EDF – Call for EDF development actions, dedicated to SMEs, implemented via lump sum grants – 2023

Objective

Encourage the driving role of innovative SMEs to turn technology and research results into defence products in a fast and cost-efficient way, possibly by adapting technologies from civil applications or addressing hybrid warfare

Among financed actions

• Integrating knowledge
• Studies
• Design
• System prototyping
• Testing
• Qualification
• Certification
• Increasing efficiency

Additional information

• This call for proposals is an open call for proposals.
• Initial duration of the action: between 12 and 48 months

Eligibility

• Be a legal entity (public or private body)
• 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 approved by the Member State or EDF associated country where they are established)
• Be small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

• Total budget of the call: 36 million euro
• Amount of the grant: up to 6 million euro
• Co-financing rate: up to 100% of the total eligible costs

This grant is a lump sum grant.