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Future modular multifunctional land platforms and enabling technologies, including green technologies

Funds qualification and certification work that matures modular armoured-vehicle technology, including greener variants, toward deployment.

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This Development Action funds work that starts from already-existing enabling technologies rather than generating new ones from scratch -- proposals must center on design, prototyping, testing, qualification and certification, and pure knowledge-generation activities are not eligible under this topic at all. The intended outcome is a qualified, certified family of modular armoured vehicles across …

This topic funds work that increases the maturity of enabling technologies for armoured land platforms — qualification, certification and interoperability of vehicle sub-systems — so EU and associated forces can field a modular, multifunctional vehicle family across logistics, command, evacuation and reconnaissance variants. It also wants reduced environmental and logistic footprint, including cutting toxic substances.

CycleiHow often this grant runs - e.g. annually, on a rolling basis, or a one-off call.No fixed schedule
Next deadlineiThe next date applications are due. Rolling means you can apply any time.-
Decision timeiTypical time from the deadline to the funder's decision.-
Project durationiHow long the funded work is expected to run.-
Award typeiThe form of funding - grant, equity, loan, tax credit, etc.Grant
Match fundingiThe share of project costs you must cover yourself. 0% = fully funded.-
Funding pooliThe total budget available across all awards in this round.€79M

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