The ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking is a public-private partnership that was created in February 2008 to operate an industrial R&D programme in the area of embedded computing systems. It launched its first call for proposals on 8 May 2008 with a public budget of almost 100 million; the call successfully closed on 3 September 2008.

ARTEMIS-JU (Joint Undertaking) is a Joint Technology Initiative with a ‘public private partnership’ between the European Commission, the participating Member States*, and ARTEMISIA - the association for R&D actors in the field of ARTEMIS. ARTEMIS stands for Advanced Research and Technology for EMbedded Intelligence and Systems. The ARTEMIS-JU will officially exist in early February of 2008.