RTOs – Research and Technology Organisations

From the lab to your everyday life. RTOs innovate to improve your health and well-being, your safety and security, your mobility and connectivity. RTOs’ technologies cover all scientific fields. Their work ranges from basic research to new products and services’ development. RTOs are non-profit organisations whose core mission is to produce, combine and bridge various types of knowledge, skills and infrastructures to deliver a range of research and development activities in collaboration with public and industrial partners of all sizes. These activities aim to result in technological and social innovations and system solutions that contribute to and mutually reinforce their economic, societal and policy impacts.

EARTO Innovation Awards

The annual EARTO Innovation Awards is a competition open to all EARTO members. It rewards innovations with significant social and/or economic impact, produced or expected, with a major contribution from an EARTO member. An independent jury evaluates entries and selects the winners. The prizes are awarded at a special ceremony in Brussels in October with wide political and stakeholder participation.

Fraunhofer – Safe and non-toxic fire-protection gel

Fraunhofer – Wireless standard for massive IoT

Tyndall National Institute – European Technology will be MagIC

HELMHOLTZ – INERATEC: E-Fuels, a sustainable substitute for fossil crude oil

MTC – A digital toolset for SMEs

Łukasiewicz – Meeting e-needs thanks to the eLF platform

ITRI – LCD waste recycling system

RECENDT (UAR) – A photothermal imaging is worth more than a thousand words

FEDIT – Perfect mattress for the perfect comfort

CSEM – Personalised skin on demand

SCCH (UAR) – How to bring transparency to complex software systems

Fraunhofer – Villages now go digital

VTT – Track your grain quality instantly, anywhere

AIST – Challenges for zero emission

RISE – PIPEOPSY: The new biopsy for more durable pipes

NRC – National Research Council of Canada’s clean energy agenda

TNO – Robin Radar Systems: Making Airspace Safer

HELMHOLTZ – Real-time water monitoring from space (WaMoS)

Tyndall – Innovative gun for breast cancer diagnosis

CETMA – Novel SMA-based anti-seismic device for a durable building solution

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RTOs’ Impact Delivered!

Because the RTO sector is not recognised in official OECD or EUROSTAT data, little systematic information about the sector is available. To help fill this gap, EARTO commissioned several fact-finding studies on the impact of RTOs over the years.