Européen
EUDIS Business Accelerator
The EUDIS Business Accelerator will offer tailored support to European start-ups & scale-ups over an 8-month programme featuring six dedicated bootcamps across defence industrial ecosystems in Europe.
At the end of the program, the companies will demonstrate their achievements to defence end-users from EU Member States and Norway at a prominent tech event or defence exhibition.
Collaborative combat and autonomous operations:
– Autonomous systems (land/air/sea)
– AI-assisted mission planning & operation solutions
– Unmanned swarm operations solutions
– Enabling AI on edge (HW & SW)
Cyber Warfare & Information Superiority :
– Cyber defence situational awareness
– AI threat detection and defence
– Defence cyber physical system security
– Quantum encryption for secure mililtary
Combat Medicine & Battlefield Health Resilience
– Injury assessment / diagnoses AI
– Wearable biosensors
– Portable life-support units
– Autonomous evacuation
Disruptive Technologies for Defence Superiority :
– Deep and digital technologies
– Clean technologies
– Biotechnologies
Rewards and Benefits for selected companies :
– Strengthen the EUDIS Business Accelerator’s start-up and scale-up companies’ knowledge of defence environment and business development.
– Improve their access to financing, making them investment-ready, providing them with seed-financing vouchers of EUR 65,000 per company, training and coaching sessions.
– Provide them with testing opportunities to create in-demand innovative defence solutions.
– Strengthen start-ups, scale-ups, SMEs and small mid-caps’ networks and engagement with defence end-users, investors and corporates through EUDIS matchmaking events.
– Facilitate capacity building for investors by offering insights on the defence market and technologies.
The EUDIS Business Accelerator programme is open to any Start-up & Scale-up established within the EU Member States or Norway that operate within the European Defence ecosystem or is looking to enter it. Eligible companies shall not be subject to control by non-associated third country or by a non-associated third country entity and developing solutions with a defence focus.