{"id":114754,"date":"2022-07-21T03:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T01:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/?p=114754"},"modified":"2022-07-21T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T06:12:09","slug":"defence-industry-eu-takes-steps-to-invest-almost-e1-2-bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/defence-industry-eu-takes-steps-to-invest-almost-e1-2-bn\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Industry: EU takes steps to invest almost \u20ac1.2 bn"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Commission announced plans to grant a total EU funding of almost \u20ac1.2 billion\u00a0<\/strong>supporting\u00a061 collaborative defence research and development projects\u00a0<\/strong>selected\u00a0<\/strong>following the first ever calls for proposals under the European Defence Fund (EDF).<\/p>\n

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With the proposals selected for funding, the EDF will support high-end defence capability projects such as the next generation of fighter aircrafts, tanks and ships, as well as critical defence technologies such as military cloud, Artificial Intelligence, semiconductors, space, cyber or medical counter-measures. It will also spearhead disruptive technologies, notably in quantum technologies and new materials and tap into promising SMEs and start-ups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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EU to reinforce the European defence industry through common procurement with a \u20ac500 million instrument<\/a><\/h4>\n

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The success of the first year of the EDF shows that its model, based on those of its two precursor programmes (the Preparatory Action on Defence Research \u2018PADR’ and the European Defence Industrial Development Programme \u2018EDIDP’, is fit for its purpose:<\/p>\n