Publications

12 / 03 / 2025

Strengthening Europe’s Security: A Dual Approach for Civil & Defence Resilience

EARTO Working Group Security & Defence Research welcomes the report “Safer Together – Strengthening Europe’s Civilian and Military Preparedness and Readiness” by Sauli Niinistö. It presents a clear and comprehensive view on how European preparedness and resilience can and should be
strengthened.

12 / 03 / 2025

EARTO Response to the EC Consultation on EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy

EARTO welcomes the EC’s initiative to develop a comprehensive European Startup and Scaleup Strategy and underlines the crucial role of Startups and Scaleups for the EU’s competitiveness.

17 / 02 / 2025

EARTO Reaction to the EC Communication on A Competitiveness Compass for the EU

Only the inherent integration of RD&I efforts by design into the EU Competitiveness Compass will ensure that Europe is at the forefront of key advanced technologies, ground-breaking innovations, and novel products and services.

12 / 02 / 2025

Joint Statement – A stronger Europe through Research & Innovation

EARTO, together with CESAER, ERT, EUA, LERU, Science Europe, and The Guild, issues this joint statement and stands ready to collaborate with the European Institutions to ensure that RD&I remain central to Europe’s strategic priorities.

18 / 12 / 2024

EARTO Position Paper Towards an Impactful Implementation of the Critical Raw Materials Act: Threading the Needle on Benchmarking and Circularity

Following six months of intense negotiations, the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) entered into force in April 2024. This paper focuses on benchmarking and circularity under the CRMA, highlighting avenues for action and the contribution of Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs) to CRMA’s successful implementation.

12 / 12 / 2024

EARTO Input on Health Research and Innovation for the next European Framework Programme (FP10)

For over thirty years, the European Framework Programmes for Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I) have been essential to Europe’s efforts in tackling challenges through excellence in RD&I, promoting collaborative research, and supporting the translation of R&I for commercialisation and new business.

05 / 12 / 2024

EARTO Position Paper on EU Partnerships in FP10: How to boost Future EU Public-Private Partnerships?

EARTO welcomes the new European Commission’s priority to enhance Europe’s industrial competitiveness by realising a European Prosperity Plan that places Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I) at the core of the economy.

27 / 11 / 2024

EARTO Reaction to EP draft Report on FP10

EARTO appreciates the draft report from the European Parliament’s ITRE Committee on the implementation of Horizon Europe (HE) and FP10, and puts forward some key recommendations on HE’s Pillar 2 to be considered.

19 / 11 / 2024

EARTO Economic Footprint Study of 15 RTOs in 2024 – Summary Brochure

EARTO Economic Footprint Study of 15 European RTOs in 2024 – Summary Brochure

19 / 11 / 2024

EARTO Economic Footprint Study of 15 RTOs in 2024 – Full Report

EARTO Economic Footprint Study of 15 European RTOs in 2024 – Full Report

23 / 10 / 2024

Press Release – EARTO Innovation Awards 2024

The EARTO Innovation Awards 2024 were given to EARTO members VITO and INESC TEC during a ceremony which was held in Brussels.

23 / 10 / 2024

EARTO Innovation Awards Brochure 2024

The EARTO Innovation Awards 2024 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.

21 / 10 / 2024

EARTO Paper on the Next EU MFF

EARTO published it Position Paper on the Next EU Multiannual Financial Framework: How to Focus EU RD&I Investments to Boost our Technology Leadership, Productivity & Industrial Competitiveness?

17 / 10 / 2024

EARTO Reaction to the EC’s Expert Group Report on Horizon Europe’s Interim Evaluation

EARTO hereby welcomes the European Commission’s Expert Group Report on the Interim Evaluation of Horizon Europe, which provides timely recommendations on strengthening Europe’s competitiveness through Research, Technology and Innovation.

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.