CANARD´s project DRAMS has been granted with a SME Instrument Horizon 2020 EU funding programme
Drone-based Radio Aid Measuring System (DRAMS) is being developed for the calibration and Flight Inspection of ILS and VOR systems. CANARD DRONES technology, based on the state-of-the-art unmanned aircrafts, is a novel approach to allow more precise, rapid and cost-efficient Flight Inspection.
CANARD has a R&D lab in its headquarters, a place for testing, development and assembling.
CANARD already sells a drone-based solution, developed to perform a complete PAPI inspection or calibration, which can be carried out in under 10 minutes.
About SME
The SME instrument is part of the European Innovation Council pilot (EIC pilot). This was launched on 27
th October 2017 as part of the
Horizon 2020 Work programme 2018-2020, when the SME Instrument, the Fast Track to Innovation (FTI), Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Open and Horizon Prizes, were brought under the EIC pilot umbrella, to provide a ‘one stop shop’ for funding of innovators/innovations in the EU.
Horizon 2020 funds high-potential innovation developed by SMEs through the SME instrument. The SME instrument offers Europe’s brightest and boldest entrepreneurs the chance to step forward and request funding for breakthrough ideas with the potential to create entirely new markets or revolutionise existing ones.
Provided with about € 1.6 billion in funding over the period 2018-2020, the SME Instrument will support groundbreaking innovative ideas for products, services or processes that are ready to conquer global markets. Available to SMEs only, the new scheme offers phased, progressive and complementary support to the development of out-of-the-box ideas. There are no predefined topics for the SME instrument call; only the most excellent and impactful ideas will receive support.
In the last three years of implementation, around 4000 SMEs will be selected to receive funding under the
SME instrument call.
