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Call for CIEDS projects, Wave 2025: « Mobilise your research for the benefit of Defence and Security! »

26 Sep. 2023
Supported by the French Defence Innovation Agency, the Interdisciplinary Center for Defence and Security Studies (CIEDS) is pleased to announce the launch of its call for projects, Wave 2025 - Projects 2025. The aim of this call for projects is to fund ambitious research projects targeting Defence & Security applications, which can be carried out in collaboration with academic or industrial partners.
Call for CIEDS projects, Wave 2025: « Mobilise your research for the benefit of Defence and Security! »

Imagining and developing responses to the technological needs of the Defence and Security sector

Created in March 2021 by the Institut Polytechnique de Paris with the support of the French Defence Innovation Agency, the CIEDS interdisciplinary centre has several missions:

  • To conduct cutting-edge scientific research projects for Defence & Security (from low TRL). 
  • To target scientific and technological systems that are not accessible to our forces but offer high added value in operations. 
  • To make technologies rapidly accessible to companies, and to support the transition to a pre-industrialisation phase.
     

The call for projects which opens on 3nd October 2024 (Wave 5 - Projects 2025) is part of this framework and is aimed at researchers and teacher-researchers from IP Paris laboratories, alone or in collaboration with academic or industrial partners.

 

Timetable

  • 3nd October 2024: opening of the call for projects 
  • 4th November 2024, 11:59 pm: deadline for sending proposals
  • Mid-January 2025: list of projects selected by the French Defence Innovation Agency for the co-construction phase
  • End of February 2025: end of the co-construction phase with the Innovation Manager of French Defence Innovation Agency
  • Early April 2025: announcement of the winning projects in Wave 2025
  • October 2025: launch of the winning projects
     

Support for project leaders

Throughout the selection process, project leaders receive support from the CIEDS team and their Technology Transfer Office. 

During the co-construction period, the selected projects are reworked in conjunction with one of the 14 Innovation Managers of the French Defence Innovation Agency, all of whom are scientific experts in their field. The aim of this approach is to validate one of the French Defence Innovation Agency 's thematic priorities and its potential defence applications.

The CIEDS Wave 5 Call for Projects - Projects 2025 is a unique opportunity for researchers and teacher-researchers from IP Paris laboratories to mobilise their research for the benefit of Defence and Security, with the possibility of collaboration with academic or industrial partners