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European Association of Research and Technology Organisations

EARTO

EARTO represents research and technology organisations across Europe, promoting their role in EU innovation policy and funding programmes.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Yvan Verougstraete (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and European Chemical Industry Council and

27 Jan 2026 · European Competitiveness Fund

Meeting with Massimiliano Esposito (Head of Unit Research and Innovation) and BUSINESSEUROPE and

12 Nov 2025 · Horizon Europe 2028-2034

Response to EU’s next long-term budget (MFF) – EU funding for competitiveness

7 Nov 2025

EARTO, representing over 350 Research and Technology Organisations across 32 countries, has long been a trusted partner in building Europes research, development, and innovation (RD&I) capacity. Our members, with their deep-tech expertise and collaborative capabilities, have been instrumental in turning European ambitions into tangible results, delivering a range of research and development activities in close collaboration with public and industrial partners of all sizes that drive industrial competitiveness and secure Europes place in the global tech race. As EU Institutions now move into the critical negotiations phase, EARTO would like to point out the following recommendations: - While the proposed funding increase in collaborative RD&I within Horizon Europes proposal is very welcome, the increase is lower than for the other pillars and represents a relative weakening. EARTO calls for an even more ambitious allocation restoring the target of 60% of Horizon Europes budget to those collaborative RD&I activities, in line with Europes strategic priorities in terms of technology sovereignty in various key industrial sectors and value chains. According to the EC's own analysis, the EU invests 40% of its R&D funding in experimental development, while the USA and China invest, respectively, 68% and 83%. As stated in Draghis report, First and most importantly Europe must profoundly refocus its collective efforts on closing the innovation gap with the US and China, especially in advanced technologies. Horizon Europes New Competitiveness part will be essential to meeting this objective. However, currently only 43,4% of the EU RD&I budget is targeting investment in advanced technologies. This needs rebalancing by the EU negotiators. - Governance structures and joint programming between the ECF and Horizon Europe require greater clarity and transparency to avoid fragmentation and ensure that collaborative RD&I grants are managed effectively. The strategic planning within the ECF windows and attached work programming will be key to ensuring not only operational efficiency but, more importantly, long-term impact. - Investments in Technology Infrastructures (TIs) must be scaled up, with a dedicated budget line and clear links to the ECF and other funding instruments in its new financial toolbox to ensure Europes technology capabilities remain globally competitive. The proposed 10.9 billion budget for both Research and Technology Infrastructures (RTIs) is very welcome; however, it will fall short of actual needs (i.e., EIB study on funding needs of TIs). Additionally, effective coordination between the future TIs programme and the ECFs four sectoral windows, as well as Horizon Europes Competitiveness Part, is essential to deliver coherent, strategic investments in TIs that build a strong, resilient, and leading-edge techno-industrial base. - The unique role of RTOs must be safeguarded through the explicit recognition of their leadership within the upcoming ECF and Horizon Europe strategic boards and advisory structures. With their specific public mission, RTOs as non-profit organisations have an important advisory role to play in setting up and implementing further links between EU RD&I and industrial policies. In addition, their technology capabilities should be further leveraged to identify evolving industrial needs for technology creation, development, maturation and scaling-up across Europe. In parallel, RTOs must be supported in continuously expanding and diversifying their expertise to remain at the forefront of innovation. - The introduction of new instruments, such as the Competitiveness Coordination Tool and the Observatory of Emerging Technologies, brings both promises and uncertainty. Their operations must be clarified to ensure they effectively empower and render more effective rather than encumber future policymaking and EU programming.
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Response to EU’s next long-term budget (MFF) – EU funding for competitiveness

7 Nov 2025

EARTO, representing over 350 Research and Technology Organisations across 32 countries, has long been a trusted partner in building Europes research, development, and innovation (RD&I) capacity. Our members, with their deep-tech expertise and collaborative capabilities, have been instrumental in turning European ambitions into tangible results, delivering a range of research and development activities in close collaboration with public and industrial partners of all sizes that drive industrial competitiveness and secure Europes place in the global tech race. As EU Institutions now move into the critical negotiations phase, EARTO would like to point out the following recommendations: - While the proposed funding increase in collaborative RD&I within Horizon Europes proposal is very welcome, the increase is lower than for the other pillars and represents a relative weakening. EARTO calls for an even more ambitious allocation restoring the target of 60% of Horizon Europes budget to those collaborative RD&I activities, in line with Europes strategic priorities in terms of technology sovereignty in various key industrial sectors and value chains. According to the EC's own analysis, the EU invests 40% of its R&D funding in experimental development, while the USA and China invest, respectively, 68% and 83%. As stated in Draghis report, First and most importantly Europe must profoundly refocus its collective efforts on closing the innovation gap with the US and China, especially in advanced technologies. Horizon Europes New Competitiveness part will be essential to meeting this objective. However, currently only 43,4% of the EU RD&I budget is targeting investment in advanced technologies. This needs rebalancing by the EU negotiators. - Governance structures and joint programming between the ECF and Horizon Europe require greater clarity and transparency to avoid fragmentation and ensure that collaborative RD&I grants are managed effectively. The strategic planning within the ECF windows and attached work programming will be key to ensuring not only operational efficiency but, more importantly, long-term impact. - Investments in Technology Infrastructures (TIs) must be scaled up, with a dedicated budget line and clear links to the ECF and other funding instruments in its new financial toolbox to ensure Europes technology capabilities remain globally competitive. The proposed 10.9 billion budget for both Research and Technology Infrastructures (RTIs) is very welcome; however, it will fall short of actual needs (i.e., EIB study on funding needs of TIs). Additionally, effective coordination between the future TIs programme and the ECFs four sectoral windows, as well as Horizon Europes Competitiveness Part, is essential to deliver coherent, strategic investments in TIs that build a strong, resilient, and leading-edge techno-industrial base. - The unique role of RTOs must be safeguarded through the explicit recognition of their leadership within the upcoming ECF and Horizon Europe strategic boards and advisory structures. With their specific public mission, RTOs as non-profit organisations have an important advisory role to play in setting up and implementing further links between EU RD&I and industrial policies. In addition, their technology capabilities should be further leveraged to identify evolving industrial needs for technology creation, development, maturation and scaling-up across Europe. In parallel, RTOs must be supported in continuously expanding and diversifying their expertise to remain at the forefront of innovation. - The introduction of new instruments, such as the Competitiveness Coordination Tool and the Observatory of Emerging Technologies, brings both promises and uncertainty. Their operations must be clarified to ensure they effectively empower and render more effective rather than encumber future policymaking and EU programming.
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Meeting with Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Oct 2025 · FP10

