European Defence Fund – Next generation vertical take-off and landing systems – 2021

The European Defence Fund (EDF) is the Commission's initiative to support collaborative defence research and development, and to foster an innovative and competitive defence industrial base.

2021-12-09

40 million euro

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Regions : European Economic Area, European Union

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Manager : European Commission

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Objectives

To prepare 2035/2040+ horizon, building European capabilities for new EU/NATO rotorcraft/VTOL programs, fully compatible to future multi-domain and air combat collaborative systems;
To increase the efficiency of European Armed Forces;
To increase strategic autonomy and competitiveness of the European defence community (i.e. industries and Nations, including academia/governmental R&T/T&E entities), aimed and capable to develop new technologies to be embodied into the future EU/NATO rotorcraft programs.

Priorities

To support the competiveness and excellence of the European industry in this domain and the autonomy of EU in the field of military helicopters.

Among financed actions

Studies of the future operating environment (FOE) and the role and purpose of military VTOL-systems in this as SoS;
Studies of the future operating concept (FOC) including all levels of warfare: strategic, operational, tactical and technical;
Technological support to the evolution of state-of-the-art current helicopter/rotorcraft systems (including EU tilt-rotors and compound rotorcraft);
Studies of the required military capacities, the required industrial activities to develop and exploit these military capacities and the interoperability requirements.

Additional information

This call for proposals is an open call for proposals.
Initial duration of the action: up 48 months.

Eligibility

Be a legal entity (public or private);
Be established in one of the eligible countries.

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