About ITEA 2

We stimulate and coordinate industry-driven, pre-competitive R&D by bringing together partners from industry, universities and research institutes in strategic projects. We provide the link between funding, technology and software engineering skills.

ITEA 2 is defined as a two-phase programme, with four Calls for Projects in each phase. Duration of projects is three years maximum.

ITEA's current set of 84 projects (of which 70 are completed and 14 are running) with 730 partners from 25 countries has established a solid basis for further development. Many of these have led to the creation of new products, and some to new start-ups.

By the end of the current ITEA programme, more than 9,500 person-years of R&D will have been invested. The ambitions of ITEA 2 are to mobilise a total of 20,000 person-years over the full eight-year duration.

The third ITEA 2 Call for Projects opened 21 February 2008.