This week’s round up of defence and security-related calls

15 Jul 2025 | News

Here’s a list of funding opportunities in the EU, the UK, Norway, Japan and the US

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Last month, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the EU needs to “build more bridges” between the civilian and military domains.

“Many critical components of 21st-century defence are dual-use: chips, cloud services, software, satellites, artificial intelligence, you just name it. Our defence industry needs seamless access to the high end of these vital technologies,” she said during the NATO Summit Defence Industry Forum in The Hague on June 24. “Today, dual-use projects are often not allowed to run on civilian platforms. We have to change this.”

Over the years, the EU has actively supported defence research through funding mechanisms such as the European Defence Fund, the Horizon Europe research…