Founding partners
The founding partners of ITEA 2 are:
| Airbus | Daimler | Siemens |
| Alcatel-Lucent | European Federation of High Tech SMEs |
Telvent |
| Barco | Italtel | Thales |
| Bosch | Nokia | Thomson |
| Bull | Philips |
They are all leaders in their respective fields and many figuring in the global top 100 companies. Their total turnover in 2004 was around €380 billion with over 1.5 million employees, of which more than 200,000 are in R&D, mainly carried out in Europe.
