Activity Report 2014

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Activity Report 2014

March 2015

This annual report is dedicated to Jean-Sébastien Thomas, who worked with ESTEP in WG4 and with SPIRE in the Horizontal WG. He passed away and left us suddenly in early December 2014, in his prime. We are missing his expertise in all things re-lated to sustainability, but we mostly miss his solar personality and his friendship.

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Foreword

March 2015

2014 has not lived up to the expectations of even a modest re-covery that was announced in last year's foreword.

The overall EU 2014 growth in GDP was 1.3%, in industrial pro-duction 1.5%, in private consumption 1.1%, in government con-sumption 1.0% and in investment 2.1%, while imports grew more than exports (+14% for flats and 33% for longs increase in ex-ports vs. +1.4% growth in imports). Unemployment rate was

10.6%. These indicators are indeed not as bad as 2013's, but still disappointing [1].

The Steel sector fared marginally better, year-to-year, with a pick up in real con-sumption in the EU of 1.4% (-0.5%) and of 2.2% (-1.8%) in the Steel Weighted In-dustrial Production (SWIP) index. Projections made one year ago, 1.9 and 2.5%, re-spectively, were more ambitious. The true area of strength in 2014 was the automo-tive sector: the SWIP index was indeed up 5%, although it slowed down from 10.5 to 2.4% between 1st and 4th quarters. All other markets were either almost flat, with one or several negative quarters, while the domestic-appliance market ended in the negative (-1.0%).

Forecasts for next year are a mixture of slightly optimistic (expected improvement in the construction sector, continuation of the recovery in the automotive sector, lower oil prices and dropping euro exchange rate favoring exports, overturn of the domes-tic appliance market, mild strengthening of real steel consumption) and somewhat pessimistic reports (tube market clouded by low oil prices, high imports of finished products from China, Russia and Ukraine). This does not add up to a clearly positive vision for the short term!

A new European Commission has set to work [2], with the ambition to deal with chronic and pending issues in the EU. New initiatives like the €315 million Invest-ment "Offensive", the effort to "cut red tape" and the reduction and simplification of legislative proposals look like positive commitments of Mr. Juncker's team. We look forward to them! It is essential that Europe, which is a Global Actor, is seen as one by the rest of the world and by its own citizens!

Steel remains one of the major ingredients of the strength and potential growth of the EU economy. The European Steel sector and its equipment manufacturers re-main at the forefront of technology and research in the world. And Steel supports industry, the strengthening of which remains a welcome priority for the new Com-mission.

In 2014, European research received significant support from the EC by implement-ing the ambitious Horizon 2020 program. Large new programs have been launched, like the PPPs, among which the steel community is particularly interested in FoF, EGVI, EBB and SPIRE. There are also welcome initiatives regarding materials, ICT, Big Data or Integrated Manufacturing. The new Research and Innovation ecosystem

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that the EC has created to support an exit of the crisis from the top is thus healthy and starting to work well!

There are difficult issues that still need further efforts. High-TRL Innovation projects are still lacking adequate support, in terms of financing, managing risks and internal-izing societal challenges in the market economy. We have continuing exchanges with the EC on these matters, of which we expect much.

We are also very fond of the RFCS program, which has now been running for 60 years under various names. It is the oldest and probably one of the most successful R&I program ever launched by the Commission. It differs significantly from the framework programs in terms of origin of funds, of project formulation (bottom-up) and of monitoring. It is also a key element in the vital quality of technology in the steel sector. These specific features of RFCS are the cause of its remarkable suc-cess. Thus, we should keep some of the original features of RFCS!

ESTEP still has ambition for the future of Europe and is gearing up to continuing to offer "solutions for the future".

Dr. Heribert Fischer

ESTEP Chairman,

Member of the Executive Board of

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe,

responsible for Sales and Innovation.

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Summary Activity report 2014

March 2015

2014 was the year when the Horizon 2020 program took off and, like a rocket, climbed at escape velocity to orbit! ESTEP has jumped on board and the ride has been both exhilarating and rough in terms of a rather hectic activity.

Steel and ESTEP are committed to H2020, to PPPs like SPIRE, E2B, FoF and EGVI, to EIPS like Water and Raw Materials, to materials programs and initiatives, especially EMIRI, to energy programs dedicated to conservation, to the energy transition and

to the strengthening of more classical technologies, based on more advanced steels, and, strongly, to RFCS, etc. For translation of the acronyms, please read further in the report.

We want also to salute the innovation in instruments recently made available for EU Research: FTI, for Fast Track to Innovation, which introduces a bottom-up flavor to H2020 [3]; the IPCEIs (Important Projects of Common European Interest) format that sets new rules for increasing aid intensity and can be relevant for high-TRL projects [4]; the EFSI (European Fund for Strategic Investment) proposed by the Juncker Commission to inject 300 G€ in the EU economy; and new opportunities to organize research stakeholders beyond simply research, with new ERA-NETs (Materi-als & Smart Cities) and new KICs (Raw Materials, Value-Added Manufacturing).

Another essential role of ESTEP is to act as a think tank and to develop a vision for steel and the steel sector targeting the middle and long term, based on its SRA but also on a continuous effort to carry out high-quality foresight (prospective) to pre-pare for the new edition that will eventually come out around 2018. This is part of the mandate of ESTEP, as a European 2020 European Technology Platform. This is also the core of the production made by ESTEP's working groups under the guidance and leadership of the higher-level committees.

The 200 or so people, who work in ESTEP, are essential to make ESTEP creative and productive and the support provided to them by member organizations is even more essential!

This is necessary to navigate the complexity of the present world and of the Euro-sphere that the Commission has created.

Jean-Pierre Birat

ESTEP Secretary General (2013-2015)

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Contents

Foreword..................................................................................................... 1

Summary Activity report 2014 ................................................................... 3

Contents ..................................................................................................... 5

1. Introduction ....................................................................................... 9

2. ESTEP is deeply involved in the new EC research & innovation ecosystem .............................................................................................. 10

2.1 ESTEP in the new ecosystem of Horizon 2020 ......................................... 10

2.1.1. Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) .................................................... 11

2.1.2. PPP SPIRE (Sustainable Process Industry through Resource and Energy efficiency) ............................................................................................... 11

2.1.3. Other PPPs .................................................................................... 16

2.1.4. Third generation of PPPs ................................................................. 17

2.1.5. Other calls ..................................................................................... 17

2.1.6. EIP on Raw Materials ...................................................................... 18

2.1.7. EIP Water ...................................................................................... 19

2.1.8. EMIRI ............................................................................................ 19

2.1.9. Materials-related activities ............................................................... 22

2.2 ESTEP participates to H2020 programs & others ...................................... 23

2.3 RFCS and the ESTEP community ............................................................ 26

2.4 Other research-related initiatives ............................................................ 27

2.4.1 The EIT and KICs......................................................................... 28

2.4.2 ERA-NETs.................................................................................... 29

2.4.3 Others ........................................................................................ 29

3. Steel & the European Commission ................................................... 30

3.1 High-level group on Steel ...................................................................... 30

3.2 European Steel Technology Platforms ..................................................... 31

3.3 High-TRLs projects ................................................................................ 35

4. ESTEP, a Think Tank projecting a vision of steel and its value chain in the middle & long terms ......................................................................... 37

4.1 Publications of ESTEP's community ......................................................... 37

4.2 ESTEP seminars and sponsored events ................................................... 39

4.3 On-going foresight exercises .................................................................. 40

5. ESTEP’s organization and its evolution ............................................ 41

6. Activities of ESTEP management groups .......................................... 44

6.1 Steering Committee ........................................................................... 44

6.2 Mirror Group ..................................................................................... 46

6.3 Support Group ................................................................................... 48

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7. Summary of the activities of the technical working groups ............. 55

7.1 Working Group 1 – Profit through Innovation ....................................... 55

7.2 Working Group "Intelligent, Integrated Manufacturing" (I2M) ................ 56

7.3 Working Group 2 –Transport ............................................................... 57

7.4 Working Group 3 – Construction ......................................................... 57

7.5 Working Group 4 – Planet ................................................................... 58

7.6 Working Group 5 – People .................................................................. 59

7.7 Working Group 6 – Energy.................................................................. 61

7.8 Activities of the Implementation Group ................................................ 62

7.9 Number of participants attending the Support Group and Steering Committee meetings. .................................................................................. 63

8. Implementation of ESTEP's SRA priorities ....................................... 64

9. Networking and Communication ...................................................... 65

9.1 Communications to/with EU Institutions ............................................... 65

9.2 Communications to/with Horizon 2020 instruments ............................... 65

9.3 Links with ETPs and other relevant associations ................................... 66

9.4 Links with RTOs and other laboratories ................................................ 66

9.5 Links with Universities ........................................................................ 67

9.6 Diary of networking and liaison activities.............................................. 68

9.7 ESTEP website and CIRCA database .................................................... 77

Annexes .................................................................................................... 81

1. ESTEP membership and people active in various groups ................. 82

a. Membership of the Steering Committee .................................................. 82

b. List of Mirror Group representatives ........................................................ 83

c. Membership of the Support Group ............................................................. 84

d. Membership of the Implementation Group .............................................. 84

2. Membership of Working Groups, updated at the end of 2014 .......... 85

a. Working Group 1: Profit through Innovation ............................................ 85

b. Working Group –I2M ............................................................................. 85

c. Working Group 2: Transport ..................................................................... 85

d. Working Group 3: Construction .............................................................. 86

e. Working Group 4: Planet ....................................................................... 86

f. Working Group 5: People.......................................................................... 87

g. Working Group 6: Energy ...................................................................... 87

3. Updated list of acronyms.................................................................. 89

Index ...................................................................................................... 100

References & links .................................................................................. 102

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1. Introduction

This document is an annual publication describing the activities of ESTEP in details. The previous reports are available from ESTEP's web site [5].

At the end of 2014, ESTEP has 66 members (24 industrial companies, including 16 steel producers, 14 RTOs and similar organizations, 13 Universities and 15 other stakeholders from associations or the civil society) and 190 people participate to its activities in various committees and working groups.

2013 was the year when the European Commission reframed its Research and Inno-vation policy and the accompanying instruments, in a radical new way. This trans-formation was explained in details in the 2013 annual report [6], as it is impacting strongly on ESTEP's activity and has resulted, modestly, from our own actions as a European Technology Platform (ETP). The new framework program is called Horizon 2020 (H2020) [7].

2014 was the year when these changes were implemented. This was done quickly, efficiently and at the level of the expectations that the changes had raised. ESTEP continued to be involved in the details of all of them, but especially in the PPPs, SPIRE, E2B, EGVI and FoF, in the evolution of the EMIRI initiative and in the specific projects carried out as part these programs: either through its membership, but also directly as a technological platform in some important transversal projects.

The hectic pace initiated in the previous years continued in 2014 and ESTEP kept very busy, working in groups, committees, initiatives and partnerships related to H2020 and networking with hoards of stakeholders. This involved the Secretary General and the working groups plus more actors of the ESTEP community, who were involved in specific working groups related to the SPIRE PPP, the Raw Materials EIP and the EMIRI initiative.

The High Level Group on Steel (HLGS), created by the Commission to follow up on the proposals made by the High Level Round Table on Steel in June 2013 [8], met once in 2014 but then went into a phase of reexamination of its missions. Both the Secretary General and the Chairman participate to the two-tier meetings, Sherpa and HLG meetings.

ESTEP is not simply involved in research nor only connected with the Commission through the H2020 and RFCS programs. It is also a European Technology Platform and, as such, a think tank in which its stakeholders, foremost of which the steel sector, but also its value chain, upstream and downstream, and research partners from laboratories such as RTOs and from universities. ESTEP generates a vision of the future of steel and of its immersion in the economy and in society, which is regularly updated in its Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) [9] and in specialized documents, either published by its working groups or by overarching organizations like SPIRE or EMIRI to which ESTEP participates. It endeavors to produce high quality visions, sticking to foresight methodology, and steering away from pure advocacy, which is the domain of business associations. As an ETP, ESTEP follows a chart and participates to the ETP network, organized by the EC.

As initiated last year, we will speak of the Steel Community or of ESTEP's community, to stress the fact that ESTEP is active through people, working, planning, thinking and dreaming together.

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2. ESTEP is deeply involved in the new EC research & innovation ecosystem

Horizon 2020, the new Research and Innovation (R&I) framework program of the Commission was officially started on 1 January 2014, and year 2014 was devoted to its detailed implementation, which took place very quickly because the move had been carefully prepared.

ESTEP continued to be actively involved with H2020, as it had been in its preparation stages during the previous years.

It was also active in relation to the RFCS program, which remains a key element of the research activities of the steel sector.

Moreover, other instruments that are also available for fostering R&I, like ERA-NET, KIC and Eureka programs have also been explored.

2.1 ESTEP in the new ecosystem of Horizon 2020

Horizon 2020 is based on the traditions of the seven previous framework programs. It is thus a top-down program, except for the newly introduced "fast track to innovation" program (FTI), a "white" program created to accelerate the commercial emergence of technologies which had already reached high TRLs1 [10].

H2020 is thus based on the idea of a research and innovation policy2,3 pushed by the EC as a tool to drive the Union towards more prosperity; it is similar to the industrial policies that member states and centralized economies used to conduct, but is acting with a lighter touch than the former historical practices. To achieve this, the EC "holds the pen" in writing "its" research programs.

Because such a practice ought to be balanced by a strong interaction with stakehold-ers, the EC has developed a complex model for member states, industry and other stakeholders to participate in the discussions about its proposals. This is what is called in a very general way comitology [11]. For example, ESTEP is one piece in that puzzle. The PPPs and EIPs (see further) are more of those. We will describe further how this is implemented in the case of the SPIRE PPP, with which ESTEP has

1 the project should make possible for a technology to move from TRL 6 to 9, need financing at the

level of 3 M€ and last for 3 years.

