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.

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

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

Tyndall National Institute – European Technology will be MagIC

RISE – Superheroes’ filaments come to life

REDIT – Natural products out of supercritical CO2 technology

TECNALIA – Motion without limits

CIDETEC – Competitive and sustainable thermoset composites

MTC – Innovative toolkit to create robust and resilient supply chain

CEA – A Blindnet to secure Internet

IPN – The new medicine for telemedicine

AIST – Challenges for zero emission

Łukasiewicz – Meeting e-needs thanks to the eLF platform

FEDIT-CTCR – Unique textiles that make the elderly happy

Łukasiewicz Research Network – Modular automation controller for smart switchgear

VTT – Track your grain quality instantly, anywhere

TECNALIA – Find your skin code for a personalised treatment

VTT – Ice prevention that allows maximum energy production

Fraunhofer – Eco need for #PlasticFree packaging

FEDIT – E-planning for clean water and sanitation

REDIT – Developing new microorganism-based products

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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.