Gateway S.C.S. - Our History

Our History

1998.

1999.

Consultancy service for the project Project 2000, financed by the Initiative ADAPT. We soon became technical assistants to the coordination, management and direction of projects from the eQual initiative, such as, Red Rural, Zeleste, Lugo-Emprende, Local Activ@, Muller XXI and Adequalnova amongst others.

2000.

First version of euroalert.net. Service portal for information about the management community of European projects.

2001.

Execution of our first project of R+D+i, co-financed with regional funding from the Agency of Investment and Services. We continued to learn and gain experience from projects such as this, which allowed us to prefect our management skills in the area of publications and information systems.
We managed our work for the Argo project, throughout all phases (from initial submission to justification), through FUNDECYT and co-financed the project with help from the Leonardo da Vinci Programme and the Ministry of Science and Education. To date, this was the largest project of mobility realised in Spain. Within two years, the project provided 858 grants to undergraduates from all over Spain to finish their formal training and studies with European companies.
We provided consultancy for CECALE in the design and development of their strategies for the promotion of the Information and Communication Technologies for SMEs (e-business, electronic business, etc). The projects were co-financed by the ARTE PYME II Programme from the The Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Business and by the Consolidation and competitiveness Plan for Small and Medium Enterprises from the Agency of Investments and Services.

2002.

We became partners with CEDETEL a regional leader in the ICT sector. After continued partnership with the organisation and after discussions in 2003-2005, we were appointed Associate Directors of the centre, under the full Direction of Telefónica I+D.
For the first time, our turn over rose to over €500,000.

2003.

Agreement from the EuropeAid Co-operation of the European Commission for the joining of Gateway S.C.S. to a network of European and Latin American operators whom work together to create business opportunities: The COOPECO network from the European programme AL-INVEST.
Our work in R+D+i gave birth to the GTW-Framework, the largest technological initiative that Gateway S.C.S. have undertaken to date. We chose the Microsoft.NET platform, as the base upon which we could build GTW-Framework. We abided by the strictest policy standards as set by W3C also, 2003 saw our first approach towards dealing with the accessibilty network.

2004.

The first software developed using GTW-Framework was launched. Becalia.net (solutions for graduate and undergraduate work placements). Work started on the personalisation of cvnet-fue.com for the The University-Enterprise Foundation.

2005.

Member of the Spreex consortium (2005-2007) in colaboration with Puertos del Estado (Ministry of Public Services) set out within Sexto Programa Marco de I+D. We managed a budget of of almost 1 million Euros.
Agreement to join with CEDETEL for the development of activities through Centre of Innovation and Mobility.
Certificate received for the quality of all activities developed by Gateway S.C.S., related to “Strategic Consultancy” according to the Norma UNE-EN ISO 9001:2000.

2006.

Execution of our fifth R+D+i project, for the incorporation of the principle emerging technologies associated with Web 2.0 of our platform GTW-FrameWork.

2007

Technical Advisers to Puertos del Estado and The Ministry of Public Services for the elaboration and approval of the project WEST-MoS within the framework of the TEN-T programme, approved by the 2005-EU-90609-S Commission with a budget of 3 million Euros.
After almost ten years on the internet, we launched, in Beta phase and in Spanish, a new version of Euroalert.net (ISSN 1988-3382). A free informational website in which Gateway S.C.S. combines all its Information Services concerning the European Union (European Union Mail, Euro-management club and Euroalert) and includes it's knowledge and experience from previous years.