Maturing projects for possible future European Defence Projects of Common Interest and preparing their implementation roadmap
Call for proposals for coordination and support actions for potential future European Defence Projects of Common Interest (EDPCIs) under the Programme · EDF-LS
What this call funds
This call funds work to mature collaborative defence projects into possible future European Defence Projects of Common Interest and to prepare their implementation roadmaps for the 2028 to 2034 period. Funded teams must deliver a first roadmap by end 2027 covering activities from 2028 to 2030, and a final roadmap by end 2030 covering activities up to 2034. Funding does not guarantee the project will be selected or receive future EU funding.
defence security · regional development
Who wins this
This suits consortia of defence industry and research organisations working together to prepare a mature, well documented project proposal and implementation plan for future European defence programming.
Could you win this call?
Only the website is required.
The call in detail
- Funding model
- EDF-AG-LS
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- EDF Lump Sum Grants
- Partners
- Not stated in the call.
- Also required
- Total indicative call budget is EUR 13,500,000, with maximum EU contribution per project of EUR 3,375,000, allowing several proposals to be funded.
- Sectors
- Defence · Aerospace · Cybersecurity
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
Conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout described in section 5 of the call document. 2. Eligible countries described in section 6 of the call document. 3. Other eligibility conditions described in section 6 of the call document. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion described in section 7 of the call document. 5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual. 5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds described in section 9 of the call document. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in section 4 of the call document. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants described in section 10 of the call document. Call document and annexes: call document