Publications

03 / 10 / 2024

EARTO Analysis on EARTO Members’ Participation in Horizon Europe

RTOs have a leading position and driving role in FPs’ multi-disciplinary, large and complex collaborative projects. FP projects where RTOs are active have a larger participation from industry than projects without RTOs.

30 / 09 / 2024

EARTO Response to EC Consultation on ERA

To answer the European Commission’s public consultation on the European Research Area, EARTO would like to bring forward some key issues to the Member States and the EC regarding the current challenges as well as the evolution of ERA.

06 / 09 / 2024

EARTO Policy Recommendations 2024-2029: No EU Tech, No EU Competitiveness

EARTO members present a set of 6 recommendations on how to further boost competitiveness.

18 / 07 / 2024

EARTO Paper on Advanced Materials for Healthcare

Following the European Commission (EC) Communication on Advanced Materials for Industrial Leadership and this week launch of the IAM-I, the international non-profit Association that will operate the upcoming European co-programmed partnership on Innovative Advanced Materials for Europe (IAM4EU), EARTO would like to provide further inputs for the upcoming Strategic Research Innovation Agenda (SRIA) of this new European partnership.

04 / 07 / 2024

Joint Statement for an Ambitious FP10

In the shaping of the next FP10, we, the undersigned 110 European associations representing key European RD&I stakeholders, urge the EU Institutions to significantly increase the current budget in view of FP10.

30 / 04 / 2024

EARTO Answer to EC Consultation on Technologies with Dual-use Potential

EARTO advocates for a balanced regulatory approach in the EU’s handling of dual-use technologies, warning against creating separate frameworks that could fragment the R&D ecosystem and complicate compliance.

26 / 04 / 2024

RTOs International Network (RIN) Joint Statement 2024 – Building Resilient Society: RTOs’ Role in Long-term Cross-Borders Collaboration

EARTO with its 350+ RTOs and its International Members reunited together in RIN acknowledge the increasing roles for RTOs in building resilient society with innovative technology solutions and international collaboration.

22 / 03 / 2024

EARTO Paper on RTOs’ role as Intermediaries in Knowledge Valorisation

This position paper reiterates the multifaceted competencies of RTOs and underscores their significance as intermediaries in knowledge valorisation processes bridging the so-called ‘valley of death’ of technology maturation between basic science and the market and shows examples of EARTO members’ activities.

14 / 02 / 2024

Joint Letter to MEP Plenary vote on standard essential patents regulation

We represent European organizations (companies and research institutions), small and large, that invest heavily in cutting edge R&D. The innovative technologies that we develop are critical to European technological sovereignty.

08 / 02 / 2024

EARTO Annual Report 2023

The Annual Report summarises the main EARTO activities, events and figures during the year 2023.

31 / 01 / 2024

EARTO Feedback on New ERA Policy Agenda

In the context of the current update of the ERA Policy Agenda 2025-2027, EARTO would like to bring some key issues to the attention of the Member States and the European Commission.

19 / 01 / 2024

EUA-EARTO-Science Europe Open letter on Investing more in RD&I

In this Open Letter to Commissioner Ivanova, EUA, EARTO, and Science Europe stress the crucial role of RD&I investments.

08 / 01 / 2024

EARTO Recommendations regarding the Evaluation & Pre-contractual Negotiations of Lump-sums EU Funded RD&I Projects

EARTO members are very active participants in the EU RD&I Frameworks Programmes (FPs), especially in complex and large collaborative applied RD&I projects.

03 / 01 / 2024

EARTO Position Paper on Research Security – Inputs to the EC Call for Evidence for EC proposal for a Council Recommendation

EARTO sees the new European Commission Proposal for a European Economic Security Strategy as an opportunity to improve research security and reduce risks related to the international nature of scientific research and technological development.

22 / 12 / 2023

EARTO inputs to the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS) consultation

This document puts forward answers to a selection of guiding questions established by the EARTO Working Group Security and Defence Research (WGSD) in response to the European Defence Industrial Strategy Consultation (EDIS), dated 20 November 2023. It provides the requested written inputs from think tanks and academic experts.

08 / 12 / 2023

EARTO Memo on 2024 EU Budget

EARTO is glad of the EU budget 2024 results and hereby would like to thank the EP BUDG and ITRE Committee Members for all their efforts to secure Horizon Europe budget.

06 / 11 / 2023

EARTO Comments on Civil Security for Society in the Draft Horizon Europe Strategic Plan (2025 – 2027)

This position paper puts forward a series of recommendations established by the EARTO WG Security and Defence Research (WGSD) in response to the draft Horizon Europe (HE) Strategic Plan 2025-2027, in particular on Cluster 3 (Civil security for society).

