
IGDA – Istituto Geografico De Agostini |
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| Country | Italy | |
| Headquarters | Milan and Novara | |
| Type of organization | Publishing company | |
| Website | www.deagostini.it | |
Role inside ISAAC
IGDA will take care in particular of the dissemination of the ISAAC project and will be involved in preparing the brand image and the communication tools in order to spread the project’s aims and results.
Field of activities
Istituto Geografico De Agostini S.p.A. (DeA) is one of the major international publishing houses, operating in 30 countries (UK, D, F, IT, E, NL, PL, GR, JP, etc.) and publishing in 13 languages.
De Agostini output includes illustrated books for children, products for school, serialized magazines and maps; alongside books there are multimedia packages for a public receptive to the opportunities offered by new technologies.
DeA is a market leader in knowledge diffusion through both traditional channels (partworks, books, CD-Rom) and the new media (internet, mobile).
De Agostini multimedia products include:
De Agostini output includes illustrated books for children, products for school, serialized magazines and maps; alongside books there are multimedia packages for a public receptive to the opportunities offered by new technologies.
DeA is a market leader in knowledge diffusion through both traditional channels (partworks, books, CD-Rom) and the new media (internet, mobile).
De Agostini multimedia products include:
- Internet for the Business-to-consumer (B2C) market
www.discoveritalia.it : inbound tourist web site, in 3 languages;
www.sapere.it: the De Agostini site for on-line reference content and education;
www.speakclub.com: the language learning portal (5 source languages for many target markets – IT, JP, PL, FR…);
- Internet for the Business-to-Business (B2B) market
www.geonext.it: map based services and infomobility;
www.deaprofessionale.it: legal, fiscal, technical database for the professional market.
Contact info
Partners
- FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM KARLSRUHE, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (FZK-ITAS) - COORDINATOR
- University of Nottingham, School of the Built Environment
- TXT E-solutions
- University of Sunderland, School of Arts, Design, Media & Culture
- Department of Spatial Economics VU University Amsterdam
- FEEM – Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
- POLITO - Polytechnic of Turin, Casa-Città Department
- SRM – State Russian Museum
- IGDA – Istituto Geografico De Agostini
- VU-Spinlab, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Spinlab, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences
- University of Naples ‘Federico II’ DCBBA, Department of Conservation of Architectural and Environmental Assets
- City of Leipzig
- City of Amsterdam
- Municipality of Genoa