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AHOI: Adaptive Human Operator Interaction with Autonomous Systems
AIDefSpace: Using Artificial Intelligence to defend telecommunications and satellite positioning systems from the interference of space weather events
AMC3: Automated Methodology for Common Criteria Certification
ANDORRA: AdvaNceD cOmposite for smaRt pRotective Armour
AQUA-MESH: Adaptive Quality-aware Underwater Multi-hop Communication and Sensing for Drone Swarms
AQUILA: Affordable Quick-reaction UAS Interception and Long-range Accuracy
BlasTex: Blast and fragment resistant Textile
BOLSTER: Beyond 5G mObile Standalone Tactical nEtwoRk
BREATHFIT: Exhaled breath analysis to determine physical readiness of soldiers
Dep5GforRNAV: Deployable 5G networks for advanced naval applications
FORCES: FOundations for Reliable, CorrEct, and Secure robotic systems
GUIDED: Goggles-based User Interface for Detection of Explosive Devices
HITS: The effect of High-velocity ballistic Impact on the Thermo-mechanical behaviour of Space material
HYDE: Hydrogen technology for energy supply in Defence applications
INSERT-BD: Integrating NEETs in Society through Employment, Recruitement and Training in Belgian Defence
MARISPEC: Maritime Infrastructure Security and Protection through Enhanced Multi-wavelength
METAJAM: Metasurface-Enabled conformal Technology for wideband And JAmming with Multifrequency antennas
MONA: Miniaturized mOtion-triggered eNergy hArvester for wireless communication and battery recharging
NAV-ALERT: Naval Alertness Monitoring System for Enhanced Operational Readiness
NEMEA: Novel Energetic Materials for Efficient Ammunition
SAILS: Safe Autonomous Integrated Landing system for Ships
SALTO: Secure Active Learning for Territorial Observations
SIREN: Ship Intel foR the BElgian Navy
STATS: Sensing & Testing Analytics Toolbox for Soldiers to predict fatigue and reduce injuries, infections and attrition rate
TaMaCare: Tactical Environmental Mapping for Battlefield Casualty Care
ThreatSens: Sensitive on-site threat detection towards Defence security
VENT-DEFENSE: Tackling a ventilator surge capacity problem by developing an AI based protocol for Individualized Shared Ventilation

First Call 2021
INSERT-BD: Integratie van NEET's in de samenleving door tewerkstelling, aanwerving en opleiding in de Belgische Defensie
MONA: Miniaturized mOtion-triggered eNergy hArvester for wireless communication and battery recharging
SALTO: Secure Active Learning for Territorial Observations

Second Call 2022
AIDefSpace: Using Artificial Intelligence to defend telecommunications and satellite positioning systems from the interference of space weather events
BOLSTER: Beyond 5G mObile Standalone Tactical nEtwoRk
BREATHFIT: Exhaled breath analysis to determine physical readiness of soldiers
Dep5GforRNAV: Deployable 5G networks for advanced naval applications
HYDE: Hydrogen technology for energy supply in Defence applications
STATS: Sensing & Testing Analytics Toolbox for Soldiers to predict fatigue and reduce injuries, infections and attrition rate

Third Call 2023
AHOI: Adaptive Human Operator Interaction with Autonomous Systems
AMC3: Automated Methodology for Common Criteria Certification
ANDORRA: AdvaNceD cOmposite for smaRt pRotective Armour
AQUILA: Affordable Quick-reaction UAS Interception and Long-range Accuracy
BlasTex: Blast and fragment resistant Textile
SIREN: Ship Intel foR the BElgian Navy
ThreatSens: Sensitive on-site threat detection towards Defence security
VENT-DEFENSE: Tackling a ventilator surge capacity problem by developing an AI based protocol for Individualized Shared Ventilation

Fourth Call 2024
AQUA-MESH: Adaptive Quality-aware Underwater Multi-hop Communication and Sensing for Drone Swarms
FORCES: FOundations for Reliable, CorrEct, and Secure robotic systems
GUIDED: Goggles-based User Interface for Detection of Explosive Devices
HITS: The effect of High-velocity ballistic Impact on the Thermo-mechanical behaviour of Space material
MARISPEC: Maritime Infrastructure Security and Protection through Enhanced Multi-wavelength
METAJAM: Metasurface-Enabled conformal Technology for wideband And JAmming with Multifrequency antennas
NAV-ALERT: Naval Alertness Monitoring System for Enhanced Operational Readiness
NEMEA: Novel Energetic Materials for Efficient Ammunition
SAILS: Safe Autonomous Integrated Landing system for Ships
TaMaCare: Tactical Environmental Mapping for Battlefield Casualty Care

