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European ICT Technology Platforms
Technology Platforms bring together companies, research institutions, and any other organisations, with a view to defining, at European level, a common strategic research agenda (SRA) which should mobilise a critical mass of national and European public and private resources. They also address technological and non-technological issues for implementing this agenda.
European Technology Platforms (ETPs) help industrial and academic research communities in specific technology fields to co-ordinate their research and tailor it to a common "strategic research agenda" (SRA), which sets out research & development goals, time frames and action plans for technological advances, mobilising a critical mass of national and European public and private resources.
The main goals are to improve the impact of public and private research, to increase investment in European research, and to facilitate common approaches to technology progress and uptake. The benefits include improving the structure and coordination of research activities; partnership building for resources; consensus building on strategies for technology development; and the exploitation of research results and acceleration of innovation processes.
ETPs created to date in ICT are:
- Artemis: Embedded Systems
- eMobility: the Mobile and Wireless Communications Technology Platform
- ENIAC: Nanoelectronics
- EUROP: the European Robotics Platform
- ISI: Satellite Communications
- NESSI: Networked Software & Services
- NEM: the Networked and Electronic Media Initiative
- Photonics21: Photonics
- EPoSS: Smart Systems Technologies
Other initiatives have been launched by industry and ICT stakeholders which may develop into ETPs in the future. Two of these Platforms (ARTEMIS and ENIAC) have since become Joint Technology Initiatives.