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 range from basic research to new products and services development. RTOs are non-profit organisations with public missions to support society. To do so, they closely cooperate with industries, large and small, as well as a wide array of public actors.

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.

ARMINES – Optimising biological pest control

CEA – Revolutionising the gas sensing industry

EURECAT – Flying robot makes sewer inspection safer and faster

RISE – Co-creating circular furniture loops

TNO – Turning organic waste into valuable raw materials

JOANNEUM – Vinyl records are back

FEDIT – Biodegradable bottles boost dairy industry

VTT – Powering our connected future

ARMINES – A new generation solution for business process management

TNO – Breakthrough in streaming virtual reality

ARMINES – Simulating surgery for better results

EURECAT – Creating a new vision for the ophthalmic industry

FEDIT – A step forward for rubber shoe soles

Fraunhofer – Enabling higher performance jet engines

VITO – A virtual ride down memory lane

Fraunhofer – Making liver surgery safer

Fraunhofer – A plug-and-play human

Tecnalia – Next generation generator

Helmholtz Association – Finding a needle in a haystack

TNO – Around the world in a day

CEA – A digital nose for success

VTT – Surfaces come to life

See all Innovation Awards

See brochures: 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011

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.