the European Commission amended the European Defence Fund (EDF) Work Programme for 2026. These amendments align the EDF Work Programme with the so-called ‘Mini-Omnibus’ (Regulation (EU) 2025/2653 of 19 December 2025) and reflecting the changes to the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP)

The first EDF MaJoR cascade funding call opens today, 28 January 2026, and will remain so until 25 March 2026, 17:00 CET.

On January 27 2026, at the 18th European Space Conference, 5 disruptive innovations were awarded the Prize for Game-Changing Innovation for European Launch Solutions.

the European Commission has cleared a second group of national defence plans under the Security Action for Europe (SAFE) initiative, marking another major step in making the Union safer.

The EUDIS Hackathon Autumn 2025 edition brought together Europe’s most promising innovators to address critical challenges in space and defence.

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.

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.