📋 Tender Overview
On 11 July 2025, the EU and Ukraine launched the BraveTech EU initiative to accelerate defence innovation through closer cooperation. With this joint initiative, they want to create possibilities for the European defence industry from Ukrainian battle-tested experience, how to do defence innovations. The initiative connects the Ministry of Digital Transformation BRAVE 1 defence tech platform with EU programmes like the European Defence Fund (EDF) and the EU Defence Innovation Scheme (EUDIS). It aims to boost innovation by supporting joint actions, hackathons, rapid testing, and direct collaboration between European and Ukrainian companies, especially start-ups and SMEs.The initial activities under Brave Tech EU will be supported by the European Defence Fund with up to EUR50 million. The EU Defence Innovation Office in Kyiv will support the implementation of the initiative.For more information:
