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8.3.2Data European Defence Fund

In the analysis, two elements were explored in depth. For this, other data sources are used:

  1. Participation of Belgium and Flanders in the precursor of the EDF, namely PADR and EDIDP (2017-2020), and in the EDF itself (2021-2024). The data for the analysis of Flemish and Belgian participation in projects of the European Defence Fund and its precursors were obtained via the Ministry of Defence, FPS Economy and the EDF website.
  2. International positioning of Flanders' participation (2021-2022). To gain a better understanding of Flanders' position in an international perspective and thus of the Flemish position in the total EDF budget, we looked at the data from the EU funding and tender portal (FT-portal), with a data extraction in November 2024.

Of the nearly 8 billion euros EDF budget, 2,17 billion euros had already been allocated by the time of the data extraction (November 2024). More specifically, 975 million euros in 2021, 700 million euros in 2022, and 496 million euros in 2023. In total, this concerns about 121 projects with 1639 participations (1639 non-unique actors). The amounts are not yet final. Certainly, for 2023, there are still projects that need to be finally approved, which will further increase the amount. This currently involves seven calls in the context of ASAP – Act in Support of Ammunition Production. More than 500 million euros of EU support was granted, spread over projects in the various portfolios (i.e., explosives, powder, shells, missiles, and testing and reconditioning certification). No Flemish actors are participating in these projects (based on the available information in the FT-portal).

Since the data for 2023 is not yet complete, the international analysis concerns the period 2021-2022, the initial period of the EDF. We would like to note that we are focusing here on the EDF support and the share of Belgian and Flemish actors within this amount (and not on the total project budget).