The Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) is one of the leading Research Centres in Greece and Europe, with the transformation of scientific knowledge into innovative technological applications for the benefit of society constituting the core of its mission over time.
Dedicated to this objective, CERTH operates at the forefront of basic, applied and technology-driven research, delivering solutions to contemporary societal challenges.
The Centre for Research and Technology Hellas was fοunded in March 2000, it is a legal entity governed by private law with non-profit status, supervised by the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation (GSRI) of the Greek Ministry of Development.
Artificial intelligence, advanced robotic systems, the Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, clean energy, green hydrogen, autonomous vehicles, smart cities, precision medicine, the holistic health–nutrition approach, precision agriculture, agro-robotics and the circular economy constitute the main research domains of its five Institutes: the Information Technologies Institute (ITI), the Chemical Process and Energy Resources Institute (CPERI), the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT), the Institute of Applied Biosciences (INAB) and the Institute for Bio-Economy and Agri-Technology (iBO). Together with the Central Directorate, CERTH employs more than 1,600 staff members, primarily engineers and scientists, across seven regions and nine cities in Greece.
CERTH places strong emphasis on innovation, as evidenced, among other indicators, by the establishment of bilateral contracts with industry. Long-standing collaborations with global industrial leaders attest to the quality and international competitiveness of its scientific output. To date, the commercial exploitation of mature innovative research results developed at CERTH has led to the creation of 23 spin-off companies with significant economic activity.
CERTH combines state-of-the-art research infrastructures with highly qualified research personnel to effectively transform scientific knowledge into innovative technological applications.
In recent years, CERTH has consistently secured annual revenues exceeding €60 million, with a three-year average of approximately €67 million. Of this total, 7.4% derives from the institutional state funding, 20% from national competitive research projects, while the remaining 72.6% is generated through external competitive funding, including European research projects as well as products and services delivered through collaborations with the industry.
Since 2013, CERTH has remained the leading research Centre in Greece, ranking first nationally and 11th among distinguished research organizations in Europe in terms of attracting funding from European competitive research grants
