The European Commission adopted a decision on the financing of the Research Programme of the Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS) with a total budget of €175 million for 2025, to support collaborative research in the steel and coal sectors.
This will include two main calls of €100 million for steel and €35 million for coal that will be launched in February 2025 to fund research for breakthrough technologies leading to near-zero-carbon steelmaking, as well as projects for managing the just transition for coal mines. An additional standard annual call, worth €40 million, to cover both coal and steel is set to open in June 2025.