European Defence Fund – Call for proposals focused on legacy Systems and Platforms – 2024

Objectives

• To foster the competitiveness and efficiency of the EDTIB by speeding up its adjustment to the new security environment
• To foster cooperation in defence procurement processes between participating Member States and associated countries
• To ensure timely availability of sufficient quantities to fill the most urgent capability gaps for a wide range of capabilities/systems of platforms and platform systems

Among financed activities

• New cooperation between the eligible entities for common procurement addressing the most urgent and critical defence products needs
• Extension of existing cooperation between the eligible entities for common procurement addressing the most urgent and critical defence products needs

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be public authorities or procurement agents within the meaning of Articles 2 and 10 of the EDIRPA Regulation
• Be established in one of the eligible countries: EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories) and listed EEA countries (Click here)

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: 24 months
• Contact: DEFIS-EDIRPA-PROPOSALS@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• DG website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 103.2 million euro
• Amount of the grant: up to 45 million euro (60 million euro if Ukraine or Moldova are recipients of additional quantities of defence products)
• Funding rate:
  • 7% of the total eligible costs (baseline)
  • up to 15% of the total eligible costs if the project involves more than 3 Member States or allocate more than 15% of the amount of the common procurement to SMEs and mid-caps
  • up to 20% of the total eligible costs if Ukraine or Moldova are recipients of additional quantities of defence products