AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – participation in a technological challenge"

Scope: Assisting soldiers with robots and drones that can provide accurate tactical situational awareness by using AI becomes essential for soldier protection. This call topic aims to follow on and complement previous activities in the field of hidden threat detection and explore solutions involving various combinations of intelligent robots, drones and sensing technologies for advanced detection and recognition of threats, in view of their avoidance or neutralisation. These solutions should be tested under realistic scenarios in a comparable and objective manner to reach up to Technical Readiness Level (TRL) 6. For that purpose, each consortium supported through this call topic will benefit from a common testing environment set up as part of a technological challenge and will have to participate in the experiment campaigns organised with this objective. Beyond defence technologies, this topic also contributes to the STEP objectives as defined in the STEP Regulation in the target investment area of deep and digital technologies. Targeted types of activities: Generating knowledge, not excluding upstream and downstream activities eligible for research actions. Indicative budget: EUR 23 000 000 for this topic under the EDF-2026-LS-RA-CHALLENGE call. Indicative number of proposals to be funded: Several proposals may be funded for this topic. Range of the financial contribution of the EU per proposal: The requested funding cannot exceed EUR 4 600 000.bron

• Consortium moet deelnemen aan experiment campaigns van de technologische challenge
• Oplossingen moeten worden getest onder realistische scenario's
• Doelstelling is bereiken van Technical Readiness Level (TRL) 6
• Activiteiten gericht op kennisopbouw, inclusief upstream en downstream activiteiten voor onderzoeksacties
• Voldoen aan admissibility conditions zoals beschreven in sectie 5 van het call document
• Voldoen aan eligible countries criteria uit sectie 6 van het call document
• Voldoen aan financial and operational capacity eisen uit sectie 7 van het call document

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  AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – participation in a  technological challenge"
  
  Topic: EDF-2026-LS-RA-CHALLENGE-DIGIT-AISAP-STEP
  Call: EDF-2026-LS-RA-CHALLENGE — Research actions in the form of a technological challenge implemented via lump sum grants
  Programma: European Defence Fund (2021 - 2027)
  
  == Beschrijving ==
  Scope:
  Assisting soldiers with robots and drones that can provide accurate tactical situational awareness by using AI becomes essential for soldier protection. This call topic aims to follow on and complement previous activities in the field of hidden threat detection and explore solutions involving various combinations of intelligent robots, drones and sensing technologies for advanced detection and recognition of threats, in view of their avoidance or neutralisation.
  These solutions should be tested under realistic scenarios in a comparable and objective manner to reach up to Technical Readiness Level (TRL) 6. For that purpose, each consortium supported through this call topic will benefit from a common testing environment set up as part of a technological challenge and will have to participate in the experiment campaigns organised with this objective.
  Beyond defence technologies, this topic also contributes to the STEP objectives as defined in the STEP Regulation in the target investment area of deep and digital technologies.
  Targeted types of activities: Generating knowledge, not excluding upstream and downstream activities eligible for research actions.
  Indicative budget: EUR 23 000 000 for this topic under the EDF-2026-LS-RA-CHALLENGE call.
  Indicative number of proposals to be funded: Several proposals may be funded for this topic.
  Range of the financial contribution of the EU per proposal: The requested funding cannot exceed EUR 4 600 000.
  
  == Voorwaarden (topic conditions) ==
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  Conditions
  1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
  described in section 5 of the call document.
  Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.
  2. Eligible Countries
  described in section 6 of the call document.
  3. Other Eligible Conditions
  described in section 6 of the call document.
  4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
  described in section 7 of the call document.
  5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
  described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual.
  5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
  described in section 9 of the call document.
  5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
  described in section 4 of the call document.
  6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
  described in section 10 of the call document.
  Call document and annexes:
  Call document
  Application form templates
  Standard application form (EDF) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
  Detailed budget table (EDF LS RA)
  Participant information (EDF)
  List of infrastructure, facilities, assets and resources (EDF)
  Actual indirect cost methodology declaration (EDF)
  Ownership control declaration
  Ownership control guarantee
  PRS declaration (EDF)
  Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
  EDF, ASAP and EDIRPA Lump Sum MGA
  Additional documents:
  EDF Annual Work Programme
  EDF Regulation 2021/697
  EDF Programme Security Instruction (PSI)
  Guidelines on FSTP implementation - WP2026
  EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
  Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
  EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement
  Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
  Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions
  Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement