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Programme Description
The European Defence Fund (EDF) is the Commission’s initiative to support collaborative defence research and development, and to foster an innovative and competitive defence industrial base.
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Summary
The scope of this topic is to build a common understanding and classification, proposals must address studies and performance assessment of the most demanding HGV systems, detailing their signature and behaviour depending on their characteristics.
Detailed Call Description
In the context of future armed conflicts, hypersonic weapons could increasingly be used against the EU Member States and EDF Associated Countries and circumvent current air and missile defence systems. Numerous models have been developed to describe a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV), but there is a need to further improve knowledge on the HGV threats, notably on the most demanding ones and on the combination of their signatures and kinematic behaviours to successfully detect, track and counter these threats. Against this background, this topic aims to improve the defence capability against HGV threats by collecting all information necessary to successfully counter HGV systems.
Based on the results of these studies, proposals must also design a representative HGV model. This model must be validated in a relevant testing environment, using all the resources made available by supporting EU Member States and EDF Associated Countries. Proposals must address the extraction and processing of relevant signatures and kinematic data, including through at least in-flight demonstration(s) of a simplified basic HGV demonstrator.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
Project budgets (maximum grant amount) must not exceed the budget available for the topic (€78.000.000).
No fixed maximum number of projects but normally 1 is expected.
Thematic Categories
- Justice - Security
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Legal Entities
- Local Authorities
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must be legal entities (public or private bodies), established in EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)) or listed EEA countries. Also they must have their executive management structure established in eligible countries and must not be subject to control by a non-associated third country or non- associated third-country entity (unless they can provide guarantees – see Annex 2 – approved by the Member State or EDF associated country where they are established).Applicants must be in possession of a valid Facility Security Clearance (FSC) at the level of SECRET UE/EU SECRET and have Communication and Information Systems (CIS) properly accredited by the respective national Accreditation Authorities to handle documents at the same level. The FSC and the CIS accreditation statements, signed by appropriate national authorities, must be submitted with the proposal support documentation.
Consortium composition
Proposals must be submitted by minimum 3 independent applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from 3 different eligible countries.
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National Contact Point(s)
Ministry of Defense
Address: 172-174 Strovolos Avenue, 2048 Strovolos, Nicosia
Telephone: 22 807500
Email: defence@mod.gov.cy
Website: https://mod.gov.cy/
Department of Research and Innovation
Telephones: 22 807755, 22 807754
Email: research.innovation@mod.gov.cy
EU Contact Point
For help related to this call, please contact: DEFIS-EDF-PROPOSALS@ec.europa.eu