2 "The main aim of policy in the field of research and technological development is to establish the European Union as a leading knowledge-based economy. To this end, making a common research area a reality should mean, in time, that we have the best possible cooperation at every level, that there is more coordination between European and national policies, that structural capacities are expanded and that more teams are able to form research networks; it should also stimulate the free movement of persons and ideas." http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/research_innovation/index_en.htm

3 "Research and innovation contribute directly to our level of prosperity and the well-being of individuals and society in general. The Treaty of Lisbon strengthens European Union (EU) action in this field of research with the aim of creating a European Research Area. With a budget of nearly EUR 80 billion, „Horizon 2020‟ is the EU's research and innovation program for the period 2014-2020. It is designed to implement the Innovation Union, Europe's strategy for innovation and one of the Europe 2020 flagship initiatives. Horizon 2020 aims to establish the EU as a leading knowledge-based economy, producing world-class science and innovation to ensure Europe's global competitiveness", http://eur-lex.europa.eu/summary/chapter/research_innovation.html?root_default=SUM_1_CODED=27

http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/research_innovation/index_en.htm

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/summary/chapter/research_innovation.html?root_default=SUM_1_CODED=27

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been deeply involved. Indeed, it is claimed to be written consensually by private & public partners.

It is interesting to compare the present operation of H2020 with that of RFCS, which, historically, was the first research program promoted by the EU4. RFCS is a bottom-up program, where the community eligible for answering the calls makes its own proposals without any political guidance; moreover, the organization of committees to operate and steer the program, alongside the EC to which the management of that program is delegated, is slightly different from that of H2020 [12]. The two programs remain conceptually quite different and the issue is raised of how to maintain their originality and separation.

2.1.1. Public Private Partnerships (PPPs)

The concept of PPP, invented by the Commission at the time of the first recovery plan following the 2008 crisis, was expanded by the creation of "contractual PPPs" (cPPPs) in 2013 (cf. Figure 1) and is being expanded by the addition of a third generation of PPPs still under creation.

Figure 1 – the 10 contractual PPPs in 2014

PPPs are to be managed jointly by the Commission and by industry, under the rule that "industry is in the driver's seat". 2014 was the occasion to observe how such a structure is actually running and how much leeway the Commission, which represents the Public partner, leaves to the private partners in managing the initiative. We were in a position to do this in the particular case of the SPIRE PPP.

2.1.2. PPP SPIRE (Sustainable Process Industry through Resource

and Energy efficiency)

Let's recall that the concept of SPIRE was initially brought to the attention of the Commission by ESTEP and EUnited: indeed, the industries that cater intermedi-ate goods to the manufacturing sector, which transform them into consumer goods, are essential in the eco-nomic fabric of Europe, but were mainly left out of

framework research in the FP programs. The present aggregate of members was recruited in order to represent Process Industries, which, beyond steel and engineering, include chemical, minerals, non-ferrous metals, cement, ceramics and

4 EU should be understood as one of its previous avatar, like the ECSC or the Common Market, and

RFCS as the research program of the ECSC.

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water industries5. Detailed information about SPIRE is available from its website [13].

SPIRE has a mirror organization, where the private members are assembled to-gether, called A.SPIRE - where A stands for Association. Besides the 45 industry members, A.SPIRE has members from Research (58) and Associations (12) plus associate members (8). Members pay fees. ESTEP is represented by EUROFER, as the platform is not a private entity. Other members from the ESTEP community are: ARCELORMITTAL, CMI, Tata Steel, Tenaris, ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe, voestalpine, CSM, Chalmers University, CRM, Gerdau, IMZ, Luleå University of Technology, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Tecnalia, BFI, Jernkontoret, 16 altogether.

Figure 2 – the Board of Directors of SPIRE

A.SPIRE is run by a Board of Director (cf. Figure 2) and in which ESTEP's secretary general is one of the two vice-presidents and where ThyssenKrupp, LKAB and CMI also sit. The association has a General Assembly to approve the major decisions. A technical board, the IRIAG (Industrial Research & Innovation Advisory Group), coordinates the technical activities of A.SPIRE and prepares the formal meetings with

5 these industrial sectors used to be called Resource and Energy Intensive Industries (REII), an

expression that was felt as somewhat derogatory.

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the Commission, which takes place in the Partnership Board (PB); A.SPIRE members of IRIAG and PB are the same. Five working groups (Feed, Process, Waste, Horizontal and Applications) brings together experts from the membership to assist in the preparation of upcoming calls. ESTEP's community contributes 27 people to the various working groups and committees of ESTEP, a very strong commitment of the platform! Two chairmen of the WGs are seconded from ESTEP.

The day-to-day operations of A.SPIRE are run by a full-time Executive Director. A Technical Director, seconded from Tecnaila, assists him on technical issues and manages the working groups.

The PB is chaired by José-Lorenzo Vallès, head of Unit DG RTD/D2, and by the Technical Director. It comprises 20 members (including AM, ThyssenKrupp, CMI, CSM) and 10 substitutes (including ESTEP, MEFOS, BFI, EUnited).

SPIRE and A. SPIRE have the major duties of:

• expressing the vision of the SPIRE community in terms of what is expected of R&I. This is embedded in a roadmap, which was written in 2012 and published in 2013. It is the equivalent of ESTEP's SRA.

• liaising with the EC to produce R&I calls that reflect the content of the roadmap. This is a continuing effort that is time-stamped by the regular meetings of the Partnership Board.

• coordinating the projects, once they have been launched, in order to ensure communication about SPIRE and dissemination of the results to foster the European economy in terms of business activity, employment and innovation

A first series of 13 calls was published in 2013 for the work programs of 2014 [14] and 2015 [15] (cf. Figure 3). The one-stage projects for 2014 are now running, while the two-stage ones and those for 2015 are under evaluation. Note that most of the projects (8 calls) have an explicit SPIRE label, meaning that they were issued by the NMBP team of DG RTD6, while others originate from DG-RTD Energy (EE-Energy Efficiency, 2 calls, and LCE-Low Carbon Energy, 2 calls) or Environment (WASTE, 1 call) teams. The total budget available for funding was thus 161.3 M€.

The calls included 5 RIA (Research & Innovation Actions), i.e. the development of the already existing concepts towards higher TRLs (Technology Readiness Levels), 7 IA (Innovation Actions), i.e. the search for new and innovative solutions at lower TRLs, and 1 CSA (Coordination and Support Action), i.e. the overview of existing methodologies and concepts related to the call topic and the definition of further development in the area, if they be needed.

The contents of the calls matched the spirit of the SPIRE roadmap, although the analysis of how close they match is still pending.

The call topics use either the words process or technologies in their title, as a kind of communication "graphic guideline".

The focus is on process control (SPIRE 1), process adaptation to the use of biomass (SPIRE 2), process optimization regarding resource and energy use (SPIRE 6), development of new process technologies for an improved use of "mixtures" (SPIRE 3) or for the handling of solids (SPIRE 8), process intensification (SPIRE 5 and SPIRE 8) based on the handling of solids or the development of new catalysts, the use of

6 'Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Nanotechnologies, Advanced materials,

Biotechnology, Advanced manufacturing and processing' (LEIT-NMBP)

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renewables, including biomass, to improve process efficiency (SPIRE 2) and to innovate by introducing them where they were not used (LCE2/14 & 15), accelerating the switch to a circular economy (WASTE 1 & SPIRE 7) and recovering heat (EE 10/14 & 15) in innovative ways.

Figure 3 - SPIRE-related calls in the H2020 work program for 2014 and 2015 (RIA: research & innovation action; IA: innovation action; CSA: coordination & support action)

The calls were written in such a way as to appeal to different sectors and thus meet the cross-sectorial mantra of the SPIRE PPP. A few, however, were targeted at some specific sector, sometimes two of them. This is all right, as the industries of SPIRE have not only common issues but also specific features, which need to be addressed specifically.

On the other hand, the emphasis on a broad multi-sectorial appeal led to a wording, which was at times obscure and sometimes, probably unwillingly, called on vocabu-lary that was specific to a particular sector. It will be part of the deliverables of the SPIRE PPP to come up with a vocabulary that is shared by all sectors: for example, "feed" for feedstock means raw materials in the SPIRE lingua franca, although it is a concept developed mainly in connection with the chemical industry due to the fact that many raw materials in this sector are at the same time a fuel and a raw material, like oil or gas; similarly, "waste" is ambiguous, because it reflects legal

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definitions, the common meaning of the word in vernacular language7, end-of-life "waste" which usually ends up in secondary raw materials after recycling and industrial waste, called residues, by-products or co-products in that community; or the expression of "process intensification", which is very much used in the chemical sector and hardly anywhere else. Etc.

72 proposals were received, of which 9 were presented by the ESTEP community. 11 projects were eventually selected for funding. Chemistry is present in 10 of them, while RTOs are in 8, Universities in 9 and steel (ESTEP) in 4. The successful projects are coordinated by organizations from Germany (5), Spain (2), Finland (2), Sweden (1) and the UK (1).

Figure 4 – successful proposals for the 2014 SPIRE call (yellow means ESTEP community is involved)

Projects selected are large, budget-wise (from 6 to 10 M€), except for the CSA (0.5 M€). This is indeed a feature of the SPIRE projects: they are few in number and large in budget, compared to the RFCS program, for example. Thus the successful participants are "big winners", while those who do not succeed "are left by the side of the road": both intensification and a selectivity of funding!

When the content of the projects now launched becomes public, which is not yet the case, it will be necessary to analyze them further in order to understand exactly how they may help reach the overall objectives of the SPIRE program and how well they cover the scope of industrial interest of SPIRE.

SPIRE is presently in the process of defining the topics for the second series of calls, targeting 2016 and 2017.

The Commission has been communicating in details on the progress within the Partnership Board, which is rather new compared to the traditional procedure in framework programs, where the call content was prepared rather secretly, on the advise of a high-level advisory group, and then framed in terms of topic title and then of call text, which were communicated and discussed initially with the member

7 which, for example in French, would be either translated as déchets or as gaspillage.

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states, in a program committee; it was difficult to interact with program content outside of these formal steps and the modest expectation was to influence the choice of a few words or the introduction of some short sentence, here or there.

Figure 5 – success of proposals to the first SPIRE series of calls (2014)

Beyond the Partnership Board meetings, informal meetings also take place for further exchanges – but this was also common practice in the previous programs.

In parallel, SPIRE has been convening meetings of its working groups and of IRIAG. The point was to define priorities and to propose detailed projects in a format that was similar to the call of the work program. We called these mock-calls, mock standing for mock-up, which means model, and the practice, initiated when the steel-water roadmap was first written [16], has been used extensively in many programs beyond SPIRE. The point is not to "hold the pen" instead of the EC, but to express the vision that the community we represent holds, in an unambiguous and explicit way.

At the end of the exercise, the proposals of the EC were circulated with no explicit connection with the texts of SPIRE, but it was felt, on ESTEP's side, that the EC had integrated the needs and wishes of the SPIRE community in a way that was satisfactory. Moreover, given the rational of EC's research policy, it is reasonable to have proposals from the Commission that do not exactly match those of the SPIRE community. In PB meetings, there was ample opportunity to argue or discuss on words, but also on more important underlying concepts.

The details of the on-going process will be included explicitly in this report, as soon as they become publicly available. This explains missing figure numbers.

A new ICT working group in A.SPIRE, equivalent to the I2M WG of ESTEP, was aunched recently (23 and 30 January 2015), with important contributions from ESTEP (H. Peters as coordinator, C. Pietrosanti, J. Delsing, L. Chefneux). The point was to prepare "mock calls" to be presented to DG Connect momentarily. This may be late for the next series of calls and would address the next ones?

2.1.3. Other PPPs

The budgets for 3 of the cPPPs in 2014 are shown in Figure 6. SPIRE thus appears as an intermediate PPP in terms of budget.

ESTEP is closely connected to other PPPs, especially Factories of the Future (FoF), Energy-Efficient Buildings (EEB) and Green Cars (EGVI), although less intensively than in the case of SPIRE. ESTEP is not a member of the corresponding PPP associations and thus the interaction on the formulation of the program is much less involved.

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Figure 6 – proposals to the cPPPs in 2014

However, because of the networking with various associations, some interaction takes place (FoF and I2M working group, EEB and WG38, EGVI and WG2) and, indeed, it was possible to express our interest in stressing that LCT (Life-Cycle Thinking) should be taken on board in the transport calls rather the simplistic tailpipe emissions and the point has been taken in the next set of calls (NMBP 09-2016: Affordable weight reduction of high-volume vehicles and components taking into account the entire life-cycle).

On the other hand, the success rate of ESTEP's community in these other PPPs has been dismal, with only one project being accepted (FOF-4: Facts4Workers - Worker-Centric Workplaces in Smart Factories), proposed by WG5, while many more had been proposed. It seems important to work very closely with a PPP in order to absorb the corresponding culture and be successful.

2.1.4. Third generation of PPPs

A "Big Data Value" PPP is starting in 2015 [17]9. It is of relevance for ESTEP's community and Big Data is part of the foresight portfolio of working group I2M.

EMIRI (see further) may be another PPP in the making, although the outcome is not completely certain until the final signature.

2.1.5. Other calls

A call called SILC II (Sustainable Industry Low Carbon) was proposed by the Com-mission for the 2014 call series with a 20 M€ budget [18]. The focus was on low-carbon processes and it was conceptually related to SPIRE, although the budget came eventually from somewhere else, after some discussion and controversy.

The Steel sector filed several proposals, while sticking to its opinion that some new schemes for funding this kind of climate-related research would be necessary (cf. § 0). Two projects related to the former ULCOS program, HIsarna (Smelting Reduction) and ULCOWIN (Electrolysis), were proposed.

Eventually, the Hisarna project, called LoCo2Fe and proposed by Tata Steel NL & UK, ThyssenKrupp, ArcelorMittal, Voestalpine and Paul Wurth, received support from the Commission, an important success for the ESTEP community, which has been supporting ULCOS and ULCOS solutions for the last ten years!

8 WG 3 participated to the E2B General Assembly on 26 November 2014 and to a brokerage event

related to "key activities focus on energy efficient buildings and adaptable envelopes".