First Call 2021

INSERT-BD
Integrating NEETs in Society through Employment, Recruitement and Training in Belgian Defence

  • Theme 1: Employment of NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) for Belgian Defence Network
  • Key words: NEET, Sustainable employment, Labour market transitions, Recruitment, Work organisation, Military organisation
  • Duration of the project: 01/12/2021 - 30/11/2023
  • Budget: 199.725 €
  • Coordinator: Ezra Dessers (KULeuven - HIVA)
  • Partner: Delphine Resteigne (Ecole royale militaire - Koninklijke Militaire school ERM-KMS)

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Events

  • 20-11-2023 | Closing Conference
    • Reflect, Learn, Progress: Insights from Youth Integration into Belgian Defence.
      HIVA (KU Leuven) – Chair of Sociology (RMA)
      20 November 2023 (9.00AM – 2.00PM)
      Royal Military Academy, Brussels
  • 08-11-2022 | #WeNEETyou@Belgian Defence
  • 13-12-2021 | Protocol agreement between Defence and Federal Science Policy

MONA
Miniaturized mOtion-triggered eNergy hArvester for wireless communication and battery recharging

  • Theme 2: Small Energy Harvesting systems for defence applications
  • Key words: energy harvesting and power management, sensor node, battery recharging
  • Duration of the project: 01/01/2022 - 30/06/2024
  • Budget: 399.545 €
  • Coordinator: Jean-Michel Redouté (ULiège - Microsys Laboratory)
  • Partner: Patrick Heins (FN Herstal (FNH))

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Event

  • 13-12-2021 | Protocol agreement between Defence and Federal Science Policy

SALTO
Secure Active Learning for Territorial Observations

  • Theme 3: Space technologies for Defence applications
  • Key words: active learning, automated detections, cyclic traffic patterns, deep learning, interoperable datasets, secure architecture
  • Duration of the project: 01/12/2021 - 01/12/2023
  • Budget: 271.600 €
  • Coordinator: Eric Hallot (Institut Scientifique de Service Public (ISSeP) - Remote Sensing and Geodata)
  • Partners:
    • Benoît Macq (UCLouvain)
    • Olivier Dubois - (Oscars s.a.)

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Event

  • 06-12-2023 | Workshop SALTO
    Analyse faster your satellite images with AI !
    The SALTO project (Secure Active Learning for Territorial Observations) develops a tool for a faster satellite image analysis by leveraging AI models on large volumes of data. ISSeP, UCLouvain and Oscars s.a. warmly invite you to presentations and live demonstration of the final product during a half-day workshop followed by a networking drink.
    What ? Discover the benefits of active learning and data augmentation with synthetic images
    When ? December 6th 2023 from 9.30 to 12.30
    Where ? OpenHub in Louvain-la-Neuve - https://openhub.be/
    How ? Subscribe on www.issep.be/salto until November 15th

  • 13-12-2021 | Protocol agreement between Defence and Federal Science Policy

Second Call 2022

AIDefSpace
Using Artificial Intelligence to defend telecommunications and satellite positioning systems from the interference of space weather events

  • Theme 1: Space Weather for security and defence applications
  • Key words: Solar flares, ionospheric disturbances, positioning, communications
  • Duration of the project: 01/12/2022 - 30/11/2026
  • Budget: 906.000 €
  • Coordinator: Stefaan Poedts (KU Leuven)
  • Partner: Matthieu Melcot (Space Applications Services NV/SA)

Documentation

BREATHFIT
Exhaled breath analysis to determine physical readiness of soldiers

  • Theme 4: Preventive Medicine for improved soldier fitness
  • Key words: exhaled breath, modular system, biomarkers, monitoring, overtraining
  • Duration of the project: 01/12/2022 - 30/11/2025
  • Budget: 1.048.000 €
  • Coordinator: Michelle Laeremans (Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek, VITO)
  • Partners:
    • Bart Verlije (Voxdale)
    • Damien Van Tiggelen (Militair Hospitaal Koningin Astrid, Hôpital Militaire Reine Astrid)