Research group EARTO urges fairer EU state aid rules

3 Oct 2025
Topic — Revision of EU rules exempting specific state aid categories from prior Commission approval.
Message — EARTO requests that research organisations be classified as non-commercial entities by default. They advocate for 100% cost coverage in funding schemes and more flexible rules for facility use.123
Why — This would guarantee full public subsidies and reduce administrative hurdles for research institutes.45
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Response to European Innovation Act

3 Oct 2025

EARTO, representing over 350 Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs) across Europe, welcomes the European Commissions initiative to shape a European Innovation Act. We support efforts to create an innovation-friendly environment to boost the EUs competitiveness, economic growth, and security. Our response highlights 5 key enabling policy areas requiring decisive action: 1. Strengthening Technology Infrastructures (TIs): We welcome the new EU strategy on Research and Technology Infrastructures, recognising TIs as vital for linking scientific innovation to commercialisation. Investment in TIs must be scaled up, with a dedicated budget under Horizon Europe 2.0 and clear links to the European Competitiveness Fund (ECF). The proposed 10.9 billion budget is welcome but insufficient; EIB estimates 1316 billion is needed by 2030. Both CAPEX and OPEX must be addressed, and a coordinated EU framework should map, interconnect, and co-fund TIs, ensuring SMEs, start-ups, and scale-ups have cross-border access without excessive administrative barriers. 2. RTOs Role in Scaling the EU RD&I Ecosystem: RTOs are key drivers of innovation, co-creating knowledge with industry and nurturing early-stage ventures. Start-ups and spin-offs from RTOs contribute significantly but face funding challenges, especially for deep-tech projects. The Innovation Act should: - Strengthen RTOs support for deep-tech spin-offs and incorporate RTOs into the EU Startup Hub Network. - Recognise early-stage support for start-ups as a non-profit activity, enabling incubation and mentoring without regulatory barriers. - Establish a dedicated deep-tech venture fund within the ECF. - Accept risk and failure as part of innovation, shifting evaluation towards substantive progress along Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs). 3. Procurement as a Driver of Innovation: Public procurement should be leveraged to boost RD&I. The Act should promote Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) and Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions (PPI), allowing accelerated and simplified procedures for R&I goods and services. Further exemptions and simplification for RD&I procurement are needed, including: - Extending exemptions to cover RD&I supplies and equipment. - Allowing simplified negotiated procedures for RD&I contracts. 4. Facilitating Policy Coordination Across the EU: A coherent framework for coordinating innovation policies between Member States and the EU is essential. The upcoming European Research Area (ERA) Act is an opportunity to enable seamless circulation of ideas, researchers, and technologies. The Innovation Act should support links between the EU RD&I Framework Programme and the ECF, streamline governance, and foster collaboration among all RD&I actors. 5. Addressing Legal and Regulatory Barriers: - Current EU regulations often hinder RTOs and innovators. The Act should: - Introduce clear exemptions for R&D and prototyping activities. - Establish harmonised EU guidelines for export control in R&D. - Clarify that obligations under the Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Directive should not apply to non-commercial prototypes or R&D tools, at least temporarily. - Support regulatory sandboxes for safe, compliant testing of innovative technologies. EARTO fully supports the ECs ambition to strengthen the European RD&I landscape and stands ready to contribute expertise to shape and implement impactful measures.
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Meeting with Kirsi Haavisto (Head of Unit Research and Innovation)

30 Sept 2025 · Research and technology Infrastructures

Response to European Research Area (ERA) Act

10 Sept 2025

EARTO, the European Association of Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs), representing over 350 RTOs across Europe and beyond, welcomes the European Commissions (EC) initiative to establish a European Research Area (ERA) Act. With this feedback, EARTO welcomes the recognition of the three key objectives and policy options of this initiative, and raises some key issues and offers recommendations for the further development of the proposed ERA Act. 1. EARTO strongly supports the ECs renewed ambition to render the target of 3% of GDP investments in R&D a reality. Ensuring that a significant share of EU investments target applied industry-driven RD&I will be key to leveraging private investments, an indispensable complement to public spending to achieve the 3% target. Furthermore, to support the promotion of a renewed ambition in terms of RD&I investments, EARTO suggests that the ERA Act define further work aiming at developing a broadly recognised EU-level method to measure the economic impact of RD&I. 2. EARTO members welcome the focus on enhancing coordination between EU strategic priorities and national funding agendas. Such alignment is essential to avoid fragmentation, leverage synergies, and maximise the societal and economic impact of RD&I across Europe. To ensure that policies work better together, supporting Europes capacity to develop and scale critical technologies, EARTO recommends that the EU place a stronger emphasis on planning and coordinating investments in Technology Infrastructures (TIs) across Europe. In addition, EARTO calls for the creation of a dedicated instrument in the next Multiannual Financial Framework (2028-2034) with a budget of 13-16 billion as proposed in the forthcoming European Investment Bank (EIB) study on the funding needs of Technology Infrastructures, to finance TIs development. 3. With regard to the ECs attention to enhancing framework conditions for researchers across Europe, EARTO recommends: active reinforcement of RTOs in transferring technology and valorising knowledge; introducing a more comprehensive framework to support research careers beyond academia and across industries and RPOs; adequate measures to address the hurdles of international researcher mobility; taking actions to support international collaboration between RTOs and international mobility of researchers between RTOs; including clear safeguards against foreign interference, IP leakage, and security risks. EARTO fully supports the ECs ambition to reinforce the ERA through a dedicated legislative framework. We stand ready to continue collaborating with European institutions and Member States to shape an ERA Act that delivers excellence, impact, and resilience.
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Meeting with Andreas Schwarz (Cabinet of Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva)

9 Sept 2025 · EARTO’s views on the Commission’s proposal for the next Horizon Europe post 2027

Meeting with Thomas Skordas (Deputy Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

