TP Organics is the European Technology Platform (ETP) for organic food and farming research. It integrates views of the organic sector and civil society to represent a broad perspective on research and development priorities that can leverage organic food and farming’s potential to address contemporary challenges. As other European Technology Platforms, TP Organics plays a key role in highlighting where the focus of research and development funding should be placed.

TP Organics started in 2007, as a business initiative, with the aim to identify the research & innovation priorities of the organic sector, as research & innovation is a fundamental factor to find solutions to societal challenges, and enhance the development of the sector and its market. It is the first and only Technology Platform that deals in particular with the organic and low-input food and farming sector.

One of the cornerstones of TP Organics is to engage stakeholders along the whole food supply chain, including consumers, in determining the research needs of the organic sector. From the very beginning TP Organics has been fully opened to a wide range of stakeholders, especially to civil society, farmers, and with particular attention to SMEs (or SME associations) which are often neglected by other ETPs and in research in general.

Currently, 28 umbrella organizations/networks in the field of sustainable agriculture, research, environment and consumer protection are member of TP Organics. Also SMEs and 4 national technology platforms for organic research (Hungary, Italy, Czech Republic and Spain) hold TP Organics membership. Finally, TP Organics collaborates with 20 research institutes of research networks, who also support the platform financially.

How to join:

Organizations which are willing and interested to actively participate to TP Organics, and which adhere to the TP Organics Vision should follow this procedure: Send an application to: secretariat@tporganics.eu . This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it including the following elements:

1. Name of organization.
2. Organization web address (to be linked from the TP Organics website).
3. Contact person responding on behalf of the organization, with full contact details.
4. Type of organization, please specify whether the organization is an SME.
5. Brief summary of the organization's current research and development activities and projects relating to satellite communications, specifying the specific fields of application.