Documentation

BOLSTER
Beyond 5G mObile Standalone Tactical nEtwoRk

  • Theme 2: 5/6G for military, security and crisis applications
  • Key words: Beyond 5G, vehicle-mounted base station, tactile network, Dynamic Spectrum Sharing, zero-touch deployment, seamless interworking
  • Duration of the project: 01/12/2022 - 01/03/2026
  • Budget: 800.679 €
  • Coordinator: Ingrid Moerman (Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum, IMEC)
  • Partner: Jens Buysse (Citymesh)

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Dep5GforRNAV
Deployable 5G networks for advanced naval applications

  • Theme 2: 5/6G for military, security and crisis applications
  • Key words: 5G, communication networks, network technology, maritime, navy
  • Duration of the project: 01/12/2022 - 30/11/2025
  • Budget: 735.805 €
  • Coordinator: Ronny Dewaele (e-BO Enterprises)
  • Partner: François Quitin (Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB)

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HYDE
HYdrogen technology for energy supply in DEfence applications

  • Theme 3: Sustainable and “green” energy applications for military use
  • Key words: hydrogen, PV, electrolyser, fuel cell, CHP, microgrid
  • Duration of the project: 01/12/2022 - 30/11/2026
  • Budget: 1.693.000 €
  • Coordinator: Frank Buysschaert (KU Leuven)
  • Partners:
    • Sam Schotte (Katholieke Hogeschool VIVES Zuid)
    • Rob De Roo (Katholieke Hogeschool VIVES Noord)
    • Sven Duchatelet (Solenco Power)

Documentation

STATS
Sensing & Testing Analytics Toolbox for Soldiers to predict fatigue and reduce injuries, infections and attrition rate

  • Theme 4: Preventive Medicine for improved soldier fitness
  • Key words: blended coaching, AI-based predictions, continuous monitoring, early warning, test battery
  • Duration of the project: 01/12/2022 - 30/11/2024
  • Budget: 1.200.000€
  • Coordinator: Steven Verstockt (Universiteit Gent)
  • Partners:
    • Daniel Berckmans (BioRICS NV)
    • Maarten Gijssel (IDRO B.V.)
    • Damien Van Tiggelen (Militair Hospitaal Koningin Astrid, Hôpital Militaire Reine Astrid)

Documentation

Third Call 2023

AHOI
Adaptive Human Operator Interaction with Autonomous Systems

  • Theme 2: Autonomous systems
  • Key words: Explainable AI (XAI), Human-Machine Teaming, Situational Awareness, Decision-Making under uncertainty, Intelligent Automation Systems, Human-centred design.
  • Duration of the project: 31/12/2023- 01/03/2027
  • Budget: 1.588.493€
  • Coordinator: Dirk Van Rooy (University of Antwerp, Product development)
  • Partners:
    • Ali Anwar, José Oramas (IMEC - Internet Data Lab (IDLab) Antwerp)
    • Pieter-Jan Note (MAHI)
    • Pieter Maes (Antwerp Maritime Academy)

Documentation

AMC3
Automated Methodology for Common Criteria Certification

  • Theme 1: CYBER
  • Key words: cybersecurity, certification
  • Duration of the project: 01/02/2024 - 31/07/2027
  • Budget: 1.590.634€
  • Coordinator: Axel Legay (UCLOUVAIN/ Pôle en ingénierie informatique)
  • Partners:
    • Philippe Massonet (CETIC/ Business Research Alignment)
    • Wim Mees (RMA/ Communications, Information Systems and Sensors (CISS))
    • Yves Roskam (FN Herstal S.A./ FN Herstal Business Development)

Documentation

ANDORRA
AdvaNceD cOmposite for smaRt pRotective Armour

  • Theme 5: Materials
  • Key words: composite, hybrid materials, damage detection, energy absorption, smart protection
  • Duration of the project: 01/03/2024 – 28/02/2027
  • Budget: 1.597.371 €
  • Coordinator: Emmanuel Detaille (Coexpair)
  • Partners:
    • Abdenour Melikechi (John Cockerill Defence, Engineering department)
    • Frederik Coghe (Royal Military Academy, Terminal Ballistics department)
    • Sidi Ahmed Mahmoudi (Université de Mons, Informatique, Logiciel & Intelligence Artificielle lab.)