8 Sept 2025 · Meet and greet

Meeting with Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament)

30 Jun 2025 · Jury meeting for EARTO Innovation Awards

Meeting with Michael Wimmer (Director Secretariat-General)

18 Jun 2025 · Exchange of views on the future MFF (10th framework programme and European competitiveness fund)

Meeting with Agnieszka Skonieczna (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

17 Jun 2025 · Update and exchange of views on the Investments for the European competitiveness and centrality of research, development and innovation

Response to European strategy on research and technology infrastructures

20 May 2025

EARTO very much welcomes the EC's initiative to develop a new European Strategy on Research and Technology Infrastructures (RTIs). RTIs are the backbone of dynamic RD&I ecosystems and stable innovation-driven value chains. RTOs have long taken the role of supporting industrial value chains by housing those complex large-scale TIs, including multi-use research (prototype) and small-scale manufacturing (test & validation) facilities that would not be granted when in the hands of, for instance, a technology supplier. EARTO would like to emphasise the following key aspects of the future EU strategy on RTIs: 1. The need for TIs to be treated separately than the RIs First, EARTO understands that the future EU strategy on RTIs will be developed by creating two key pillars: one for RIs based on the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) and one for TIs, creating a new pan-European coordination of investments mechanism. EARTO very much welcomes this approach. The financing of those infrastructures and linked business models has quite some variations that explain this split, even if it is very welcome to look at synergies and further leverages between the two. 2. Focus the work first on developing Investment Roadmaps on key industrial sectors and critical technologies identified in the EU Competitiveness Compass Secondly, the priority for TIs is clearly on developing gap analyses for key industrial sectors and critical technologies in Europe. Those pan-EU investments roadmaps on TIs will be key to mobilising, pooling and prioritising investments to ensure Europes technological sovereignty is key in our current geopolitical context along the key technologies identified in the EU Competitiveness Compass. 3. Develop new Pilots using existing EU Instruments such as EU RD&I Public-Private Partnerships To prepare further EU investments in TIs under the next EU MFF, EARTO strongly supports the development of further pilots within the last phase of Horizon Europe, using what has been done in aeronautics as well as with the microelectronics pilot lines. The use of key EU industrial RD&I public-private partnerships that already combine industrial value chains with all key RD&I actors in one sector, as well as have already the right Member States (incl. EEA countries) experts/Ministries involved in the discussion via their Mirror Groups would clearly facilitate the establishment of pertinent investments roadmaps on TIs. Learnings from those new pilots should then be taken into account to develop the future EU governance framework for TIs under the next MFF, adapting to the new MFF environment being under definition now. 4. Focus the TIs pillars activities on alleviating barriers and on adding speed to joint EU-Member States investments Among others, while EARTO do not see the need for an adjustment of the current EU State-Aid rules (SARs) to boost pan-EU investments in TIs, EARTO members noted various key challenges and bottlenecks experienced in their compliance with SARs for their existing infrastructures that should be tackled. Especially, the interpretation of SARs by Member States (incl. EEA countries) needs to be harmonised to prevent over-implementation of SARs and/or mismatch between the national grant conditions and the SARs. In addition, the JRC State Aid Decision Tree would need to be updated to reflect the best practices in applying the SAR on TIs. Finally, the EC could carefully analyse the SAR regimes associated with access to TIs when developing future EU instruments for TIs co-funding (e.g. risk of exceeding the 20% threshold for ancillary economic activities, indirect State aid to industrial users, etc.). TIs EU funding instruments need to be designed in close collaboration with Member States to avoid that Member States (incl. EEA countries) implement additional funding rules that finally restrict TIs owners/managers (including RTOs) access to such national investments.
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Meeting with Ekaterina Zaharieva (Commissioner) and

8 Apr 2025 · Support to innovation and startups

EARTO urges ring-fenced funding for civil security research

13 Mar 2025
Topic — The consultation outlines a strategy for integrating security into all future EU legislation.
Message — EARTO recommends creating a dedicated civil security research programme alongside military initiatives with guaranteed funding. They propose a 'preparedness-by-design' principle for all future European legislative and regulatory frameworks.12
Why — This would guarantee funding for members and speed up the delivery of security technologies.34
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Response to EU Start-up and Scale-up Strategy

13 Mar 2025

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 EUs competitiveness. EARTO would like to highlight the key role of Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs) in fostering and scaling deep-tech startups within Europe and to offer EARTO members' expertise to further work in defining and, later on, implementing this new EU strategy. RTOs are instrumental in transforming cutting-edge research into market-ready innovations. Their unique positioning between fundamental research and industrial application enables them to effectively bridge the gap between scientific discovery and commercial viability. They generate breakthrough technologies and provide essential support for their commercialisation through spinoff companies. Unlike traditional digital startups, deep-tech startups rely on intensive R&D, high capital expenditures, and long development cycles, making RTOs' role even more critical. RTOs mitigate these challenges by offering cutting-edge research facilities, access to top-tier scientific expertise, IP protection strategies, and pathways to market entry. An EARTO Economic Footprint Study of 15 RTOs in 2024 underscores RTOs role, particularly in the creation and nurturing of startups deep-tech. The study reveals that RTOs have been pivotal in establishing 393 deep-tech spin-offs, active during the period 2021-2022, which demonstrated a high survival rate and significant growth potential. Through their Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) and their own ventures, RTOs help researchers transform scientific discoveries into viable business ventures by facilitating team formation, securing early-stage funding, and navigating complex regulatory landscapes. RTOs contribute to industrial reindustrialisation by enabling deep-tech startups to collaborate with manufacturing and industrial partners, ensuring these ventures scale successfully within Europe. Their involvement significantly enhances the likelihood of success for deep-tech startups, with reported success rates exceeding 80% after five years. As we look ahead to the future, structural challenges such as funding gaps, regulatory hurdles, and a lack of specialised venture capital impede the full realisation of deep-tech startups potential. We would like to point out the work done by the European TTO Circle managed by the EC Joint Research Centre who brings together the ventures and experts on spinoffs/scaleups from large RTOs. It will be worth for the new EU Task Force on Startup to have a look at the upcoming report on Deep Tech Entrepreneurship in Europe and the crucial role of RTOs in fostering impactful industrial Spinoffs by the TTO Circle, which brings several actionable policy recommendations aimed at unlocking the full potential of deep-tech entrepreneurship: Strengthening RTOs Role and Financial Support for Deep-Tech Spinoffs and Scaleups: Strengthen RTO support for deep tech spin-offs with new financial instruments based on the multiplying effect on deep tech ecosystems and innovation that these RTOs produce. Fostering the Creation of Deep-Tech Venture Builders: Establish deep-tech venture builders staffed with top and complementary talents, including former entrepreneurs, PhDs, financial profiles and ex-management consultants, to collaborate with TTOs in transforming RTO-developed technologies into marketable products, integrated in deep tech spinoffs led by well-rounded teams that become attractive investments for smart capital. Promoting the creation of European VCs focused on creating, developing, and scaling industrial and tangible companies, diversifying investment opportunities and promoting innovation across various industries. Fostering the transfer of deep-tech industrial know-how related to industrialisation, scaling business model, IP, and other related topics, connecting deep-tech Startups at a pan-European level.
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Meeting with Bernard Magenhann (Acting Director-General Joint Research Centre) and Commissariat à l'Energie atomique et aux énergies alternatives