9 The signature of the Big Data Value Public Private Partnership (BDV PPP) took place on 13 October 2014 - See more at: http://www.bigdatavalue.eu/#sthash.aRg4uXza.dpuf

NMPB CNECT

82,000,000 € 34,000,000 € 49,500,000 € 60,300,000 €

Requested EC contribution 758,424,726 € 210,000,000 € 322,343,145 € 344,305,492 €

Average 4,077,552 € 3,684,211 € 3,429,182 € 4,782,021 €

Fundable proposals 20 9 14 13

Funding rate 10.8% 16.2% 15.4% 17.5%

expected nb of proposals 200 166 100 100

actual nb of proposals 186 57 94 72

FOFEEB SPIRE

http://www.bigdatavalue.eu/#sthash.aRg4uXza.dpuf

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2.1.6. EIP on Raw Materials

(summary of the presentation of Gwenole Cozigou to SC-11)

"There is a link between the Steel Action Plan (see further) and the Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) of the European Innovation Partnership on raw materials ( RM). For instance, they have in common the goal to

support competitiveness of the relevant industries. One of the objectives of the EIP RM is indeed to help raise industry‟s contribution to the EU GDP to around 20% by 2020. It was launched in 2012 to promote innovation in raw materials sectors, thereby contributing to the objectives of the Raw Materials overall strategy (adopted in 2008) to secure our supply in raw materials. The European Commission has recognized the potential problem that the resource scarcity poses to EU industry.

"Innovation is an essential component in both the EIP RM and the Steel Action Plan. Synergies between the two initiatives can also be found in the priorities identified. Steel plays a relevant role in all the three pillars of the EIP RM: 1) technological, 2) non-technological, 3) international, e.g. in the field of substitution of Critical Raw Materials (for Materials under extreme conditions and in Applications using materials in large quantities), or in the field of recycling.

"80 voluntary commitments have been made by stakeholders to implement the SIP of the EIP. Commitments are joint undertakings by several partners, who commit to activities aimed at achieving the EIP's objectives. They aim to deliver innovative products, processes, services, technologies, business models or ideas that can be brought to the market or that would bring wider societal benefits. Several of them are relevant for the steel sector. This is for instance the case of the consortium “CRM Innonet – Innovation network for substitution of critical raw materials”, which focuses on substitution, one of the strategies to reduce the reliance of a company on imported critical raw materials. “FerroNi”, on the development of Innovative Technologies for processing low grade, fine feeds for the primary ferronickel production industry and “NASSCO” on New Affordable Stainless Steel for extreme Conditions are also of relevance.

"Finally, the EIP has largely influenced the content of Horizon 2020, the EU Research and Innovation Program, towards achieving its objectives. In Horizon 2020, the most interesting call from the point of view of steel is probably the Focus Area "Waste: Resource to Recycle, Reuse and Recover Raw Materials ", which is relevant for recycled steel. The budget allocated for "Waste" is 73 million euros.

"Within Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 5 (SC5), called "Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials", the Call "Ensuring the sustainable supply of non-energy and non-agricultural raw materials" covers topics that can also be very relevant to steel.

"Finally, opportunities to finance breakthrough technologies are to be found in the SPIRE Call (Public-Private Partnership on Sustainable Process Industries (SPIRE PPP)). This PPP has currently an open call on the topic "Solids handling for intensified process technology", where steel industry is mentioned.

"There is no funding directly linked to European Innovation Partnerships. However, various topics under Horizon 2020 are designed to make sure the EIP Strategic Implementation Plan is reflected."

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2.1.7. EIP Water

Mutatis mutandis, the EIP Water is similar to the EIP on Raw Materials, although the Water PPP is under the control of DG Research, while the previous one is under the control of DG Enterprise & Industry, now DG

GROW.

A close cooperation has been established between ESTEP and the EIP on Water: Dr. Eng. Valentina Colla, member of WG4, was seconded by ESTEP to participate in the EIP Action Group Industrial Water Reuse and Recycling (AG-IWRR). This group held 3 physical meetings (04/03/2014, 01/09/14 and 06/11/2014) plus some virtual meetings.

Draft synthetic descriptions of 2 proposal for WATER 2016-2017, Horizon 2020 calls have been produced as a main outcome of this discussion concerning development of heat- and water-efficient industrial cooling systems based on river water with ecological advantages and Sustainable Process water production by water reuse or recycling. They have been supported by ESTEP.

ESTEP also supported the presentation of the AG-IWRR activity (a poster) to the European EIP Water Conference 2014, held in Barcelona on 05/11/2014.

Finally ESTEP actively participated to the preparation of the SPIRE-1 2016 call of Horizon 2020 on Systematic approaches for resource-efficient water management systems in process industries.

2.1.8. EMIRI

EMIRI, The Energy Materials Industrial Research Initiative [19], was set up as an association in 2012, by a series of organiza-tions at the prompt of the EC and under the

leadership of Umicore, but also of Steel (ESTEP) and of a few others, to help implement the materials roadmaps [20] of the SET-Plan10 [21].

There are 10 roadmaps availalble on SETIS today: an umbrella one published in 2011, called "Materials Roadmap Enabling Low Carbon Energy Technologies" [22] and updated in 2013 by a "Paper on the Implementation of the SET Plan Roadmap Materials for Low Carbon Technologies” [23]; and detailed documents on specific energy issues, such a resources, bioenergy, nuclear energy, photovoltaic technology, wind energy, vectors, hydrogen and fuel cells, main areas of consumption, energy efficient materials for buildings, and relevant technologies like carbon capture an storage (CCS) for fossil fuels. An integrated roadmap is being framed to bring all of these together but the document is still in the review process among its many stakeholders [24,25]. It also updates concepts and vocabulary to include smart grids, energy storage, etc.

The scope of the interest of the SET-Plan in materials is shown in Figure 7. Most energy production technologies are taken on board, as the columns of the table, while the materials are described in terms of their functions or more general topics in the lines.

10 the SET-Plan (Strategic Energy Technologies) was set up in 2008 by the EC to flesh out its

energy vision and supporting programs. Key words are energy efficiency, low carbon energy, renewables and energy transition, although the latter expression was not commonly used in 2008. The SET-Plan makes a list of key technologies from the standpoint of energy, as driven by DG Energy, now DG Growth - while the KETs are driven by DG RTD.

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EMIRI adopted the rationale of these roadmaps, hired members (21 industrial members, among which ArcelorMittal and voestalpine, which quit recently, 31 research organizations and 12 associations, among which ESTEP) and believed, for a while, that the organization would be promoted to the level of PPP, at the same time as the cPPPs were.

This did not happen in 2013 but EMIRI continued its work anyhow and formulated a strategy and a technical vision [26]. Moreover, EMIRI was quoted in the scoping papers of the H2020 calls and specific calls could be traced to the organization's vision.

ESTEP's secretary general sits on board of Directors.

Figure 7 – implementation concepts for the SET-Plan materials roadmap

The scope of EMIRI is centered on advanced materials, which are key enablers of technologies, to use the terminology favored by the EC, cf. Figure 8.

Moreover, it plans to position itself beyond basic or elementary research (low TRLs) to accompany the development of new materials all the way to industrial and commercial implementations in an energy context (middle and high TRLs, see Figure 9).

Steel plays a special role with regards to energy, as it is at the same time a large energy user and an enabler of the global energy system. Much of the energy used by the Steel sector is made of coal, which is used as reducing agent and not simply as a fuel, and does not belong to the scope of EMIRI. But an integrated steel mill generates process gases that are burned in local power plants to produce steam and electricity, much of which is used in the steel mill itself: thus, the steel mill is an integral part of the electrical grid.

On the other hand, all electricity generation plants are heavily dependent on steel, for their boilers, wind turbine towers, thermodynamic solar plant towers and PV panel supports, and electricity transportation rely on poles and pylons. Upstream, oil and gas are transported in steel pipes and/or in steel vessels.

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Figure 8 – "EMIRI in a nutshell"

Last but not least, innovative steel production technologies still in their intermediate development stage, such as electrolysis of iron ore [27], would provide an original to implement demand-side management of the load, by reducing power consump-tion at times of high demand.

Figure 9 – EMIRI's domain of endeavor, in a TRL/CRL plane

New steel products have been developed to incorporate PV layers on steel sheets for construction [28,29,30]. New generations of fossil fuel power plants, operating at high temperature in order to benefit from a higher Carnot efficiency, like super-critical water power plants, call on special steels that can be used at high tempera-ture. Wind turbines need high strength for the high-power turbines, moving up to 10 MW, and high resistance to corrosion, especially in the wind farms erected at sea.

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There are many other applications, not necessarily on the market yet, which also justify that steel be part of EMIRI.

EMIRI has developed its own technology vision through working groups and creativity-ideation sessions held in 2014.

This has resulted in a working document, which, at some point, comprised 6 chapters. Each topic is introduced by an umbrella text and then follows a series of "mock calls", 2 to 4 per topic.

This document, still under writing, will serve in the groundwork that is presently taking place to transform EMIRI from a simple association into a third generation of PPP - if things turn out positively. Right now though, EMIRI is called only an IDI (Industry Driven Initiative).

ESTEP strongly supports this evolution of EMIRI.

In ESTEP's own organization, Energy topics are among the most dynamic in terms of the generation of proposals but also of projects actually selected for funding. WG6 is a proof of this as shown in the minutes of its meetings, reported further. This applies both to H2020 and RFCS. In the case of RFCS projects, WG6 has proposed to create a special TG (Technical Group) to deal with this family of projects, which, with some accommodation, would help solve the issue of the crowding of the agenda of TGS8. The secretary general supports this view.

2.1.9. Materials-related activities

Materials-related activities are numerous and have used many of the formats available for collaboration on research in Europe.

They project a very positive image of materials, which are truly essential key elements (KETs) for Europe, for the strength of its economy, for its growth and for its industry.

A4M, Alliance for Materials, is an association, which brings together the platforms dedicated to materials, i.e. EuMaT, Suschem (chemistry), Manufuture, FTC (Textile), ESTEP and SMR (Minerals) [31]. Its ambition is to provide a forum for materials players in

research and industry and to share and coordinate related activities. ESTEP, as a founding partner of A4M sits on the Board of the Association (secretary general), chaired by CSM.

A4M and its core members carried out an FP7 project called MATVAL (a value-chain approach to materials research and innovation), a CSA, to emphasize the "value chain" dimension of materials and to identify strategic areas where to conduct research

in the future. The project was concluded during the LET's 2014 conference, in Bologna in September 2014. ESTEP was part of MATVAL, with ArcelorMittal acting as a proxy. The secretary general took part in the final round table of the project.

A4M applied for the H2020 call NMP-22/2014, "Materials Common House" [32] and was accepted for financing. This is a continuation of the MATVAL project, focused on fleshing out the messages of the materials community. The project is called MATCH, for MATerials Common House. ESTEP is part of it and is represented by LIST, who acts as a proxy.

The EC commissioned a roadmap on materials written in 2013-14 by a panel of 40 experts of which ESTEP (SG) was part. The document was published by Achilleas Stalios at the end of 2014 under the nickname of Metallurgy4Europe [33], cf.

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Figure 10. It will serve as the basis for future calls, including in the 2016-17 program series.

Figure 10 - cover page of the "Metallurgy4Europe" roadmap

A program with a similar name, Metallurgy Europe, was launched as a Eureka cluster in 2013 [34]. Contrary to the previous programs, the financing comes directly and solely from European countries

526), member states and others, as well as from a few non-European ones (Turkey, Cyprus). This program is the result of the document published by MatSeeC: "Metallurgy Europe – A Renaissance Programme for 2012-2022, Science Position Paper, Materials Science and Engineering Expert Committee (MatSEEC)" [35]. The call was launched in June 2014. Addressed are the following topics: Material discovery, Novel design, metal processing and optimization, Fundamental under-standing of metallurgy. Tata Steel, ArcelorMittal and ThyssenKrupp are participating to this Eureka project in addition to several Universities of the ESTEP community.

Finally, a Materials ERA-NET or M-era.Net, with research calls in 2014 and 2015 was also launched (see further).

2.2 ESTEP participates to H2020 programs & others

ESTEP and its WGs have worked towards enocuraging filing proposals to H2020 programs.

The successful projects already mentioned before, in SPIRE for example, are mentioned here again for the record: RECOBA (SPIRE 1-2014), DISIRE (SPIRE 1-

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2014), MEASURE (SPIRE 4-2014), STYLE (SPIRE 4-2014), LoCo2Fe, Fact4Workers.

A list of others is given below, although it does not provide an exhaustive view of all the projects in which the ESTEP community is involved, as only proposals pushed by an ESTEP working group are listed:

WG6

• Structure and substructure for platforms for offshore wind mill

• Subsea transportation and storage of CO2

• Addicted biomass combustion for power generation

WG4

• ESTEP WG4, working with the SPIRE Horizontal WG, have been successful in winning H2020 project STYLE, which aims to develop sustainability assessment tools for process industries (including LCA, Social LCA, LCC)

• EE18 – Waste Heat Recovery for Power Valorisation with Organic Rankine Cycle Technology in Energy Intensive Industries, proposed by TASIO, Tecnalia, CSM, Accepted at the 1st step:

• WASTE1 – Moving towards the circular economy through industrial symbiosis – GoCircular, proposed by AM

• WASTE1 – FOSTERING INDUSTRIAL SYMBIOSIS FOR A SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION ACROSS THE VALUE CHAIN – FISSAC, proposed byCSM

ESTEP as an ETP also participates to various projects under the H2020 program, either as part of the project consortium - and thus through proxies as ESTEP is not a legal entity - or as a member of a high-level group or of some other "steering committee":

• EU-KNIGHTS is an FP7 CSA project aiming at analyzing the concept of Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) and exploring whether it would make sense to combine them and how [36]. EU Knights vision's objectives were the following:

• identify and analyze the existing best, recommendable practices and the main barriers to KETs integration

• map from a manufacturing sector point of view the success and failure factors for KETs integration related to different business and innovation strategies

• understand how the current KETs are integrated and adopted by the European industry and society

• elaborate a new model based on developed EU KNIGHTS‟ knowledge and tools for European industrial production, based on more sustainable production and consumption patterns that will be validated and refined on a few selected industrial case studies

• produce orientations and key recommendations for an effective, sustainable and competitive KETs integration scheme fostering the EU manufacturing industry while answering to societal goals

• GT-VET and follow-up projects: SI-DRIVE (Social Innovation Driving Force of Social Change), SIMPACT (boosting the Impact of Social Innovation in

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Europe through Economic Underpinnings) and CASI (Public Participation in Developing a Common Framework for Assessment and Management of Sustainable Innovation).

