The European Fee has introduced the funding selections for the 2024 analysis and growth tasks below the European Defence Fund (EDF). VTT Technical Analysis Centre of Finland, certainly one of Europe’s main technical analysis organisations, is collaborating in six tasks which have collectively obtained a complete of EUR 218 million from the EU. These tasks purpose to boost the EU’s cutting-edge competence in defence expertise growth within the fields of digital situational consciousness, drone navigation, underwater communication options, minesweeping, digital battlefields and rotorcraft growth.
VTT has established itself as an energetic participant in European Defence Fund tasks. Along with this yr’s tasks, a number of from the final three years are nonetheless ongoing. In complete, VTT is creating applied sciences for 14 totally different tasks.
“VTT will proceed its necessary work of strengthening European defence capabilities by contributing a variety of experience to European Defence Fund tasks, notably within the subject of digital applied sciences. This time, we’re additionally concerned in a number of tasks creating techniques that utilise synthetic intelligence,” says Sauli Eloranta, Vice President, Defence at VTT.
Various growth of defence applied sciences
The Patria-led AI-WASP venture is creating a brand new sort of radio system for digital warfare in in the present day’s altering fight panorama. The ORDEAL venture focuses on constructing check environments to exhibit correct positioning for each particular person and swarm drones working in cluttered and difficult circumstances. In the meantime, the ASTERION venture works to allow environment friendly, strong and safe underwater communication. The EUROSWEEP venture is advancing a minesweeping system designed to safeguard giant business vessels. The BATTLEVERSE venture seeks to determine a digital atmosphere that merges real-world fight settings with their digital counterparts enhancing mission planning and execution. The ENGRT II venture goals to enhance Europe’s defence capabilities by creating a brand new era of army rotorcrafts by 2030.
Strengthening the European defence trade
Within the present spherical of funding, the European Defence Fund is supporting 62 defence R&D tasks within the EU with roughly EUR 1 billion. Together with the worldwide defence and expertise firm Patria, VTT is an important Finnish contributor of tasks to the European Defence Fund, and the brand new tasks will additional strengthen VTT’s place as a developer of defence applied sciences. In Finland, 11 organisations are collaborating in 16 totally different tasks.
The European Defence Fund is a programme funded from the EU funds and launched in 2021. The overall funds of the fund for 2021–2027 is roughly EUR 8 billion. In a modified geopolitical context, the funded tasks will help the revolutionary growth of European defence applied sciences and strengthen the competitiveness of the European defence trade and its independence from non-European actors. The European Defence Fund can also be always evolving and, for instance, the latest spherical of funding allowed Ukrainian organisations to take part in tasks for the primary time.
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