Defence & dual-use grants — mapped, matched, won
Tell us your project.
We’ll get it funded.
A boutique defence and dual-use consultancy. We map your funding options across NL, NATO, and EU programmes, lead the proposal, and stand with you through delivery.
ReArm Europe (2025–2030)
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SAFE Facility
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European Defence Fund (2021–2027)
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High-tech defence technology is outpacing conventional industry.
We operate at the frontier of cyber, autonomous vehicles, and drone technology—domains where the pace of development far exceeds that of conventional military equipment. The parallels with the digital revolution of the late 1990s are striking: small, agile companies are innovating faster than established defence primes.
The challenge is connecting the right technology, at the right moment, via the right carrier—whether drone, robot, or autonomous platform—to the right operational need.
At the same time, the companies building this technology need to be enabled to grow without excessive barriers, while meeting the demanding requirements that the defence industry places on its suppliers.
Europe has the technology, the budgets, and the ambition. What it lacks is the industrial policy architecture to connect them.
We build that architecture — through sharp analysis, funded programmes, and coalitions that deliver. A boutique defence and dual-use consultancy that doesn’t advise from the sidelines: we participate as consortium partners, write the proposals, and deliver alongside our clients. Based in Amsterdam, focused on NL, NATO, and EU programmes.
We don’t intermediate. We add value.
European defence and dual-use markets are complex: fragmented procurement, dense regulation, and dozens of overlapping funding programmes. Winsemius is a boutique consultancy built specifically for these markets. We map the landscape, we write the proposals, we build the consortia — and where it makes sense, we step into the project alongside you.
Map the funding landscape
Dutch national programmes (RVO, DTFA, NWO), NATO (DIANA, STO), EDA, EDF, Horizon Europe, EIC. We track what is open, what is opening, and which programme actually fits your case.
Build the consortium and write the proposal
We don’t just point you at the call. We act as lead applicant where useful, run partner search, manage the submission, and red-team the bid before it goes in.
Stand with you as project partner
Where it adds value, Winsemius joins the consortium itself — work package lead, exploitation coordinator, dissemination partner, or embedded strategic advisor. Skin in the game, not just slides.
Deliver beyond the win
Reporting, milestone tracking, financial compliance, consortium governance, and follow-on opportunity development. We stay through execution, not only through award.
Winsemius is the boutique defence consultancy that wins the funding and helps you deliver against it — across NL, NATO, and EU programmes.
From first call to funded project.
Three steps. No paperwork in step one.
Tell us your project
A 30-minute conversation about your technology, stage, and ambitions. We listen for fit before we pitch a plan. Free, no obligations.
Book a free consultationWe map your funding options
From the 30+ programmes open at any given time across RVO, DTFA, NATO DIANA, EDA, EDF, Horizon Europe and EIC, we surface the two or three that actually fit — with eligibility, timelines, and what a winning bid looks like.
Try the funding strategistWe win the grant alongside you
We assemble the consortium, write the proposal, and run it through red-team review before submission. Where it adds value, Winsemius joins the project itself — work package lead, exploitation, dissemination — and stays with you through delivery.
What we do
Eight services across the defence and dual-use lifecycle — from strategy and intelligence through to funding, delivery, and post-award. Grant and subsidy advisory is our flagship.
Grant & Subsidy Advisory
NL national programmes (RVO, DTFA, NWO), NATO (DIANA, STO), EDA, EDF, Horizon Europe, EIC, and ESA-linked instruments. We write the proposals, build the consortium, and where it adds value, join the project ourselves as a partner.
Outcome
Funded programmes — not grant applications.
Corporate Development
We support defence and dual-use technology companies at every stage of their strategic and commercial development — from early positioning through scale-up and internationalisation.
Outcome
A coherent path from technology to commercial scale.
Financing & M&A Advisory
Funding strategy, buy- and sell-side M&A, due diligence, transaction structuring, and post-merger integration — with the sector knowledge defence deals demand.
Outcome
Deals that close, with the right partners on the right terms.
Ecosystem & Community Management
Ecosystems, consortia, and clusters that produce contracts, not press releases. Cross-border bridging across NL, NATO, and EU.
Outcome
Ecosystems that produce contracts, not press releases.
Defence Market Intelligence
Market landscaping, competitor benchmarking, threat horizon scanning, and procurement pipeline monitoring across NL MoD, NATO, EDA, and EU.
Outcome
The signal you need before the tender drops.
Regulatory & Export Compliance
Dual-use export controls (EU Dual-Use Regulation, EAR, ITAR), defence article licensing, NL/EU compliance for market entry, and offset/Industrial Participation advisory for foreign entrants.
Outcome
Capability delivered across borders with licences secured.
Communications & Thought Leadership
Defence market positioning, white papers, executive profiling, media relations, and event strategy — from DSEI to NATO Industry Days.
Outcome
Visibility and credibility where defence buyers actually pay attention.
Post-Award Execution
Programme management, milestone tracking, consortium coordination, and stakeholder reporting — protecting the value of the contract once it is signed.
Outcome
Wins delivered, not just awarded.
How we think
The positions behind our work.
Effects over platforms
Capability is measured in operational outcomes — area denial, ISR coverage, comms uptime, logistics throughput — not asset inventories. Procurement must be reoriented around effects.
Surge capacity is readiness
A nation that can scale from concept to full operational capability in six weeks is more defensible than one with a large static stockpile and no credible path to rapid expansion.
Contracts that reward readiness
Replace per-unit payments with availability fees and capacity credits. Bind suppliers to availability, time-to-surge, MTTR, and iteration speed — not just delivery.
Sovereignty through openness
Real strategic autonomy comes from open interfaces, multi-vendor ecosystems, and source code transparency — not from protectionism that relocates dependency.
Open capital markets to defence
Some of the most strategically important technology in Europe is chronically underfunded. Governance frameworks that give investors transparency without compromising security are a solvable problem.
A horizontal technology stack
Modular building blocks across air, ground, sea, and space — comms, sensing, power, mechatronics — enabling faster adaptation and genuine supplier competition.
Insights
Our positions on European defence policy and funding.
The Funding Gap: Making the Case for a JEF Defence Capital Facility
A policy paper arguing for a dedicated, multi-government funding facility for JEF-aligned dual-use defence technology. Pooled public capital as a catalyst for private investment.
From Purchase Orders to Performance Contracts
The legislative and institutional case for replacing platform-based procurement with outcome-based SLA contracting across JEF defence ministries. Model contract frameworks and a transition roadmap.
Open by Default: Mandating Open Architecture in European Defence
Why requiring open interfaces and multi-vendor competition as a condition of public defence contracts is the single most effective lever to accelerate innovation and reduce capability costs.
The Drone Wall: A Baltic Surge Capacity Demonstrator
Continuous surveillance and denial along the Baltic frontier, dual-use by design. The first replicable capability template for the JEF region.
Funding Landscape
European defence funding is fragmented across dozens of instruments: EDF, EDIP, NATO DIANA, ReArm Europe, national programmes, and more. We maintain a public overview of the landscape—who funds what, how much, and through which mechanisms.
Think of it as one of our tools: open, navigable, and kept current.
Explore the funding landscape→Funding Strategist
Describe your project in a few sentences. Get a structured Funding Decision Card with lanes, deadlines, consortium design, and a 2-week sprint plan.
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Your Funding Decision Card will appear here — with recommended lanes, deadlines, consortium design, and a GO/NO-GO sprint plan.
Get in touch
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