Joint Technology Initiatives

In a very limited number of cases, the scope of an RTD objective and the scale of the resources involved could justify setting up long term public private partnerships in the form of Joint Technology Initiatives. These initiatives, mainly resulting from the work of European Technology Platforms and covering one or a small number of selected aspects of research in their field, will combine private sector investment and national and European public funding, including grant funding from the Seventh Framework Programme and loan and guarantee finance from the European Investment Bank. Each Joint Technology Initiative will be decided upon individually, either on the basis of Article 171 of the Treaty (this may include the creation of a joint undertaking) or on the basis of Specific Programme Decisions in accordance with Article 166(3) of the Treaty. Potential Joint Technology Initiatives will be identified in an open and transparent way on the basis of an evaluation using a series of criteria: inability of existing instruments to achieve the objective, scale of the impact on industrial competitiveness and growth, added value of European-level intervention, the degree and clarity of definition of the objective and deliverables to be pursued, strength of the financial and resource commitment from industry, importance of the contribution to broader policy objectives including benefit to society, capacity to attract additional national support and leverage current and future industry funding. The nature of the Joint Technology Initiatives must be clearly defined, in particular with regard to matters concerning: financial commitments, duration of the commitment of the participants, rules for entering and exiting the contract, intellectual property rights. Considering the particular scope and complexity of the Joint Technology Initiatives, strong efforts will be made to ensure their transparent operation and to ensure that any allocation of Community funding by the Joint Technology Initiatives takes place on the basis of the Framework Programme principles of excellence and competition. Particular attention will be paid to the overall coherence and coordination between Joint Technology Initiatives and programmes and projects in the same fields In particular with the activities carried out by the intergovernmental structure EUREKA. In addition, the experience gained by EUREKA clusters could be relevant to Joint Technology Initiatives in related areas. , while respecting their existing implementation procedures, as well as to ensuring that participation in their projects is open to a wide range of participants throughout Europe, in particular SMEs.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-04 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.