The University of Granada presents its Center for Production and Experimentation in Digital Content

The center will have the necessary equipment for the creation and experimentation of digital content such as digital image processing, audiovisual production and post-production, 3D analysis and processing, 2D animation, media integration and online distance training.

The Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, through the public business entity red.es, the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE) and the University of Granada have presented the Center for Production and Experimentation in Digital Content installed at said university.

The Center, endowed with a budget of 942,953 euros (70 percent contributed by red.es, thanks to the contribution of the European Regional Development Fund, and the remaining 30 percent by the University of Granada) will have the necessary equipment for the creation and experimentation of digital content such as digital image processing, audiovisual production and post-production, 3D analysis and processing, 2D animation, media integration and distance online training.

La tecnología que irá destinada para el proyecto granadino constará de estaciones de trabajo especializadas en cada una de las áreas, un sistema de captura de movimiento, un estudio de producción audiovisual, un sistema de videoconferencia y equipamiento para el almacenamiento y la distribución de contenidos.

The University of Granada is one of the 24 Spanish public universities adhering to the 'Digital Professionals' program, which has a global budget of 12.1 million euros for its development: 8.4 million euros allocated to the 21 universities adhering in its first call and 3.7 million euros for the 10 that have done so in the second. Its objective is to promote the national digital content industry, promoting the training of students and professionals in the sector and promoting collaboration between universities and companies, through the development of new academic programs and the creation of production and experimentation centers in Spanish public universities.

Training program

The training of new professionals is one of the main objectives of the Granada Digital Content Production and Experimentation Center. The main actions that have been launched are made up of a series of specific training courses in the different digital content technologies (audiovisual and multimedia production, 2D and 3D animation, motion capture for the creation of virtual characters, applications for digital production); generation of materials for online distribution; complementary and transversal training actions through undergraduate and postgraduate teaching; and, various technological training courses for teachers, students and administration and service personnel.

El nuevo ha recibido el apoyo explícito de diferentes empresas y entidades consideradas futuras receptoras de los nuevos profesionales en Contenidos Digitales, con las que ya se están desarrollando acciones formativas y proyectos colaborativos. Así, la Universidad de Granada ya ha desarrollado acuerdos de colaboración con empresas del sector audiovisual emplazadas en la región. Muestra de ello son dos acuerdos, uno de ellos firmado con Kandor Graphics, para el desarrollo de acciones de formación compartidas, y, el otro, sellado con Genoma Animation, orientado al aprendizaje de técnicas de infografía por Internet.