Objectives

• New, sustainable and low-carbon steelmaking and finishing processes
• Advanced steel grades and applications
• Conservation of resources, protection of the environment and circular economy
• Management of work force and working conditions

Priorities

• Priority 1: evaluation of compatibility of metallurgical gas streams from steel plants with current/future CCUS infrastructures
• Priority 2: conditioning and separation of metallurgical gases (containing CO2, CO, CH4, etc.) to meet specifications for CCUS applications
• Priority 3: process Integration (PI) in steel plants to reduce the use of fossil carbon and associated CO2 emissions

Among financed actions

• Exloitation strategies
• Development and dissemination of competencies

Additional information

• This call for proposals is an open call for proposals
• Initial duration of the action: between 36 and 54 months

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or privarte entity
• Be a consortium compiosed of at least 2 entities from 2 different Member-states

• Total budget of the topic « Big Tickets for Steel »: 104 million euro
• Amount of the grant: between 5 and 18 million euro
• Co-financing rate: 50% of the total eligible costs