Documentation

AQUILA
Affordable Quick-reaction UAS Interception and Long-range Accuracy

  • Theme 3: Open theme SMEs
  • Key words: UAS, C/UAV, reactive materials, proximity fuze, long-range
  • Duration of the project: 01/12/2023 – 01/12/2026
  • Budget: 1.253K €
  • Coordinator: Wilfried Thiebaut (Thales Belgium)
  • Partners:
    • Romuald Van Riet (Royal Military Academy)
    • Jean-Hervé Lecat (Lambda-X)
    • Thomas Godfroid (Materia Nova)

Documentation

BlasTex
Blast and fragment resistant Textile

  • Theme 5: Materials
  • Key words: PPE, Vest, Explosion, Blast, Fragments
  • Duration of the project: 01/05/2024 - 30/04/2028
  • Budget: 894.000 €
  • Coordinator: Kristof Daels (Sioen NV)
  • Partners:
    • Wim Van Paepegem (Ghent University / Department of Materials, Textiles and Chemical Engineering)
    • David Lecompte (Royal Military Academy / Department of Structural & Blast Engineering)

Documentation

SIREN
Ship Intel foR the BElgian Navy

  • Theme 4: Advanced sensor technologies
  • Key words: sensors hyperspectral C4i AI intel maritime
  • Duration of the project: 01/03/2024 - 28/02/2027
  • Budget: 1.563.572 €
  • Coordinator: Ronny Dewaele (e-BO Enterprises Product Management)
  • Partners:
    • Steven Descamps (OIP Sensor Systems)
    • Pawel Malinowski (imec / SAT (Sensor & Actuator Technologies))
    • Marijke Vandewal (RMA / CISS)

Documentation

ThreatSens
Sensitive on-site threat detection towards Defence security

  • Theme 3: Open theme SMEs
  • Key words: Explosives, sensing, electrochemistry
  • Duration of the project: 01/01/2024 - 01/01/2028
  • Budget: 766.938 €
  • Coordinator: Karolien De Wael (Universiteit Antwerpen, Departement Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen, A-Sense Lab)
  • Partners:
    • Bart Simoens (Koninklijke Militaire Academie)
    • Pascal Mertens (Coris BioConcept)

Documentation

VENT-DEFENSE
Tackling a ventilator surge capacity problem by developing an AI based protocol for Individualized Shared Ventilation

  • Theme 3: Open theme SMEs
  • Key words: CBRNe, ventilation, surge capacity
  • Duration of the project: 01/12/2023 - 31/07/2026
  • Budget: 633.185 €
  • Coordinator: Prof. dr. Marc Sabbe (Department of Emergency Medicine, KU Leuven)
  • Partners:
    • Prof. ir. Benoît Marinus (Royal Military School (RMA))
    • David Van Canegem (Codevid BV)

Documentation

Fourth Call 2024

AQUA-MESH
Adaptive Quality-aware Underwater Multi-hop Communication and Sensing for Drone Swarms

  • Theme 3: Improved Underwater Communications between Sensors/Weapon Systems and Data systems to Render Data into Actionable Data
  • Key words: underwater acoustic communication, reconfigurable acoustic radio, multi-hop meshing, UAV swarms
  • Duration of the project: 01/12/2024 – 1/03/2028
  • Budget: 680.928 €
  • Coordinator: Eli De Poorter (IDLab, imec & Ghent University)
  • Partner: Jean-Francois Determe (BEAMS-EE, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB))

Documentation

FORCES
FOundations for Reliable, CorrEct, and Secure robotic systems

  • Theme 1: CYBER - Short-term Mitigation Techniques for Software Resilience
  • Key words: Cybersecurity, Memory Safety, Code Transpilation, Defence Robotics, Performance Evaluation, Legacy Code
  • Duration of the project: 01/12/2024 - 01/03/2029
  • Budget: 1.663.033 €
  • Coordinator: Antonio Paolillo (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) / Software Languages Lab)
  • Partners:
    • Ken Hasselmann (Ecole Royale Militaire - Koninklijke Militaire School (RMA) - RAS-lab)
    • Jonathan Pisane (Thales Belgium SA)

Documentation

GUIDED
Goggles-based User Interface for Detection of Explosive Devices

  • Theme 4: Next-Generation Vision and Sensor Fusion
  • Key words: Explosive Ordnance Disposal, robotics, 3D reconstruction, 3D visualization, SLAM, Neural networks
  • Duration of the project: 1/12/2024 - 01/03/2028
  • Budget: 1.799.556 €
  • Coordinator: Marc Proesmans (Trace vzw)
  • Partners:
    • Dominick Vanthienen (Intermodalics BV)
    • Geert De Cubber (Royal Military Academy)

Documentation

HITS
The effect of High-velocity ballistic Impact on the Thermo-mechanical behaviour of Space material

