GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

The proposals are sought for cutting-edge, high-risk/high-impact research leading to game-changing impact in a defence context. They must have the following essential characteristics:

• a disruptive impact in a defence context: the proposals need to clearly address how the proposed solutions would create a disruptive effect when integrated in a realistic military operation;
• radical vision: the proposals must address a clear and radical vision, enabled by a new technology concept that challenges current paradigms. In particular, research to advance on the roadmap of a well-established technological paradigm, even if high-risk, will not be funded;
• breakthrough technological target: the proposals must target novel and ambitious scientific or technological breakthroughs that can be experimentally assessed, and the suitability of the concept for new defence applications must be duly demonstrated. Basic research without a clear technological objective targeting defence applications will not be funded.

The proposals must address disruptive technologies.

The proposals may address any area of interest for defence, such as, but not limited to, the following ones:

• blockchain applications (e.g. for identification of friend or foe);
• tools and applications improving cybersecurity talents screening;
• artificial intelligence and robotic autonomous systems;
• future naval platform control and management;
• smart damage control related to future naval platforms;
• ship signature management;
• secure and reliable underwater communication solutions and interfaces (radiofrequency, acoustic, optic or others);
• measurement and monitoring of physiological and cognitive state of soldiers;
• solutions for mechanical and “green” chemical recycling of waste of soldier individual equipment (uniforms, helmets, boots, rucksacks, plastic elements, harness, etc.);
• concepts and corresponding technologies to ensure a safe water reuse throughout the entire water cycle of a deployable camp or a deployed combat group;
• synthetic fuel production from waste and biomass for military use.