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Starts in 1 month from now
LocationMechelen
This event brings together industry, knowledge institutions and government to look at recent developments, opportunities and future perspectives in defence innovation. Participants can expect expert talks, interactive breakout sessions, networking and discussions on innovation projects.
The first DIF-Day will be held in Mechelen in coöperation with FTI.
The programme includes morning breakout sessions on strategic innovation themes in security and defence, including:
The afternoon includes keynote contributions, a session on VISD (Flemish Innovation and Industry Strategy for Security & Defence) achievements and next steps, and thematic choice sessions on future opportunities for Flemish companies in resilience-related defence files, lessons from Ukraine’s defence innovation approach, and cooperation in European value chains.
Registration is open until 16 October 2026.
Interested participants can submit the registration form by 16 October 2026 and wait for a confirmation email before confirming attendance: https://www.vlaanderen.be/vlaamse-innovatie-en-industriestrategie-voor-veiligheid-en-defensie/defence-innovation-in-flanders-day/27-10-2026
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The MareGraph project, ‘Towards an Interoperable Marine Knowledge Graph’, obtained funding under the Digital Europe topic ‘OPEN-AI – Public Sector Open Data for AI and Open Data Platform’. The project will increase the semantic, technical, and legal interoperability of three selected high-valued datasets (HVDs) all maintained by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), which is one of the four partners of the project. This will allow the onboarding of essential marine datasets in the Common European Data Spaces. As such MareGraph will provide a structural component in the digital transition of the marine landscape. The numerous impacts of the project will benefit our seas globally in old and new ways to come.
