On 8 January 2013, the Programme Arrangement of the Second Joint Investment Project on Innovative Concepts and Emerging Technologies was signed by eight Nations (Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden).
The selected Research Topics are expected to offer high potential for technological breakthroughs that will contribute to the achievement of future military capability requirements and improve the competitiveness of European defence industry.
The eight R&T Goals defined in the Programme Arrangement are:
- Artifical Intelligence (AI) driven systems for data & information fusion
- New human & systems concepts for cooperative working
- Energy storage technologies
- Criminology – bioterrorism threat applications – forensic microbiology
- Energy harvesting for soldier systems & sensor networks
- Active controls for flow and mixture of gases
- Space environment
- Verification and validation of mixed analogue/digital distributed systems
Defence companies and SMEs, research centres and academia from the abovementioned Nations are invited to express their interest in the JIP ICET2 to their respective MoDs, for which contact details are given here.
More information:
- More information on this joint investment programme can be found here.