Support for the functioning of SEAPs, including for the purpose of establishing, managing and maintaining defence industrial readiness pools
European Defence Fund · Grant topic
Summary
Not an R&D call a Polish company can use, by Scindu's rule.
Funds established SEAPs' initial operations, including office rental, personnel, and management of defence industrial readiness pools.
- Who can apply
- Companies cannot apply: other.
- Amount
- €600K – €2M per projectTotal budget €10,000,000
- Deadline
- 12 Nov 2026 01:00 CETin 19 days · +4 later cut-offs
- Status
- Openopened 13 Oct 2026
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source.
Description
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
Who can apply, in detail
- Applicant types
- Other
- Purpose
- Other
- R&D relevance
- 0 of 3
- Poland eligible
- Yes
- Country limit
- —
- Region
- Any
- Consortium
- Unclear
- Readiness level (TRL)
- —
- Per project
- €600K – €2M
- Topics
- SEAP operations
- Defence industrial readiness
- Readiness pools
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026
Conditions
Typed facts extracted from the source documents by Scindu's grant-data review. Each value keeps its own conditions. Unknown means unstated, not zero or unlimited.
- Consortium required
- Yes
Minimum three members across EU Member States, EDIP-associated countries or Ukraine; at least two must be EU Member States.
- Other condition
- EDIP SEAP support is a lump-sum FNLC contribution fixed by the number of eligible SEAP members. Work-package payment depends on completion and full achievement of the linked milestones, deliverables and results; personnel salary is not separately reimbursed at an actual-cost rate.
- Other condition
- The call fiche states there is no pre-financing and no interim payment; a balance is calculated at project end, paid to the coordinator. A pre-financing guarantee is relevant only if one is required in grant preparation.
- Other condition
- The SEAP requested grant is calculated at EUR 200,000 per participating EU Member State, EDIP-associated country or Ukraine member; minimum request is EUR 600,000 and the capped maximum is EUR 2,000,000. The award may be lower than requested.
- Expected project duration, maximum
- 12
Normal maximum duration is 12 months; justified longer projects and amended extensions are expressly possible, so this is not an absolute hard cap.
- Staff restriction
- Applicants must provide general profiles, qualifications and experience for staff responsible for project management and implementation; no occupation names, minimum degrees, years of experience, headcount, FTE or salary rates are specified in the cited call section.
Amounts and costs
- Indicative budget
- €10,000,000
Topic budget as stated in the portal's budget table. Lump-sum and per-project limits are in the call conditions.
- Call allocation
- €10,000,000
Available budget for the EDF SEAP supporting-action topic.
- Eligible cost
- The action is expected to rent office space, recruit personnel and start and uphold operations. The grant amount is fixed by member count under FNLC; proposals must justify actual eligible-cost estimates in the detailed budget used to establish the lump sum.
- Project funding, maximum
- €2,000,000
Maximum requested grant amount for the SEAP supporting action; actual award may be lower.
- Project funding, minimum
- €600,000
Minimum requested grant for the SEAP supporting action; request calculation also uses EUR 200,000 per eligible member and award may be lower.
Personnel and services
Other role
Staff cost the grant can fund
Source documents
Call facts
- Opens
- 13 Oct 2026
- Deadlines
- 12 Nov 2026 01:00 CET
- 16 Feb 2027 01:00 CET
- 28 Sept 2027 02:00 CEST
- 27 Jan 2028 01:00 CET
- 30 May 2028 02:00 CEST
- Deadline model
- Multiple cut-off
- Programme
- European Defence Fund · 2021 - 2027
- Call
- EDF-EDIP-P-2026-2027-FNLC-SA · Continuous call for proposals for supporting actions under the Programme
- Types of action
- EDF Lump Sum Grants
- Source
- ec.europa.eu
- Checked
- 24 Oct 2026
- Portal updated
- 13 Oct 2026
- Review status
- Partial review
- Reviewed
- 22 Oct 2026
This is a summary of the source page, not the official text. Eligibility, conditions and the submission system are at the source.