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.

REDIT – Developing new microorganism-based products

NST – Honeybush

NIC – Heterogeneous process for bio-based AA production

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

REDIT – Natural products out of supercritical CO2 technology

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

AIST – Challenges for zero emission

IPN – The new medicine for telemedicine

RISE – Superheroes’ filaments come to life

Łukasiewicz – Super-efficient monitoring system for pregnancy and labour

Helmholtz Association – Slowing down osteoporosis

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

CEA – A Blindnet to secure Internet

Łukasiewicz – Meeting e-needs thanks to the eLF platform

VTT – Eggs without chickens

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

FEDIT – Fresh coffee smell when you get your shoes on

CSIRO – FutureFeed

Tyndall – Innovative gun for breast cancer diagnosis

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

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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.