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.

NST – Honeybush

Helmholtz Association – Slowing down osteoporosis

VTT – From waste to wonderful

FEDIT-AITIIP – 3D printed parts from organic raw materials

NRC – Suspension Vero cell culture technology is transforming vaccine manufacturing

NIC – Heterogeneous process for bio-based AA production

RISE – Superheroes’ filaments come to life

Leitat – Smart windows for smart buildings

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

Fraunhofer – Wireless standard for massive IoT

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

AIMPLAS – Achieve efficient CO2 capture with the GRAMOFON project

HELMHOLTZ – INERATEC: E-Fuels, a sustainable substitute for fossil crude oil

CSEM – Personalised skin on demand

MTC – Have a cacao treat with Colombian Cocoa Control System (COLCO)

FEDIT – Fresh coffee smell when you get your shoes on

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

NIC – New antibacterials on their way to success

CSEM – New treatments for Musculoskeletal Diseases under way

Fraunhofer – Let your packaging look greener

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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.