12 / 10 / 2023

EARTO Innovation Awards 2023 Attributed to UAR-LCM and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft – UMSICHT

Congratulations to EARTO Members UAR – LCM and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft – UMISCHT who were awarded the EARTO Innovation Awards 2023 on 11 October 2023 during a ceremony held at the BIP Museum in Brussels.

Linz Center of Mechatronics (LCM), EARTO member through Upper Austrian Research (UAR), received the award in the Impact Delivered category for the development of eVSP, an electric propulsion solution with remarkable results to decarbonise the shipping industry towards a zero-emission model.
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and its Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology Fraunhofer-UMSICHT received the award in the Impact Expected category for the development of AEROPlaster, a revolutionary manufacturing process for superinsulating aerogels, which paves the way for the best insulation material to be made available to the mass market.

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 2023 edition of its Innovation Awards online brochure, a collection of thirty-three 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, as well as articles on RTOs International Network (RIN), with a special focus on the 6 finalists which are, in addition to the two above-mentioned winners: