{"id":4398,"date":"2026-05-07T07:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uavdach.org\/?p=4398"},"modified":"2026-05-07T07:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:58:19","slug":"eu-ukraine-drone-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uavdach.org\/en\/eu-ukraine-drone-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Founding Members of the EU-Ukraine Drone Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Founding members wanted.<\/strong> In her State of the European Union speech in September 2025, Ursula von der Leyen announced the creation of a \u201cdrone alliance with Ukraine.\u201d Although the President of the European Commission did not elaborate at the time on exactly what this entailed or what form the alliance would take, she did pledge 6 billion euros in EU funding to finance the project.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, things have been fairly quiet regarding the initiative. But now the project is gaining momentum again. The European Commission\u2019s Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space has issued a call for interested companies to participate as founding members in an \u201cEU-Ukraine Drone Alliance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The application deadline is May 25, 2026. Afterward, the selected founding members are to elect a steering committee to guide the initiative\u2019s future activities. The European Commission\u2019s stated goal is to form an industry-led alliance. On the one hand, this alliance is intended to bring together the practical experience and short innovation cycles of Ukrainian companies with the production and manufacturing capacities of small, medium-sized, and large European companies. On the other hand, it aims to create an interface with the actual users of modern drone technologies in order to incorporate requirements and insights from the user\u2019s perspective into the \u201cEU-Ukraine Drone Alliance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu\/funding-opportunities\/calls-proposals\/call-founding-members-eu-ukraine-drone-alliance_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More information on this topic and opportunities for companies to participate can be found here<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gr\u00fcndungsmitglieder gesucht. In ihrer Rede zur Lage der Europ\u00e4ischen Union im September 2025 hatte Ursula von der Leyen die Schaffung einer &#8222;Drohnen-Allianz mit der Ukraine&#8220; angek\u00fcndigt. Zwar f\u00fchrte die Pr\u00e4sidentin der EU-Kommission damals nicht n\u00e4her aus, was damit genau gemeint ist und wie die Allianz aussehen sollte. Sie stellte jedoch 6 Milliarden Euro aus EU-Mitteln [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uavdach.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uavdach.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uavdach.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uavdach.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uavdach.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uavdach.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4401,"href":"https:\/\/uavdach.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4398\/revisions\/4401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uavdach.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uavdach.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uavdach.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uavdach.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}