- Advanced Engineering Materials and Technologies - EuMaT
EuMaT aims to assure optimal involvement of industry and other important stakeholders in
the process of establishing of R&D priorities in the area of advanced engineering
materials and technologies.
- Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe - ACARE
ACARE's main focus will be to establish and carry forward a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA)
that will influence all European stakeholders in the planning of research programmes,
particularly national and EU programmes, in line with the Vision 2020 and the goals
it identifies.
- Embedded Computing Systems - ARTEMIS
ARTEMIS aims to secure employment in Europe and reinforce European industry's leading
position in Embedded Systems technology, thereby yielding both direct and indirect
benefits to the European citizen.
- European Construction Technology Platform - ECTP
ECTP will raise the sector to a higher worldbeating level of performance and
competitiveness. This will be achieved by analysing the major challenges that
the sector faces in terms of society, sustainability and technological development.
- European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council - ENIAC
ENIAC is a large scale, applied-research initiative mobilizing all European efforts
in the technology-intensive electronics sector. The main goal is to define the research
and innovation priorities to ensure a truly competitive nanoelectronics industry in
Europe.
- European Rail Research Advisory Council - ERRAC
ERRAC aims at creating a single European body with both the competence and capability to
help revitalize the European rail sector and make it more competitive, by fostering
increased innovation and guiding research efforts at European level.
- European Road Transport Research Advisory Council - ERTRAC
ERTRAC aims to mobilize all stakeholders, develop a shared vision, and ensure timely,
co-coordinated and efficient application of research resources to meet the continuing
challenges of road transport and European competitiveness.
- European Space Technology Platform - ESTP
ESTP aims to create a non-dependent technology portfolio facilitating European strategic
independence for the access to and exploration in space, and to support the development
of next-generation technologies best serving Europe�s ambitions in space-related
sectors (Galileo, GMES, security, space exploration, broadband communications, etc.).
- European Steel Technology Platform - ESTEP
ESTEP brings together the whole European steel industry, research centres, universities,
the European Commission and Member States, as well as the other European institutions
and trade unions, to give impetus to the full spectrum of European research into
materials and processes.
- European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration - EPoSS
EPoSS brings together European private and public stakeholders working in the field
with the aim of coordinating research into smart systems in relation to automotives,
aerospace, telecommunication, medical technologies, logistics, and underlying technologies.
- Food for Life - Food
ETP Food for Life is a platform that aims at quicker and more effective,
consumer-oriented food innovation and critical mass through an effective
multidisciplinary/integrating approach.
- Forest based sector Technology Platform - Forestry
FTP comprises a competitive, knowledge-based industry that fosters the extended use of
renewable resources that strives to ensure its societal contribution in the context of
a bio-based, customer-driven and globally competitive European economy.
- Future Manufacturing Technologies - MANUFUTURE
MANUFUTURE aims to develop a "research and innovation" strategy based on a long term vision
for a field where there are many technological and economic variables and in consequence to
assist the transformation of the European manufacturing industry towards a knowledge-based
economy and the achievement of a world leadership in manufacturing.
- Future Textiles and Clothing - FTC
EURATEX's main objective is to create an environment with in the European Union which is
conducive to the manufacture of textile and clothing products. EURATEX aims to ensure the
smoothest possible transition into the quota-free era, to promote a further expansion
of the EU exports of textiles and clothing.
- Global Animal Health - GAH
GAH brings together veterinary pharmaceutical and small biotechnology companies, research
institutions, the financial world and the regulatory authorities at the European level
to develop and deliver the most up-to-date tools, such as new vaccines or tests to control major animal diseases.
- Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Platform - HFP
HFP aims to facilitate and accelerate the development and deployment of cost-competitive,
world class European hydrogen and fuel cell based energy systems and component technologies
for applications in transport, stationary and portable power.
- Industrial Safety ETP - IndustrialSafety
IndustrialSafety aims to intensify networking and stimulate technological and
organisational improvement in risk management. It will be achieved thanks to a commonly
agreed research agenda, but also by working on education, standardisation, transfer to
industry and through strong interactions with other Technology Platforms concerned by
risk issues.
