The Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), founded in March 2000, is a private-law legal entity with non-profit status, supervised by the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation (GSRI) of the Hellenic Ministry of Development. CERTH is one of the most important research centers in Greece, with a core mission to promote innovative research for the benefit of society. CERTH conducts basic, applied, and technological research, providing solutions to modern societal challenges. 

One of its Institutes is the Information Technologies Institute (ITI) founded in 1998, with its head office located in Thessaloniki, Greece.  ITI has participated in a great number of Research and Development projects funded by European, Public investment funds and Services contracted by firms and other private legal entities. The Institute has the infrastructure, the experience and the maturity to intensify its efforts on diffusing its research activities to key stakeholders and using all the necessary mechanisms and tools towards efficiently bringing novel or improved services and products to them through the Institute’s established spin offs. Specifically same actions have been made in the recent years through ITI’s collaborations with numerous Institutions in Greece and abroad as well as the founding of 7 new spin-offs.