On 27 October 2025, the Alliance for Zero-Emission Aviation (AZEA) held its 6th General Assembly at EUROCONTROL

Under the Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the 2025 Space Conference in Aalborg brought together policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and students to discuss Europe’s priorities in space, defence, and innovation.

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.