The European Commission announced, on Wednesday 30 June, the adoption of the first annual work programme of the European Defence Fund (EDF).
This adoption paves the way for the launch of 23 calls for proposals for a total of €1.2 billion in EU funding for collaborative defence research and development projects. To finance these calls for proposals, the 2021 EDF budget of €930 million has been complemented with a ‘top-up’ of €290 million from the 2022 EDF budget.
According to the...