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.

Łukasiewicz – Super-efficient monitoring system for pregnancy and labour

Helmholtz – Personalised medicine thanks to transformative EPR sensors

Fraunhofer – Safe and non-toxic fire-protection gel

Leitat – Smart windows for smart buildings

VTT – Eggs without chickens

NIC – New antibacterials on their way to success

IPN – The new medicine for telemedicine

VTT – Track your grain quality instantly, anywhere

TNO – Robin Radar Systems: Making Airspace Safer

AIMPLAS – Achieve efficient CO2 capture with the GRAMOFON project

Helmholtz Association – Slowing down osteoporosis

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

VTT – Ice prevention that allows maximum energy production

CEA – A Blindnet to secure Internet

AIST – Challenges for zero emission

CIDETEC – Competitive and sustainable thermoset composites

REDIT-AINIA – New cellulosic eco-packaging

Fraunhofer – Villages now go digital

FEDIT – E-planning for clean water and sanitation

TECNALIA – Motion without limits

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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.