RFCS-2025-CSP-Big Tickets for Steel-2025

Objectives

• To cross cutting issues: digitalisation, skills and social innovation in the steel sector
• To increase the use of pre-reduced iron carriers: CO2 neutral iron ore reduction
• To improve energy efficiency by technologies, increase heat recovery and enhance process integration (PI) approaches in steel production
• To advance steel alloys for special applications
• To develop circular economy and sector coupling solutions to meet the zero-waste goal for steelmaking
• To capture carbone of steel CO/CO2 gases

Among financed actions

• Research activities
• Contribution of the multiannual strategic R&I agenda of the Clean Steel Partnership
• Application of innovative technologies
• Exploitation strategy outlining possible integration of the outcomes of the project (including the pilot/demonstrators) in an industrial environment and a preliminary assessment of their economic viability
• Steelmaking facilities, in particular health, safety and ergonomics in and around the workplace

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• Be a public bodies, research organizations, higher or secondary education establishments or other legal entities) which carry out an RTD activity or substantially contribute to such an activity
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
  • Non-EU states: countries associated to the RFCS (Click here)
• A consortium composed of minimum 2 independent applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from 2 different eligible countries

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: between 36 and 54 months
• Contact: REA-RFCS@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• Executive Agency website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 100.000.000 euros
• Amount of the grant: between 5 million euros and 9 million euros
• Funding rate: up to 50% of the total eligible costs