Events

European Defence Innovation Days 2025 (EDID25)

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  • 14-16 May 2025
  • Krakow Poland
  • 07:00 - 15:00

Title: European Defence Innovation Days 2025 (EDID25)

Date: 14-16 May 2025

Place: Krakow, Poland

Introduction

The European Defence Agency (EDA) under the auspices of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union is organising the third European Defence Innovation Days (EDID). The event will take place on 13-16 May 2025 in Krakow, Poland.

EDID25 provides a unique opportunity for industries to showcase concrete outcomes of their innovation activities. EDID is expected to attract the attendance of high-level representatives from national administrations, Armed Forces, European institutions, industry, and research organisations. 

Purpose

The event aims to connect innovators across Europe with MS and end-users, featuring three days of programming, and additional tech-talks and breakout sessions dedicated to EU Member States and Ukraine, CapTechs, start-ups and SMEs. As a novel addition to the event agenda, a hackathon/makeathon will be organised in collaboration with the Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Poland.

Registration

EDA kindly invites innovators from Member States, plus Switzerland and this includes defence industry, SME’s, startups and RTO’s to reserve a stand and participate as exhibitors during the event. While all conference attendees will be free to walk around the exhibition, exhibitors are also invited to host 15 minute ‘tech talks’ in dedicated break-out rooms for a limited audience.

The expression of interest for the stands should be communicated to industry@eda.europa.eu.

Based on availability, EDA reserves the right to ensure a proper balance amongst pMS and amongst company sizes.

Contact

If you have any questions, please contact us directly via industry@eda.europa.eu