Earlier this week, DG Grow organised the Info Day for EDIDP, the European defence industrial development programme. This programme offers co-financing for collaborative defence development projects with a budget of €500 million for 2019-2020. EDIDP serves as the pilot for EDF (European Defence Fund), which will run from 2021-2027.
The calls for 2019, now open, will address 9 categories of defence capabilities:
- Multipurpose unmanned ground system (call EDIDP-MUGS-2019).
- Permanent air or space capabilities for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and communication, tactical remotely piloted air systems (RPAS) and sensor suite for integration into air-traffic management (call EDIDP-ISR-2019).
- Cyber situational awareness and defence capabilities, military networks and technologies for secure communication and information sharing (call EDIDP-CSAMN-2019).
- Positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) and satellite communication capabilities (call EDIDP-PNTSCC-2019).
- European command and control (C2) system from strategic to tactical level (call EDIDP-ESC2S-2019).
- Upgrade of current and development of next-generation ground-based precision strike capabilities (call EDIDP-NGPSC-2019).
- Air combat capabilities (call EDIDP-ACC-2019).
- Future naval platforms and related technologies (call EDIDP-FNPRT-2019).
- Innovative and future-oriented defence solutions (call EDIDP-SME-2019).
You can find the EDIDP work programme for 2019-2020 here and the calls for proposals for 2019 here.
For help to find the right partner for your consortium, do not hesitate to contact your EEB Adviser for Security Claudia Oliveira and for Space Virginia Gomez Oñate.
