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 call topic encourages the driving role of innovative SMEs and Research Organisations (RO) in bringing forward innovation defence research, possibly by adapting technologies from civil applications or addressing hybrid warfare.
NOTE: Successful SME beneficiaries will be offered Business Coaching, to reduce the time of bringing the results to the next phase, e.g., development.
Detailed Call Description
The proposals must address innovative technologies and solutions for defence, including those that can improve readiness, deployability, reliability, safety and sustainability of forces in defence tasks and missions, for example in terms of operations, equipment, infrastructure, energy solutions, surveillance systems or digital solutions.
The proposals may address any area of interest for defence, such as, but not limited to, the following ones:
- blockchain applications (e.g. for identification of friend or foe);
- tools and applications improving cybersecurity talents screening;
- artificial intelligence and robotic autonomous systems;
- future naval platform control and management;
- smart damage control related to future naval platforms;
- ship signature management;
- secure and reliable underwater communication solutions and interfaces (radiofrequency, acoustic, optic or others);
- measurement and monitoring of physiological and cognitive state of soldiers;
- solutions for mechanical and “green” chemical recycling of waste of soldier individual equipment (uniforms, helmets, boots, rucksacks, plastic elements, harness, etc.);
- concepts and corresponding technologies to ensure a safe water reuse throughout the entire water cycle of a deployable camp or a deployed combat group;
- synthetic fuel production from waste and biomass for military use.
Call Total Budget
Thematic Categories
- Information Technology
- Justice - Security
- Other Thematic Category
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Small-Medium Enterprises and Competitiveness
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Applications will only be considered eligible if their content corresponds wholly (or at least in part) to the topic description for which it is submitted.
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- 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’, see list of participating countries)
- have their executive management structure established in eligible countries
- must not be subject to control by a non-associated third country or nonassociated third-country entity (unless they can provide guarantees – see Annex 2 – approved by the Member State or EDF associated country where they are established)
- be small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) within the meaning of EU Recommendation 2003/3617 or research organisations (i.e. non-profit organisations which carry out research and/or technological development as their main objective)
- the coordinator must be an SME.
Consortium composition – Proposals must be submitted by:
- minimum 3 independent applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from 3 different eligible countries
- the partners (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must be SMEs in the meaning of EU Recommendation 2003/36113 or research organisations (i.e. non-profit organisations which carry out research and/or technological development as their main objective)
- the budget allocated to research organisations (as beneficiaries and affiliated entities) cannot exceed 40% of the total requested grant amount for the project
- the coordinator must be an SME.
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
EU Contact Point
For help related to this call, please contact: DEFIS-EDF-PROPOSALS@ec.europa.eu