11 Mar 2025 · - work better together in the EU following the recent US developments - the need to support the ERC to support innovative startups and reaching economic growth. - work of JRC on competitiveness

Meeting with Michael Wimmer (Director Secretariat-General)

12 Feb 2025 · Discussion on the future Multiannual Financial Framework, including strengthening European competitiveness

Meeting with Manuel Aleixo (Cabinet of Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva)

10 Feb 2025 · R&I Policy and Initiatives

Meeting with Eszter Lakos (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Feb 2025 · EU research policy

Meeting with Marc Lemaitre (Director-General Research and Innovation)

23 Jan 2025 · Exchange of views on R&I policy and funding for research and innovation

Meeting with Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

14 Jan 2025 · FP10

Meeting with Thomas Skordas (Deputy Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

13 Jan 2025 · Exchange of future MFF, RDI policy around digital technologies notably AI/CHIPS/Semiconductor/ and quantum, and the links with the Industry sector.

Meeting with Andrea Wechsler (Member of the European Parliament) and Salzgitter AG and

11 Dec 2024 · EU Energy and industry policy

Meeting with Lina Gálvez (Member of the European Parliament)

19 Nov 2024 · Research and Technology

Response to Communication on the European Research Area Implementation

30 Sept 2024

EARTO would like to bring forward some key issues to the Member States and the European Commission regarding the current challenges and the evolution of ERA. Lessons Learned 1. A lack of coordination between already existing EU initiatives and ERA Actions with the risk of redundancy. While some ERA Actions have been well-coordinated with existing national and regional initiatives, there remains a tendency for duplication of efforts, particularly with actions that overlap with the current EU Framework Programme, Horizon Europe. The new ERA Actions must be carefully designed to represent the voices and views of all Member States, complement and build upon existing initiatives while avoiding redundancy and ensuring that they address the specific needs of the Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) and industry. 2. The ERA and its new Policy Agenda should embrace the whole RD&I spectrum in a balanced way, from basic research to technology maturation to innovation scale-up/deployment. The ERAs focus has been heavily skewed towards academic research, often neglecting the critical role of RPOs and their unique business models. 3. To enhance the relevance and impact of ERA, it is imperative to adopt a more inclusive approach that fully integrates the contributions of RPOs, which include Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs). Viewing the new European Commission President von der Leyen Political Guidelines for the next European Commission 20242029, we expect this to be even more pressing in the next ERA Policy Agenda and would require developing new types of actions crossing over to other policy areas using/linking to wider capabilities within Member States (and not mainly those of Ministries of Science & Education as it is the case today) and the European Commission. The Way Forward 1. Strengthen EU RD&I as a Pillar of Competitiveness: The EU should commit to RD&I as a cornerstone of its industrial and economic policies. This requires not only maintaining but also increasing public investment in RD&I to stimulate private-sector participation and reduce Europes dependence on global competitors for critical technologies. The next ERA Policy Agenda 2025-2027 should develop and exploit effective synergies between EU, national, and regional Programmes to leverage technologies, and exploitable solutions and maximise the impact of RD&I investments. In parallel, there should be a concrete roadmap set for each Member State with the support of the European Commission to achieve the 3% EU GDP R&D investment. 2. Enhance Technology Infrastructure Investments: The EU should prioritise investments in Technology Infrastructures (TIs). EARTO strongly advocates for the continuation of ERA Action 12 on Accelerating R&I investments for Europes Industrial Transformation and Competitive Sustainability, which will be coordinated within the upcoming EU strategy on TIs. EARTO is calling for a specific instrument for TIs under the next EU MFF of 10 billion to support future investments and bring the gap in capabilities compared to Europes global competitors. 3. Foster Collaborative RD&I and Knowledge Transfer: The ERA should focus on enhancing collaborative RD&I efforts that bridge the gap between basic research and industrial application. 4. Create a Coherent and Transparent Governance Framework: ERA governance should be largely improved and streamlined to avoid overlaps and ensure transparency. 5. Support the European Commission's efforts to make research careers in Europe more attractive and sustainable: A structured approach is needed to ensure the good functioning of research careers across industries and RTOs, not only in academic institutions. EARTO looks forward to continued collaboration in shaping ERA's future. https://www.earto.eu/wp-content/uploads/EARTO-Recommendations-No-EU-Tech-No-EU-Competitiveness-Final.pdf https://www.earto.eu/wp-content/uploads/EARTO-Feedback-on-New-ERA-Policy-Agenda-Final.pdf
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Meeting with Marc Lemaitre (Director-General Research and Innovation)

11 Sept 2024 · EU RD&I policy and explore further potential collaboration between the DG RTD and EARTO.

Meeting with Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament) and Orgalim – Europe's Technology Industries and

4 Sept 2024 · Implementation of Horizon Europe

Meeting with Eszter Lakos (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Sept 2024 · Research and Innovation

Meeting with Andreea Ticheru (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

26 Aug 2024 · Competitiveness Fund, Horizon Europe, scaling-up

Meeting with Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Jun 2024 · Jury of EARTO Innovation Awards

