The Information Technologies Institute (ITI) – formerly known as Informatics and Telematics Institute – is a research institute that was founded in 1998 as a non-profit organisation under the auspices of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) of Greece, with its head office located in Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 10.3.2000 it is a founding member of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) also supervised by the GSRT. CERTH/ITI is one of the leading Greek institutions in the field of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) with long experience in numerous European and national R&D projects. CERTH/ITI has participated in more than 50 EC IST projects – having coordinated at least 10 of them – and more than 85 National research projects or private sector Consulting Subcontracts. Over the last six years, the ITI research team has authored over 150 publications in scientific journals and has presented over 300 papers in international conferences (for a complete list please see our website, http://www.iti.gr/). CERTH/ITI has a staff of 8 researchers, and more than 120 employees including research partners, fellows and assistants as well as administration and technical staff. The Institute collaborates with Imperial College, the University of Surrey and the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki for the award of PhD degrees.