{"id":151552,"date":"2024-05-17T13:54:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T11:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/?p=151552"},"modified":"2024-05-17T13:54:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T11:54:01","slug":"commission-invests-over-e1-billion-in-54-ambitious-defence-industrial-projects-through-the-european-defence-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/commission-invests-over-e1-billion-in-54-ambitious-defence-industrial-projects-through-the-european-defence-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission invests over \u20ac1 billion in 54 ambitious defence industrial projects through the European Defence Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"

the Commission announced the\u00a0results of the 2023 calls for proposals under the European Defence Fund (EDF)<\/a>\u00a0amounting to \u20ac1,031 million of EU funding to support 54 outstanding joint European defence research and development projects.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The selected projects will support technological excellence across a wide range of defence capabilities in critical areas, including cyber defence, ground, air and naval combat, protection of space-based assets or Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) defence. They will contribute to the EU’s capability priorities, like better situational awareness to ensure access to space, and to technologies for a future main battle tank. The MARTE and FMBTech projects, for example, will bring together more than 70 industrial players and research organisations to work on the design and systems for the main battle tank platform to be used across Europe.<\/p>\n

They will also support strategic air transportation of outsized cargo, which is a core capability for rapid support to missions worldwide. For example, in continuity with the previously funded JEY-CUAS project, E-CUAS will bring together 24 beneficiaries from 12 Member States and Norway to advance defence technologies countering unmanned aerial systems, such as drones. In the land capabilities domain, building on the results developed under the European Defence Industrial Development Programme, project SRB2 will improve on a novel suspension system for heavy armoured vehicles. EDC2 will result in a prototype of the European patrol corvette, based on an initial design developed under EDF calls of 2021. The TALOS-TWO research project, with 19 participants from 8 countries, will bring forward European excellence in the area of laser-based directed energy weapons.<\/p>\n

Under the\u00a0EU Defence Innovation Scheme (EUDIS)<\/a>\u00a0of the EDF programme, SMEs, start-ups, and new entrants to the defence sector tapped into a number of opportunities provided in the 2023 EDF funding round. For the first time, 4 projects will support the transfer of civil innovation to defence. In addition, the MaJoR project will combine technology development with a short-term technical and financial support to up to 60 start-ups and SMEs during the implementation phase, providing them simpler and easier access to the programme.<\/p>\n

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The Council approved conclusions on the first EU Space Strategy for Security and Defence<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The success of this third edition of EDF calls demonstrates the strong and constantly growing interest of EU defence industry and research organisations, of all sizes and geographies, to cooperate across borders and jointly contribute to the EU strategic capability development:<\/p>\n