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.

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

CSEM – Non-obtrusive technique needed

CSEM – Personalised skin on demand

MTC – A digital toolset for SMEs

NST – Honeybush

RISE – Superheroes’ filaments come to life

NRC – Suspension Vero cell culture technology is transforming vaccine manufacturing

REDIT – Natural products out of supercritical CO2 technology

TECNALIA – Motion without limits

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

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

Helmholtz Association – Slowing down osteoporosis

A*STAR – RESOLUTE and RAVE Speed Up Testing for COVID-19

FEDIT – E-planning for clean water and sanitation

EURECAT – Fibre injection in manufacturing technology

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

Fraunhofer – Eco need for #PlasticFree packaging

FEDIT – Perfect mattress for the perfect comfort

NIC – New antibacterials on their way to success

EURECAT – Fast-track COVID-19 detection in wastewater

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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.