RFCS-2025-JT-Big tickets for Coal-2025

Objectives

• To repurpose of formerly operating coal and lignite mines or those in the process of closure and coal-related infrastructure including power supply services
• To reuse materials and waste, to develop alternative materials, including recovery of critical raw materials.
• To monitor, to model, to stabilise and to restore
• To process methane emissions
• To monitor, manage and/or treatment of mine water and water tables in coal mines in the process of closure and formerly operating mines

Among financed actions

• The social and economic revitalisation of the former coal mine regions
• Reskilling and upskilling programmes for
  workers affected by a coal phase-out,
• Potential solutions that improve working conditions for employees of the coal mines being phased out, in particular, health, safety, and ergonomics in and around the workplace
• Research on the training
• Reskilling of workers employed or previously employed in the coal sector

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 a 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: 35.000.000 euros
• Amount of the grant: between 5 million and 9 million euros
• Funding rate: up to 50% of the total eligible costs