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HomeHorizon 2020-funded security and defence R&D projects with dual-use potential
An overview (2014-2018)
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Horizon 2020 research projects focus exclusively on civil applications, but that does not prevent them producing results that could lead to innovations with possible defence applications. The growing potential for synergies between civil and military research has been highlighted by the European Commission since 2013 and resonates even more strongly today, as the first fully fledged European defence research programme will be funded under the European Defence Fund from 2021. The importance of seeking complementarity and synergies with Horizon Europe, the next framework programme for research and innovation (2021–2027), so that the results of defence research also benefit civil research and vice versa, is particularly underlined in the multiannual financial framework proposal for 2021–2027. Under Horizon 2020 procedures, a declaration of the dual-use character of projects is based on an ethics self-assessment made by the entities applying for funding. The purpose of the present study is to provide an alternative approach that will facilitate the identification of dual-use research topics and projects the results of which could be applied by both security and defence stakeholders (including industry). The methodology applied for this purpose considers the key enabling technologies (KETs) that are the fundamental blocks for a range of goods and services in both the civil and the defence sectors and thus represent key innovation accelerators for industry. The analysis carried out here is intended to support future security and defence research programmes in their attempts to avoid duplication of investment and to promote synergies.
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- Themes: Foreign and security policy — Defence , Scientific and technical research
- Subject: civil defence , defence policy , dual-use technology , fund (EU) , innovation , international security , military research , multiannual financial framework , report , research and development , research project
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| ISSN 1831-9424 | ISBN 978-92-76-18810-0 | DOI 10.2760/599783 | Catalogue number KJ-NA-30210-EN-N |
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