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

RFCS – The Research Fund For Coal and Steel aims at helping the transformation of the steel strategic sector towards the green, digital and circular transitions and contributing to make the European steel industry even more competitive globally, in a sustainable way.

2025-05-06
100.000.000 euros
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Call synthesis

Call reference RFCS-2025-CSP
Programme Research Fund for Coal & Steel (RFCS)
Institution European Commission
Sectors Other Research & Innovation Technology & Digital Territorial Development
Beneficiaries Large company (> 250 employees) Professional organisation & network Research centre & university Smes & Start-Ups (< 249 Employees)

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Call reference

RFCS-2025-CSP



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Priorities and funded actions

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

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Financement
  • 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