New “spin-in” calls are part of a broader effort to ensure civilian technologies developed under Horizon Europe can be taken up and applied by European Defence Fund projects

Their Soviet past and proximity to a newly aggressive Russia is motivating companies in the Baltics to grow fast and develop new defence technologies

Calls for applications cover topics such as underwater warfare, advanced radar technologies, adaptive camouflage and defence medical response

To turn things around, the Commission is considering more money for the European Defence Fund, a hub for defence innovation, new financing instruments for defence SMEs and a bigger role for the European Investment Bank

Figures from the European Defence Agency show EU member states are investing more in joint R&D with military applications, as the Commission makes moves to open up research funds for ‘dual-use’ technologies

As Science|Business marks the 1000th issue of its newsletter this month, we are struck by the long history of EU argument over how and how much EU R&D programmes should work with defence. Herewith, a few of our past articles in that vein

In a controversial move, newly proposed EU defence roadmap includes a plan to allow more synergies between civilian and defence research. Possible involvement of Horizon Europe is unclear in vaguely worded document.

The EU wants its first defence R&D project to strengthen its strategic autonomy and says military research will spur civilian innovation

New head of the European Defence Agency, Jiří Šedivý, took up the post in the midst of crisis. In a Q&A with Science|Business, he says the pandemic makes cooperation in defence research even more important

With the EU’s revised budget proposal due on Wednesday, new European Defence Agency head Jiří Šedivý says the best response to shrinking national budgets for defence research is to engage in more cost-effective collaborations at EU level