About us

CITE is a SME, activating in the domain of ICT systems engineering, research and consulting. The main commercial activities of the company include large scale systems design and implementation, techno-economic analysis of ICT systems and services and systems’ quality assurance and testing. In the area of research and innovation CITE designs and implements cutting edge solutions for cloud and distributed infrastructures, information retrieval and data management systems, specialized simulation and modelling tools etc, bringing beyond-state-of-the-art concepts into systems’ production lines. CITE activities powered by and established on the competences of its highly skilled workforce, of over 30 permanent employees and consultants, which in the majority consists of postgraduate degree holders with a large multiproject / multiyear experience in research and innovation projects, both at European and National level. CITE has 2 IT departments, one located in it head offices in Kessariani, in the wider area of Athens and one located in Sparta. In the context of this proposal the head IT department will be engaged.

CITE record has strong reference on big data (with special interest on geo temporal ones) management, analysis and visualization that consists of (a) participation to H2020 projects on the field of geospatial data management, analysis and visualization (EarthServer 2, BlueBRIDGE) (b) leading role in 2 national innovation projects (under execution, launched June/July 2018) with focus on geospatial data management analysis and visualization and participation to others and (c) investment on in house platforms and technologies in the domain.

Know more about us at  https://www.cite.gr/.

Main role in the project

CITE’s role in the project is multi-fold: (a) technology partner providing solutions in integration of specific services, esp. ones dealing with data discovery, data management, authn/authz and migration to the cloud [WP5-WP6] (b) provider of commercially usable infrastructure [WP7] (c) contribution to the techno-economic analysis and business modelling as an actor with experience on the field both from the economic and the technical standpoints and assessment [WP9] (d) contribution to setting innovative business plan as a stakeholder, targeting commercial exploitation of project’s results (e) contribution to project’s activities including outreach activities, management [WP10], (f) contribution and support to the implementation of Open Innovation Calls (g) coordinator of service activities and leader of WP7. Finally, CITE’s personnel has vast experience in H2020, RTD projects and technologies in general, and will undertake the technical leadership of the project and has long experience in quality processes and risk management and will lead Quality Assurance tasks [WP1].

EU Flag  NEANIAS is a Research and Innovation Action funded by European Union under Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme via grant agreement No.863448.