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EU Defence Innovation Scheme (EUDIS)
The EU Defence Innovation Scheme (EUDIS) is a set of instruments enabled by the European Defence Fund (EDF) to strengthen defence innovation in the European Union.
Published on | 11 months ago
Last updated on | 2 months ago
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The EU Defence Innovation Scheme (EUDIS) offers a set of instruments for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), including start-ups, and other non-traditional players in defence industrial ecosystemto ensure more opportunities to access the European Defence Fund.
It aims to lower entry barriers into the defence domain for smaller players and innovators, focusing on technological readiness and market maturity.
EUDIS is here to support innovators throughout the development cycle to mature, scale-up, demonstrate their use-case, grow and successfully enter the market.
EUDIS Innovation Tracks
More information on the Innovation Tracks website.
- Participate with your team in hackathons that will be held across Europe starting from spring 2024.
- Organise or participate in technological challenges: set-up testing environments for Research & Development and compare your solution with competing teams.
- Form a consortium and benefit from Innovation Test Hubs to distribute cascade funding grants to SMEs or start-ups.
- Participate in spin-in calls: migrate your results from civil EU-funded R&D programmes to the defence sector.
- Apply to the Defence Equity Facility: easier access to equity investments in Europe for the defence sector.
- Take part in open SME and disruptive technologies calls: receive lump sum grants for R&D.
- Benefit from business coaching: successful applicants to non-thematic SMEs and disruptive technologies calls can benefit from business coaching
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Miricle - Mine Risk Clearance for Europe
The Miricle project, ‘Mine Risk Clearance for Europe’, obtained funding under the European Defence Industrial Development programme call ‘Underwater control contributing to resilience at sea’. The main objective of the project was to achieve a European and sovereign capacity in future mine warfare and create a path for the next generation ‘made in Europe’ countermeasure solutions. In order to realise this objective, Miricle addressed various stages: studies, design, prototyping and testing. These stages inter alia included the successful testing of an XL Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, a protototyped mine disposal system and multiple innovative systems to detect buried mines. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), was one of the five Belgian partners in the consortium. Within the project, VLIZ was able to forward its research on the acoustic imaging of the seabed to spatially map and visualize buried structures and objects - in this case buried mines - in the highest possible detail. VLIZ also led the work on ‘Port and Offshore Testing’, building on the expertise of the institute in the field of marine operations and technology.
