1st General Assembly Meeting | INTERACT PADR

On the 16^th of December 2021, the INTERACT project team got together virtually for its 1^st General Assembly Meeting. During this one-day meeting the consortium reviewed all the activities made in its first six months of lifecycle and discussed the objectives as well as the plans for the upcoming year.

Later on, aspects of WP2 “State of the Art & Requirements Analysis” were elaborated and the actions implemented around dissemination, communication and exploitation within the frame of WP5 “Roadmap and Dissemination” were presented.

Lastly, IOSB team as project coordinator of INTERACT listed the conclusions extracted from the discussions held throughout the meeting.

A warm thank you to all partners for their active participation!

SEASTEMA Press Release about INTERACT

The INTERACT PADR project partner, SEASTEMA, has published a press release in English about our project! It includes general information about INTERACT and its objectives, a brief description of the consortium and some contact details.

INTERACT Promotional Material

The promotional materials of our project are available online! If you are interested to learn more about INTERACT you can read / download:

The INTERACT project was featured at the “Latest News” section of the European Defence Agency website! On June 25th, 2021 a news article with the title “New R&D project to focus on interoperability standards for unmanned systems” was published. You can read the full article here.

The INTERACT project is featured at European Defence Agency (EDA) website on section Pilot Project and Preparatory Action on Defence Research. You can read more athttps://eda.europa.eu/what-we-do/all-activities/activities-search/pilot-project-and-preparatory-action-for-defence-research

The INTERACT project is featured at Europa.eu website at section “EU defence Agency”, subsection “Preparatory Action on Defence Research (PADR)”.

The Preparatory Action on Defence Research (PADR) is a precursor programme of the European Defence Fund (EDF).  PADR funds 18 research projects that have been selected following calls for proposals in the years 2017 to 2019, including an open call on disruptive technologies to test this new research field in view of the future EDF.

PADR Objectives

• Demonstrate and assess added-value of EU supported defence R&T
• Foster cooperation between Member States and between EU defence industries, RTOs and academia
• Prepare the research window of the EDF from 2021 onwards

You can read more about PADR here,

More information around INTERACT project are provided by the Europa.eu website at the digital promotional material available here.

The 1st INTERACT press release was published on July 2nd, 2021 in order to introduce the project to the general public and announce its launch. You can read and download it here.

Nineteen project partners from eleven European countries (i.e. Germany, Netherlands, Greece, Sweden, Spain, Italy, France, Denmark, Lithuania, Romania, Poland) got together virtually on 21^st of June 2021 in order to launch the INTERACT project. Project partners had the opportunity to provide an overview of Work Packages and outline the actions to be carried out per each one during the upcoming period.The INTERACT is a project funded by theEuropean Union’s Preparatory Action for Defence Research under grant agreement No. 884270with lifecycle of twenty-four months.