Highlights
- FCH JU has acquired the capacity to implement its budget ("autonomy") on 15 November 2010. It now operates without the direct involvement of the Commission in its everyday work.
- ENIAC JU has acquired the capacity to implement its budget ("autonomy") on 3 May 2010. It now operates without the direct involvement of the Commission in its everyday work.
- Final Report of the JTI Sherpas' Group of High-Level Industry Representatives "Designing together the 'ideal house' for public-private partnerships in European research" now available
- ARTEMIS, IMI and Clean Sky have acquired the capacity to implement their budget ("autonomy") respectively on 26 October, 16 and 19 November 2009. They now operate without the direct involvement of the Commission in their everyday work.
- In 2009 and 2010, all JTIs have continued launching calls for proposals and concluding research grant agreements.
The terminology on this JTIs website is adapted to the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU)
Introduction to JTIs
In May 2007, the Commission adopted the first proposals for Joint Technology Initiatives. It was the first time that public-private partnerships, involving industry, the research community and public authorities, were proposed at European level to pursue ambitious common research objectives.
Joint Technology Initiatives are an entirely new mechanism for performing research at EU level. They are long-term Public-Private Partnerships and are managed within dedicated structures based on Article 187 TFEU (ex Article 171 TEC). JTIs support large-scale multinational research activities in areas of major interest to European industrial competitiveness and issues of high societal relevance.