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Joint Technology Initiatives

In a limited number of cases, the scope of the RTD objectives and the resources involved justify setting up long-term public-private partnerships in the form of "Joint Technology Initiatives" (JTIs).

JTIs aim to achieve greater strategic focus by supporting common ambitious research agendas in areas that are crucial for competitiveness and growth, assembling and coordinating at European level a critical mass of research. They therefore draw on all sources of R&D investment - public or private - and couple research tightly to innovation.

JTIs may become operational by setting up a Joint Undertaking under Article 171 of the Treaty to create a single, Europe-wide and industrially-driven R&and programme that will help EU industry to achieve world leadership. JTIs will combine, for the first time, a critical mass of national, EU and private resources within one coherent, flexible and efficient legal framework; they also ramp up R&D investment in Europe by providing incentives to industry and Member States to increase their R&D expenditure.

Two JTIs were launched in February 2008 in the following ICT domains:

ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking has been established to run the JTI in embedded systems.
ENIAC Joint Undertaking has been established to run the JTI in nano-electronics.

For more details, please see the Council regulations published in the Official Journal (L30/51) on 4 February 2008.

JTIs and ETPs - what is the difference?

While ETPs allow public and private stakeholders to jointly define research needs, JTIs are a way of implementing large-scale applied and industrial-based research activities, based in part on the needs identified by ETPs. ETPs are not funded by the Framework Programme, whereas JTIs can be.