Joint Technology Initiatives
Highlights
- Clean Sky: Spring 2009 Calls, First Grant Agreement signed
- FCH, IMI, ARTEMIS and ENIAC have launched their first Calls for Proposals.
- On 30 May 2008, the Council adopted a Regulation setting up a Joint Undertaking in the field of Fuel Cells and Hydrogen. This JTI aims to facilitate and accelerate the development and deployment of cost-competitive European hydrogen and fuel cell based energy systems and component technologies for applications in transport, stationary and portable power.
- The first four Regulations were adopted by Council on 20 December 2007, each one implementing a Joint Technology Initiative as a Public-Private Partnership, and establishing a new mechanism for funding integrated industrial research. These Regulations were published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 4 February 2008. -->
Introduction to JTIs
In May 2007, the Commission adopted the first proposals for Joint Technology Initiatives. This is 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 will be managed within dedicated structures based on Article 171 of the EC treaty. JTIs will support large-scale multinational research activities in areas of major interest to European industrial competitiveness and issues of high societal relevance.
Last updated on: 2009-02-03