Response to Options for support for R&D of dual-use technologies

30 Apr 2024

EARTO Answer to EC Consultation on Technologies with Dual-use Potential - 30 April 2024 The European Commission (EC) published on 24 January 2024 a White Paper on options for enhancing support for research and development involving technologies with dual-use potential. EARTO welcomes the increased attention for research and development involving technologies with dual-use potential. EARTO Members have a wide range of expertise both in research in security and defence as well as in a very large range of technologies with dual-use potential. In that sense, EARTO has a specific Working Group on Security and Defence Research which is composed of over 80 experts in this field. Our members have been very active both in the security activities within the EU Framework Programmes as well as in the new European Defence Fund (EDF). As such, EARTO feedback considers its members experiences in both programmes. The EC White Paper offers three options for further consideration under current or future EU funding programmes as follows: Option 1: Going further based on the current set-up, Option 2: Remove the exclusive focus on civil applications in selected parts of the successor programme to Horizon Europe, Option 3: Create a dedicated instrument with a specific focus on R&D with dual-use potential. EARTO views on those options: Option 3 is not appropriate: With the creation of various new EU programmes in the current MFF, beneficiaries such as RTOs are now facing a multitude of programmes each with their own rules for participation. There is a need for creating a streamlined pathway from the research phase to close-to-market deployment across EU programmes and instruments. We should avoid creating again parallel programmes or instruments. Option 1 & 2: EARTO experts would like to stress that the current scenarios present too many unknowns and questions to be able to make any choice between these two options. EARTO would like to highlight the following points that need further clarification: Definition of Dual-Use: With no clear definition of dual-use in the context of this consultation, it is not clear whether the ECs strategy for cross-fertilisation will work in either of the three options presented. The Need for Keeping a Strong Civil Security in the EU FPs Programme: Today more innovations are transferring from the civil domain to the defence, rather than the other way round. Therefore, a strong and substantial civil (security) research EU programme within the EU FPs remains essential, also as support for the defence sector. Seeking for Synergies and Cross-fertilisation between Civil and Defence: Current regulations offer sufficient potential for cross-fertilisation and synergies between civil and military. This potential, however, needs to be implemented and arranged for explicitly. Complementarities between EU & National Actions require a closer look. Read the full paper and questions in the document attached and available on EARTO website.
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Meeting with Joan Canton (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

9 Jan 2024 · Broad exchange on the industrial dimension of the EU research and development policies; reflections on the future of EU research programmes

Response to Enhancing research security in Europe

3 Jan 2024

EARTO members are happy to bring forward their views on the guiding principles and key policy actions to support strengthening research security in Europe. Please find in the Position Paper attached, EATO position on the EC call for evidence on boosting research security in the EU (guidance). EARTO remains ready to provide additional input on each topic mentioned in our Position Paper: our experts are available for further discussion with the EU institutions to ensure that a proper framework is given to research security in Europe.
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Response to Facilitating Border Solutions

30 Oct 2023

EARTO represents the interests of more than 350 Research and Technology organisations (RTOs) in more than 20 European countries. EARTO members represent more than 150.000 highly skilled researchers and engineers managing a wide range of innovation infrastructures. EARTO, as the representative of European RTOs, is strongly committed to improve international researcher mobility based on the European single market. In 2019, EARTO already pointed out in an open letter the high bureaucratic requirements that exist due to EU Regulation 883/04/EC, the Enforcement Directive 2014/67/EU on the EU Posting of Workers Directive and due to the implementation of the EU Posting of Workers Directive 2018/957/EU. EARTO made suggestions to significantly improve the situation. Unfortunately, as of today, the situation has not improved, instead it worsened. EARTO points out that if those hurdles are not treated carefully, they will hinder the European efforts to increase international researcher mobility, the strengthening of the European Research Area and the success of mobility instruments within the EU RD&I Programme Horizon Europe. Today, EARTO specifically addresses and brings further recommendations regarding the following issues: A1 forms for business trips and other secondments, EU notification requirements and Equal Pay principle, Remote work from abroad, and Recognition of residence permits for mobile researchers. Please find attached, the full EARTO papers on the current Hurdles to Mobility of Researcher.
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Meeting with Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

18 Oct 2023 · STEP

Meeting with Marc Lemaitre (Director-General Research and Innovation)

19 Sept 2023 · FP10

Meeting with Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament)

7 Jun 2023 · Horizon Europe

Response to Triannual evaluation of the six Executive Agencies

24 Mar 2023

Please find hereunder and attached EARTO's response to the the EU executive agencies three-year evaluation: Quality of the support from Agencies: The level of support that coordinators receive from the agencies during the post-award phase (from the Grant Agreement Preparation phase on) needs to be streamlined between the different Executive agencies. There are, presently, tremendous differences in skills and availability of the support provided by agencies rending project implementation, even for experienced coordinators, a difficult and daunting task. This is especially true for the projects with special features such as cascade grants or trans-national access due to the lack of knowledge in the agencies. EARTO remains ready to provide additional input on this topic: our experts are available for further discussion with EU institutions.
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EARTO Demands Research Pillar for Green Deal Industrial Plan

21 Mar 2023
Topic — The consultation focuses on the Net Zero Industry Act and green tech.
Message — EARTO recommends creating a specific Research, Development and Innovation Pillar for the plan. They advocate mirroring international subsidies across all Member States to prevent investment flight.12
Why — This would boost funding and institutional influence for research organizations within industry.3
Impact — Technology implementers lose because they must pay for patent licenses without mandatory validity checks.4
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Meeting with Signe Ratso (Acting Director-General Research and Innovation)

