Global temperatures in 2025 ranked as the third-highest on record, according to data from EU's Copernicus Global Climate Highlights report published today. This year sat just 0.01°C below the levels seen in 2023, and while 2024 remains the warmest year ever documented.

The European Commission has endorsed the national defence plans of eight Member States, marking a milestone in Europe's push to strengthen its security.

Now, the EU SST Partnership is growing: Belgium, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Luxembourg declared their interest in joining the EU SST Partnership in late 2024. Consequently, the Commission adopted an Implementing Decision in June outlining the procedure for new members to join the EU SST Partnership.

Two new satellites were successfully launched today, further strengthening the EU’s Galileo satellite navigation system. The launch took place from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, aboard an Ariane 6 rocket.

Today, the European Commission adopted the European Defence Fund’s (EDF) annual Work Programme for 2026 dedicating one billion Euro to supporting collaborative defence research and development (R&D) projects.

In-Space Operations and Services represent a fundamental paradigm shift, enabling to Act in Space: servicer spacecraft that can repair refuel and relocate satellites, extend their lifetimes, transport cargo, build new structures and enable commercial activity that once lived only in concept studies

Following the successful launch of EUDIS Business Accelerator Cohort #1 , applications are now open for Cohort #2, which will recruit a new batch of 20 companies and kick off at the end of March 2026. The call will be open until 25 January 2025. 

Emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, advanced cloud architectures, quantum technologies, and next-generation digital and sensing systems, are rapidly transforming the nature of modern warfare.

The European Defence Innovation Scheme (EUDIS), under the European Defence Fund (EDF), has opened the call for Local Organisers for the 4th edition of the EUDIS Defence Hackathon, taking place simultaneously across eight locations in Europe on 26–28 March 2026.