- Innovative Medicines for Europe - IME
IME's overall goal is to make Europe again the world leader in pharmaceutical research
for the benefit of the economy and society by involving the pharmaceutical industry
represented by the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
(EFPIA) and the European Commission.
- Integral Satcom Initiative - ISI
ISI is an industry-led action forum designed to bring together all aspects related to
satellite communications. ISI addresses broadcasting, broadband, and mobile satellite
communications, as well as their convergence, in integration within the global
telecommunication network infrastructure. ISI supports all forms of space communication
and space exploitation.
- Mobile and Wireless Communications - eMobility
eMobility aims to drive future technology development in mobile and wireless
communications that serves Europe's citizens and the European economy, and enhance
cooperation between industry players, the research community and public authorities.
- Nanotechnologies for Medical Applications - NanoMedicine
NanoMedicine aims to identify the major socio-economic challenges facing Europe, in
providing high standards of healthcare across the population, ensuring high quality of
life, and focusing on breakthrough therapies, in a cost-effective framework.
- Networked and Electronic Media - NEM
NEM aims to address the convergence of media, communications, consumer electronics, and
IT as a wide opportunity for future growth, by taking advantage of generalized broadband
access, increased mobility, availability of richer media formats and contents, as well
as new home networks and communications platforms.
- Networked European Software and Services Initiative - NESSI
NESSI aims to provide a unified view for European research in Services Architectures
and Software Infrastructures that will define technologies, strategies and deployment
policies fostering new, open, industrial solutions and societal applications that enhance
the safety, security and well-being of citizens.
- Photonics21 - Photonics
Photonics21 unites the majority of the leading Photonics industries and relevant R&D
stakeholders along the whole economic value chain throughout Europe and aims at jointly
paving the way for Europe's scientific, technological and economic leadership in
photonics and, in the long term, making Europe the number one knowledge-based economic
area in the world.
- Photovoltaics - Photovoltaics
The Photovoltaic Technology Platform aims at mobilizing all the actors sharing a
long-term European vision for photovoltaic; realizing the European Strategic Research
Agenda for PV for the next decade(s) and give recommendations for implementation;
ensuring that Europe maintains industrial leadership.
- Plants for the Future - Plants
Plants for the Future aims to bring together all relevant stakeholders: researchers,
policy-makers, environmental and consumer groups, industry, and farmers. These partners
will co-operate in a pragmatic, non-dogmatic manner to reach a consensus on common
priorities and draw up action plans to implement them.
- Robotics - EUROP
The ambition of EUROP is to permit Europe to maintain its leading position in robotics
and develop new companies and supply networks to meet the new technological needs. It aims
to unite all the main industrial and academic robotics stakeholders and public authorities
around this common vision.
- Sustainable Chemistry - SusChem
SusChem aims to revitalize chemistry and biotechnology innovation in Europe. It aims
to strengthen the sustainability and competitiveness of the European chemical,
biotech-based and associated industries, and contributes to meeting the Lisbon
objectives for Europe.
- Water Supply and Sanitation Technology Platform - WSSTP
WSSTP aims to contribute towards the competitiveness of the European water industry
(Lisbon Strategy), solving the European water problems and reaching the Millennium
Development Goals (Johannesburg). It is open to all stakeholders involved in European
water supply and sanitation and major end-user groups.
- Waterborne ETP - Waterborne
WATERBORNE TP aims to bundle efforts of the European waterborne actors, to remain champions,
in maritime transport, in the production of efficient and safe vessels as well as the
related systems and equipment, in providing infrastructure and logistics for ports and
waterways, in offshore technology and for leisure craft.
- Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants - ZEP
ZEP aims at identifying and removing the obstacles to the creation of highly efficient
power plants with near-zero emissions which will drastically reduce the environmental
impact of fossil fuel use, particularly coal. This will include CO2 capture and storage,
as well as clean conversion technologies leading to substantial improvements in plant
efficiency, reliability and costs.
