The European Virtual Institute for Gas Turbine Instrumentation (EVI-GTI) 

arose through the European Union’s Competitive and Sustainable Growth (GROWTH) programme in 2002.

A definition of a ‘Virtual Institute’ can be found on the EU Cordis GROWTH web pages and is: “A network that links geographically dispersed complementary research and industrial capabilities with the potential to become a legal and self-supporting entity. The difference between Virtual Institutes and networks of other types is that a Virtual Institute needs to demonstrate the capability to become self-supporting”.

The idea behind EVI-GTI is to offer and maintain a platform for turbomachinery OEMs, vendors of sensors and instrumentation and academia. We organize and provide workshops and conferences and form multilateral or bilateral consortia.

EVI-GTI Conferences are organized bi-annual as as European Conference.

Every two years a Joint Conference together with the Propulsion Instrumentation Working Group (PIWG) is being held in the U.S. or in the EU.

Recent EU projects that have been generated, submitted and successfully completed within EVI-GTI are HEATTOP and STARGATE.

Together with PIWG we have developed and continuously updated the Lap Gap Matrix which sorts technologies for sensors, probes and instrumentation in several categories and shows which technologies are currently satisfactory (green), which are not available but can be worked around (yellow) and which are still not available today and thus prevent further development of gas turbine engines to higher efficiency (red).

The current EVI-GTI Board of Directors has been elected in our online General Assembly on 10 Dec 2021 and it is represented by:  

EVI-GTI Board of Directors

		Name		Position
		Ralf Obertacke Siemens Energy, Germany		President since 2017 Former Vice President and Industrial Advisor
		Peter Loftus EThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Ltd. United Kingdom		Vice-President, Former President of EVI-GTI 2011-2017
		Michael Henke University of Hannover, Germany		General Secretary
		Björn Karlsson Siemens Energy, Sweden		Review Chairman Conference Program Chairman Guest Editor
		Hanspeter Zinn GE Gas Power, Switzerland		Review Organizer, Guest Editor  Conference Program Coordiator former Scientific Advisor
		James P. Roberts Rolls-Royce Plc. United Kingdom		Regular Board Member
		Andreas Zeisberger MTU Aero Engines Germany		Regular Board Member
		Harvey Niska Instrumentation Technology Consulting (ITC), Gilbert, Arizona USA		15 years as Co Chairman - Propulsion Instrumentation Working Group (PIWG)
		Thomas Serbowicz Williams International, USA		PIWG (Co-chair)