• MATVAL a CSA project that ended in 2014 (see 2.4).

• MATCH (Material Common House), a project accepted in H2020 with ESTEP participation by proxy (see 2.4).

• CRM-Innonet, where ESTEP is represented by MEFOS, aims at substituting or replacing some critical raw materials by a less scarce resource. ESTEP participates to the two annual meetings.

• RECREATE (Research Network for forward looking activities and assessment of research & innovation prospects in the field of climate, resource efficiency and raw materials), where ESTEP is represented by ArcelorMittal, has the ambition to monitor all the research work carried out on the societal challenge 5 in the next 7 years and to analyze the connection and synergies between the 3 topics (climate change, raw materials and resource efficiency).

• EU!GREAT is a CSA H2020 project accepted for funding in 2014 as an answer to the call NMP-37-2014. EU-GREAT addresses the issue of how to foster large-scale RDI initiatives in Europe, through the opportunities offered by financial engineering. Some RTO participants see it as a continuation of the multi-KETs project [37], which argued in favor of revitalizing the concept and practice of flexible pilot plants that can accommodate various industrial customers, the Steel participants (ESTEP and proxy ArcelorMittal) see it as a way to explore how to deal with high TRL projects that find it difficult to obtain financial support (cf. ).

It is probably helpful to give a status report of the ULCOS (Ultra-Low CO2 Steelmaking) program, which was started in 2004 and was a "lighthouse program" of ESTEP and of its stakeholders, including the Commission [38]. Today, the program continues, although the economic crisis has slowed it down - it also ran into turbu-lences related to the difficulty of tackling high-TRL industrial projects addressing climate change.

The status of the various ULCOS solutions that were the outcome of the first and second phases of the program, are the following:

• ULCOS-BF: the project in Florange (TRL 7-8/9) was shelved in 2012/13, due to many reasons, particularly the financial risk due to the financing system of NER-300 and some technological risks. Continuing work on technical deadlocks as part of ArcelorMittal's research program

• HIsarna: the program continues (TRL 6-7) with pilot plant campaigns in Ijmuiden. New campaign planned with H2020 (SILC II) &/or RFCS funding, if proposals are accepted - LoCo3Fe indeed was.

• ULCORED: awaiting pilot plant trials, not scheduled yet

• ULCOWIN: lab pilot continuing progress (TRL 4-5), in a RFCS project, now finished, and as part of AM research program. A SILC II proposal was also made but was not successful.

• ULCOLYSIS: lab experiments continuing as part of AM research program

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2.3 RFCS and the ESTEP community

Figure 11 - number of papers presented to the "Clean Steel 8" conference in Budapest, in September 2015

The RFCS research program plays a very special role in the research panorama of the EU and is quite essential for the Steel community and therefore for ESTEP as well. Therefore, we wanted to be able to report on it in this activity report, which we could not do last year, because the related information was not yet finalized by the Commission. But the situation in April remains the same as last year and a full account of the outcome RFCS will only be added when the Commission releases the information publicly. This explains missing figure and endnote numbers.

RFCS is the continuation of the research sponsored by the ECSC and, as such, is the oldest and longest active research program in the geopolitical region that has become the EU [39]. It has been running under its various avatars for 61 years! It is thus a forerunner of the present framework programs11 and it ought to play as a model of how the EU can interact with an industrial sector and the social context it represents to foster research for its benefit.

ESTEP's community is very fond of RFCS, because it feels that it is one of the reason why the steel sector still projects a strong leadership worldwide in spite of the extended crisis that it has been confronting since 2008.

As a recent example of this leadership, Figure 11 shows the contribution of papers to the upcoming "Clean Steel 8" conference by world regions: the EU is overwhelmingly the major contributor, followed by China (the overwhelmingly largest steel producer in the world), America, North and South, and the Far East, i.e. Japan, Korea and Taiwan. The theme of the conference is related to a core issue in steel production, i.e. steel cleanliness, which is a subtle and complex matter that has controlled the quality of steel and its evolution for decades and has been in constant evolution!

RFCS has specific features, which explain this rather unusual situation regarding industry in general and the steel sector, worldwide. The research conducted in this program is originating from the research community itself, including industrial research. Projects are selected by a set of independent experts, who are knowle-dgeable with the technical and scientific issues at the highest possible level of expertise. The projects are monitored continuously by technical groups, the role of

11 "The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) can be compared to the European research area

(ERA) for its role in encouraging collaboration and knowledge-sharing in the area of coal and steel research, according to EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin." http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/ecsc-forerunner-of-european-research-area-says-busquin/170139.article

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which is to check progress but also to assist the project coordinators in leading their project towards success. This creates a technical culture, over the years, which is shared by virtually all the players in the area - needless to say, while maintaining the highest standards in terms of confidentiality and of meeting anti-trust rules.

Figure 12- Steel priorities for RFCS calls of 2014 and 2015

Note that the Assessment and Monitoring Report [40] published after 10 years of RFCS research has given an objective and very positive picture of the RFCS program.

Priorities were defined in 2013 and will still be used for the calls of 2015 (cf. Figure 12). They should be revised next year.

2.4 Other research-related initiatives

Several other research-related organizations and instruments exist in Europe, which are of interest for ESTEP's community. One set is related to the European Institute of Innovation (EIT) and includes the Knowledge and Innovations Communities (KIC). Another is related to the networks called ERA-NETs. And there are more, further apart from the EU, like EUREKA.

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2.4.1 The EIT and KICs12

The EIT, with its status inside the EU parallel to that of the EC, is independent for its entrepreneurial and vocational goals but is integrated in H2020 as far as its "Call for KICs proposals" are concerned (e.g. 2.7 G€

in 2014). The emphasis in on activities at the higher end of the TRL scale and connected with emergence of new activities in the economy and entrepreneurship.

To achieve its goals, the EIT has set up a series of Knowledge and Innovation Communities, called KICs or simply labeled as EIT, dealing with the themes it has selected to emphasize:

• Climate-KIC: addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation, created in 2010

• EIT ICT Labs: addressing information and Communication Technologies, created in 2010

• KIC InnoEnergy: addressing sustainable energy, created in 2010

• EIT Health - addressing the theme of innovation for healthy living and active ageing, created in 2014

• EIT Raw Materials - addressing the theme of raw materials - sustainable exploration, extraction, processing, recycling and substitution, created in 2014

• EIT KIC on "added-value manufacturing", still under construction.

Of special interest for the ESTEP community are the EIT on Raw Materials and, possibly, the KIC on manufacturing, which is under construction. Members of ESTEP are directly members of various KICs.

KICs function around a few clusters, called co-location centers.

The EIT on Raw Materials, for example, has 6 clusters in Finland, Sweden, France, Poland, Belgium and Italy [43]. Among its members, which are part of ESTEP's community: ArcelorMittal, LKAB, ERAMET, Tecnalia, CRM and many of its network of Universities. Note also that most of the Geological Surveys of participating countries (21) are members.

The KIC on manufacturing is related to the Manufuture Community, which does not define process industries like Steel production as part of manufacturing. This is a pity, as Intelligent Manufacturing concepts are operative in the Steel sector, used and developed there in original ways (cf. the work of the WGI2M). Hopefully, a connection will eventually be built between the two "twin" worlds!

12 "The EIT is an independent body of the European Union set up in 2008 to spur innovation and

entrepreneurship across Europe to overcome some of its greatest challenges. It brings together leading higher education institutions, research labs and companies to form dynamic cross-border partnerships – Knowledge and Innovation Communities, KICs - that develop innovative products and services, start new companies, and train a new generation of entrepreneurs."

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2.4.2 ERA-NETs13

ERA-NETs are networks bringing together member state agencies supporting research and the EC, with the objective of coordinating EU, national and regional research. When a theme has matured, then coordinated research calls, like joint calls, are launched.

There are presently 23 running ERANETs [44].

Of special interest for ESTEP's community are the M-ERA.NET and the Urban ERA.NET.

The former one, the Materials ERA.NET, launched a joint call in February 2015. It targets: Integrated Computational Materials Engineering, New Surfaces and Coatings, High performance synthetic and bio-based composites, Materials for Sustainable and Affordable Low Carbon Energy Technologies, Tailoring of bioactive material surfaces for health applications and Materials for Additive Manufacturing [45].

The Urban ERA-NET cofounded a Joint Call for Proposals with Smart Cities and Communities (ENSCC) in December 2014 [46]. It targets: Government and social relations, Information and communication technologies, Transport, Smart integrated urban energy and transport systems, Smart tools and services for integrated urban energy and transport systems, Smart data, big data, Smart governance and smart citizens, Energy, Environment.

2.4.3 Others

EUREKA has already been mentioned in connection with the "Metallurgy Europe" project. Its scope is European in the geographical sense and also includes countries from other continents.

13 The objective of the ERA-NET scheme is to step up the cooperation and coordination of research

activities carried out at national or regional level in the Member States and Associated States through: the networking of research activities conducted at national or regional level, and the mutual opening of national and regional research programs.

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3. Steel & the European Commission

3.1 High-level group on Steel

The High Level Group on Steel was created in 2013 to follow up on the implementa-tion of the recommendations of the Round Table on Steel. It met only once in 2014, on 24/06 [47]. A short summary of that meeting is shown below. Moreover, the window shows an excerpt of the minutes, which deal with research and ESTEP: it shows the importance that the EC sees in ETPs and in ESTEP in particular and stresses the essential role of RFCS for the coal and steel sectors as well.

The future of this initiative is still pending although the Commission seems deter-mined to continue it, possibly in a slightly different format.

2.5. Innovation

European Technology Platforms (ETPs) are industry-led stakeholder fora that develop short to long-term research and innovation agendas and roadmaps for action at EU and national level to be supported by both private and public funding. Fora and networks such as ETPs are important because markets, while being powerful drivers of innovation, often do not function perfectly when it comes to generating ideas in an environment with a high degree of uncertainty and a need for coordination, which typifies the innovation process.

The European Steel Technology Platform (ESTEP) was reconfirmed as a 2020 European Technology Platform by the Commission in July 2013, after an evaluation conducted during the first semester of the year. This acknowledges the quality of the work conducted by the Platform since 2003, one of the first ETPs in the EU. ESTEP brings together the major EU Steel producers, along with stakeholders from the Steel value chain, research institutes and major European Universities. ESTEP has been projecting its vision of the future of society and of the seminal role that steel will continue to play in this future through its Strategic Research Agenda, first published in 2004, then updated in 2006 and fully rewritten in 2013.

The Commission explains its vision for the renewed role of ETPs in a document published on 12 July 2013, "Strategy for European Technology Platforms: ETPs 2020". The nature and role of the new ETPs are spelled out there: ETPs are think tanks projecting the view of the future of a significant economic sector as seen by the industry, its value chain and its stakeholders. Furthermore, ETPs are organized in order to turn that projection into action plans that are implemented quickly and efficiently. They focus on R&D&I (R&D and Innovation) as a principal tool to achieve their ambition and help put Europe back on the growth track and contribute to the achievement of the 2020 goals of the EU. ESTEP will thus be part of the implementation of this 2020 vision and offer the view of the industry to the Commission. This increased role for the platform is even more significant now that the Horizon 2020 program is built up and progressively deployed. In addition ESTEP continues working closely with the Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS) contributing to stimulate

the European Steel Research Area.

The discussion led to the following points:

• the EC strives to foster the "right regulatory framework" (EC-MS)

• the EC had a study carried out to estimate the cumulative cost for the steel sector due to EC regulatory burden (Figure 15).

• discussion on VAT evasion

• SUSTEEL label for long products in the EU

• competitiveness proofing

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Figure 15 – Cumulative regulatory costs for EU Steel production (€/tonne)

• the EC strives to "boost demand for steel"

• promoting of key steel-using sectors (construction, car 2020, others)

• the EC strives to foster a "level playing field at international level"

• FTAs (Free Trade Agreements)

• trade defense actions

• action on scrap markets

• surveillance2

• critical raw materials (CRM) (note that coking coal has been added to the list of CRMs, at the request of EUROFER)

• the EC strives to use "Energy, Climate, Resource efficiency to boost competitiveness":

• pursue negotiations towards a binding international agreement on CC in Paris in 2015

• standards for assessing GHG emissions

• guidance on renewable energy support schemes

• towards a EU 2030 climate policy framework

• long-term electricity contracts

• composition and drivers of energy prices to be analyzed in further studies

• the EC strives to foster a "Social dimension"

• anticipation of change, youth-oriented recruitment, EGF, European Skills Council, task-force on closures & downsizing, retraining and re-skilling, structural funds use, labor flexibility schemes

3.2 European Steel Technology Platforms

Almost unique when it was created in 2004, ESTEP is now one of 41 European Technology Platforms-ETPS (cf. box above & Figure 16). Indeed, the EC has created a label, which gave the occasion to define the duties of ETPs [48]. Among these roles, they have to act as an interlocutor of their sector vis-à-vis the Community.

The Commission gathers the platforms once a year in a stakeholders' meeting also called a cross-ETP workshop.

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Figure 16 – list of European Steel Technology Platforms (s). Meaning of acronyms given in an annex.

