by Francesc Mas – Engineering Dpt. CCMA S.A.
Photo by: Jordi Play
The MOSAIC project aims to develop a prototypical European AI-enhanced platform that will serve as a central, scalable hub for broadcasters, news creators, distributors, and consumers. This ambitious platform is designed to unlock the potential of vast cultural heritage, media, and news repositories by integrating a sophisticated, multilingual and multimodal AI-driven system.
By linking content producers with knowledge repositories, MOSAIC not only enhances access and interoperability across Europe’s diverse media landscape but also opens up new opportunities for reusing the accumulated knowledge and assets of broadcasters and media organisations. At its core, the project promotes collaboration, innovation, and digital transformation within the European media ecosystem.
Identifying Shared Needs Through Use Cases
To ensure the platform is built upon real-world priorities, the project began with a collaborative process of defining use cases contributed by each participating broadcaster. This process was essential to identify commonalities across different operational, linguistic, and technological environments.
These use cases provided a practical and grounded understanding of what the platform must deliver. By analysing them collectively, the consortium has been able to define a clear set of shared requirements that will drive the development of a unified and interoperable system—one that reduces complexity, ensures flexibility, and supports long-term scalability.
From Use Cases to a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
After collecting and analysing all use cases, the next step was to prioritise and adapt them in order to define a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). This MVP represents the first tangible version of the MOSAIC platform and will be used in a pilot phase involving all participating broadcasters.
The MVP includes a targeted set of AI-powered tools designed to support essential workflows, as for example: transcription, translation, dubbing, text summarization…
These tools will be applied and tested through pilots that reflect key goals of the project, based on:
- Content Distribution – Supporting broadcasters in the promotion and dissemination of cultural content.
- Content Access and Search – Enhancing searchability, discoverability, and access to archived media.
- Content Adaptation and Enrichment – Enabling broadcasters to enrich their archives with advanced AI tools.
All use cases and pilots within the MOSAIC project focus fundamentally on content, as a resource to be discovered, managed, reused and enriched with accessibility features for its sharing and consumption at a European level. For this reason, the CCMA has been actively involved not only in shaping the Minimum Viable Product (MVP), but also in coordinating with all participating broadcasters to ensure that each one contributes the necessary media assets for the successful execution of the pilots. This collective contribution helps populate the MOSAIC HUB with a rich and diverse set of contents, grounding each use case in realistic scenarios where broadcasters will interact with the platform to perform intelligent content searches, retrieve relevant assets, and enhance those assets using the suite of integrated AI tools.
In parallel, the Engineering and Documentation departments at CCMA have carried out a meticulous and in-depth selection of textual, audio, and video content for the project. This selection includes news and weather programs, cultural documentaries and reports, raw footage, and more. This carefully curated collection not only supports the pilot activities but also contributes to the enrichment of the broader content base within the MOSAIC ecosystem. By doing so, CCMA is helping to ensure that the platform reflects authentic broadcaster workflows and delivers meaningful value in terms of content discovery, enhancement, and accessibility.
The Pilot Phase
The consortium is currently hard at work planning the pilot phase, which will be launched in the coming months. These pilots are a crucial step forward: they will involve broadcasters from the project as well as external content creators. This openness reflects MOSAIC’s collaborative spirit and its ambition to serve a wider European media ecosystem.
The goal of this piloting phase is to evaluate the platform’s usability, efficiency, and performance across the selected use cases. We want to see how well the system fits into real-world workflows and how it supports users—from broadcasters to content creators—in managing and enriching media assets. To this end, pilot participants will engage in hands-on testing scenarios that provide meaningful feedback and insights for further development.
A Solid Foundation for the Future
What sets MOSAIC apart is, above all, the HUB itself.
At the heart of the project lies a powerful vision: to connect content repositories across Europe, enabling seamless sharing, discovery, and reuse of archival content on a European scale. This collaborative infrastructure doesn’t just support content—it amplifies it, making it more accessible, more discoverable, and ultimately more valuable.
Complementing the HUB is the integration of AI tools, technologies that already exist, but which, thanks to MOSAIC, can now be embedded directly into media workflows. This enables advanced capabilities like:
- Intelligent content search
- Automated content creation and enrichment
- Accessibility features (subtitles, dubbing, summarization)
- Quality assurance (error and anomaly detection)
The MOSAIC platform represents a step-change for European media—not just in how we manage and access content, but in how we collaborate across borders, unlock the value of archives, and put AI to work in service of culture and creativity.
The future of European media is interconnected, intelligent, and open—and MOSAIC is building the foundation.