EUROPEAN DEFENCE FUND - Research actions in the form of a technological challenge implemented through lump sum grants - 2026

EDF - European Defence Fund - 2021-2027

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30 million euros

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Total call budget: 30 million euros
• Budget per topic:
  EDF-2026-LS-RA-CHALLENGE-DIGIT-AISAP: 23 million euros
  • EDF-2026-LS-RA-CHALLENGE-DIGIT-AISAO: 7 million euros
• Grant amount:
  EDF-2026-LS-RA-CHALLENGE-DIGIT-AISAP: must not exceed 4.6 million euros
  • EDF-2026-LS-RA-CHALLENGE-DIGIT-AISAO: must not exceed the budget available for this topic (7 million euros)
• Co-financing rate: 100% of total eligible costs

The granted subsidy may be lower than the requested amount.

The grant takes the form of a lump sum grant.

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Objectives

• Ensure monitoring and complete previous activities in the field of hidden threat detection
• Explore solutions combining intelligent robots, drones and detection technologies for advanced threat identification and classification
• Organize a d…</