering our approach around Human-Centered Design.
Our approach to success
At Sound, we understand the delicate balance required to make European-funded projects successful. As such we specialize in finding common ground between feasibility, desirability, and viability—the sweet spot of Human-Centered design for project success.
Our approach ensures that European projects hit the sweet spot where innovations are not only technically feasible but also create solutions that people genuinely desire while being economically viable. Thus, offering that edge the European Commission seeks when selecting projects. We ensure that technical innovations are solving a genuine market problem. We analyze the feasibility of each project, employing continuous analysis and leveraging our knowledge in business development, while activating our extensive network of European SME’s and corporates. Emphasizing desirability, understanding user needs and co-creating solutions that resonate. And assessing viability, making sure the project aligns with market dynamics and is financially sound.
Moving from Exploration to Exploitation through two-way engagement
As Sound we don’t just conceptualize, about we turn ideas into reality. Our journey from exploration to exploitation involves thorough research, in-depth analysis, and active engagement with people and the market.
We invite stakeholders to co-create value propositions, understand their pain points, and collaborate on user-centric solutions and business models that translate ideas into successful products and services based on state-of-the-art technical developments.
Because we are firmly in the corporate landscape, we can identify market needs, plus technical and innovative insights from the European R&D sector. This two-way engagement offers both sides benefits. It offers the Research institutes and universities access to what is happening in the corporate world and what their current and future needs are, while offering corporates insights in what new technical developments are being worked on and how they can utilize these exponential technologies.
Impact Maximization and Work Package Leadership
Sound has a track record as an expert in maximizing the impact of European funded projects.
Sound is experienced in navigating the intricacies of Horizon and Digital Europe and EIC application processes, and we pride ourselves in significantly impacting the success of the funding proposals through the multiple perfect scores we’ve received for the Impact Sections we’ve written by proposal evaluators of the European Commission.
Our team consists of experts in creating solutions that fit the needs of users, customers, and the market. As such we excel in creating user-centric solutions that are not only technically sound but also highly valuable in the real world, ensuring your project has the impact it deserves.
About Sound in European Funded Projects
Sound is currently involved as Work Package lead on Impact Maximization in three European projects; XReco, Presence and TEMS. In these projects Sound is, in general as WP lead, responsible for maximizing the impact of projects through exploitation, dissemination, and communication by collaborating with consortium partners to deliver the agreed results from a market perspective. In these projects Sound in particular focusses on market analysis, innovation transfer and joint exploitation strategies through Human-Centered Design and co-creation.
XReco aims to integrate XR content into news media, tourism and mobility sectors. Sound is helping create a seamless and permissioned data-driven XR ecosystem that enhances content access for media creators through state-of-the-art XR services, innovative data monetization and rights management policies.
XReco utilizes AI and neural technologies for the creation and (re-)use of text, 2D, and 3D assets. Our efforts include developing AI-based media transformation services like 3D neural reconstructions, neural-based device localization, image stitching, de-/re-lighting, and holoportation. Our mission is to simplify the XR content creation process and provide improved access to content for distributors, consumers, and creators through the creation of this new XR ecosystem.
PRESENCE aims to transform human-to-human and human-machine interactions in virtual environments by providing new digital XR technologies that will bridge the digital-physical divide. Through multidimensional psychophysical experiences, based on three pillars of intertwined emerging technologies (holoportation, haptics and virtual humans), PRESENCE will be able to bring innovative solutions to the corporate, training, heritage, tourism, and health industry. Ingredients which all potentially have a long-term positive impact on European science, technology, economy and environment.
The TEMS project carries a bold vision: to create a secure and reliable European data space specifically designed for the media sector—a dynamic ecosystem where collaboration and innovation thrive.
We’re focused on one of 8 product trials, creating a future where European media companies can effortlessly collaborate on 3D environments for virtual production within a trusted and unified digital marketplace.
Our vision is to create an integrated platform that facilitates the discovery, exchange, and co-creation of high-quality 3D models across Europe, empowering media companies to innovate with virtual productions that resonate with culturally diverse audiences.
About Sound in European Funded Projects
Sound has a proven track record of delivering results that resonate with stakeholders in projects such as VRTogether, XReco and Presence. We are dedicated to addressing user requirements, identifying customer demands, and aligning with market dynamics.
What Sound offers: Proven track record in proposal development and writing of the Impact Section, finding the sweet spot and preliminary analysis of feasibility, viability, and desirability, large corporate and R&D network that we can activate and utilize for co-creation, use-cases, demonstrators and real-world scenarios, knowledge partner on business and Human-Centered Design, and No-nonsense partner that takes care of business.
