The European road to innovative defence solutions should be informed, inter alia, by support from the European Defence Fund. The allocation of funds has now been decided on for the first projects to address almost all aspects of modern defence – from classical domains of action to cyber or space domains. Among the global consortiums there were not only Polish entities, which showed not only cognition but besides the ability to cooperate with European partners. EDF projects are to co-operate with PESCO activities.