Preparatory Action on Defence Research: calls for proposals.

The Preparatory Action on Defence Research (PADR) is a first essential step, limited in time and in budget, to test the added value of the EU budget supporting defence research.

It will pave the way to a substantial defence research programme within the context of the next multiannual financial framework post 2020.

The main objective of the PADR is to test mechanisms that can prepare, organise and deliver a variety of EU-funded cooperative defence research and technology development (R&T) activities to improve the competitiveness and innovation in the European defence i