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Call for the Defence-related Research Action (DEFRA) is officially open

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Programmes Security   AI, data & cloud   Cybersecurity   Defence   Space  

The fifth call for proposals of the Defence-related Research Action (DEFRA) is officially open.

All information is available on the DEFRA website. Pre-proposals can be submitted via the online submission platform. Deadline is Deadline is 20 February 2025, 14h.

We recommend you start preparing your proposal on the online submission platform as soon as possible.

An information day will take place 22 January 2025 at the Royal Military Academy in Brussels. Registration is mandatory. You can register until 15 January 2025.

see also Info day on the DEFRA call 2025  

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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.