Our mission is to exploit Semantics to overcome the societal, economical and technological challenges and limitations of current means of communication and collaboration by providing the scientific foundations, technological frameworks, and real-world applications necessary to make Semantics an integral and transparent building block of information systems.

STI International is organized as a collaborative association of interested scientific, industrial and governmental parties that share a common vision. STI International was kicked off in January 2007 in Berlin. STI international sets up its own research infrastructure and implements public and internal services that support the individual partner organizations in their research collaboration, standardization, dissemination and exploitation activities. STI International is active on an international level.