The IRT is the research and development centre of the public service broadcasters in Germany (ARD, ZDF, DLR), in Austria (ORF) and in Switzerland (SRG/SSR). The IRT is a non-profit company working in the interest of the general public. Favouring open technical standards and horizontal system markets, the IRT is heavily involved in the technical work of the EBU (the European Broadcasting Union) and is an active contributor to the relevant standardisation bodies and international initiatives.

• experience from having developed and improving an own MHP stack
• results from verifying new tests developed within this project
• results from its activities as application developer for first regular interactive MHP services
• experience from launching experimental interactive MHP services
• consulting and supporting broadcasters in establishing MHP services
• experience and results from organising an ongoing series of MHP Interoperability workshops with each up to 100 participants from throughout the world
• experience from scrutinising the current version 1.0.2.b of the official MHP Test Suite and the involvement in the official MHP Conformance Testing process

In detail, IRT will verify and debug newly developed tests on IRT's MHP Implementation, co-operate with external parties during MHP Interoperability workshops as well as during their ongoing work on MHP in order to focus the work of MHP-CONFIDENCE on critical areas, act as interface to DVB and ETSI together with Philips, co-operate with broadcasters on their actual problems, and will organise further MHP Interoperability workshops.