Research on disruptive technologies for defence
EDF Research Actions
Basic Information
- Identifier
- EDF-2021-OPEN-RDIS-Open
- Programme
- Open call addressing disruptive technologies for defence
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- September 8, 2021
- Deadline
- December 8, 2021
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €10,000,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- EDF-2021-OPEN-RDIS-OpenEDF-2021-OPEN-RDIS
Description
- Scientific and technological contributions to the foundation of a future technology with disruptive applications in the area of defence;
- Enhanced innovation capacity of the European Defence industry by identifying and exploring ground-breaking concepts and approaches or by applying technologies and concepts previously not applied in the defence sector;
- Enhanced competitiveness of the European defence industry and creation of new defence markets;
- Enhanced defence research and innovation capacity across Europe by involvement of actors that can make a difference in the future such as excellent researchers, ambitious high-tech SMEs or visionary departments of big companies, research centres and universities.
Objective:Proposals are invited against the following topic:
EDF-2021-OPEN-RDIS-Open: Research on disruptive technologies for defence
Specific challenge
The specific challenge is to lay the foundations for radically new future technologies of any kind with unexpected impact that aims to bring radical technological superiority over potential adversaries. This topic also encourages the driving role of new actors in defence research and innovation, including excellent researchers, ambitious high-tech SMEs and visionary research centres of big companies, universities or research and technology organisations
Scope:Proposals are sought for cutting-edge, high-risk/high-impact research leading to game-changing impact in a defence context. They must have the following essential characteristics:
- A disruptive impact in a defence context: Proposals need to clearly address how the proposed solutions would create a disruptive effect when integrated in a realistic military operation.
- Radical vision: Proposals must address a clear and radical vision, enabled by a new technology concept that challenges current paradigms. In particular, research to advance on the roadmap of a well-established technological paradigm, even if high-risk, will not be funded.
- Breakthrough technological target: Proposals must target novel and ambitious scientific or technological breakthroughs that can be experimentally assessed, and the suitability of the concept for new defence applications must be duly demonstrated. Basic research without a clear technological objective targeting defence applications will not be funded.
The inherently high risks of the research proposed must be mitigated by a flexible methodology to deal with the considerable science-and-technology uncertainties and for choosing alternative directions and options.
Targeted activities
The proposed actions should aim to create, underpin and improve disruptive technologies that can achieve significant effects in the area of defence (generating knowledge), not excluding downstream eligible activities for research actions (integration of knowledge, studies and design).
Functional requirements
This call is open to any technology with a high disruption potential. Proposals should describe the targeted functionalities and the foreseen means to measure progress toward the achievements of these functionalities.
Eligibility & Conditions
Conditions
1. Admissibility conditions: described in section 3 of the call document
Proposal page limits and layout: 60 pages for Section 6 + Section 7 of Part B of the Submission form; 2 pages per work package for Section 8 of Part B of the Submission form. Layout conditions as described in the Notice of Part B of the Submission form.
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2. Eligible countries: described in section 3 of the call document
3. Other eligibility conditions: described in section 3 of the call document
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in section 3 of the call document
Submission and evaluation processes: described section 3 of the call document and the Online Manual
Award criteria, scoring and thresholds: described in section 3 of the call document
Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in section 3 of the call document
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in section 3 of the call document
Call documents:
The following documents can be found at this link:
- Calls and conditions
o EDF 2021 call texts and conditions for the calls
- Submission forms*
o Part A: Standard application form (EDF)
o Part A sup: Supplementary application form (EDF)
o Part B: Description of the action (EDF)
o Annex 1 & 2 - Budget tables
o Appendix to Annex 1 & 2, including a correspondence table for applicants and affiliated entities opting for actual indirect costs
o Annex 3 - Declaration of honour (DoH) applicants and affiliated entities
o Annex 4 - IPR on background information
o Annex 5 - Industry related information
o Annex 6 - Declaration of ownership and control
o Annex 7 - Operational capacity and resources
o Annex 8 - Mid-cap self-assessment form
* Final submission forms will be available directly on the submission module in the Funding and Tenders Portal once the calls are open (9 September)
- Guide for applicants
o EDF Guide for applicants
o Guidance on How to complete your Ethics self-assessment
Additional documents:
- Model grant agreements
o EDF actual cost MGA (coming soon)
o EDF lump sum MGA (coming soon)
- Security
o EDF Programme Security Instruction (PSI) (coming soon)
- Regulations
o EU Financial Regulation 2018/1046
- Work programmes
o EDF Work Programme 2022-part 1
- Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
- Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
Support & Resources
For help related to this call, please contact: [email protected]
Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – Submission of proposals.
IT Helpdesk – Contact the IT helpdesk for questions such as forgotten passwords, access rights and roles, technical aspects of submission of proposals, etc.
Online Manual – Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes from proposal preparation and submission to reporting on your on-going project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes.
Latest Updates
Please make sure that you have checked the latest version of the EDF FAQ available here.
In order to cope with the 100 MB size limit we recommend that all pdf files are generated with the highest possible compression rate compliant with readable content.
If the proposal size remains above the 100 MB limit after achieving the highest compression, the applicants, affiliated entities and subcontractors involved in the action are given the opportunity to upload individually on their Participant’s page on the Funding & Tender Opportunities portal specific supporting documents that are requested as part of the submission of the proposal.
This possibility to upload document on the their Participant’s page on the Funding & Tender Opportunities portal is strongly conditioned to the following elements:
- the type of document that can be uploaded is exclusively limited to the documents that should otherwise be attached to Annex 6 – Declaration of Ownership and Control (e.g. minutes of shareholders meetings, documents related to ownership structure or corporate governance);
- the documents shall be uploaded individually by the entities on their own Participant account (i.e. own PIC – no grouping of multiple entities’ documents under a single PIC) before the submission deadline as indicated on the Call Page on the Funding & Tender Portal;
- the documents shall be uploaded via the Document section in the PIC account/Add new document/under type “Other”;
- the documents shall not include ID documents of individuals.
If you revert to this possibility for several documents to be normally attached to Annex 6, please indicate it in Annex 6 by checking the box in column P for the corresponding attachments and by adding in column R the name of the corresponding file followed by “provided on the participant’s page”.
To access the participant’s portal, click on “Login” on the top right hand side of any page of the Funding & tenders (europa.eu). Then access to the right page via: “My Organisation(s)” then “Actions” then “Modify Organisation”. Then in the “Documents” tab then “Add new document”. Upload your document(s) and indicate “other” in “Document type”.
If the solution proposed above does not solve the size issue, please revert to us using the following email address: [email protected]
EDF Model Grant Agreements for Lump Sum and actual costs grants are now available in the section Reference documents of the Funding & Tender Portal.
EDF Model Grant Agreements for Lump Sum and actual costs grants are now available in the section Reference documents of the Funding & Tender Portal.
EDF Guide for applicants now available here, as well as revised versions of previously published documents!
2021 calls for proposals and conditions for the calls as well as Submission form templates are available here since 5 July afternoon.