Classification scheme: external partners

Last updated: 9.10.2018

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 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)
• Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)
• Institut für Land- und Seeverkehr, Fachgebiet Schienenfahrzeuge, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• International Energy Agency. Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme Task 12: Sustainability
• International Renewable Energy Agency
• International Solid Waste Association (ISWA)
• Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER)
• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
• Réseaux Innovation Territoires et Mondialisation (RITM), Université Paris SUD, Paris, France