30 / 10 / 2023

EARTO Answer to EC consultation on EU cross-border regions – solutions to overcome legal and administrative obstacles

EARTO, as the representative of European RTOs, is strongly committed to improve international researcher mobility based on the European single market.

20 / 10 / 2023

EARTO Answer to EC Survey Industry-Academia Co-Creation for Knowledge Valorisation

EARTO answered to the EC Survey on the draft code on Industry-Academia Co-Creation for Knowledge Valorisation.

11 / 10 / 2023

EARTO Innovation Awards Brochure 2023

The EARTO Innovation Awards 2023 brochure introduces examples from real innovators and their concrete success stories of how European RTOs and RTOs International Network (RIN) address today’s challenges and create impact through their work.

11 / 10 / 2023

Press Release – EARTO Innovation Awards 2023

The EARTO Innovation Awards 2023 were given to EARTO members UAR-LCM and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaf – UMSICHT during a ceremony which was held in Brussels.

28 / 09 / 2023

EARTO Inputs towards the Establishment of the European Economic Security Strategy and its Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP)

EARTO welcomed the EC proposal for a Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age. The ability for the EU to develop an industrial base on the technologies that will be needed for the climate and energy transition is at stake.

08 / 09 / 2023

EARTO Inputs to ERAC on the next European Research & Innovation Framework Programme (FP10)

RTOs are very pleased with the opportunity offered by the EU Framework Programmes to contribute to the European Research Area by developing pan-European excellent and impactful collaborative applied research.

30 / 06 / 2023

EARTO Answer to the EC Consultation on SEPs

EARTO calls on the EC to ensure that its Regulation on SEPs will not induce new insecurities for market players, not lead to new hurdles for IP owners, consider aspects of global competitiveness and not come to the detriment of EU RD&I actors.

27 / 06 / 2023

Joint Reaction to the EIC Board Statement on Intellectual Property

Associations of knowledge transfer professionals, RTOs, and universities publish a joint reaction to the statement of the EIC Board on the Intellectual Property rules applicable to EIC Pathfinder and Transition projects.

09 / 06 / 2023

EARTO Open Letter to the EC on EU Institutions Own Transparency: European Commission’s Who’s Who Digital Tool

The European Commission (EC) has recently made changes in the Who is Who directory of the EC. In this Open Letter to Ms Juhansone, Secretary-General of the EC, EARTO expresses its great concern about these changes. Indeed

31 / 05 / 2023

EARTO Position Paper on EC Draft Proposal for a Regulation on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs)

EARTO agrees with the EC that technical standardisation and SEP licensing are of the utmost importance to the European innovation ecosystem, and welcomes the attention given by the EC to this topic

16 / 05 / 2023

EARTO Answer to the EC Consultation on European Critical Raw Materials Act

EARTO welcomes the EC’s proposal for a regulation to establish a Framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of Critical Raw Materials and the accompanying Communication. EARTO members are ready to contribute to the definition and subsequent implementation of the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA), and put forward some key messages.

11 / 05 / 2023

EARTO Inputs to ERA Framework for Research Careers

EARTO Human Ressources experts inputs to the ERA Forum action 4 – Comments to the technical document on framework for research careers.

14 / 04 / 2023

EARTO response on European Symposium on SPLH – 2023 Questionnaire

At the Symposium on 23 March 2023, stakeholders were kindly requested to respond to a questionnaire to inform a wider discussion in Europe regarding a possible common European position on the main contentious SPLH topics.

21 / 02 / 2023

EARTO Inputs on Healthcare Research and Innovation for the next Strategic Plan of Horizon Europe (2025-2027)

In view of the preparation of the Horizon Europe next Strategic Plan 2025-2027, the EARTO Working Group Healthcare would like to point out 5 recommendations to further boost current EU Healthcare Programmes.

21 / 02 / 2023

EARTO Inputs on RD&I for Civil Security for Society (Cluster 3) for Horizon Europe next Strategic Plan 2025-2027

In view of the preparation of the Horizon Europe next Strategic Plan 2025-2027, the EARTO Working Group Security and Defence Research would like to point out 6 recommendations to further increase the viability and impact of the Civil Security for Society programme.

16 / 02 / 2023

EARTO Annual Report 2022

The Annual Report summarises the main EARTO activities, events and figures during the year 2022.

10 / 02 / 2023

EARTO Reaction to the EC Proposal for a Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age

EARTO welcomes the EC proposal for a Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age. However, the RD&I and linked technologies’ development/maturation/scaling up are not obviously considered in the plan.

