The RFCS project has the following research objectives for the coal sector:

• Supporting the equitable transition of the coal sector and regions;
• Improving health and safety.
• Minimizing the environmental impact of coal mines in transition.

This topic concerns RFCS Steel Pilot and Demonstration Projects (PDPs).

Pilot Projects target the construction, operation and development of (significant parts of) installations on an appropriate scale and using suitably large components in order to examine the potential for putting theoretical or laboratory results into practice and/or increasing the reliability of the technical and economic data needed to progress to demonstration stage, and in certain cases to industrial and/or commercial stage.

Demonstration Projects cover the construction and/or operation of (significant parts of) an industrial-scale installation, in order to bring together all the technical and economic data in order to proceed with the industrial and/or commercial exploitation of the technology at minimum risk.

Both Pilot and Demonstration Projects aim to bridge the gap between Research and Innovation.

50%

• Industry
• Research, Technological Development and Innovation

• Legal Entities
• Other Beneficiaries
• Private Bodies
• Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
• State-owned Enterprises

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

• be legal entities (public or private bodies, e.g. undertakings, public bodies, research organisations, 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, i.e.:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
  • non-EU countries:
    • countries associated to the RFCS or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (list of participating countries).

Consortium composition – Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of:

• minimum 2 independent applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from 2 different eligible countries

Independent — Independent means that none of the entities must be under the direct or indirect control of the other or under the same direct or indirect control as the other. For this purpose, control may, in particular, take either of the following forms:

• the direct or indirect holding of more than 50% of the issued share capital, or of a majority of the voting rights
• the direct or indirect holding, in fact or in law, of decision-making powers.

The following relationships do not in themselves constitute control:

• if the entities have the same public investment corporation, institutional investor or venture-capital company with a direct or indirect holding of more than 50% of the issued share capital or a majority of voting rights
• if the entities are owned or supervised by the same public body

For general information about the call please contact us at:REA-RFCS@ec.europa.eu

• Funding&Tenders
• Call document