Support for the functioning of SEAPs, including for the purpose of establishing, managing and maintaining defence industrial readiness pools

Forthcoming

This is the status published by the official source.

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Expected Impact:
Supported SEAPs are expected to rent office space, recruit personnel and start and uphold operations for a duration of at least one year.
Objective:
This call aims to provide support for functioning of established SEAPs, including for the purpose of establishing, managing and maintaining defence industrial readiness pools.
Scope:
Proposals shall aim to support established SEAPs in their initial operations for a duration of at least one year.
Budget
The Commission is considering a total budget of EUR 10 000 000 for the call for proposals.
The maximum EU contribution per funded project will not exceed EUR 2 000 000 allowing several proposals to be funded.
Depending on the number and quality of received proposals and the requested Union financial contributions, the Commission may decide to reallocate budget between calls

Status

Forthcoming

Deadline

12 November 2026 (time not stated)

Opens

13 October 2026

Published

31 March 2026

Total budget

€10,000,000

Country

European Union (EU-wide)

Programme

European Defence Fund (EDF)

Funder

European Commission

Official page

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What applying involves

11 steps, all of them taken from this call's own documents.

Understand the call

• Read the call on the source portal and download its documents
• Write the proposal against the award criteria and thresholds standard for this programme

  described in section 9 of the call document — conditions §5b

• Check the grant's legal and financial set-up standard for this programme

  described in section 10 of the call document . Call document and annexes: Call document (available shortly) Application form templates Available shortly Model Grant Agreements (MGA) Additional documents: EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509 Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions Funding & Tenders … — conditions §6

• Note the opening date — a proposal cannot be submitted before it
• Check the amount you plan to request against the call's range

Check you are eligible

• Check every partner is established in an eligible country standard for this programme

  described in section 6 of the call document — conditions §2

• Meet the call's other eligibility conditions standard for this programme

  described in section 6 of the call document — conditions §3

• Be able to show financial and operational capacity standard for this programme

  described in section 7 of the call document — conditions §4

Prepare the documents

• Prepare Part B of the Application Form standard for this programme

  Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout described in section 5 of the call document (available shortly) Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. — conditions

Submit

• Check the submission and evaluation process

  described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual — conditions §5a

• Submit before the closing date shown above

  The source states the closing day but no closing time — check the portal before the last day. — calls.deadline

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