HapticSOUND aims at creating an analysis, documentation and demonstration system for traditional musical instruments at the Cretan Ethnology Museum (CEM), which will engage visitors in a personalized experience of transmittal cultural knowledge in an active, pleasant, and creative way. The proposed system can act as a bridge between the audience (visitors) and the cultural sources drawn upon (historians, folklorists, musical instrument makers, musicians, etc.), contributing to the understanding, dissemination and preservation of both tangible and intangible cultural heritage in the field of the traditional Cretan music.

DataScouting is a service provider and software developer for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), specialized in developing innovative solutions for media monitors, libraries, archives, museums, institutions, organizations and companies. Using technologies such as Optical Character Recognition, Natural Language Processing, Automatic Speech Recognition, Logo Detection and Data Mining, DataScouting provides intelligent solutions for managing and delivering actionable information.

The Research Committee is responsible for the management of University of  Macedonia research projects and the formulation of research policies. ELKE aims at allocating and managing funds from any source to cover expenses of any kind for research, education, training, development as well as lifelong training and scientific, technological and art projects, conducting specialised studies, tests, laboratory measurements and analyses.