MICO is a European Union part-funded research project to provide cross-media analysis solutions for online multimedia producers.

MICO unites leading research institutions from the information extraction, semantic web, and multimedia area with industry leaders in the media sector.

The consortium consists of 7 participants with complementary expertise, of which two are industrial research centres with a strong application focus (Salzburg Research and Fraunhofer), three are universities providing a solid formal backing for the project (Universtiy of Passau, UMEA Universtiy and Universtiy of Oxford), of which one is running the most successful crowd sourcing platform for academic research, two are innovative SME in the content management and media area (Insideout10 and Zaizi Ltd).