European Defense Fund National Co-Funding
Funds Finnish startups, SMEs, large companies and research organizations completing EU-approved European Defense Fund R&D projects with a national funding top-up.
Business Finland, Finland's government funding and innovation agency, runs this national co-funding program to top up projects that have already won money from the European Union's European Defense Fund (EDF). The EDF is an EU budget-funded programme, launched in 2021, that funds defense research and development carried out through international cooperation, aiming to raise the competitiveness, ef…
Research, development, testing and certification of new or improved defense products, carried out as part of projects already funded by the EU's European Defense Fund.
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