Figure 17 - Presentation of ESTEP for a cross-ETP workshop

The variety of the platforms is very broad, as they are supposed to cover most activi-ties of the private sector. For example, they may have a large number of SME mem-bers, while others have a small number of large ones - like ESTEP. Most are funded by the sector that they represent, while the Commission finances a few, like ZEP.

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Cross ETP workshops are mostly an occasion for networking beyond one's normal reach. ESTEP introduced itself on the occasion of such a meeting, as shown in Figure 17.

Framework conditions for sectoral Research & Innovation (1)

Q1: What specific EU legal / regulatory instruments (hard and/or soft) stifle or threaten to stifle innovation in your sectors? What underpinning evidence is available?

The steel sector has been active in European research through the RFCS program and indeed, this and the prior ECSC research have provided the foundation on which the present ERA was built. More recently, we have learned to participate to the FP programs and especially to Horizon 2020, directly or through its instruments like the PPPs and especially SPIRE.

There seems to be a strong temptation to unify the administration of all EC research programs and RFCS is dangerously driven towards becoming a clone of H2020 - which it cannot be, as the RFCS calls are white calls based on a bottom-up approach and the funding stems from a special fund built from contributions from the coal and steel sectors, capitalized over the 50 years of the ECSC period. This trend has surfaced recently, with new rules and practices being enacted by the EC representatives in RFCS, without engaging stakeholders in the way that had been developed over a long period of time.

This would be really detrimental to the steel sector, which has built its strength and its present world dominance on technology and high-end steel grades based on age-long practices pragmatically developed over 50 years!

Q2: Does the non-uniform implementation of EU regulations between and / or in Member States hinder innovation in the single market? What underpinning evidence is available?

Innovation is not simply a matter of regulations across Europe, but of local cultures and practices as well. Here, in "this" part of Europe, a collective organization will be in a position to speak with a strong and representative voice, whereas there, in another part of Europe, voices will be more numerous. Moreover, RTOs are not spread evenly across Europe and represent, not so much local interests, as local cultures.

This does not play much of a role when only the steel sector is involved, as RTOs working on steel have been mostly traditional stakeholders of the steel sector and belong to the steel community, but is obvious in a large context like SPIRE.

Non-uniformity also applies to the sectors represented in SPIRE: of course, synergies and commonalities should be stressed, but the specific features of each sector should remain important.

Q3: What specific gaps, if any, do you think exist that would need to be covered by EU legal / regulatory instruments (hard and / or soft) in the sectors covered by your PPP?

Legal and regulatory instruments, in the EU, are already very numerous and some would say, excessive. It looks like the new commission has decided to act on this and to drastically cut down on the number of new directives. Therefore, I would refrain to propose something new here myself! Moreover, I would advocate leaner and simple formulations of the existing directives.

Jean-Pierre BIRAT, Secretary General, ESTEP, 18/12/2014

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Framework conditions for sectoral Research & Innovation (2)

Q1 What is the rationale of your proposals? Which market(s) and technology is in question? Which are the business cases blocked? What are the drivers, barriers, bottlenecks and uncertainties? What available underpinning economic and business data could you provide?

My point was related to the specific features of the RFCS program, which in principle covers the whole area of research related to coal and steel.

The argument was that RFCS is different from H2020 programs in several dimensions, is actually older than the framework programs and has developed a connection with the two sectors that are fairly unique. In the steel sector, RFCS is probably one of the key reasons why the sector manages to remain in the top world leadership in terms of process technology and steel products, even though market conditions have seriously deteriorated since 2008.

The best evidence can be found in the monitoring report published by the EC itself.

My specific point was that applying H2020 rules to RFCS should be limited to very simple areas and should not transform the spirit of the program, as it has been working successfully today.

The RFCS "ad hoc" working group has been the occasion to voice this viewpoint in greater details.

Q2. Which concrete regulations are concerned? What is the regulatory landscape? Are there eventually regulations missing? What are the links between these regulations and the innovation barriers?

The key issue is related to the application of "new" rules related to conflict of interest, which tend to favor the use of experts, which are not really privy to the core of steel technology, and thus to undermine the relevance of the selection of projects.

The operation of the Technical Groups is also threatened, as the conflict of interest rules are now being applied in such a way that the best experts are eliminated from the interaction with the project leader.

The fabric of the integration of R&D with the sector and its performance and competitivity rely in part on the continuing operation of these TGs along the rules which have been in application for decades.

Q3. What solutions do you propose? What kind of instruments and actions can be used? What would be the outcome and which improvements are envisaged?

There is little urgency or need to modify operating rules of the RFCS program and the TGs. Convergence towards H2020, presented by the EC as a necessity, does not strike the

sector as so pressing!

Q4. What are the in/direct economic, social, environmental impacts on the identified regulatory barrier(s)? Who is affected by these impacts and in what ways?

This has been answered as part of Q1.

Jean-Pierre BIRAT, Secretary General, ESTEP, 31/01/2015

ESTEP was consulted by the Commission (DG Grow) regarding the framework for sectoral research and innovation. The questions and answers are given in the boxes above. Our messages were related to the specific features of RFCS for the steel sector, which ought to be maintained compared to the framework program and to the issue of how to encourage high TRL projects, especially when they address societal issues without a clear business model.

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3.3 High-TRLs projects

One essential issue for the Steel sector, which was taken up regularly in 2014 by ESTEP in its own internal meetings and in liaising with the Commission is related to high-TRL projects. The meaning of the TRL scale is shown in Figure 18.

Figure 18 – TRLs (Technology Readiness Level) redefined for H2020 projects

The high-TRL issues have been regularly featured in various meetings, i.e. in most of the last ESTEP high-level meetings (steering committee SC-11, supports groups SG-33-34-35, Mirror Group MG-6), in several meetings with the EC (special SILC II meeting, special meeting with DG Research (Clara de la Tore), special meeting of the Program Committee regarding SILC II, etc.) and with the RFCS unit and in a proposed visit to the Hisarna pilot, by participating to the EU-Great! Project (see further) and in close coordination with EUROFER through several letters sent to Commission officers & 3 Commissioners, which culminated in meetings with at cabinet level.

Our messages were clear & simple:

• high-TRL projects are complex to finance, especially when they relate to societal challenges not yet internalized in the market economy and, therefore, when there is no business model and thus no business plan. Commercialization, which ought to take place eventually, raises an even larger problem!

• high-TRL projects require very high budgets, much larger than the R&I grants that RFCS and H2020 can provide (typically, 50-500 M€).

• high-TRL projects raise high levels of risk, at technical, financial and business levels

• high-TRL projects require a continuity of purpose, in terms of continuous financing of a string of consecutive projects, on the side of business, of the research community and the financers (e.g., for example, the EC). Typically projects of this kind may extend over 10 years or more!!!

• the steel community has interesting examples to show, regarding ULCOS & ULCOS solutions, like ULCOS-BF (NER-300), Hisarna (RFCS, SILC-II), ULCOWIN (RFCS, FP6, SILC-II)

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The Commission's response to the need for high budgets consists in proposing to perform a complex financial engineering exercise, based on combining RTD grants, national funding including ESIF, bank loans (EIB) and private funding, while relaxing rules on level of subsidies through the IPCEI format and offering SPIRE as an entry point:

• this is not completely satisfactory yet, as no single window for financing is provided, no simulations have been run to demonstrate where this leads and because the amount of money available is probably too low. Moreover, trans-sectorality, which is a prerequisite to bid support related to SPIRE, does not work so well at high TRLs.

The Commission's response to the matter of high risks consists in offering support from the EIB:

• this is not quite satisfactory either: this matter of risk was at the root of the failure of NER-300 #1, where there were provisions for funding to be paid only after full success (demonstrated over a period of 10 years!), with no scheme for financing the project until then. All the projects filed initially were removed by Members States, and practically also by the industries on behalf of which they were acting, before the Commission could allocate the funding.

• it seems necessary to tackle the various kinds of risks separately by propos-ing a new vision.

The Commission's response to the lack of continuity of support is also not quite satisfactory. Indeed, matters of conflict of interest are put to the forth and given absolute priority.

We absolutely need refined responses and we probably ought to work with the Commission to formulate them. For example, as already discussed in various meetings:

• there is a need for more financing funds, which could be exhibited by increasing the budget of RFCS by a factor 2, or by using money from environmental taxes or from ETS benefits

• there might be a need for a single window for financing

• there might be a need to simulate a financial engineering scheme on one example, for instance an ULCOS solution

• there is a need for some new thoughts regarding risk

High-level discussions are taking place now between EUROFER, ESTEP and the Commission, at expert and political levels, which, hopefully, will resolve these differences.

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4. ESTEP, a Think Tank projecting a vision of steel and its value chain in the middle & long terms

ESTEP's core document is its Strategic Research Agenda, a new version of which was published in 2013. Another will most likely be produced by 2018.

In between, the show carries on through publications, talks, lectures including many introductory and invited ones, specific seminars organized by ESTEP or with the participation and support of ESTEP and foresight exercises, which explore new themes of possible relevance to the steel sector, opportunities and possibly threats or both. All of these are detailed in the following sub-sections.

ESTEP acts as a Think Tank for the European Steel sector, a role in which it had competitors around the world in the past, but where it remains fairly unique now.

Maintaining a high quality in foresight methodology is essential for the quality of the production of ESTEP. A particularly remarkable example of this, to which ESTEP is proud to have contributed since its very beginning, is the SOVAMAT initiative, which has led to the series of Society and Materials seminars (SAM) [49].

4.1 Publications of ESTEP's community

ESTEP's community publications are directly related to its research activities at organization's level and they lie outside of ESTEP's scope.

We only mention here publications and presentations, which claim a direct con-nection to ESTEP as an ETP, thus publications by the working groups or by the secretary general. All of them are mentioned on the website and most can be downloaded from there, depending on their copyright status [50].

Publication and presentations of 2014 and early 2015 have been the following:

[1] J.-P. Birat, O. Hoffmann. Steel and the green cars initiative in Europe. Revue de Métallurgie, doi:10.1051/metal/2013083. (e-first publication), Vol. 110, No. 6 (2013), p. 415-428, published with WG2

[2] J.-P. Birat, Shale gas & unconventional energy in a steel context, BHV annual conference, invited lecture, Örebro, Sweden, 25 January 2014

[3] J.-P. Birat, Steel & humanity's grand challenges, CRU World Steel 2014, 17-19 March 2014, Prague, Czech Republic, ESTEP webside

[4] J.-P. Birat, ESTEP & Poland, IMZ, Gliwice, 4 April 2014

[5] J.-P. Birat, Resource issues in the Steel Industry, WS13, Industrial Technologies 2014, Athens, Greece, 10-12 April 2014

[6] J.-P. Birat, Materials & Humanity's grand challenges, EUMAT workshop: materials as natural bridging elements between technological cultures, Industrial Technol-ogies 2014, Athens, Greece, 10-12 April 2014

[7] H. Lavelaine de Maubeuge, J.-P. Birat, Electrification of iron metal production, 8th International Conference on Society & Materials, SAM-8, Liège, 20-21 May 2014

[8] JP. Birat, Humanities grand challenges and materials, 8th International Confer-ence on Society & Materials, SAM-8, Liège, 20-21 May 2014

[9] JP. Birat, Shale Gas, LCA & broader issues, 8th International Conference on Soci-ety & Materials, SAM-8, Liège, 20-21 May 2014

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[10] J.-P. Birat, Steel Industry: culture & futures, plenary lecture, ECCC 2014, Graz, 23-24/06/2014

[11] J.-P. Birat, E. Malfa, V. Colla, J.S. Thomas, SUSTAINABLE steel production for the 2030s: the vision of the European Steel Technology Platform's Strategic Research Agenda (ESTEP's SRA), CleanTech, TechConnect World, the world in-novation conference, 15-18 June 2014, Washington, DC, published with WG4

[12] Jean-Pierre Birat, Bonnes feuilles of SAM-7, Aix-la-Chapelle, 25–26 April 2013, Online publication July 04 2014, Metallurgical Research & Technology / Volume 111 / Issue 03 / January 2014, pp 129-130

[13] J.-P. Birat, Quelle place pour l'acier et la sidérurgie dans les sociétés post-mo-dernes, etc… ? Récits et story telling, Journée scientifique et amicable en l'hon-neur de Denis Ablitzer, Ecole des Mines de Nancy, Nancy, 3 septembre 2014

[14] J.-P. Birat, Technology and Vision, Steel Solutions in the 21st Century: 7 nar-ratives about steel, Plenary 1: The Innovation Landscape, European Steel En-vironment Congress ESEC, 15 Sep 2014 - 17 Sep 2014, Teesside University, Teesside, UK, accepted in Matériaux & Techniques

[15] J.-P. Birat, Life-Cycle Assessment - Resource Efficiency and Recycling, Future Circular Materials Conference 2014, 23-24 September 2014, Stockholm, Sweden. Accepted in Materials Research and Technology, 2015

[16] J.-P. Birat, MATVAL round table, Leading Enabling Technologies for Societal Challenges, LET's 2014, Bologna, 29/09-1/10/2014

[17] J.-P. Birat, E. Malfa, V. Colla, J.S. Thomas, SUSTAINABLE steel production for the 2030s: the vision of the European Steel Technology Platform's Strategic Research Agenda (ESTEP's SRA), 14th IAEE European Energy Conference, Sus-tainable Energy Policy and Strategies for Europe, October 28-31, 2014, Rome, It-aly, LUISS University of Rome, published with WG4

[18] J.-P. Birat, R. Alberny, G. Denier, Hommage au professeur Cai Kaike 蔡开科

(1936-2014), Matériaux & Techniques 102(5) - 2014, N10 p.1 & p.2, DOI: 10.1051/mattech/2014044

[19] J.-P. Birat, Scientific research takes place in silos, Society & Materials - selec-tion of papers to the SAM-8 conference, Matériaux & Techniques, ©EDP Sci-ences, 2014, DOI: 10.1051/mattech/2014040

[20] JP. Birat, Le recyclage, à l'interface de la technologie et des défis sociétaux. Que signifie vraiment le terme d'économie circulaire ?, Matériaux 2014, 24-28 novembre 2014, Montpellier

