"The project BIRTH aims at building up a multimedia and multilingual pool of archive material from the first broadcasting days 50 years ago for online access by different user-groups. Audiovisual content as well as accompanying text and photographic material will be collected from a representative number of broadcast archives in order to give attractive online access to the first years of European television-history in a way it has never been presented before." An dem Projekt sind verschiedene europäische Institutionen beteiligt: die JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH in Graz, die BBC, das Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, der ORF, der belgische Rundfunksender RTBF sowie der SWR.