The EU's Smartonics project aims to develop smart machines, tools and processes for the precision synthesis of materials for organic electronics. Smartonics consortium includes 17 partners (including Coatema, Aixtron, Oxford lasers and Plastic Logic) and is being coordinated by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh).

This four years project has a total budget of 11.5 million Euro. The EU will contribute 7.9 million Euro.

The European ENAB-SPOLED project aims to use solution-based OLED materials to enable high performing cost competitive OLEDs for the lighting market and to develop a functional luminaire demonstrator. More specifically, the project partners will develop new materials (transport materials, emitters), new optical technologies for light guiding, and also process technologies for solution processing of small molecule and PLEDs.

Flexibilis is a European project that aims to develop both an ITO-replacement material and an encapsulation technology for flexible OLED and OPV panels.

Flexibilis is coordinated by the UK's CPI center and other partners include Teer Coating, the University of Bolton, and Austria's NanoTecCenter Weiz Forschungsgesellschaft and High Tech Coatings.

HARPOON is a research project funded in part by the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia. There is very little information available on HARPOON, but apparently it's aim is to improve OLED lighting's efficiency in a cost effective way. The researchers will use software simulation and develop algorithms that will optimize vacuum related production processes.

The project coordinator is Philips.

First results from the HARPOON project are expected by 2014.

The IM3OLED (Integrated Multidisciplinary & Multiscale Modeling for OLEDs) is an international collaboration with the Russian Federation that aims to develop a software tool for multiscale OLED lighting modeling. The tool will enable a more systematic R&D process - which will accelerate efficient OLED design development.

The Clean4Yield project aims to ensure high enough yields for cost-effective organic electronics manufacturing. The project partners will develop new technologies for inspecting, cleaning and repairing moving foils, and detecting and preventing defects in large-scale roll-to-roll production of OLEDs and OPVs.

The Flex-o-Fab project is a new €11.2-million 3-year project that aims to help commercialize flexible OLEDs within six years. The project partners will create a a pilot-scale modular yet integrated manufacturing chain for flexible OLEDs, and use it to develop reliable fabrication / production processes. In January 2015 the project demonstrated the first prototype.

ROBust OLED (or ROBOLED) is a UK project that aims to investigate and overcome the challenges in driving OLED displays with OTFT backplanes.

The project has two partners: Plastic Logic (the leader) who will supply OTFT backplanes and the CPI that will integrate the OLEDs. As current OTFTs do not have the performance, uniformity or stability required for OLED displays, the project will focus on understanding and overcoming the technical challenges.

The R2Flex (roll-to-roll production of highly efficient organic devices on flexible substrates) project aimed to develop new technologies for efficient and affordable flexible OLEDs. The project was successfully concluded.

The PlastronicsSpec project was launched in 2011 in the EU with an aim to develop an automated digital radiography system for the inspection of plastic electronics.

The project's partners are Accent Pro 2000, TWI, OLED Technologies & Solutions, Intrinsiq materials, Cetemmsa, BIC and ORME. The project concluded successful in October 2013.