[21] J.-P. Birat, S. Belboom, A. Declich, G. Fick, J.-S. Thomas, The Society And Materials series of conferences, a sustained effort to develop new methodologies to connect industry and societal challenges across the divides of disciplines, the Future-oriented Technology Analysis Conference, 5th edition, 27 and 28 Novem-ber 2014, Brussels

[22] J-P. Birat, R. Nicolle, Invention du procédé d‟élaboration de l‟acier sur sole, dans Recueil des Commémorations nationales 2015, Paris, Éditions du patrimoine / Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication - Archives de France (mission aux Commémorations nationales), 2014, 224-225, 334 pages

[23] J-P. Birat, In memoriam, À la mémoire de Jean-Sébastien Thomas (1968 - 2014), Matériaux et Techniques,

[24] J-P. Birat, L'économie circulaire, les matériaux, l'économie et le temps, SF2M 1945-2015, 70 ans de Métallurgie et de Matériaux, 20 mars 2015, maison de la chimie, Paris (conférences invitées)

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[25] J-P. Birat, A. Declich, S. Belboom, G. Fick, J-S. Thomas, M. Chiappini, Society and Materials, a series of regular seminars based on a dialog between soft and hard sciences, 1st ARTEM OCC 2015

[26] J.-P. Birat, Steel product development, Eurosteelmaster 2015, 7th Edition, San Gemini (Italy – Umbria), 11-14 May, 2015

[27] J.-P. Birat, Clean steels and environmental metallurgy, Clean Steels, Hungary in 2015

[28] AIST International Alliance Lecture, 4 May 2015, Cleveland: invitation was re-fused by ESTEP

[29] Schröder, Antonius, Echterhoff, Veit (2014), Soziale Innovationen: Ein Konzept für die Unternehmensentwicklung? Technologische und betriebliche Innovationen als soziale Innovationsprozesse. In: profile, 24 (14), p138-149, published by WG5

[30] V. Echterhoff, Future Challenges on human resources in the EU Steel Industry, Eurosteelmaster 2015, 7th Edition, San Gemini (Italy – Umbria), 11-14 May, 2015, published by WG5

[31] P. Gimondo, Steel Products Applications, Eurosteelmaster 2015, 7th Edition, San Gemini (Italy – Umbria), 11-14 May, 2015, published by WG6

[32] E. Malfa, Environmental Impact and Climate Change, Eurosteelmaster 2015, 7th Edition, San Gemini (Italy – Umbria), 11-14 May, 2015, published by WG4

[33] V. Echterhoff, A. Schroeder, EU talent survey, to be published at the 1/04/2015 Steering Committee, published by WG5

4.2 ESTEP seminars and sponsored events

ESTEP and its WGs have been organizing seminars and sponsoring others:

• Society and Materials seminars: the 8th edition, SAM-8, took place in Liège in 2014, hosted by the University of Liège, and the 9th edition, SAM-9, will take place in Luxembourg (11-12/6/2015), hosted by LIST. These seminars are organized and supported by ArcelorMittal, IRT-M2P, ESTEP (SG) and the host organization.

• the 2nd ESPAD planned in Düsseldorf (17/6/2015), will have a special session dedicated to I2M driven by the I2M WG.

• a Nuclear Workshop took place on 13 March and 6 June 2014, co-organized by WG6. Another seminar on the same topic is planned for 2015.

• A "Workshop on Eurocodes (EN1993)" took place on 16-17 October, 2014 in Brussels, centered on the design of Steel Buildings, in collaboration with ECCS by WG3

• a seminar on "steels for Ultra Super Critical Power Plants in Europe" is planned for 2015, organized by WG6

• a seminar on " Wind turbine structures" is planned for 2015, organized by WG6 & WG3

• a joint workshop on "Future Cities" with ECTP is foreseen for Q3/4 2015

• ESTEP participates to the organizing committee or to the scientific commit-tees of several forthcoming events: the Slag Congress at KU Leuven (15/4/2015), the Clean Steel-9 conference, in Hungary (8-10/9/2015), SCANMET-6 (International Conference on Process Development in

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Iron/Steelmaking) in Luleå, Sweden, June 12-15, 2016, and WMP (World Materials Perspectives), Nancy (May 2015)

4.3 On-going foresight exercises

ESTEP continues exploring new areas and uses foresight tools to do so.

The ESTEP WGs are presently working on the following topics:

• how can steel improve sustainable production, inside its own sector and as an enabler in other sectors that use steel extensively?

• biodiversity & the Steel sector

• the I2M-Roadmap is under rewriting

• more topics are under consideration in several working groups, like Big Data, Additive Manufacturing, Renewable energy & the energy transition, etc.

ESTEP members also work in other organizations, like PPPs. Thus an “equivalent“ ICT WG as WG I2M was set up in A-SPIRE, with important contribution of some of our members (H. Peters as coordinator, C. Pietrosanti, J. Delsing, L. Chefneux). Cf. page 18.

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5. ESTEP’s organization and its evolution

ESTEP, the European Steel Technology Platform, is one of the very first ETPs created in Europe. It was imagined in 2002, prepared in 2003 and officially launched in May 2004. ESTEP‟s working groups gather stakeholders of the European steel industry, Academia, Research and Technology Organizations, Equipment Suppliers and clients of the steel industry. In addition, the European Commission and the Member States are represented in the management committees. The Platform is financially supported by the EU steel industry only and is not a legal entity. That is why ESTEP is not run by a Board and a General Assembly, but by a Steering Committee.

Three Committees are in charge of setting and managing the strategy of ESTEP, which in terms of research and technology vision is embodied in the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA).

- the Steering Committee (SC), which meets once a year. It is in charge of deciding technical priorities, strategy and ways & means of implementing the SRA. The last meeting of the Steering Committee took place on 1 April 2014 (SC-11).

- the Support Group, which holds 3 meetings per year. It is in charge of piloting the overall actity program. The SG reviews the work made in the working groups (WGs), ensures that all WGs are in line with the Strategic Research Agenda, and it coordinates between the WGs. SG-32-33 & 34 took place in 2014 and SG-35, on 3 February 2015.

- the Mirror Group (MG) is composed of Member State representatives. 18 Member States out of the EU 27 have been represented so far. The MG holds a meeting every 18-24 months. It aims at contributing to ESTEP‟s objectives. It serves to provide information and communication between the SC and Member States regarding the implementation of the Framework Program. The MG informs ESTEP about policies and programs that are relevant to ESTEP‟s activities. The last Mirror Group meeting (MG-6) was held on 18 November 2014.

Seven working groups have been dealing with the implementation of the SRA in different domains, which is the formal way of saying that they are the core of the Platform, the "production unit" where the work is done, including the continuous reformulation of the foresight vision on which the SRA is based:

- three working groups deal with steel production. WG1-Profit & Innovation works on the development of safe, clean, energy-efficient and cost-efficient technologies. WG-I2M deals with the transversal management of production, based on ICT, sensors, modeling and integrated technologies. WG4 Planet works on all innovative solutions to improve CO2 emissions, conservation of resources, recovery of waste and the societal value of materials.

- three working groups deal with steel applications: WG2, appealing steel solutions for transport (mainly automotive), WG3, steel solutions for construction and WG6, steel solutions for Energy.

- one working group, WG 5 People, deals with attracting people to the steel industry, based on skill development, education and training programs, and, more recently, occupational safety and social innovation.

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Figure 19 – Organization and governance of ESTEP (2014)

Finally, two additional groups bring cross-support to the working groups:

- the Implementation Group assists ESTEP bodies in implementing the SRA. The European Commission participates, thus providing working groups with information regarding EU programs (i.e. FP7) and new EC initiatives. The last meeting was held on 27 June 2012.

Figure 20 – participation of steel companies to the various WGs of ESTEP in 2014 (in number of participants)

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documents for the WGs and the Support Group; publication of ESTEP‟s newsletters (2 issues per year), with N° 11 in July and N°12 in Dec 2013.

The latest changes of organization and individual nominations were approved during the last Steering Committee in March 2013. WG I2M has thus started to operate independently of WG1, of which it used to be a subcommittee. D. Valenti replaced E. Riva as vice-president of ESTEP in 2015.

Figure 21 - distribution of member organizations according to their category

Figure 22 - distribution of member participation (# of people) according to the category of their organization

The participation of ESTEP's members to the life of the organization is shown in Figure 20 and in the following ones.

The largest steel producers contribute WG members in connection with their size. Compared to the other categories of members, the steel membership provides the largest cohort of participants to the committees and working groups (Figure 22), which is not surprising, while the other stakeholders are satisfactorily represented in terms of number of organizations (Figure 21).

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6. Activities of ESTEP management groups

6.1 Steering Committee

Date 1 April 2014

Venue EUROFER/ESTEP premises - Brussels

Participants 41

Outcomes Introduction

The situation of the steel sector has started to improve slightly after more than 5 years of crisis. The European Commission sent mixed signals: on the one hand Horizon 2020, the High

Level Group on Steel and the Industrial Renaissance agenda are reaffirming the importance and the central role of industry and Steel, but, on the other hand, there is a continuing

regulatory pressure related to energy and CO2 emissions which translates into extra costs.

Financing of breakthrough technologies is necessary to meet the targets that European Commission is demanding.

ESTEP Organization

Francois Mudry (F.M.) is leaving ESTEP and the Steering Committee approves the nomination

of Michael Steinhorst (M.S.) as the new chairman of the Support Group.

EIP on Raw Materials

Gwenole Cozigou (Director at DG Enterprise and Industry, directorate F) presented the

European Innovation Partnership on raw materials (EIP RM). There is a link between the Steel Action Plan and the Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) of the European Innovation

Partnership on raw materials (EIP RM): they have in common the goal to support competitiveness of the relevant industries.

Steel plays a relevant role in all the three pillars of the EIP RM: 1) technological, 2) non

technological, 3) international, e.g. in the field of substitution of Critical Raw Materials (for Materials under extreme conditions and in Applications using materials in large quantities), or

in the field of recycling.

80 voluntary commitments have been made by stakeholders to implement the SIP of the EIP.

Commitments are joint undertakings by several partners, who commit to activities aimed at

achieving the EIP's objectives. They aim to deliver innovative products, processes, services, technologies, business models or ideas that can be brought to the market or that would bring

wider societal benefits. Several of them are relevant for the steel sector. This is for instance the case of the consortium “CRM Innonet – Innovation network for substitution of critical raw

materials”, which focuses on substitution, one of the strategies to reduce the reliance of a company on imported critical raw materials. “FerroNi”, on the development of Innovative

Technologies for processing low grade, fine feeds for the primary ferronickel production

industry and “NASSCO” on New Affordable Stainless Steel for extreme Conditions are also of relevance.

Finally, the EIP has largely influenced the content of Horizon 2020, the EU Research and Innovation Programme, towards achieving its objectives. In Horizon 2020, the most interesting

call from the point of view of steel is probably the Focus Area "Waste: Resource to Recycle,

Reuse and Recover Raw Materials ", which is relevant for recycled steel. The budget allocated for "Waste" is 73 million euros.

Finally, opportunities to finance breakthrough technologies are to be found in the SPIRE Call (Public-Private Partnership on Sustainable Process Industries (SPIRE PPP)). This PPP has

currently an open call on the topic "Solids handling for intensified process technology", where steel industry is mentioned.

There is no funding directly linked to European Innovation Partnerships. However, various

topics under Horizon 2020 are designed to make sure the EIP Strategic Implementation Plan is reflected.

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State of the Innovation Union

Update on the restructuring within DG Research and Innovation where Innovation and European Research Area (ERA) merged and Peter Droll is the new acting director. In the

Innovation Policy Unit Kirsti Haavisto is acting head and Chris North is the ETP overall

coordinator. The programme management has been largely externalized and undertaken by agencies.

The news from the 2014 Innovation Union scoreboard is that EU is catching up with international competitors like Japan and South Korea.

The 21st of March the European Council assessed the implementation of Europe 2020 strategy

and recognized the need of a strong and competitive industry achievable through the best possible use of instruments such as Horizon2020. European Research Area remains the largest

knowledge production center in the world.

On 19 December 2013 an ETP stakeholder workshop was organized and 70 representatives

from ETPs participated along with representative from the European Commission. The importance of a cross-ETPs cooperation was underlined. Possible next steps are testing a

cross-ETPs value chain approach in relation to specific societal challenges. The future priorities

are to provide contributions for H2020 work program, improve participation and implement the renewed ETP strategy (greater cross-sectorial working).

ESTEP news.

The Support Group chairman, F.Mudry, presents the last ESTEP activities. ESTEP has been very

proactive in supporting the implementation of H2020. However, there are few important

details to take in consideration. One is the fact that a cross-sectorial approach is difficult to maintain for high TRLs (Technology Readiness Level), where technology needs to focus on

specific applications. Another issue is to identify how to finance high TRL projects as R&I calls have rather small budgets. RFCS is particularly limited in this domain. A research and

innovation program should support high R&I risks and a financial scheme allowing larger amounts of funding should probably be imagined.

Steel Production, energy efficiency, WG7 conclusions

The Secretary General, Jean-Pierre Birat, presents the outcomes of WG7, launched in June 2010 with the mission to propose a simple and efficient methodology for data collection

regarding energy use in steel mills, both BF/BOF and EAF routes and all production steps. The WG was chaired by Bertrand de Lamberterie and lasted until the end of 2013.

The participants to this group were experts from EU steel companies and research centers.

WG7 met the objectives of the group on the definition of the methodology and energy templates, the completion of the database for the 10 targeted plants, the analysis of the

results and remaining progress steps for the targeted plants and recommendations for further energy saving areas. For further action at European level on energy in the steel industry

(energy assessment, voluntary agreements, etc.), the WG strongly recommends to use this

methodology.

Update on ULCOS solutions: ULCOS-BF, Hisarna, ULCORED, ULCOWIN.

