FRUCT Association is an incubator of competencies and new businesses developed in research cooperation of universities and industry. The mission of FRUCT projects is the gradual establishment of cooperation and long-term partnership between the member teams. FRUCT Association is actively involved in the research process of undergraduates and Ph.D. students helping in the formation of research communities in IT and ICT areas and promoting the prestige of research careers among young people. In most of the FRUCT projects, undergraduates and Ph.D. students are the main developers, who solve problems with the help and supervision of academia and industrial experts.
The set of activities is targeted to create the complete innovation cycle for competence and business development. The cycle starts by identification of the most promising research topics based on public information about the long-term research vision and priorities of industrial leaders. Depending on the problem scale and long-term importance of the topic, FRUCT creates a working group or project team to address it. Each group and project team is formed as a distributed R&D consortium with a clear definition of member roles. The teams solve scientific and technological tasks based on their own vision and industrial requests. Administratively project team members belong to regional FRUCT laboratories. FRUCT laboratories are organized at regional FRUCT universities. Most of the laboratory members are official employees of universities, most of the time working for FRUCT projects. After the required level of competence is gained the team either organize an innovation startup or starts a large research project by using regional and cross-border grants.

The community collection to be displayed on the index page of the community will consist of the major peer-reviewed papers produced by the community members and presented at FRUCT events.