BattleVerse Open Call 1 · ~15 minutes

Check your fit for BattleVerse Open Call 1.

Up to €60,000 per beneficiary as a lump sum, funded at 100%, for a six-month defence simulation experiment. Deadline 16 November 2026, 17:00 CET. Every question below comes from the official call documents: the proposal template, the Declaration of Honour and Ownership Control, or the Guide for Applicants. Each one says where your answer ends up, so nothing you fill in is wasted. We come back within 2 working days with a written assessment of your eligibility and fit, including a plain no if it does not fit.

Fill in this form in your own language. The application itself must be in English: we write it, you only need to be able to read it.

Your organisation

Your name *

Work email *

Official legal name of your organisation *

In the application: Identification table, "Leading organisation"; Declaration of Honour, "Full official name of the organisation". No character limit.

Country where your organisation is legally established *

In the application: Identification table, "Country of establishment"; eligibility check (Guide §3.3). Knock-out.

All applicants must be legally established in an EU 27 Member State, Norway or Ukraine. The United Kingdom, Switzerland and Iceland are not on the list.

Legal registration number (optional)

In the application: Declaration of Honour, "Legal registration number".

Lets us check the public register for ownership and SME status.

Type of organisation *

In the application: Identification table, "Type of entity". Knock-out for natural persons (Guide §3.1).

At least one SME or start-up must be in every experiment. Natural persons are not eligible. A university or RTO can only join as a justified partner.

Is your organisation an SME under Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC? *

In the application: Declaration of Honour, "Please declare if you are: an SME / Other". There is no separate SME form.

Medium: fewer than 250 employees and turnover up to €50 million or balance sheet up to €43 million. Small: fewer than 50 employees and turnover or balance sheet up to €10 million. Micro: fewer than 10 employees and turnover or balance sheet up to €2 million. Partner enterprises (25-50% holdings, either way) and linked enterprises (more than 50%) count towards the ceilings. You self-assess; the call may ask for proof.

Ownership and control

Who owns your organisation? *

In the application: Declaration of Honour, "Ownership structure and specific rights" table (owner, country of establishment or nationality, country of taxation).

List each owner with their country of establishment (or nationality and residence, for a person) and country of taxation, and any holding of 25% or more that another enterprise has in you or you have in another enterprise.

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Is your organisation controlled, directly or indirectly, from a country other than the EU 27, Norway or Ukraine: by a legal entity, an authority or non-EU nationals, by several such shareholders acting together, or through financial or commercial links? *

In the application: Declaration of Honour, "Declaration (no control)", and the compliance self-assessment in the proposal template. Knock-out (Guide §3.4).

Being established in the EU is not enough: a company controlled from any other country is excluded (Article 9 of the European Defence Fund Regulation). This includes an EU subsidiary of a non-EU parent. The Declaration of Honour also asks you to confirm that no shareholders from ineligible countries together exercise control, and that no financial or commercial links confer control.

Are your infrastructure, facilities, assets and resources, including your executive management, located in the EU 27, Norway or Ukraine, and will they stay there for the whole experiment? *

In the application: Declaration of Honour, "Declaration (no control)". Knock-out.

You confirm this in the Declaration of Honour, for the entire duration of the experiment.

Will you apply alone or with partners? *

In the application: Identification table, "Partner I / Partner II (if applicable)"; Guide §3.2, CASE 1 or CASE 2.

At most three entities in total, at least one of them an SME or start-up. Each partner can receive up to €60,000 and signs its own Declaration of Honour.

The experiment

Which topic does your experiment address? *

In the application: Identification table, "Technical topic", and "topics" in the EMS General Details.

The topic titles are copied from the Guide for Applicants (one obvious typo in the Topic 3 title corrected). Applications on other topics are not eligible.

Describe the experiment *

In the application: Section 1.1 "Experiment Overview" (Technical Excellence, max 3 pages) and the EMS summary of around 300 words.

The challenge, your solution, the key technologies and what you expect to show. Around 300 words is enough.

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Current TRL of the solution you would use in the experiment *

In the application: Section 1.5 "Technological Maturity": starting TRL versus final TRL.

There is no minimum starting TRL. The proposal must state the starting TRL and the final TRL.

What must be finished within the six months to reach at least TRL 5? *

In the application: Section 1.2 "Objectives" (SMART) and section 3.1 "Work plan"; deliverable D2 in month 4.

Each topic expects the experiment to reach at least TRL 5 by its end. A live or recorded demonstration is due in month 4.

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Your relation to defence today *

In the application: Section 2.2 "Relevance for the European Defence Sector" (Impact, max 5 pages; Impact must score at least 4 out of 5).

You do not need a defence track record. The call explicitly welcomes companies active in civilian markets that want to move into defence.

Delivery and money

Who in your own team would do the work? *

In the application: Section 3.3 "Personnel and Resource Management" (Implementation, max 7 pages).

Roles, relevant experience and roughly how much time over six months.

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Would any part of the experiment work be outsourced to a subcontractor? *

In the application: Section 3.6 "Budget of the experiment"; eligible costs are defined in Guide §4, where subcontracting is not eligible.

Subcontracting costs (outsourcing project activities) are not eligible. Work done by a consortium partner is not subcontracting.

70% of the grant is paid only after the six months, once all deliverables are approved. Can your organisation pre-finance the experiment until then? *

In the application: Declaration of Honour: "have stable and sufficient sources of funding to maintain the activities throughout the action".

Payment: 30% after the Sub-Grant Agreement is signed, 70% after the experiment is completed and all deliverables and reports are approved. There is no own contribution: the call funds 100% of eligible costs.

Roughly how much funding would your organisation request? *

In the application: Section 3.6 "Budget of the experiment": personnel costs, other costs, total funding requested.

Up to €60,000 per beneficiary, as a lump sum. The budget must include the in-person sessions in Paris and Athens.

Can your team attend both in-person sessions: Paris in month 2 and Athens in month 6? *

In the application: Section 3.6 budget and section 3.2 timeline; obligations in Guide §6.1.1.

A Learning Expedition in Paris (month 2) and a Final Evaluation and Hackathon in Athens (month 6) are mandatory for selected experiments.

Does any of these apply? (select all that apply) *

In the application: Declaration of Honour, "Involvement in other EDF or EU-funded projects" and "other EU grant for this action"; conflict-of-interest line in the compliance self-assessment.

Applying to more than one topic is allowed, but only one experiment per consortium is selected, and the same organisation cannot be in two winning proposals. The same work cannot be funded twice with EU money.

We are (or will be) in another BattleVerse Open Call 1 proposalWe have applied for or received European Defence Fund (EDF) funding beforeWe have received another EU grant for this same workWe have a link with a BattleVerse consortium partner (possible conflict of interest)None of these

Would the experiment need access to classified or security-restricted information, facilities or systems? *

In the application: Section 3.5 "Ethics, Security and Data Protection".

The proposal itself must not contain classified information. If the work would need access to it, the proposal has to say so and justify it.

Who signs

Who would sign the Declaration of Honour for your organisation? *

In the application: Declaration of Honour, "Signature of the authorised person" and "Position of the signatory". One per organisation.

The Declaration of Honour is signed by the authorised representative of each organisation. That person should read our assessment.

Anything else we should know? (optional)

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