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.

Tyndall – Innovative gun for breast cancer diagnosis

FEDIT – Fresh coffee smell when you get your shoes on

REDIT – Natural products out of supercritical CO2 technology

VTT – Eggs without chickens

FEDIT – Perfect mattress for the perfect comfort

REDIT – Developing new microorganism-based products

VTT – Ice prevention that allows maximum energy production

RISE – Superheroes’ filaments come to life

AIST – Challenges for zero emission

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

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

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

Helmholtz Association – Slowing down osteoporosis

CEA – A Blindnet to secure Internet

NST – Honeybush

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

CSIRO – FutureFeed

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

Łukasiewicz – Meeting e-needs thanks to the eLF platform

Łukasiewicz – New era for non-invasive glucose sensors

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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.