AFDA - Association of Finnish Defence and Aerospace Industries

Further information

AFDA arranges numerous activities annually to support our companies. Detailed examplmes include: - bi- and multilateral defence, aerospace and security industry seminars with similiar associations from other countries in Europe and Globally. These are carried out with the support of the Defence Ministries of the countries in question and the aim is to get access to these markets and to find partners to cooperate with. The latest ones we have arranged  in 2019 - 2020 are with: Norway, France, United States, Czech Republic, Mexico, United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark and Japan. 

- AFDA office gives advice to the members on daily bases. These include i.e.; procurement laws and practises, export and networking support, support on export control issues and marketing capabilities. 

- AFDA holds close to a 100 events annually. Most of these are internal work shops or seminars. AFDA has 8 sub-groups (Aviation,  Land, Naval, C4ISR, C5, Space, Technology and Strategy) and they all meet 4 - 8 times a year to work on collaborative projects. 

- AFDA produces marketing material (such as the members brochure), arranges national pavilions at international (and domestic) exhibitions and provides information in social media.