Report from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. Second interim evaluation of the ARTEMIS and ENIAC joint technology initiatives

This report highlights the findings and recommendations of the panel of independent experts who conducted the second interim evaluation of the ARTEMIS and ENIAC Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs). It furthermore provides the Commission's observations and sets out follow-up measures.

ARTEMIS and ENIAC are the Joint Undertakings (JUs) implementing JTIs in the respective fields of embedded computing systems and nanoelectronics. In this manner, the Commission complies with the evaluation requirements as laid down in Article 11.2 of the founding acts of the JUs.

The JTIs, set up in the form of JUs under Article 187 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, were introduced in the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) to support key areas of research and technological development of importance to Europe’s competitiveness. The ARTEMIS and ENIAC JUs were launched in February 2008.

The ARTEMIS and ENIAC JUs are public-private partnerships between industry, a number of EU Member States and associated countries (JTI member States), and the European Union with the specific aim to define and implement a common Research Agenda by the European research communities (industry and academic/research organisations), achieve synergy and coordination of European R&D, promote the involvement of SMEs and create significant economic and social benefits. The main instrument is the mobilisation of funds from the EU, JTI member States and industry.

Since their establishment, the ARTEMIS and ENIAC JUs have launched and evaluated, respectively, six (one per year) and nine calls for proposals (one in each of 2008, 2009 & 2010 and two in each of 2011, 2012 and 2013). By the end of 2012, 102 projects had been funded by the ARTEMIS and ENIAC JUs. The EU and JTI member States together have so far committed over €1,115 billion to both JTIs combined (2008-2012), in addition to private R&D efforts worth more than €1,670 billion.

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