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.

Helmholtz Association – Slowing down osteoporosis

FEDIT – Perfect mattress for the perfect comfort

REDIT – Natural products out of supercritical CO2 technology

RISC (UAR) – Innovative algorithm designs a more sustainable wooden future

EURECAT – Optogenetic therapy for Multiple Sclerosis

CSEM – New treatments for Musculoskeletal Diseases under way

EURECAT – Fibre injection in manufacturing technology

ITRI – LCD waste recycling system

AIST – Challenges for zero emission

Tyndall – Innovative gun for breast cancer diagnosis

VTT – Eggs without chickens

RISE – Superheroes’ filaments come to life

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

NST – Honeybush

REDIT – Developing new microorganism-based products

NIC – Heterogeneous process for bio-based AA production

Fraunhofer – Safe and non-toxic fire-protection gel

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

TECNALIA – Paralysed patients are not alone

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

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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.