There's still time to find out more about NATO's new Defense Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA).

This new NATO Innovation Acceleration Agency has launched 5 2024 challenges for NATO innovators. Around ten winners per challenge are expected.

Each will receive a 100 k€ prize + a 6-month acceleration program, on the site of a European or American gas pedal, with the possibility of carrying out tests in a NATO test center. No IP or participation by NATO (but proposed links with investors, industrialists and end-users).

The downloadable file details the terms and conditions for awarding funding to the winners.

Among the technological fields on which DIANA focuses are big data, artificial intelligence (AI), autonomy, quantum, biotechnologies and human enhancement, energy and propulsion, new materials and advanced manufacturing, and aerospace - in particular dual-use applications (civil and military) as well as complex defense and security cases.

Diana is supported by a unique transatlantic network of incubators and test centers. Innovators have access to world-class facilities and benefit from 6 months' support.

One of the 5 challenges will address Energy & Power