Jean Borlée explains that ULCOS has been the most ambitious program in the steel industry to address the Climate Change issue at a radical level. The objective is to develop breakthrough

steel production routes to reduce specific CO2 emissions by a factor 2. The first phase lasted from 2002 to 2010 and the second phase started in 2009. It has been managed by a

consortium of the largest EU steel producers. Four ULCOS-solution routes were selected for

further developments: ULCOS-BF, HISARNA, ULCORED and ULCOWIN.

ULCOS-BF decreases energy and carbon consumptions, should improve BF productivity and the

amount of CO2 avoided (1.15 t/t steel) should exceed the amount of CO2 stored (0.8 t/t steel). The pilot test (ULCOS I) was carried out on the experimental furnace of LKAB in Sweden,

where CO2 capture and re-injection systems were installed.

Koen Meijer presented the HIsarna project. HIsarna is one of the four ULCOS-solutions. So far, over 35 mln euro have been invested in this new technology that offers a combination of

environmental and economic benefits. Regarding the environmental benefit, HIsarna requires no coking and no sintering plants. The energy and CO2 balance is calculated by including

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import/export power, oxygen production and import/export gas. The benefits are: 20% lower CO2 emission per ton, favorable combination with CO2 capture (80% lower CO2 emissions per

ton of steel, when CO2 storage is applied), and reduction of other emissions (NOx, SOx, dust and CO). Regarding economic benefit, Hisarna uses non-metallurgical coal and has less quality

requirement for the ore. Thus the benefits are: use of low grade iron ores, use of plant waste

oxides or mining reverts, 100´% non-coking coals and reduced CAPEX compared to a greenfield BF.

Hervé Lavelaine presented the ULCOWIN process, the Electrolysis of iron ore route to steel. Low temperature electrolysis is the most flexible route to produce iron metal from iron ore.

The ULCOWIN processing route requires a preliminary treatment of the iron ore by grinding and leaching, electrolysis and then malting of the iron deposits in an electrical arc furnace,

discontinuous process operation (interruption of a cell to harvest the deposit), and ancillary

equipment for continuous recirculation of the electrolyte.

The operating conditions of ULCOWIN are a temperature of electrolysis of 110°C, a suspension

of iron oxide particles in an alkaline solution, a high conductive electrolyte with low ohmic loss, iron ore supplied as fine hematite particles, 10µm in size.

The electrolytic process generates zero direct emission. Iron metal is produced by direct

reduction in a single operation and it has a low environmental impact, as the only products are iron and oxygen gas.

6.2 Mirror Group

Date 6th MG, 18 November 2014

Venue Eurofer/Estep, Brussels

Participants 28

Outcomes Introduction

The attention of the European Commission to the sector is expressed by important tools such as H2020 and the High Level Group on Steel.

The role of research is crucial in this situation and the steel sector has been a pioneer in this

field, as proved by the essential role of RFCS that dates back to 60 years! The chairman stressed the importance of the program for the sector and the synergies with H2020 to be pur-

sued. ESTEP over the last 2 years

Since it was created, the structure of ESTEP did not change but there are several new people.

The ESTEP chairman is now Dr. Heribert Fisher, the chairman of the support group is Michael Steinhorst, the new Secretary General is Jean-Pierre Birat and the secretariat is now managed

by Rosellina Di Santo. ESTEP was founded in 2004 (one of the first ETP) and in 2013 was confirmed by the Commis-

sion as a "2020 ETP".

The main roadmap of ESTEP is the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) regularly updated and published in a new version in 2013.

In the last Mirror Group there was a presentation on ULCOS. The program started in 2004 and is continuing as:

ULCOS-BF, as part of ArcelorMittal's research program,

HIsarna (proposals for RFCS and SILC II were filed earlier in 2014),

ULCORED (awaiting pilot plant trials),

ULCOWIN (a SILC II proposal was filed) and ULCOLYSIS (lab experiments continuing

as part of AM's research program). Regarding the connection of ESTEP with the European Commission, a major and essential pro-

gram is RFCS. The evaluation process is under way.

The platform is working with KICs, and mainly with Innoenergy, climate-KIC, EIT-ICT-Lab, Added value Manufacturing (which is under construction).

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ESTEP is liaising with many other ETPs, with associations and analyses the impact of steel on

H2020 societal challenges.

Horizon 2020 and KETs' State of play The Director of DG Research, directorate D, Clara de la Torre, introduces the priorities of the

new Commission which are: strengthen the industrial basis: bring industry‟s weight in the EU‟s GDP up to 20%, (today

is less than 16%)

investment in R&D is part of the solution for Job & Growth (the 3% for R&D target is very

important for Europe). Today there is a lack of business investments in R&D. There is the

need to create the right framework to incentivise the private sector to invest more in R&D Horizon 2020 is characterized by 3 components: excellence in science, industrial leadership and

societal challenges. The difference with the past is that it has a strong challenge-based ap-proach, is less prescriptive (with strong emphasis on expected impact) and has reinforced the

importance of SMEs. It has a simplified structure and now 5 months are foreseen for evalua-tion and 3 for contracting (time to grant). LEIT, Leadership in Enabling Industrial Technologies, is part of the second pillar of H2020 (In-

dustrial Leadership) and a particular emphasis is given to the Key Enabling Technologies (KETs). In terms of loans here we have different windows for big companies and SMEs(e.g.

InnoFin which is a new loan under Horizon2020) KETs include six technologies crucial for industrial competitiveness: nanotechnologies, ad-

vanced materials, micro and nano-electronics, photonics, biotechnology and advanced manu-

facturing. The main priority for KETs is a strong industrial dimension and therefore the entire value chain

is taken into consideration. Cross-cutting KETs (combination of KETs and manufacturing) represents 30% of KET's budget.

KETs are important for EU competitiveness because they have a huge potential for growth and they represent an opportunity for regions, large companies and SMEs. There is a need to work

with every funding structure through joined forces in order to achieve the best. EU supports

KETs deployment, in particular via dedicated provisions in Horizon 2020, the European Struc-tural and investment funds and the EIB lending activities. It is important to have full involve-

ment and participation of research community, industry, MSs and regions. Foresight at the European Institutions, ESPAS

Didier Schmitt (DS) introduces the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS),

which is an ambitious project in which all major EU institutions participate. It was launched in 2010 and includes the European Parliament, the Council, the Commission and the European

External Action Service. In 2012 the first report was presented on global trends 2030 and in 2014 a report was finalized on long terms trends. The first megatrend relates to demography which has consequences on different activities. Asia is becoming the center of the world with more than the 50% of the world‟s population.

Africa and India are growing very fast and, at the end of the century, population in Africa will

double (Africa is the youngest continent). Aging is an issue in Europe where most of the popu-lation will be retired in 2050.

Regarding the economy, the growth is outside of Europe. 20% of the world GDP is in China. Manpower in Africa, India and China will be 5 times more than in the EU.

Society will evolve and in 2030 we will have more inequalities on health, digital divide, gender,

education and labor market. 2/3 of the middle class will be in Asia, where people will try to have a western lifestyle (eat meat, have cars, etc.). The health sector will be even more une-

qual; affordability of good health will be a serious problem. The trust in politics is expected to fall and by 2050 new ways have to be invented to solve im-

portant, global political problems.

Technology will play a major role in the future where everything will be interconnected and electronics will become deeply integrated in manufacturing.

It is the society that will define technology needs and technology itself in the future, no longer experts. More information sharing will become necessary.

A survey shows that Europeans consider health and wellbeing to be the most important ele-ment for the future.

High-TRL research and demonstrators.

Michael Steinhorst, Support Group chairman, introduces the challenges of the high-TRL pro-jects. Steel industry is a capital-intensive sector and European steel industry has been able to

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remain competitive through continuous innovations throughout all the value chain. EU regulations put a substantial cost burden on the steel industry, which impairs profitability

and reduces means for innovation. There should be more support for innovation as return of

these regulatory costs. Today Blast Furnaces are operating at their technical limits with regards to their CO2 emissions.

If the aim is to reduce emissions further, drastic changes are needed. At the pilot phase no earnings are possible, on the contrary there are only costs and this might

lead to be stuck in the valley of death, i.e. the point between proof of concepts, the beginning of mass production and significant sales.

This valley of death is typically between TRL 4 and 7. From TRL 8 we have the implementa-

tion of a new technology, but at any TRL remains the risk that innovation will not be success-ful.

Of course, the larger the financial risk becomes, the more advanced and mature the develop-ment is.

Other countries actively support industry to get through this valley of death (e.g. China or Ko-

rea), where, globally, there are schemes that support the funding and the transfer from lab to production. We can talk about the European Investment Bank but it is a loan that they pro-

pose and the risk lies in the consortium to pay back the money, success or not. Therefore policy and financial support should not end up at a certain TRL level.

6.3 Support Group

Date 32nd SG, 4 February 2014

Venue Estep, Brussels

Participants 16

Outcomes ESTEP News. François Mudry (FM) announces that he has to resign as chairman of the Support Group, in order to avoid any conflict of interest with his new commitments in France.

He will be replaced by Michael Steinhorst (MS), who accepted the role and will take over the

position from 1 April, after formal approval by the Steering Committee. FM thanks participants for helping him and gives his wishes to MS.

New members are in the process of joining ESTEP: SKF, LKAB, IJL, Tenova, IMG. The redefined duties of ESTEP, labeled by the Commission as a "2020 ETPs" are:

• foresight studies should be turned in an action plan.

• ESTEP should be also active in looking for financing • work in synergy with other sectors (like in SPIRE) …

• …also beyond EU borders. • Dissemination

Progress of WG1: presented by L. Chefneux on behalf of the chair, C. Marique. Activities on SPIRE: synthesis about the brokerage event of October 22, and different

possibilities of SPIRE calls for this and next year.

Next steps for the group are to continue and promote the exchange of projects in line with H2020 and SPIRE.

Progress of WGI2M (Integrated Intelligent Manufacturing): L. Chefneux The WG is formally a sub-group of WG1 but it is also connected to WG4 and WG5. The co-

chairmen are: L. Chefneux and Harald Peters.

For the first time this sub-group shows its activities in the Support Group meeting. I2M is defined by advanced technological aspects of IT with the addition of quality control,

management of the supply and production chains and use of knowledge. 10 key concepts: integrated, sensors, automatic control, IT and data processing systems, modeling simulation

and optimization, diagnostic, product quality control, maintenance, supply and production

chain management, use of knowledge; if a project includes at least three of these concepts it can be labeled as a I2M project.

Progress of WG 2: Oliver Hoffmann The proposal 2.7 for RFCS was updated.

The results of a survey on what should be the next activities show that:

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• several contacts/meetings ought to be organized, with the PPP EGVI, the EIP on Smart

Cities & Communities and that the chairs of the transport TGS should be invited to the WG2.

• integrate OEMs in the group (need to be prepared for these discussions), • regarding the calls relevant for transport topics, the recommendation is to focus on

FoF (Factory of the Future), GV (Green Vehicles) and MG (Mobility Growth). • there is a chance to get a better score in the evaluation process of the Commission by

integrating social aspects in a proposal.

In the future, the output of the WG ought to be to finalize proposals, defining priority for RFCS and recommend future actions for H2020 (2016-17).

Progress of WG 3: no update. Progress of WG 4: JP. Birat on behalf of the chair, E. Malfa.

The revision of the mandate includes the interaction with other platforms, contact with other EIIs, promotion/support of ideas for H2020 and maintaining interdisciplinary approach of the

group.

The actions to be taken are: involve the supply chain that are still not present and increase the cross sectorial competence.

In 2013 the meetings were focused mainly in roadmapping (Water R&D, ESTEP's SRA, and contributions to the roadmap (SIP) on Raw Material) and generating ideas for H2020

proposals.

There were 17 RFCS proposals related to WG4 in 2012 and 18 in 2013 Progress of WG 5: Antonius Schroeder

Presentation of the members and recent activities, among which Green Star (GT-Vet follow up), an online survey on „talent management‟ , proposals and projects on social innovation- SI

DRIVE (25 partners all over the world, not only an European project. It covers policy recommendations in different policy fields such as energy supply, employment, climate change,

health and social care).

Innovation management was the main topic in the last meeting of WG5. The Program structure of H2020 is presented and in particular the section on societal challenge underlines

the importance of innovation through a social process. These crosscutting issues should be taken into consideration in all parts of H2020. Social Innovation will play an important role in

Europe 2020 strategy and the main characteristic of the new innovation paradigm is

interdisciplinarity and emphasis on historical, cultural and organizational preconditions. Progress of WG 6: Pietro Gimondo.

WG6 has strong connections with DG Energy, DG R&I, DG Enterprise, DG Enviroment, Clima, EURATOM, etc. and works with TP wind, SUSCHEM (ETPs), it is very involved in SPIRE and

cooperates a lot with Universities and RTOs.

The members represent different organizations and the activities consist mainly in: • submitting proposals (projects originate from the ideas of the members and direct

discussions during the meetings and jointly prepared. Regarding RFCS there were up to 25/30 proposal per year currently spread in various TGSs and TGCs . At the moment there are 7

running projects in FP7 and 18 RFCS running energy projects. • Publications (list directly connected to the activities of the members in the projects)

• roadmapping (SET plan integrated roadmap, SPIRE roadmap, EMIRI supporting

documents, ESTEP roadmap, steel for FCH, SET Plan Technology roadmap) • and workshops (a seminar is organized in March and May on materials needs in

nuclear power) RFCS status: Laurence Moreau.

Latest news:

• launch of H2020 on 1 January • DG RTD new organization: Alain Haigh replaced by Rita Lecbychova and Director

Herbert Van Bose was replaced by Clara de la Torre. Laurence Moreau is the new deputy head of RFCS.

Discussion on the status of RFCS and potential changes in its legal basis. The results of the evaluation of steel proposals were presented as well as the list of projects to

be financed. Regarding the technical working groups, nothing will change this year. The

budget 2014 is around 35 M€ and last September 187 proposals for steel were presented. This number is continuously increasing. Final results: 31 recommended for funding, 7 in the reserve

list, 78 rejected because of insufficient funds. Potential changes to the RFCS legal basis: all the changes of the legal basis were supposed to

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be done after the monitoring and assessment report and they are not linked with the changes of the management in the Commission.

