28 / 10 / 2020

EARTO Innovation Awards 2020 Attributed to Helmholtz Association and VTT

Congratulations to EARTO Members Helmholtz Association and VTT who were awarded the EARTO Innovation Awards 2020 today during a ceremony held digitally.

Helmholtz Association received the award in the Impact Delivered category for the development of a novel non-invasive biomarker (CIM) method, which contributes to early diagnose calcium loss and osteoporosis in humans.
VTT received the award in the Impact Expected category for the development of a unique cellular agriculture-based technology, which enables mass production of high value proteins (e.g. egg proteins), without using animals and with low environmental impact.

Created in 2009, the EARTO Innovation Awards highlight the various areas of RTOs’ activities and illustrate RTOs’ concrete contributions to innovation with high societal impact through the two categories: “Impact Delivered” and “Impact Expected”. The Awards’ independent jury chose the best innovations of the year. Our Jury Members this year were:

On the same day, EARTO has published the 2020 edition of its Innovation Awards brochure, a collection of thirty two innovations featuring EARTO members, which gives a flavour of the wide range of RTOs’ work. Such innovations demonstrate RTOs’ capacity to support Europe’s innovation performance and their focus on solving today’s challenges and delivering impact. The brochure includes articles on all RTOs that took part in this year’s competition with a special focus on the 6 finalists which are, in addition to the two above-mentioned winners: CSEM, Fraunhofer, TECNALIA, RISE.