With the first meeting on 24 October 2025, DG DEFIS and EEAS officially launched subgroup 3 of the STM stakeholder mechanism. 

The new Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission has delivered its first images, highlighting concentrations of atmospheric nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide and ozone.

From 17 to 19 October 2025, the third edition of the EU Defence Innovation Scheme’s (EUDIS) Defence Hackathon, powered by BraveTech EU, brought together 471 participants across eight European locations (with Ukrainians at almost all the locations!) and online, who developed 129 innovative solutions

The European Defence Fund (EDF) has reached a new milestone, attracting a record 410 project proposals under its 2025 call for collaborative defence research and development actions. This marks an unprecedented level of interest since the Fund was launched in 2021.

The European Commission welcomes the political agreement reached on 16 October 2025 between the European Parliament and the Council on the European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP), a key instrument to support common procurement and industrial ramp-up

Today, the Commission and the High Representative have proposed to EU Member States the ‘Preserving Peace - Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030', a comprehensive plan to strengthen European defence capabilities.

This is an opportunity to co-shape the European framework for measuring impacts and the environmental footprint of space activities.

DG DEFIS warmly invites you to the EUDIS Defence Hackathon focusing on Technologies for Space and Defence, scheduled from 17 to 19 October. The EUDIS Defence Hackathon will be held at eight simultaneous locations.

On 6-8 October 2025, DG DEFIS and ESA held this year’s edition of their annual workshop on Near-Earth Objects (NEO). This year’s three-day workshop, attended by over 100 participants, explored ways to improve the quality and reliability of astrometric and radar observations of NEOs.