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.

CSEM – Personalised skin on demand

ITRI – LCD waste recycling system

TNO – Beat the heat with TNO’s heat battery

CSEM – Non-obtrusive technique needed

IPN – The new medicine for telemedicine

FEDIT – E-planning for clean water and sanitation

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

CSEM – New treatments for Musculoskeletal Diseases under way

NIC – New antibacterials on their way to success

Tyndall – Innovative gun for breast cancer diagnosis

EURECAT – Optogenetic therapy for Multiple Sclerosis

RISE – PIPEOPSY: The new biopsy for more durable pipes

REDIT – Developing new microorganism-based products

AIST – Challenges for zero emission

VTT – Ice prevention that allows maximum energy production

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

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

TECNALIA – Find your skin code for a personalised treatment

Leitat – Smart windows for smart buildings

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

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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.