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.

The objective of this call is to reinforce the EU industrial production capacity of defence products, including their components and corresponding raw materials.

This topic aims to strengthen the competitiveness, responsiveness and ability of the EDTIB to reinforce EU industrial production capacity for energetic components (including their components and corresponding raw materials insofar as they are intended or used wholly for the production of defence products) that constitute critical bottlenecks for key defence product across land, air, naval and underwater domains:

• rockets, aerial bombs, mines and loitering munition;

• missiles;

• tank, artillery and counter-unmanned systems (UxS) ammunition;

• small-calibre cartridges (including ammunition and devices for dismounted soldiers).

Actions shall be aligned with the objectives, scope and priorities of this call topic and shall contribute to the competitiveness of the EU defence technological and industrial base by securing specific production capacity for:

• propellant powder (including nitrocellulose, single, double & triple-base powder, and modular charge);

• explosives (including nitroglycerine, TNT, RDX, HMX, PETN, NTO, primers/fuses);

• propulsion systems;

• warheads and electronic fuze;

• filling plants;

• and access to relevant raw materials.

35%

42,5% or 50% if the project is a ‘priority action’, i.e. concerns:

• a project where the majority (i.e. more than 50%) of beneficiaries participating in the consortium are SMEs or mid-caps established in EU Member States or EDIP associated countries

or

• a project carried out by a SEAP

and

• creates new cross border cooperation between entities established in Member States or EDIP associated countries (bonus of 7,5%)
• builds new infrastructure or creates new or ramps up existing manufacturing capacities of crisis-relevant products (bonus of 7,5%).

The maximum EU contribution per funded project will not exceed €30.000.000 allowing several proposals to be funded.

The Commission is considering supporting specifically any optional work packages dedicated to the reinforcement of the physical and cyber protection of the industrial capacity targeted by the action, with a maximum EU contribution of €500.000 per funded project.

Depending on the number and quality of received proposals and the requested Union financial contributions, the Commission may decide to reallocate budget between calls.

• Industry
• Justice - Security
• Processing

• Businesses
• Central Government
• Large Enterprises
• Legal Entities
• Legal Entities under Public Law
• Private Bodies
• Semi-governmental organisations
• Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
• State-owned Enterprises

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 and countries associated to the EDIP Programme (‘EDIP associated countries’; list of participating countries)
• have their executive management structure established in eligible countries
• not be subject to control by a non-associated third country or non-associated third-country entity (unless they are exempted under Article 9(9) of the EDIP Regulation or provide guarantees, including adequate mitigation measures pursuant to a FDI screening, approved by the EU Member State or EDIP associated country where they are established; see Annex 2 of the call document).
• Other entities may participate in other consortium roles, such as associated partners, subcontractors, third parties giving in-kind contributions, etc (see section 13 of the call document).

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