Institutions

Several institutions, of one or another way, are been tie to the Virtual Acoustic Space project.

The pillars that sustain the project are the University of La Laguna, mainly through the Department of Physiology of their Faculty of Medicine and the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, through their Area of Instrumentation. These two institutions are the ones in charge to coordinate the project, to form investigators and to provide the facilities and the technician equipment adapted for the put into gear

We have the aid of other collaborating institutions that provide facilities and extra financing to us.

Financial Organizations:

Government of the Canary Islands

The support of the Government of the Canary Islands has been in form of funds for the financing of some phases of our investigation. In July 1996 we received from the Government of the Canary Islands a subvention of 16 million pesetas (95400 $ aprox.), in answer to our proposal presented in the public aid of concession of subventions for the accomplishment of projects of technological innovation (1995 July).

IMSERSO (Spanish Ministry of Social Subjects)

Our project received financing of the IMSERSO through its program PITER, by value of 15 million pesetas (89400 $ aprox.). The financing was asked for in June 1996 and granted to us in December of the same year.

Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology

At the end of January 2002 we received 31,765,000 pesetas (189400 $ aprox.) of financing from the national financing I+D plan , and previously we had obtained 24,500,000 pesetas (146000 $ aprox.) by the same concept in 2001. The quantity of the received aid from the PROFIT program ascended to 29,600,000 pesetas (176500 $ aprox.) in 2001 and to 21,500,000 (128200 $ aprox.) in the 2002.

European Community

In January 1999 we asked for European Community financing through the FEDER-CICYT program and in November of the same year this financing, by a value of 120 million pesetas (715400 $ aprox.), is granted to us, which allows us to approach the second phase of the project.

Collaborating Organizations:

Technological Institute of the Canary Islands

Its support has been based on the concession of new work spaces, as much as offices and an industrial ship for the preparation of a laboratory. This collaboration began in April 2000.

ImasDé Canarias, S.A.

Future manufacture of the processor for the portable equipment.

Spanish Blind People Organization (ONCE)

Since in June 1996 we presented for the first time our projecto to the ONCE and in special from our contact with its tiflotechnic unit in March 1997, this organization has collaborated actively with us, contributing ideas, aids to the financing (from March of 2001 within the ONCE-ULL agreement, with 6,000,000 of pesetas (35700 $ aprox.) contributed) and volunteers who lend themselves to prove the prototype in diverse experiments, as well as to put to the test itself of medical and psychological nature.

University Hospital of the Canary Islands

In their facilities the Functional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance with externalized sounds stimulation tests are carried out.

Pixel 486, S.L.

It is a canary company of audio-visual production that will be dedicated to the diffusion of our project's results.