Classification scheme: external partners
In striving for completeness and excellence, acknowledged experts from national and international institutions and organisations, academia and professional/industrial associations support the EPO in the development of the Y02 classification scheme. These partners, from outside the patent system, are the following:
- Computer Networks and Communications, University of Passau, Passau, Germany
- Electrical Power Processing Group. Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain
- Electromagnetics, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
- Energy Efficient Buildings Association (E2BA)
- Energy Research Center of the Netherlands (ECN)
- Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Spain
- European Automotive Research Partners Association (EARPA)
- European Road Transport Research Advisory Council (ERTRAC)
- IDAE (Instituto para la Diversificación y Ahorro de la Energía), Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio, Spain
- IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Standards Association (IEEE-SA)
- Institut für Land- und Seeverkehr, Fachgebiet Schienenfahrzeuge, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)