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.

Łukasiewicz – Meeting e-needs thanks to the eLF platform

CEA – A Blindnet to secure Internet

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

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

TECNALIA – Paralysed patients are not alone

ITRI – Developing a solid-state electrolyte of Li-Batteries to the next generation

FEDIT – Perfect mattress for the perfect comfort

EURECAT – Optogenetic therapy for Multiple Sclerosis

EURECAT – Fast-track COVID-19 detection in wastewater

Leitat – Smart windows for smart buildings

AIST – Challenges for zero emission

REDIT – Developing new microorganism-based products

FEDIT – Fresh coffee smell when you get your shoes on

MTC – Innovative toolkit to create robust and resilient supply chain

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

NRC – Suspension Vero cell culture technology is transforming vaccine manufacturing

REDIT-AITEX – Effective garment disinfection to boost the textile industry

LCM (UAR) – MotorBox: the new toolbox for the electric motor industry

TNO – Robin Radar Systems: Making Airspace Safer

NIC – New antibacterials on their way to success

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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.