  • Theme 6: Open Call: Research on Innovative and Future-Oriented Defence Solutions
  • Key words: Thermal Protection material – Balistic impact – Hypersonics 
  • Duration of the project: 01/12/2024 - 01/03/2028
  • Budget: 1.553.197 €
  • Coordinator: Thierry Magin (Université libre de Bruxelles  – Aero-Thermo-Mechanics Department)
  • Partners:
    • Joseph El Rassi (von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics – Aeronautics and Aerospace Department)
    • Brecht Van Hooreweder (KU Leuven – Mechanical engineering Department, Additive Manufacturing Team)
    • Ana Ferreira Azevedo (Royal Military Academy – Department of Weapon Systems and Ballistics)
    • Burcu Ozkaptan (Telespazio Belgium SRL)

Documentation

MARISPEC
Maritime Infrastructure Security and Protection through Enhanced Multi-wavelength

  • Theme 2: Securing critical Maritime Infrastructure
  • Key words: Maritime Surveillance, Autonomous Drones, Multi-wavelength Cameras, Machine Learning
  • Duration of the project: 01/12/2024- 01/03/2028
  • Budget: 1.302.366 €
  • Coordinator: Steve Vanlanduit (Universiteit Antwerpen – Departement Electromechanica)
  • Partners:
    • Frederik Winters (DroneMatrix NV)
    • Pieter Deroo (Xenics NV)

Documentation

METAJAM
Metasurface-Enabled conformal Technology for wideband And JAmming with Multifrequency antennas

  • Theme 6: Open Call: Research on Innovative and Future-Oriented Defence Solutions
  • Key words: Antennas for tactical Vehicles, Conformal Metasurface technology, RF Front-ends, Multi-beam, Jamming
  • Duration of the project: 01/12/2024 - 01/03/2029
  • Budget: 713.386 €
  • Coordinator: Shambhu Nath Jha (Thales Belgium SA - SIXBE Hardware Discipline, Hardware Department)
  • Partner: Hendrik Rogier (IMEC VZW IDLab-Electromagnetics group, imec-UGent)

Documentation

NAV-ALERT
Naval Alertness Monitoring System for Enhanced Operational Readiness

  • Theme 6: Open Call: Research on Innovative and Future-Oriented Defence Solutions
  • Key words: Alertness monitoring, UWB activity recognition, DEAP stress monitoring
  • Duration of the project: 01/12/2024 - 01/03/2028
  • Budget: 1.301.134 €
  • Coordinator: Eli De Poorter (IDLab, imec & Universiteit Gent)
  • Partners:
    • Alain Bicqué (Bainisha BV)
    • Philippe Vanhoutte (Magicview)
    • Ronny Broekx (ePoint)

Documentation

NEMEA
Novel Energetic Materials for Efficient Ammunition

  • Theme 6: Open Call: Research on Innovative and Future-Oriented Defence Solutions
  • Key words: Energetic materials, explosive, propellant, warhead, ignition, obscurant
  • Duration of the project: 01/12/2024 - 01/03/2028
  • Budget: 1.561.905 €
  • Coordinator: Romuald Van Riet (Royal Military Academy - Department of Chemistry)
  • Partners:
    • Thomas Godfroid (Materia Nova)
    • Hugues Charlier (KNDS Belgium)
    • Benjamin Rahier (Thales Belgium)
    • Arnaud Osi (NanoPyro)

Documentation

SAILS
Safe Autonomous Integrated Landing system for Ships

  • Theme 6: Open Call: Research on Innovative and Future-Oriented Defence Solutions
  • Key words: SLAM, Sensor fusion, UAS precision landing, safe operations, flight control, Ultra Wide Band positioning
  • Duration of the project: 01/12/2024 - 01/03/2028
  • Budget: 1.335.785 €
  • Coordinator: Jasper De Smet (SABCA - UAS)
  • Partners:
    • Bart Scheers (Agilica)
    • Geert De Cubber (Royal Military Academy / Robotics & Autonomous Systems)

Documentation

TaMaCare
Tactical Environmental Mapping for Battlefield Casualty Care

  • Theme 5: Prolonged Forward Casualty Care
  • Key words: victim tracking, threat detection, mapping
  • Duration of the project: 01/12/2024 - 01/03/2028
  • Budget: 901.930 €
  • Coordinator: Charles Hamesse (Royal Military Academy, Department of Mathematics, 3D Perception Lab)
  • Partners:
    • Hiep Luong (Universiteit Gent, imec - IPI - URC)
    • Julie Neckebroek (Pozyx)

Documentation

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