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
Τhe specific objective of this topic is twofold. The first is the development of a new test environment for testing and the improvement of technologies up to certification level. The second is the creation of a cross-border defence innovation network that encompasses players that would otherwise not have the means to access EDF actions, thereby further enhancing innovation capacity and competitiveness of the European Defence Industrial and Technological Base.
This topic aims at supporting the technological maturation of various joining or repair or maintenance technologies, including the associated processes.
Detailed Call Description
This topic will provide support to collaborative development activities to setup demonstrator platforms and test candidate technologies for maintenance, joining and repair, in order to propel those technologies’ maturity and allow them to be approved and/or qualified.
There will only be a limited number of innovative technologies directly available within a selected consortium. Therefore, the consortium will be requested to reach out to third parties across the EU and EDF associated countries, in particular SMEs, including start-ups, to test a broad spectrum of technological solutions and give those innovative players the opportunity to demonstrate the potential of their ideas to relevant players in the defence application field. As a tool to enable this open innovation approach, funding for financial support to third parties (FSTP) will be integral part of the awarded grant. The consortium will be required to organise calls to third parties to select and award start-ups and SMEs. The selected third parties will be offered the opportunity and financial support to test their solutions, receive technical mentoring and other relevant acceleration services for a specific time period.
The proposals must address the setup of a suitable demonstrator platform as a test environment which offers the possibility to test, qualify and certify technologies covering the fields of joining, repair and maintenance. This may include the establishment of adequate test protocols. The platform may be focussing on one of the defence application domains air, land or naval or the combination of land and naval domains. The demonstrator platform should be a generic system suitable for this domain (e.g. a plane, a ship, a truck, etc.). The proposals may involve the set-up of a new platform or the partial modification of existing systems to be used as a demonstrator platform, e.g. by replacing individual parts and components or by integrating additional functions, sensors, etc. In addition, various parts or components may be manufactured multiple times to cover different technologies.
Call Total Budget
Thematic Categories
- Information and Communication Technologies
- Justice - Security
- Other Thematic Category
- Public Administration
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Educational Institutions
- Local Authorities
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- 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.
Eligible participants (eligible countries) – 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).
Associated partners which are not established in one of the eligible countries (or which are subject to control by a non-associated third country or non-associated third-country entity) may however participate exceptionally if certain conditions are fulfilled (not contravene EU and MS security and defence interests; consistent with EDF objectives; results not subject to control or restriction by non-associated third countries or non-associated third-country entities; no unauthorised access to classified information; no potential negative effects over security of supply of inputs which are critical for the project), subject to agreement by the granting authority and without any funding under the grant.
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.
The consortia responding to the call may include a large variety of entities, such as military or civil test centres, research institutes, universities, industry, certification authorities, accelerators or incubators as well as other organisations that can play a role in the establishment or certification of new technologies for repair, joining and maintenance or that can support the associated innovation support measures targeted towards third parties receiving financial support.
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
European Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS): https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/defence-industry-and-space_en
For help related to this call, please contact: DEFIS-EDF-PROPOSALS@ec.europa.eu