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ARES – Armament Industry European Research Group

Objective
The Armament Industry European Research Group (Ares Group) was created in 2016 by The French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS), who coordinates the Group. The aim of the Ares Group, a high-level network of security and defence specialists across Europe, is to provide a forum to the European armament community, bringing together top defence industrial policy specialists, to encourage fresh strategic thinking in the field, develop innovative policy proposals and conduct studies for public and private actors.

Group members
The club brings together experienced armament policy and defence industrial policy experts, working accross European universities and think tanks.

Activities
• Publications:
- Comments: short-format opinion pieces
- Policy Papers: medium format notes
- Reports: long format studies
These publications are freely available on the Group’s website. Policy Papers and Reports are written jointly by two or more experts to provide a cross-eyes approach to one subject.
• Two annual seminars take place in Brussels and Paris supported by the material produced by the Group.

08.11.2022

Collective defence investment: Europe must do more and at a faster pace

By Jean Belin, Defense and Peace Bordeaux School, University of Bordeaux ; Renaud Bellais, University of Grenoble-Alpes ; Daniel Fiott, Head, Defence and Statecraft Programme, Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy, Brussels School of Governance; Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, and Non-Resident Fellow, Real Instituto Elcano ; Alessandro Marrone, Head of Defence Programme, IAI ; Sylvie Matelly, Deputy Director, IRIS ; Jean-Pierre Maulny, Deputy Director, IRIS ; Fédérico Santopinto, Senior Research fellow, IRIS ; Gaspard Schnitzler, Research fellow, IRIS ; Trevor Taylor, Professorial Research Fellow, RUSI and Dick Zandee, Member of the Scientific Committee of the ARES Group

Read on Euractiv (EN) Read on Les Echos (FR) Read on Formiche (IT) Read on the Real Elcano Institute (ES)

14.10.2022

EDTIB in war time: replenishment and other challenges of high intensity conflict

Webinar organized by the ARES Group.

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22.09.2022

Critical technologies and industrial capabilities: National definition and policy implications. The French case

By Alice Pannier, Research Fellow, Head of Ifri’s Geopolitics of Technology Program

ARES Group #78 - Comment

11.07.2022

Critical technologies and industrial capabilities: National definition and policy implications. The UK case

By Trevor Taylor, Professorial Research Fellow, RUSI

ARES Group #77 - Comment

01.06.2022

Critical technologies and industrial capabilities: National definition and policy implications. The Spanish case

By Raquel Jorge-Ricart, Policy Analyst on Technology Policy at Elcano Royal Institute

ARES Group #76 - Comment

23.05.2022

Critical technologies and industrial capabilities: National definition and policy implications. The Italian case

by Alessandro Marrone, Head of Defence Programme, Istituto Affari Internazionali

ARES Group #75 - Comment

19.04.2022

To face the Russian threat, Europeans need to spend together – not side by side

By Felix Arteaga / Senior Analyst, the Elcano Royal Institute / Renaud Bellais, University Grenoble-Alpes / Olivier de France, Senior Research Fellow, IRIS / Sylvie Matelly, Deputy Director, IRIS / Jean-Pierre Maulny, Deputy Director, IRIS / Alessandro Marrone, Head of Defence Programme, IAI / Margarita Šešelgytė, Director, the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University / Edouard Simon, Senior Research Fellow, IRIS / Trevor Taylor, Professorial Research Fellow, RUSI / Daniel Fiott and Dick Zandee, Members of the Scientific Committee of the ARES Group

English Version French Version Spanish Version Read on Euractiv (EN) Read on Les Echos (FR) Read on (ES)

01.04.2022

EU Civil-Defence Synergies: Understanding the Challenges and Drivers of Change

by Daniel Fiott, Security and Defence Editor, EU Institute for Security Studies, and Michalis Ketselidis, Senior Expert, European Commission

Ares Group #74 - Policy Paper

29.03.2022

New models of defence innovation: From national perspectives to a collective EU action ?

Conference organized by the ARES group in Brussels.

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25.03.2022

Defence innovation: New models and procurement implications. The Polish Case

by Marcin Terlikowski, Head of the International Security Programme, Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)

Ares Group #73 - Policy Paper

03.03.2022

Unpacking the space package: a contribution towards greater European resilience in space?

Webinar organized by the ARES group about the “space package” published by the European Commission.

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28.02.2022

Unpacking the defence package: a new step towards a European defence ?

Webinar organized by the ARES group about the “defence package” published by the European Commission.

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01.02.2022

The 2022 Defence Package: A useful contribution to support the European Defence Fund?

By Edouard Simon

Ares Group #72 - Comment

15.09.2021

Defence innovation: New models and procurement implications. The Estonian Case

By Tomas Jermalavicius, Head of studies at the International Center for Defence and Security (ICDS) and former Deputy Director of the Defence Policy and Planning Department of the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence, and Martin Hurt, Research fellow at ICDS, former Undersecretary for defence investments at the Estonian MoD.

Ares Group #71 - Policy Paper

02.09.2021

What scope for EU-US Defence Industrial Cooperation in the 2020s?

By Daniel Fiott, Jean-Pierre Maulny

Ares Group #70 - Policy Paper

24.06.2021

The European Defence Fund and Space: Added Values and Priorities

by Paul Weissenberg, Former Deputy Director General at European Commission and Member of the Air and Space Academy, and Xavier Pasco, Director of the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS)

Ares #69 - Policy Paper

20.05.2021

Defence Innovation: New Models and Procurement Implications. The German Case

by Christian Mölling, Research Director, DGAP, and Torben Schütz, PhD Student, Helmut Schmidt University (University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg)

Ares #68 - Policy Paper

12.05.2021

Defence Innovation: New Models and Procurement Implications. The British Case

par Trevor Taylor, Professorial Research Fellow, Defence, Industries and Society, RUSI

Ares #67 - Policy Paper

03.05.2021

Linking PESCO and EDF: Mechanisms and Political Choices

By Edouard Simon, Alessandro Marrone

Ares #66 - Report

Contact

Pilots

Jean-Pierre Maulny, Federico Santopinto, Maxime Cordet and Olivier de France

+33 (0)1 53 27 60 60

Ares Organization

Steering Board and Scientific Commitee About ARES Group

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Videos

Unpacking the defence package: a new step towards a European defence ?

28.02.2022

Webinar organized by the ARES group about the “defence package” published by the European Commission.

Unpacking the space package: a contribution towards greater European resilience in space?

03.03.2022

Webinar organized by the ARES group about the “space package” published by the European Commission.

New models of defence innovation: From national perspectives to a collective EU action ?

29.03.2022

Conference organized by the ARES group in Brussels.

EDTIB in war time: replenishment and other challenges of high intensity conflict

14.10.2022

Webinar organized by the ARES Group.

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