What are European Technology Platforms?
European Technology Platforms focus on strategic issues where achieving Europes future growth, competitiveness and sustainability depends upon major technological advances. They bring together stakeholders, led by industry, to define medium to long-term research and technological development objectives and lay down markers for achieving them. The achievement of these objectives will significantly improve the daily lives of the European citizen in many areas.Technology platforms play a key role in better aligning EU research priorities to industrys needs. They cover the whole economic value chain, ensuring that knowledge generated through research is transformed into technologies and processes, and ultimately into marketable products and services.ETPs are playing an important role in establishing the specific work programmes in the EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