18 Jan 2023 · Discussion with EARTO President and Secretary General

Response to Interim evaluation of Horizon Europe

26 Jul 2022

EARTO Members have been very active participants in EU RD&I Framework Programmes for the last decades. In our last Horizon 2020 analysis, the share of EU grants to Research & Technology Organisations (RTOs) is relatively larger than RTOs’ share in the total number of FP participants. Currently, EARTO members are involved in many instruments of the Horizon Europe programme. While waiting to be able to do a proper analysis with eCORDA data, we collected our members’ first experiences of the Programme and have been positively surprised by the success rates in the first calls Horizon Europe: there has been no drastic reduction of those as it has been usual in earlier Framework Programmes’ first calls. However, our members mentioned four issues that should be quickly looked at: 1. Final Rules of participation: It is simply not acceptable that beneficiaries are still missing the final version of the Annotated Model Grant Agreement while they are signing grant and consortium agreements. 2. Quality of the Evaluation Summary Reports (ESRs): The poor quality of ESRs has been over the last FPs a recurrent issue. It seems even more predominant in this FP with a lack of consistency and quality of the ESRs received by applicants. 3. Overview of EC Studies launched to prepare the Mid-Term Review: Being glad to support these EC studies, we see many areas of work to be analysed such as: the impact change of structure (merging KETs and societal challenges), the proportionality between single beneficiary instruments vs multi-beneficiaries (i.e. collaborative projects) as well as TRLs level, the impact of the new instruments such as missions and the new widening measures, the impact of the new capping of budgets on partnerships, the analysis of the lump-sums after a full cycle (including ex-post audits), etc. We would be glad to see if all issues of importance are covered by the planned studies while avoiding overlaps. 4. IT glitches of the participants’ portal: Here proper collection of users’ feedbacks by the EC IT services could easily identify those to allow finding and quickly implementing IT solutions. In preparation of the mid-term review, EARTO would like to point out the following issues to be further analysed in the upcoming two years: • Instability of the RD&I Budget in the Multi-Financial Framework: The instability of this budget is two-folds: first within the MFF/EU budget being re-discussed every year, we see a regular position from the EU Council to reduce attributions to the RD&I budget while the European Parliament is pushing this one up again in the negotiations, and second, within the EU FP itself, there has been many changes in budget allocations. • Launching the New EU Strategy on Technology Infrastructures: here EARTO would like to stress the importance of the upcoming new strategy being set up by the EC hand-in-hand with Members States to complete the current EU technology roadmaps (ERA action 12). • Proportionality of TRLs levels to allow proper portfolio management: The need of economic recovery combined with the new structure with an all-inclusive Pillar 2 with no separate KETs programme, the capping of partnerships’ budget in each cluster, the fact that all topics related to a partnership (incl. low TRL research) have to be included within said partnership, have led to a too low coverage of the collaborative excellence basic research in Clusters. There is a need to rebalance the TRLs’ coverage to allow planning future RD&I portfolios for the next FPs. • Use of the lump-sums (LS): EARTO with EUA and CESAER already called (i) for caution on the interpretation of the interim analysis, and (ii) to await the final and thorough evaluation of the pilot. • Evaluation of the EU Missions: Considering the large delay incurred in launching those missions, and looking at their first calls, it is unclear at this stage whether the EU Missions will be able to deliver impact.
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Response to Ex-post evaluation of Horizon 2020

26 Jul 2022

EARTO Members have been very active participants in EU RD&I Framework Programmes for the last decades. In our last Horizon 2020 analysis, the share of EU grants to Research & Technology Organisations (RTOs) is relatively larger than RTOs’ share in the total number of FP participants. Currently, EARTO members are involved in many instruments of the Horizon Europe programme. While waiting to be able to do a proper analysis with eCORDA data, we collected our members’ first experiences of the Programme and have been positively surprised by the success rates in the first calls Horizon Europe: there has been no drastic reduction of those as it has been usual in earlier Framework Programmes’ first calls. However, our members mentioned four issues that should be quickly looked at: 1. Final Rules of participation: It is simply not acceptable that beneficiaries are still missing the final version of the Annotated Model Grant Agreement while they are signing grant and consortium agreements. 2. Quality of the Evaluation Summary Reports (ESRs): The poor quality of ESRs has been over the last FPs a recurrent issue. It seems even more predominant in this FP with a lack of consistency and quality of the ESRs received by applicants. 3. Overview of EC Studies launched to prepare the Mid-Term Review: Being glad to support these EC studies, we see many areas of work to be analysed such as: the impact change of structure (merging KETs and societal challenges), the proportionality between single beneficiary instruments vs multi-beneficiaries (i.e. collaborative projects) as well as TRLs level, the impact of the new instruments such as missions and the new widening measures, the impact of the new capping of budgets on partnerships, the analysis of the lump-sums after a full cycle (including ex-post audits), etc. We would be glad to see if all issues of importance are covered by the planned studies while avoiding overlaps. 4. IT glitches of the participants’ portal: Here proper collection of users’ feedbacks by the EC IT services could easily identify those to allow finding and quickly implementing IT solutions. In preparation of the mid-term review, EARTO would like to point out the following issues to be further analysed in the upcoming two years: • Instability of the RD&I Budget in the Multi-Financial Framework: The instability of this budget is two-folds: first within the MFF/EU budget being re-discussed every year, we see a regular position from the EU Council to reduce attributions to the RD&I budget while the European Parliament is pushing this one up again in the negotiations, and second, within the EU FP itself, there has been many changes in budget allocations. • Launching the New EU Strategy on Technology Infrastructures: here EARTO would like to stress the importance of the upcoming new strategy being set up by the EC hand-in-hand with Members States to complete the current EU technology roadmaps (ERA action 12). • Proportionality of TRLs levels to allow proper portfolio management: The need of economic recovery combined with the new structure with an all-inclusive Pillar 2 with no separate KETs programme, the capping of partnerships’ budget in each cluster, the fact that all topics related to a partnership (incl. low TRL research) have to be included within said partnership, have led to a too low coverage of the collaborative excellence basic research in Clusters. There is a need to rebalance the TRLs’ coverage to allow planning future RD&I portfolios for the next FPs. • Use of the lump-sums (LS): EARTO with EUA and CESAER already called (i) for caution on the interpretation of the interim analysis, and (ii) to await the final and thorough evaluation of the pilot. • Evaluation of the EU Missions: Considering the large delay incurred in launching those missions, and looking at their first calls, it is unclear at this stage whether the EU Missions will be able to deliver impact.
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Response to Standard Essential Patents