10 / 02 / 2023

EARTO Feedback on EARTO Members’ Experiences with Lump-Sums Projects within Horizon Europe

EARTO members are actively participating in the current Horizon Europe lump-sums projects and report many implementation issues which need to be tackled before envisioning to further extend the use of such financial instrument.

10 / 02 / 2023

EARTO Analysis on EARTO Members’ Participation in Horizon Europe

RTOs have a leading position and driving role in FPs’ multi-disciplinary, large and complex collaborative projects. FP projects where RTOs are active have a larger participation from industry than projects without RTOs.

10 / 02 / 2023

EARTO Answer to the EC Consultation on EU RD&I Framework Programmes

Based on EARTO members extensive experience in EU RD&I FPs and in preparation of Horizon Europe mid-term review, EARTO would like to point out some key issues in response to EC Consultation on the past, present and future of the European Research & Innovation Framework Programmes 2014-2027.

05 / 12 / 2022

Joint Statement on the MGA IP Provisions of the EIC under Horizon Europe

We, the undersigned associations of research-performing organisations and knowledge transfer professionals, voice our concerns regarding the Intellectual Property (IP) provisions for Transition and Pathfinder projects of the European Innovation Council (EIC).

23 / 11 / 2022

EARTO Memo on 2023 EU Budget

EARTO is glad of the EU budget 2023 results and hereby would like to thank the EP BUDG and ITRE Committee Members for all their efforts to secure Horizon Europe budget.

12 / 10 / 2022

EARTO Innovation Awards Brochure 2022

The EARTO Innovation Awards 2022 brochure introduces examples from real innovators and their concrete success stories of how European RTOs and RTOs International Network (RIN) address today’s challenges and create impact through their work.

12 / 10 / 2022

Press Release – EARTO Innovation Awards 2022

The EARTO Innovation Awards 2022 were given to EARTO members HELMHOLTZ and VTT during a ceremony which was held in Brussels.

12 / 10 / 2022

EARTO – IDEA Review of Impact Assessment Studies of RTOs

This new EARTO review study, commissioned to IDEA Consult, aims at providing an overview of the existing methodologies of impact assessment as well as of the existing evidence and dimensions of impact created by RTOs throughout Europe.

27 / 09 / 2022

EARTO Press Release – 2023 EU Budget Negotiations

As part of the institutional negotiations, the Council presented its position with a cut for Horizon Europe. EARTO thanks the European Parliament for its recurrent support to RD&I in each year annual budget negotiations, taking again and again the stand for RD&I budget.

28 / 07 / 2022

EARTO Position Paper on Current Hurdles to Mobility of Researchers

In 2019, EARTO already pointed out in an open letter the high bureaucratic requirements existing at EU level. EARTO made recommendations on A1 forms for business trips EU notification requirements and Equal Pay principle, Remote work from abroad & Recognition of residence permits for mobile researchers.

26 / 07 / 2022

EARTO Answer to the EC Consultations on Horizon Europe Interim Evaluation & Horizon 2020 Final Evaluation

EARTO Members are active participants in EU RD&I Framework Programmes. EARTO collected its members’ first experiences of the Programme and have been positively surprised by the success rates in the first calls Horizon Europe. However, they mentioned four issues that should be quickly looked at.

26 / 07 / 2022

EARTO Paper on EIC MGA IPR Provisions

EARTO Members are involved in many instruments of the current Horizon Europe programme, including the European Innovation Council (EIC) in Pillar 3. We hereby would like to bring the attention to issues related to the new Horizon Europe MGA text on IPR provisions for EIC.

13 / 06 / 2022

EARTO Answer to the EC Consultation on the draft Code of practice on Standardisation for Researchers

EARTO, thanks to its WG Legal experts, answered to the EC Consultation on the draft Code of practice on Standardisation for Researchers.

01 / 06 / 2022

EARTO WG Security & Defence Statement on the proposed budget cut to the Cluster 3 Work Programmes

EARTO WG Security & Defence experts hereby express their profound discontent and strong disagreement with the possible sever budget cut that is to affect the Cluster 3 Work Programmes in the coming years.

17 / 05 / 2022

OECD-EARTO Joint Study – The contribution of RTOs to socio-economic recovery, resilience and transitions

This new OECD study supported by EARTO analyses the evolution of the funding, governance, and policy context of RTOs in the last ten years, and the implications of these changes on their ability to achieve their mission, in particular their contribution to solving societal challenges and supporting sustainable transitions.

11 / 05 / 2022

EARTO Case Studies on Technology Infrastructures

EARTO presents case studies of TIs created and managed by EARTO members. EARTO TIs Case Studies particularly aim to exemplify what is a TI, hence serves as a reference for the ongoing discussions on new EU Strategy for Technology Infrastructures.