Future modular multifunctional land platforms and enabling technologies, including green technologies
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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
This topic aims to further develop the technologies required to enhance the performance and effectiveness of armoured land platform systems in high-intensity operations, making them more capable, modular, multifunctional and energy efficient by maximising synergies, standardisation and interoperability of armoured land vehicle families.
Detailed Call Description
The general goal of topic is to increase the maturity of enabling technologies to enhance the performance and effectiveness of armoured land platforms and especially certification of system level solutions.
Proposals must address development, qualification, certification and improving efficiency especially needed for reaching initial operational capability for newly developed vehicles. Proposals must address the following activities:
- Further development and verification of systems and enabling technologies including green technologies.
- Increasing the maturity of systems and subsystems.
- Validating that target vehicles systems fulfil and achieve the operational requirements of the intended operational environment.
- Implementing and certifying applicable military and generic/civilian standards on sub-system level of enabling technologies.
- Identifying and analysing stakeholders’ needs and define requirements for different land platform variants.
- Identifying necessary supportive elements (e.g., Training and maintenance systems/ functionality, and subsequent requirements) in order to support use and lifecycle management of the proposed products/systems and enabling technologies.
- Defining system architecture for different variants maximising synergies, standardisation and interoperability.
- Designing the different system variants to help ensuring that the detailed design for the variant systems under review is sufficiently mature and ready to proceed into test phase and meet stakeholders’ stated requirements.
Testing the different system variants prototypes; identify and analyse possible security of supply bottlenecks of systems and sub-systems; study potential strategies and solutions for materials and components where high criticality is identified (including but not limited to circular approaches).
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Thematic Categories
- Information Technology
- Justice - Security
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Legal Entities
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Training Centres
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, all applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must cumulatively:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
- non-EU countries:
- listed EEA countries (‘EDF associated countries’; list of participating countries)
- have their executive management structure established in eligible countries
- 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).
Consortium composition – For all topics under this call, 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