Project - EUTV -- Adaptive Channels in Europe

Overview

The EUTV (Adaptive Channels in Europe) project addressed the growing challenge of discovering, monitoring, and understanding vast volumes of online multimedia content. It set out to design an open, service-oriented framework capable of aggregating publicly available audio-visual streams — such as podcasts, Media RSS feeds, and web video — and transforming them into personalised, topic-driven adaptive channels for both professional and consumer users.

Within EUTV, IN2 acted as the scientific and technical manager and lead SME, bringing extensive expertise in multimedia content management, search interfaces, and user-centric design. IN2 drove the definition of professional use cases, particularly in the areas of media monitoring and clipping, ensuring that real-world editorial, analytical, and institutional requirements shaped the system from the outset. This included translating complex user needs into clear functional specifications that guided the overall system architecture.

IN2 also led the user requirements analysis and user-centric development approach, applying Living Lab methodologies, interviews, and focus groups to ground the technical work in practical workflows. These efforts ensured that EUTV’s adaptive channels supported advanced tasks such as topic tracking, comparative media analysis, and rapid content summarisation across text, audio, and video streams, while remaining accessible and scalable.

Beyond design and coordination, IN2 played a central role in demonstration, dissemination, and exploitation. It led the take-up activities for the professional scenario, implemented demonstration platforms, and managed the project’s communication strategy, website, and stakeholder engagement. Through this work, IN2 helped position EUTV as a foundation for next-generation media intelligence services, bridging research innovation with commercial deployment.

Alongside IN2, as the project's scientific and technical manager, the following organisations formed the consortium:

• Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, The Netherlands (Coordinator)
• Visup Srl, Italy
• Spring Techno GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
• University of Firenze, Italy
• INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal