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.

ITRI – LCD waste recycling system

FEDIT – Fresh coffee smell when you get your shoes on

FEDIT – Perfect mattress for the perfect comfort

TNO – Robin Radar Systems: Making Airspace Safer

Fraunhofer – Let your packaging look greener

CEA-SOITEC – Flying-phones in your smart hands

FEDIT – E-planning for clean water and sanitation

AIST – Challenges for zero emission

VTT – Track your grain quality instantly, anywhere

Łukasiewicz Research Network – Modular automation controller for smart switchgear

Fraunhofer – Eco need for #PlasticFree packaging

MTC – A digital toolset for SMEs

IPN – The new medicine for telemedicine

VTT – From waste to wonderful

Łukasiewicz – New era for non-invasive glucose sensors

CSEM – Promising design and advanced manufacturing concept

NST – Designing petrochemical process for energy efficiency and carbon abatement innovations

VTT – Eggs without chickens

Fraunhofer – Wireless standard for massive IoT

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

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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.