NEW EUROPEAN DEFENCE RESEARCH SCHEMES: PP, PADR and EDF-Research 2 July 2019 European Union’s Preparatory Action on Defence Research - PADR programme has received Union’s funding This communication or publication related to the implementation of the entrusted tasks made by EDA reflects only the author's view and that the Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
THE EUROPEAN DEFENCE FUND: A MAJOR POLITICAL EVOLUTION Ongoing developments: AIM CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH (RTI lead) EDA ROLE (CAP lead) The European Commission launched Preparatory Action on Potential upstream, the European Defence Fund in Defence Research The European Parliament implementing and June 2017 with the aim to: 2017-2019 ongoing and the Council have downstream role (budget € 90 M) with a Contribute to strengthening adopted a regulation view to developing a the competitiveness and establishing a European These 3 roles have already future European innovative capacity of the Defence Industrial been performed for the EU’s defence industry Defence Research Development Programme Preparatory Action on Programme (2021- (EDIDP) 2019-2020 with a Foster defence cooperation Defence Research and for its budget of € 500 million 2027) through supporting precursor the Pilot Project on investment in joint defence Defence Research 2015-2016 EU institutions have reached a partial political research, development of (3 research activities prototypes and acquisition of agreement, subject to approval by the European completed in 2018) defence equipment and Parliament and the Council, on the European technology Defence Fund 2021-2027 that will cover both Capabilities and Research Proposed budget € 13 B: € 8.9 B for Capability development and € 4.1 B for Research 2 www.eda.europa.eu
TIMELINE Preparatory Thematic Area in Action Pilot Project the next MFF* (PADR) (PP) (EDF) 2015-2016 2017-2019 2021- *Multi-annual Financial Framework 3 www.eda.europa.eu
PILOT PROJECT/ PREPARTORY ACTION TOWARDS EDF • Pilot Project: three actions handled by EDA - Delegation Agreement Nov 2015 - Upstream: to define topics with MS - Implementation: First action concluded Dec 2017, others Q1/Q2 2018 - Downstream: initiated through project update to MS • Preparatory Action: EDA implementing agency - Upstream: to identify topics with MS - Delegation Agreement May 2017 - Implementation: First grant signed Dec 2017, further calls 2018/2019 • EDF Research Dimension: preparation imminent - PP/PA lessons-learnt discussed with R&T Dir, Dec 2017/Dec 2018 - Institutional roles laid down in Treaty and reinforced in LTR - Avoid duplication of structures and mechanisms 4 www.eda.europa.eu
PILOT PROJECT ON DEFENCE RESEARCH: OUTCOME Delegation Agreement signed on 28 October 2016 3 projects awarded, the last one concluded in May 2018: Consortium Acronym Topic Grant Duration End leader Unmanned Heterogeneous Cranfield EuroSWARM 434,000 € 12 months Feb’ 18 Swarm of Sensor Platforms University Inside Building Awareness and SPIDER Tekever 433,225 € 12 months Feb’ 18 Navigation for Urban Warfare Standardisation of Remotely TRAWA Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) NLR 433,292 € 18 months May’ 18 Detect and Avoid PP DA main activities concluded on 30 November 2018 5 www.eda.europa.eu
PREPARATORY ACTION ON DEFENCE RESEARCH (PADR) EDA ROLE PADR R is managed ged by the EDA based sed on a Delegation egation Agreemen ement t signe ned d with h Commi mmiss ssion on on 31 May 2017 Upstream role: Is test-bed for proving the relevance of EU defence research Member States with EDA discuss and prepare input for work-programmes Prepares fully-fledged EU Defence Research Programme in Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 Implementation role: Is central element of European Defence Fund ‘Research Calls for proposals, evaluation of Dimension’ proposals, grant management 3 Calls s for proposal posal were launche ched d in 2017, 7, 2018 18 and 2019 Downstream role: Exploitation for follow-on actions - First st 5 projects cts (calls s 2017) ) have been granted d and are runni nning ng - 1 projec ect t (calls s 2018 18) ) has been grant nted, d, next 2 grant t signa natures tures expect cted d in Q3 2019 - Work rk progra ramme for 2019 9 was adopted d by EC in March h 2019 6 www.eda.europa.eu
PADR CALLS 2017 – AWARDED PROJECTS • PADR-US-01-2017 (Technological demonstrator for enhanced situational awareness in a naval environment) - Project OCEAN2020 • PADR-FPSS-01-2017 (Research in technology and products in the context of Force Protection and Soldier Systems) - Projects GOSSRA , VESTLIFE and ACAMS II • PADR-STF-01-2017 (Strategic Technology Foresight) - Project PYTHIA 7 www.eda.europa.eu
PADR STATE OF PLAY - PADR CALLS 2018 • 8 proposals received and evaluated (technical evaluation, ELSA review, Security Scrutiny) • 3 proposals selected: PADR-STF-02-2018 SOLOMON - Signed May 2019; Kick-off meeting 6 & 7 June 2019 - Starting date: 1 June 2019 PADR-EDT-02-2018 * PADR-EF-02-2018 * From June Autumn December 20/12/18 From May 2019 2018 2018 2019 Evaluation of Commission Notification to Expected Projects the proposals informed applicants signatures of PADR 2018 AIPC about Grant Kick-off evaluation Agreements meetings outcome * Pending administrative steps for the grant agreements preparation (Facility security clearances check) 8 www.eda.europa.eu
PADR STATE OF PLAY - PADR CALLS 2019 • PADR 2019 Financing Decision adopted by the European Commission on 19 March 2019 • After which, EDA proceeds as follows: Autumn 19 March 21 March 28 August 11 April 2019 2019 2019 2019 2019 Technical/ Calls Closure of Calls ELSA Info Day Opening the calls Publication Evaluation 9 www.eda.europa.eu
PADR CALL FOR EXPERTS Call for Experts is open!! – No deadline for registrations https://www.eda.europa.eu/procurement-biz/procurement/eda- procurement/call-for-experts-for-the-preparatory-action-on-defence-research 10 www.eda.europa.eu
Patricia López Vicente Project Officer European Defence Research patricia.lopezvicente@eda.europa.eu THANK YOU – Q&A
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