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Major role for SMEs in newly announced EU-funded defence projects

SMEs are among the key beneficiaries of €205 million of European Union financing for 16 newly announced pan-European defence industrial projects and three disruptive technology projects. The funding has been made available through the two precursor programmes of a fully-fledged European Defence Fund: the Preparatory Action on Defence Research (PADR) and the European Defence Industrial Development Programme...Read more
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International Matchmaking Event at FIDAE 2018

During 3-6 April 2018 an international matchmaking event will take place in Santiago (Chile) at the International Air and Space Fair (FIDAE), the leading aerospace, defence and security exhibition in Latin America and a prime business platform in the region. More than 550 companies from 60 different countries are expected to participate in the exhibition, 75% of those companies coming from countries other...Read more
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Call for Proposals: CLUSTERS GO INTERNATIONAL IN THE DEFENCE & SECURITY SECTOR

Deadline: 13 December 2017 17:00:00 Call identifie r: COS-CLUSINT-2017-03-6 Today the Clusters Go International in the Defence and Security sector call for proposals was published! With a total budget for projects' co-financing estimated at EUR 800,000, this action aims at establishing the first European Strategic Cluster Partnerships-Going International in the defence and security sector, supporting...Read more
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“EUROPEAN OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEFENCE-RELATED CLUSTERS” - An EDA workshop

Strengthening the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base (EDTIB) is at the core of the European Defence Agency’s (EDA) mission and since its very establishment EDA has been identifying and implementing concrete measures to support it. The June 2016 Global Strategy for the European Union’s Foreign and Security Policy (EUGS) stresses that “Union funds to support defence R&T … and full use of...Read more
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A NEW DEAL FOR EUROPEAN DEFENCE

Several ECCP profiled clusters were represented at the Project workshop “ European Defence Action Plan: New Opportunities for Regions ” co-organised by DG GROW , EURADA and ERRIN and held in Brussels on the 9th of March. The meeting highlighted several new funding opportunities for defence related research and innovation activities including for clusters. A new European Defence Fund has now been created...Read more
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