Steel Pilot and Demonstration Projects

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (2021-2027)

Programme Description

The Fund aims to further boost national capacities and improve procedures for migration management, as well as to enhance solidarity and responsibility sharing between Member States, in particular through emergency assistance and the relocation mechanism.

Programme Details

Identifier Code

RFCS-2023-02-PDP

Call

Steel Pilot and Demonstration Projects

Summary

Proposals presented under this topic shall address one or several of the RFCS objectives for steel as set out in the RFCS Regulation, and should clearly identify which work packages address which objective(s) i.e.:

  • 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

Detailed Call Description

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.

Proposals should also identify to which of the Technical Group(s). Projects from all areas and domains are admitted.

Call Total Budget

€7 620 000

Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

50%

Thematic Categories

  • Environment and Climate Change
  • Industry
  • Other Thematic Category
  • Public Administration
  • Research, Technological Development and Innovation
  • Small-Medium Enterprises and Competitiveness

Eligibility for Participation

  • Educational Institutions
  • Investment Funds
  • Large Enterprises
  • Natual person / Citizen / Individual
  • Private Bodies
  • Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
  • State-owned Enterprises

Eligibility For Participation Notes

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 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, 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:

  • for Accompanying Measures, minimum 3 independent applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from 3 different eligible countries
  • for Research projects, minimum 3 independent applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from 2 different eligible countries
  • for Pilot and Demonstration projects, 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.

Call Opening Date

15/06/2023

Call Closing Date

20/09/2023

EU Contact Point

For help related to this call, please contact: REA-RFCS@ec.europa.eu