Slovakia wants to participate in NATO Innovation Fund, Minister Naď sees chance for domestic startups
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In a signing ceremony at the two-day Meeting of NATO Ministers of Defence in Brussels on Friday 22 October 2021, Defence Minister Jaroslav Naď signed the Declaration of Intent for the NATO Innovation Fund on behalf of the Slovak Republic.
This initiative follows on from NATO's June 2021 Brussels Summit where Allied leaders adopted the NATO 2030 agenda with the ambition to retain its technological edge by facilitating wider cooperation of Allied nations on technologies and innovations of potential application to defence and security.
Defence Minister Jaroslav Naď said: “At NATO, we want to create conditions for giving effective support to startups and scientific institutions to develop technologically challenging solutions applicable in the civilian and defence sectors alike. I believe this can be an interesting opportunity for our Slovak specialists as well.”
NATO's latest innovation package includes NATO's Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA), which seeks to link NATO's structures with the civilian sector and academia to drive R&D of innovative startups.
As part of today's sessions, Ministers talked about expanding NATO-EU cooperation, even in the context of both organisations drafting their strategic documents, as well as addressing security challenges such as hybrid threats, resilience, new disruptive technologies, climate, global competition, etc.
The discussions were also attended by NATO’s close partners Finland and Sweden.
A meeting of the NATO Defence Ministers of the countries contributing to the NATO eFP Battlegroup Latvia was held on the margins of the NATO ministerial, with Minister Naď updating his partners on the SVK operational deployment.
This initiative follows on from NATO's June 2021 Brussels Summit where Allied leaders adopted the NATO 2030 agenda with the ambition to retain its technological edge by facilitating wider cooperation of Allied nations on technologies and innovations of potential application to defence and security.
Defence Minister Jaroslav Naď said: “At NATO, we want to create conditions for giving effective support to startups and scientific institutions to develop technologically challenging solutions applicable in the civilian and defence sectors alike. I believe this can be an interesting opportunity for our Slovak specialists as well.”
NATO's latest innovation package includes NATO's Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA), which seeks to link NATO's structures with the civilian sector and academia to drive R&D of innovative startups.
As part of today's sessions, Ministers talked about expanding NATO-EU cooperation, even in the context of both organisations drafting their strategic documents, as well as addressing security challenges such as hybrid threats, resilience, new disruptive technologies, climate, global competition, etc.
The discussions were also attended by NATO’s close partners Finland and Sweden.
A meeting of the NATO Defence Ministers of the countries contributing to the NATO eFP Battlegroup Latvia was held on the margins of the NATO ministerial, with Minister Naď updating his partners on the SVK operational deployment.