9 May 2022

EARTO (European Association of Research and Technology Organisations), founded in1999, represents more than 350 Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs) in more than 20 countries. EARTO members represents 150.000 of highly-skilled researchers and engineers managing a wide range of technology infrastructures. EARTO submitted its official answer to the consultation (questionnaire through EU Survey provided in the consultation page) on 06/05/2022. Hereby, the papers that are referenced in our official answer can be found as attachment. EARTO network is is very much open to support the EC work building our official answer to the consultation.
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Response to A New European Innovation Agenda

9 May 2022

Europe entered the new decade with high ambitions: recovering from the COVID-19 crisis is not enough, Europe needs to do so by boosting its sustainable competitiveness while achieving the twin transition to a green and digital industry and society. Building Europe’s resilience and technology autonomy in strategic areas will be key to meet the needs of EU citizens, while ensuring Europe’s forefront position in the global innovation race. Research and Innovation will be a game-changer to achieve such ambitions and deepening the European Research and Innovation Area will be paramount. In this context, EARTO appreciates the new ambitions for innovation stated by the European Commission (EC) in its new call for evidence for a new European Innovation Agenda. In the current geopolitical context where Europe find itself today, such a new EU Innovation Agenda has to be instrumental in ensuring EU open strategic autonomy in key advanced technologies necessary for the green and digital transitions, as already done for cloud and microelectronics thanks to the EU Chip Act (See EARTO reaction to New EU Industrial Strategy: Towards Europe’s Open Strategic Technology Autonomy). EARTO supports the EC statement and ambition that the ‘EU will benefit from an overarching innovation agenda that articulates all aspects’. EARTO's answer on the new European Innovation agenda can be found in the attached paper. This paper brings forward EARTO recommendations to this effect on the 5 key areas identified for further actions as follows: 1. Improving EU Scaling-Up Capabilities 2. More Pro-Innovation Framework Conditions 3. Strengthening EU Innovation Ecosystems 4. Bridging the Innovation Divide 5. Developing EU Innovation Skills Accordingly, EARTO members are ready to contribute to defining an ambitious and concrete EU Innovation Agenda. EARTO remains at the disposal of the European Institutions and Member States to further discuss these recommendations and support their implementation.
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Meeting with Pauline Rouch (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)

18 Jan 2022 · Introductory meeting

Meeting with Pedro MOIA (Cabinet of Commissioner Elisa Ferreira)

5 Oct 2021 · Research and innovation smart specialisation strategies and technology infrastructures at regional level

Meeting with Jean-Eric Paquet (Director-General Research and Innovation)

17 Sept 2021 · Workshop

Meeting with Alina-Stefania Ujupan (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager), Yizhou Ren (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

14 Sept 2021 · Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I) Fund

Meeting with Christiane Kirketerp De Viron (Cabinet of Commissioner Johannes Hahn)

3 Sept 2021 · Funding of Research, Development and Innovation programmes

Response to Standardisation Strategy

28 Jul 2021

To answer the European Commission’s public consultation on the European Standardisation Strategy, EARTO, the network of over 350 Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs), would like to bring forward the following recommendations (also see more detailed feedback in the attached document): 1. Adopt a sound EU standardisation strategy recognising and raising awareness about the major economic significance of standards at the European level. This is essential to achieve the Twin Transition and fulfil the objectives of the EU Green Deal and of the European Digital Decade. Ensuring interoperability is even more essential than ever before in fourth industrial revolution (4IR) technologies, incl. Artificial Intelligence (AI), smart grids, smart sensors, telecom, 5G, big data, Internet of Things (IoT), quantum computing, etc. Every strategy for funding future technologies needs to include standardisation as a key component. This will be key for Europe to keep leading the way in fostering efficient and interoperable standards. 2. Provide effective incentives and support to all European RD&I actors to contribute and collaborate in European standard-setting activities and to represent European interest in International Standardisation. Technical standards are of great importance to allow European industry to scale up technology developments to new products and services that will be internationally competitive. However, standardisation is costly, and it should be further supported and incentivised both at national and EU levels, and better incorporated into RD&I publicly funded programmes, including Horizon Europe. Standards resulting from research projects should receive equal recognition compared to publications and patents. 3. Make sure that the EU standardisation strategy does not weaken the well-functioning EU Intellectual Property Rights’ system: standards and patents are complementary. The development of a European standardisation strategy is only possible if it does not weaken the IPRs framework, including for Standard Essential Patents, essential copyrights and associated rights (sui generis database rights). More generally, EU policies should not weaken IPRs in the digital field. 4. Support the European Patent Office (EPO) and maintain a sufficient number of well-qualified patents courts in Europe to continue to ensure the high quality of EU patents: this is the key for maintaining a healthy patents system. IP’s crucial role in innovation and in fostering knowledge co-creation also needs to be better recognised at EU level, for instance by ensuring a balanced approach between Open Science and IP policy. Further incentives should also be put in place for researchers to efficiently disseminate and exploit their research results and encourage their translation into the commercial world, especially through patent filing. 5. Promote the use of Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) licencing terms as the right investment incentives’ mechanism to make collaborative standardisation successful while ensuring access and market entry for all players. Financial returns from FRAND licensing can be invested to develop new technologies for standards, creating a virtuous circle which guarantees the evolution of standards and their future viability. FRAND is and must remain a two-way street: the rights and obligations must flow to and from licensors and licensees alike. EARTO remains at the disposal of the EU institutions to further discuss these recommendations and support the creation of a new European Standardisation Strategy.
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Meeting with Jean-Eric Paquet (Director-General Research and Innovation)

31 May 2021 · Horizon Europe - ERA - Technology infrastructures

Meeting with Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President) and

29 Mar 2021 · Research and innovation

Meeting with Elisa Ferreira (Commissioner)

19 Feb 2021 · EU’s research and innovation policy and its links with regional policy, smart specialisation strategies.

Meeting with Kerstin Jorna (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

29 Jan 2021 · EARTO introductory discussion and presentation of their view on Industry strategy and Industrial Alliances

Meeting with Jean-Eric Paquet (Director-General Research and Innovation)

28 Oct 2020 · Innovation Awards ceremony

Response to Action Plan on synergies and cross-fertilisation between the civil, defence and space industries

