Programme Category
Programme Name
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.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
This topic has opened under the call ”Cloud technologies” (EDF-2021-DIGIT-D).
Proposals under this topic should address the development of a multi-domain cloud architecture for defence and an associated technological demonstrator, providing a common shared information space and federated services enabling multi-domain operations. The ambition is to combine data of existing and future systems through a federated network, shared cloud interfaces and implementation of the associated shared services. The ambition is also to make the data securely available for re-use in the promising field of AI.
Detailed Call Description
The proposals must cover several key aspects and show how they will handle them:
- The specificity of requirements (operational/technical/environment/etc.) at strategic, operational and tactical levels and their impact on the architecture and solutions;
- The provision of secure and resilient services, multiple levels of security, hardware and software certification, cyber protection, data integrity solutions, etc.;
- The complementarity and synergies, avoiding duplication but bridging existing/upcoming single-domain cloud-based solutions, creating synergies between other already or soon-to-be launched cloud-based important initiatives and enhancing these efforts by enabling an advanced use of services and information across domains;
- The digital continuity aspect, i.e. a virtual environment enabling collaborative operations services across all domains and levels (strategical, operational and tactical);
- The need for an open architecture, designed in a modular way in order to accommodate specific requirements from tactical level to the different headquarter levels;
- The need to analyse and compare possible approaches to share data and services within military organisations, depending on the operation levels;
- The promotion of European standards regarding interoperability and information sharing, and the compatibility with other existing interface military standards such as NATO Federated Mission Networking (FMN);
- The synergies with European civilian cloud technologies where applicable;
- The synergies with the existing cyber ranges in the EU Member States.
(further details page 17 of the annual work programme)
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
100%
Thematic Categories
- Information Technology
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Large Enterprises
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
The action shall be carried out by legal entities cooperating within a consortium of at least three eligible legal entities which are established in at least three different Member States or associated countries. At least three of those eligible legal entities established in at least two different Member States or associated countries shall not, during the entire period in which the action is carried out, be controlled, directly or indirectly, by the same legal entity and shall not control each other.
The admissibility and eligibility conditions are described under Article 9 and Article 10(4) of the EDF regulation.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Ministry of Defense
172-174 Strovolos Avenue, 2048 Strovolos, Nicosia,
website: https://mod.gov.cy/
Telephone: 22 807500
Email: defence@mod.gov.cy
Department of Research and Innovation
Phones: 22 807755, 22 807754
Email: research.innovation@mod.gov.cy
(Publish Date: 29/09/2021-for internal use only)
EU Contact Point
European Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS)
https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/defence-industry-and-space_en