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.

NST – Designing petrochemical process for energy efficiency and carbon abatement innovations

Leitat – Smart windows for smart buildings

TNO – Beat the heat with TNO’s heat battery

Łukasiewicz – Super-efficient monitoring system for pregnancy and labour

Tyndall – Innovative gun for breast cancer diagnosis

Łukasiewicz Research Network – Modular automation controller for smart switchgear

REDIT – Natural products out of supercritical CO2 technology

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

NIC – Heterogeneous process for bio-based AA production

CSEM – Promising design and advanced manufacturing concept

TECNALIA – Paralysed patients are not alone

VTT – Ice prevention that allows maximum energy production

FEDIT-CTCR – Unique textiles that make the elderly happy

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

ITRI – LCD waste recycling system

NIC – New antibacterials on their way to success

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

CSEM – New treatments for Musculoskeletal Diseases under way

FEDIT – Perfect mattress for the perfect comfort

MTC – Innovative toolkit to create robust and resilient supply chain

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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.