23 Oct 2020

The members of the EARTO Working Group Security & Defence welcome the EC ambition to stimulate synergies and cross-fertilisation between research, development and innovation on defence, space and civil research. The dominant focus seems to be on Space-related research and industry, with products and services feeding into defence, security and other domains. This can obviously also be the other way around. Furthermore, security and defence related RD&I also have the potential to contribute to the digital transformation of Europe, developing innovations related to, for instance, AI and cyber security. It is important to consider that the most challenging and difficult cross-fertilisation attempt is the transfer of civil technologies to a wider dual application. Defence applications are normally very specific, with high requirements and sometimes not obvious for non-experts. Therefore, special emphasis should also be given to supporting civil industry in translating the special needs and requirements of the Space and Defence sectors into their technologies, operations and supply chains. We would propose to install a hub similar to a KIC or an Innovation Hub in order to strategically establish the synergies and develop dual use technologies. This “dual-hub” could address different thematic convergence areas such as: Security, Materials and Structures, Opto-electronics, CBRN, Health and Nutrition, etc. Within this hub, technological areas that are important in all three sectors should be identified (e.g. for the Security: autonomous systems, smart materials, radar, power supply and efficiency, human-machine interaction, earth observation, border security, quantum communication, (solid state) batteries). Call for tenders to promote RD&I in these technology areas should be issued and coordinated within this hub explicitly striving for the cross-fertilisation and dual use of these technologies. In order to guarantee that these tenders specifically focus on dual-use, they should be established outside the three sectors while the currently existing research programmes in the respective domains should remain intact. The potential role of the European RTOs in supporting SMEs and start-ups in their “dualization process” should be considered. At national level, RTOs are already used as support instrument to SMEs, bridging the gap between (basic) research and industry in their role as applied research organisations. Generally, SMEs are primarily regional and Member States-focused and have little practical knowledge of EU funds (and limited time and capacity to invest in this knowledge). In addition, SMEs trust RTOs as reliable and transparent partners, as it is the corporate purpose of RTOs to facilitate technology transfer from applied research into the SMEs , thereby connecting also with start-ups . The EARTO Working Group Security & Defence research Experts remain of course ready to further discuss these recommendations with the European Institutions’ representatives.
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Response to Intellectual Property Action Plan

31 Jul 2020

The role of Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I) is essential to fulfil Europe’s ambitions such as boosting its economic competitiveness and prosperity, building resilience and technology sovereignty in strategic value chains, or mastering the twin transitions towards a green and digital society. To reach those objectives in the current context of fierce global competition, ensuring the right framework conditions to stimulate knowledge and technology co-creation in Europe and prevent unwanted regulatory barriers hampering European innovation capacity has never been more essential. Europe now needs to strike the right balance between the benefits of the EU Open Science (OS) policy to enhance the accessibility and re-use of RD&I results on the one hand, and the essential role of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) to strengthen the collaborative development of knowledge and technology while fostering industry’s uptake of RD&I results on the other. To that end, EARTO hereby puts forward a set of recommendations to promote a balanced approach between IPRs and Open Science policy in Europe: • Recommendation 1: Ensure a stable and robust EU Regulatory and Policy framework recognising IP’s crucial role in fostering knowledge co-creation, which is essential to boost technology development and industry’s uptake of innovation, for high socio-economic impact. This can be done by: (1) raising awareness of the value of IPR in EU RD&I ecosystems; (2) promoting the efficient exploitation of RD&I results by fostering a balanced and flexible IP policy; (3) simplifying the IPR clauses in Horizon Europe; (4) recognising the importance of Standards and their complementarity with patents; (5) improving the regulatory framework for RD&I public procurements in Europe. • Recommendation 2: Foster a balanced approach between Open Science and IP policies in Europe. The concepts of Open Science and Open Innovation based on IPR should be promoted hand in hand. By ensuring that RD&I partners can capture part of the value created in common, Open Innovation enables to connect the fruits of Open Science to their efficient commercialisation in the market. This can be done by: (1) putting the emphasis of the EU OS policy on the availability and dissemination of knowledge rather than on the absence of pricing; (2) focusing the EU OS policy on scientific publication and digital research data; (3) aligning the EU data sharing policy on the principle “as open as possible, as closed as necessary”; (4) mainstreaming the use of data management plans; (5) organising trainings for researchers on OS policy and IPR framework; and (6) adopting a balanced approach towards Open Source software. EARTO remains at the disposal of the EU institutions to further discuss these recommendations and support the set-up of a balanced approach between Open Science and IPR policies in Europe. Read the full EARTO paper: https://www.earto.eu/wp-content/uploads/EARTO-Paper-Towards-a-Balanced-Approach-Between-IPRs-and-Open-Science-Policy-Final.pdf
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Meeting with Stephen Quest (Director-General Joint Research Centre)

7 Jul 2020 · Introductory exchange of views

Meeting with Jean-Eric Paquet (Director-General Research and Innovation)

4 Jun 2020 · EARTO paper on the EU Economic Recovery Package

Meeting with Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

28 May 2020 · Exchange on EU R&I policy and industrial ecosystems

Meeting with Johannes Hahn (Commissioner)

19 Mar 2020 · Strategic value change and role of Research and Technology Organisations, in particular in Eastern Europe

Meeting with Alina-Stefania Ujupan (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

13 Feb 2020 · Horizon Europe; Partnerships

Meeting with Christiane Kirketerp De Viron (Cabinet of Commissioner Johannes Hahn)

13 Feb 2020 · RD&I policy post-2020

Meeting with Marlene Rosemarie Madsen (Cabinet of Commissioner Elisa Ferreira)

11 Feb 2020 · Research/Innovation - Reform policies

Meeting with Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)

5 Feb 2020 · European research

Meeting with Dara Murphy (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)

31 Jan 2020 · future of EU policies for research and innovation institutions

Meeting with Jean-Eric Paquet (Director-General Research and Innovation)

17 Jan 2020 · Recommendations for European RD&I Policy Post-2020

Meeting with Timo Pesonen (Director-General Defence Industry and Space) and

17 Jan 2020 · Exchange of views on Horizon 2020

Meeting with Jean-Eric Paquet (Director-General Research and Innovation)

13 Jun 2019 · Meeting new President

Meeting with Filomena Chirico (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

11 Sept 2018 · EU funding for Research and innovation