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MYTILINEOS is a leading global industrial and energy company with a strong presence in all five continents. The company operates four Business Units, the Power & Gas BU, the Metallurgy BU, the Renewables & Storage Development BU and the Sustainable Engineering Solutions BU. In 2019, revenues exceeded $2.2 billion. The company’s workforce is more than 3,600 direct and indirect employees. MYTILINEOS with its activity generates added value of €1.06 bn., equal to 0.6% of the country’s total GDP. The company, that started as a family business in 1908 as a metal trading business and became a corporate entity in 1990. Established In 1995, the company was listed in the Athens Stock Exchange, while today is a constituent of the FTSE LARGE CAP Index. In 2017, MYTILINEOS combined its subsidiaries Aluminum of Greece, METKA and Protergia, into a new single business entity, enhancing operational flexibility and further boosting its purchasing and financing capacity. 

With the corporate transformation of 2020, MYTILINEOS established a new business unit the International Renewables & Storage Development (RSD) Business Unit, while transformed the EPC BU – METKA into a new, modern and innovative Business Unit; the Sustainable Engineering Solutions BU (SES BU), The company’s focus on sustainability is strengthened by the subsidiaries EPALME, which is the largest independent producer of recycled aluminum (secondary) and Zeologic, a startup specialized in the provision of innovative solutions in the field of liquid and solid waste management. MYTILINEOS pursues its development through its business model, responding to the global challenges of Sustainable Development. The company’s path to sustainability is characterized mainly by its conscious commitment to responsible entrepreneurship and the alignment of its strategic priorities with the Global Sustainable Development Goals, as well as by its leading role in the evolving national energy transformation and decarbonization.

CERTH The Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH) was founded in 2000, and is one of the leading research centers in Greece and listed among the TOP-20 E.U. research institutions with the highest participation in competitive research grants. It supervised by the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation (GSRI) of the Greek Ministry of Development and Investments.

CERTH/ITI is one of the leading Institutions of Greece in the fields of Informatics, Telematics, and Telecommunications, with long experience in numerous European and national R&D projects.  The Information Technologies Institute (ITI) was founded in 1998 as a non-profit organization under the auspices of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology of the Greek Ministry of Development, with its head office located in Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 2000 it is a founding member of CERTH. ITI is active in a large number of application sectors (energy, buildings and construction, health, manufacturing, robotics, (cyber)security, transport, smart cities, space, agri-food, marine, and blue growth, water, etc.) and technology areas such as data and visual analytics, data mining, machine, and deep learning, virtual and augmented reality, image processing, computer and cognitive vision, human-computer interaction, IoT and communication technologies, navigation technologies, cloud and computing technologies, distributed ledger technologies (blockchain), (semantic) interoperability, system integration, mobile and web applications, hardware design and development, smart grid technologies and solutions and social media analysis. In 2016, ITI introduced the “nZEB Smart Home Digital Innovation Hub”. Like the first Smart near-Zero Energy Building in Greece, it combines enhanced construction materials and intelligent ICT solutions creating a future-proof, sustainable and active testing, validating, and evaluating ecosystem. A variety of sensors, actuators, and devices is installed and being applied in both R&D and commercial contracts, to explore various innovating smart IoT-based technologies in the fields of Energy, Health, Security, Big Data, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence. It aims to become a cornerstone Digital Innovation Hub for R&D and commercialization of cutting-edge solutions in line with the National and European digitization objectives. With a constantly expanding state-of-the-art demonstration infrastructure, it strives to mature into a “go-to” one-stop-shop for innovative companies; transforming them into competitive actors that will lead the market landscape to a new digital future. In 2018, the nZEB Smart Home DIH in close cooperation with the Greek DSO, became the first grid-connected microgrid in Greece, and It is able to support business scenarios and use cases that are at the heart of technological developments.