Planning:

• 14th COSCO meeting: 13 February 2014, • starting of most projects: 1 July 2014,

• deadline for the call 2014: 15 September 2014, • 17th SAG meeting: 15 January 2015, to be confirmed

A new EC Financial Regulation entered into force in 2013 and it imposes a shorter time to grant (6 months to complete the evaluation process and 3 months to prepare and sign the

Grant Agreement).

Date 33rd SG, 10 June 2014

Venue ESTEP, Brussels

Participants 18

Outcomes ESTEP news. A particular focus is dedicated to SILC- Sustainable Industry Low Carbon

scheme- that was initially part of FP7 (SILC I) and then, continued in H2020 as SILC II with more ambitions. It targets climate change and energy intensive industries. After extensive

discussions (the NMP program committee refused the proposal of the Commission, initially) it was decided that it shouldn‟t be cross-sectorial and it was indeed re-formulated in order to

take some stakeholders‟ critics on board. ULCOS solutions like ULCOWIN and probably also

Hisarna are eligible for this program. The core issue is financing of high TRL projects which are very expensive and cannot be easily cross-sectorial. Moreover there is the need of a continuity

of financing over long periods of time. Regarding the activities of the working groups, the policy is now to publish updated papers presenting the content of the SRA in international

journals and conferences.

The Spire partnership board met on 28/03 and was chaired by Jose-Lorenzo Valles and Ignacio Calleja. It was the first meeting (= former AIAG) and the rules and procedures for the

Partnership Board operations are in place. Next meeting will be held in June. The two ongoing efforts are: coherence with the past 2014-2015 calls, still to be analyzed (so-called “gap

analysis”) and the priorities for the 2016-2017 calls to be selected among SPIRE roadmap

priorities. Two new working groups: 1) strategy (R.Sievering, JP. Birat, K. Peters) and 2) dissemination (JP. Birat).

EMIRI is producing a simplified roadmap with a set of calls. The present membership includes 61 members, 19 industries, 13 associations & 29 research institutes.

A new creation is M-ERA.NET which is a new funded network established to support and increase the coordination of European research programs and related funding in materials

science and engineering.

Progresses WG1: C. Marique.

RFCS priorities for 2015 were identified and „Integrated Intelligent manufacturing‟ updated the

group on the latest news. Regarding SPIRE, calls have to be defined for the 2016-2017 priorities, but the group found a lack of feedback. About this issue an open discussion started

and the chairman identifies the general problem on the feedback and concludes that a proper

process is needed. If it is not a problem to share the proposals, the idea would be to have a database in which proposals are shared.

RFCS program: members expressed the need to better prepare the joint meeting with the TGs chairmen and the commission.

SPIRE: a consultation of WG1 members was re-launched in May to define the ranking list for the 2016-2017 priorities. They were provided on May 19 for the topics concerning the „Process‟

and „Waste to Resource‟ part.

Progresses WG I2M, Luc Chefneux. The group was involved in the preparation of the ESTAD conference in Paris (April) that

included two sessions on I2M. A new ESTAD session is planned for next year in Düsseldorf. The group re-worked the definition of Integrated Intelligent Manufacturing and the new

definition is: „Integrated Intelligent Manufacturing is the progressive building of integrated

monitoring control and management systems for manufacturing, supply and delivery chains

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with the addition of intelligence and including all technological aspects‟.

I2M is also working on a roadmap and, as a first step, the individual visions of the members

were collected. The new roadmap will include some new items and the key words are presented (see slide). The main problem is to communicate and raise awareness about the

concept of I2M. An article about I2M will be added in Wikipedia.

Progresses WG2, Oliver Hoffman.

The membership of the group did not change. Last meeting was organized as a workshop

since there was the need to have more discussion on operational level and go deeper in the content. The workshop was organized on 14 May in Duisburg and many participants, especially

from ThyssenKrupp, attended. The workshop was focused on current calls and their potential for steel and transport related proposals. The agenda of the creativity workshop had a part

dedicated on qualities and advantages of steel called „I am steel and proud of it‟. Different ideas were collected in a table that summarized all the positive characteristics of steel (n.1

material in the world, a big family of products, strength, life-safer, etc.).

The group arrived at the conclusion that in order to be successful in the existing calls it is necessary to meet relevant people in Brussels.

The workshop was a positive experience for the group. Thanks to the question of C. Marique, it was pointed out that no representative from the

automotive industry took part in the workshop.

Progresses WG3, Samir Boudjabeur.

S. Boudjabeur presents the core members of the WG3 and the new members. The group is

involved in a number of roadmaps (SET PLAN, REFINE) and has actively participated to several workshops.

About H2020 the group is screening priorities rather than defining them, and the networking activities are focused on exploring new connections with other initiatives and in particular

ECTP.

Regarding the dissemination activities two publications are presented: „concepts and methods for steel intensive building projects‟ and „cross-ETP research and innovation roadmap for

energy efficiency in building‟. The last meeting of WG3 was held on 9 June in Brussels and the priority 2.7 has been

discussed. For the 2015 priority proposals the focus is on hybrid solution: „development and

improvement of hybrid solutions (e.g. steel/concrete, steel/glass, HSS/MSS) for new and existing constructions in view structural performances (e.g. efficiency, ductility, durability, etc.)

and overall building performance (e.g. multifunctional, building physics, LCA,..). Progresses WG4, Enrico Malfa.

WG4 is very active in SPIRE and participates a lot in the production of papers and roadmaps. A

paper will be presented in Washington DC by Valentina Colla on the occasion of the CLEANTECH & TECHCONNET conference.

The group will focus on priorities for SPIRE 2016-17 calls and on roadmapping. It is indeed foreseen a road map on how steel can address sustainable production (the group just started

to work on it).

Progresses WG5, Veith Echteroff.

The current situation in Europe lead the group to organize a questionnaire „retaining talents in

European Steel industry‟ to which 263 identified talents participated. Thus the opinions are mainly coming from people in charge of the future of steel companies. The participants to this

survey belong mainly to steel companies with more than 5000 employees.

One of the interesting outcome is that participants to the survey consider the personal

development in the company more important that the salary. Also, the experience in steel

industry is considered helpful in other industries.

RFCS priorities. The proposal 2.9 was changed to: „Improvement of the workers‟ potential by

use of innovative and advanced tools (including knowledge management, technological solutions) to improve safety, training, innovation and knowledge preservation.

Progresses WG6, Pietro Gimondo. The networking of the group is presented along with the meetings and workshops to which the group participated. Of particular relevance is the DG-

ENERGY SET PLAN. Regarding the nuclear workshop on the 13 March organized by WG6, a lot

of people participated from European Commission and a clear message was given: the nuclear

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sector needs a lot of steel and exchanges and interactions between the two sectors are really important.

Concerning SPIRE the WG Applications, chaired by P. Gimondo, started the selection of topics

for H2020 2016-2017calls. The SPIRE application group‟s new ideas are presented.

Future H2020 projects by WG6: 1) structure and substructure for platforms for offshore wind

turbines, 2) subsea transportation and storage of Co2 3) biomass combustion for power generation.

RFCS priorities. The group would confirm the priorities 2.7, 2.8. A reserve list of priorities was also prepared, in particular a draft on an additional priority on steel and components for the

energy industry operating in extreme service conditions, including deep offshore, cold

temperature and/or very aggressive environment.

DG Research Communication and RFCS news, Laurence Moreau. Presentation of the

latest news about RFCS meetings. On the occasion of the COSCO meeting (13 February) the list of proposals was discussed and the list of projects to be financed was presented. On 14

March applicants were informed on the outcome of the evaluation. Also, the status of the

monitoring and assessment report recommendations and potential changes to RFCS legal basis were discussed.

A change in the RFCS legal basis is foreseen and concerns the “appointment of AG members in the interest of the sector”, no longer as individuals, an update of legal reference (integration of

the IT tools) and a consistency work comparing RFCS rules to H2020‟s.

The change of RFCS legal basis will involve updates of legal references and the building of coherence with the rules applicable to Horizon 2020.

The planning of the next round of projects is presented and the start of most of the projects is foreseen for the 1st July 2014. The deadline for the 2014 call is 15 September and the

proposed date for the 17th SAG meeting is 15 January.

Date 34th SG, 21/10/2014


Participants 21

Outcomes DG Research communications and RFCS news. The evaluation process was part of the discussion of the last CAG/SAG meeting along with the

issue of having strict rules on selection of evaluators and the updating of the RFCS legal basis.

The steel community is rather reluctant to change the legal basis of RFCS. RFCS, and ECSC before, were created long before H2020. RFCS is indeed a unicum: nothing similar exists

among other industries and in the steel sector outside Europe and H2020‟s people should maybe look at the structure and functioning of RFCS as a model. Enrico Gibellieri (EG) reminds

everyone that RFCS is seen, in the Steel Action Plan, as the main tool to drive research.

Furthermore, RFCS has had positive evaluations (Assessment & monitoring report) and a special effort should be made to keep what is working fine as it is.

ESTEP news, Jean-Pierre Birat (JPB) ESTEP has connected in the last quadrimester also with the ECTP - through WG3 - and

EUnited. ESTEP is also part of the High Level Group on Steel (HLG). A study has been conducted on the

impact of the regulatory framework on the production cost of steel: the average cumulative

cost is +14.4€/t due to EC environmental rules. The HLG focuses on boosting demand for steel and boosting competitiveness through energy, climate and resource efficiency policies.

The social dimension is also an important aspect of the issues tackled by the HLG. ESTEP has an active policy of publishing on various aspects of its SRA. The objective is for

every WG to produce publications, papers and roadmaps and in this regards the WG are

mostly complying.

SPIRE, EMIRI, EIPs are developing in a very positive way, after years of efforts to prepare for

them. H2020 is indeed closer to the economy and society than the previous FPs. The major investment of ESTEP in helping build these initiatives is starting to pay back!

Concerning the SPIRE calls that asked for proposals this Spring, the steel community made 9

proposals under the SPIRE umbrella (SPIRE 1, 2 and 4, while SPIRE 3 was mainly focused on

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chemistry).

A list of SPIRE proposal accepted is presented (in yellow the proposals in which the steel

community was involved). The chemistry sector comes out as the big winner in SPIRE. Note that chemistry is bigger in Europe than steel, businesswise, and spends more money (as % of

sales) on R&D. The steel sector has 4 out of 11 projects, and thus is the second largest "winner" sector after chemistry.

SPIRE is ready to make proposals for 2016-17 and "mock calls" are being formulated by the

SPIRE working groups in 4 main directions: the circular economy, support to the chemical industry towards integration of bio based feedstock, energy and resource efficiency, promoting

sustainability assessment.

EMIRI is drafting a new roadmap (beyond the SET plan roadmap on materials) and a series of

2 to 3 mock calls for each topic.

Progress WG1, C.Marique

SPIRE. Proposals submitted for 1st SPIRE and other H2020 calls.

RFCS: the group had an open discussion on the need of annual priorities for the RFCS program. The first answers indicates that the priorities are important to support the

implementation of the SRA, there is a need for more specific and less numerous priorities and the group insist on having something about people in these priorities.

The main problem seems to be the fact that priorities are very broad.

It is decided have a dedicated working group for RFCS priorities starting with a conference call between JPB and WG chairs.

Progresses of WG I2M. Luc Chefneux (LC).

The main activities of the WG are: reworking of the I2M roadmap and preparation of papers

for the 2nd ESTAD conference in Düsseldorf (June 2015).

LC informs the support group members about the invitation from C. de la Torre to participate

to the Brokerage Event for Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and

Advanced Manufacturing and Processing to be held on 13/11.

Progresses WG2. The chairman did not attend, but Dr Hans Ferkel (HF) informs the support

group that WG2 will held its meeting in November and since the last meeting there are not any updates.

Progresses WG3, Samir Boudjabaur (SB).

The members of the group are presented as well as the nominated members from ThyssenKrupp and ArcelorMittal. A member from Ruukki is also expected to join the group.

RFCS priorities: the group is working with TGS8 and the priority proposal is: development and improvement of hybrid solutions (e.g. steel/concrete, steel/glass, HSS/MSS, etc.) for new and

existing constructions in view structural performance (e.g. efficiency, ductility, durability, etc.)

and overall building performance (e.g. multifunctional, building physics, LCA, etc.) Regarding H2020, WG3 collaborates with E2BA, which makes a proposal for the call, i.e. a

"mock call", then there is a draft reviewed by the WG which sends it back to E2BA to then be delivered to the Commission.

Progresses WG4, Enrico Malfa (EM).

The group is in good collaboration with the water platform and in November is scheduled a

meeting of the EIP water and EIP action group industrial water reuse and recycling.

The working group is now preparing proposals for SPIRE 6 and SPIRE 7. In the first case there are 2 proposals coming from University Sant‟Anna and Arcelormittal and for SPIRE 7

there are three proposals from Tenaris, MEFOS, and the IRT M2P (Institut de recherches technologiques, matériaux, métallurgie et procédés, in Metz, France), which is considering

joining ESTEP.

The group is involved in the preparation of two roadmaps: sustainable steel and biodiversity. Two task forces from WG4 were set up with the purpose of working on both roadmaps.

The biodiversity is more an issue related to regulations (opportunity/constraints) and has an interdisciplinary approach with a focus on the use of land and the impacts of our activities on

the use of land. The goal is to further develop the link between biodiversity and LCA. Progresses of WG5, Veit Echteroff

A survey of EU talent was conducted with the aim of learning something about the perception

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of talents in the steel industry. It was an on line survey for a specific group of young talents (people that companies are preparing to give them the opportunity to grow in their career).

In total, there were 268 participants, mainly between 26 and 45 years old. The TOP 5 qualities

of a great company are identified as well as the importance of social media in steel industries.

According to the survey the support of the supervisor and the openness and disclosure of

information are key drivers and the qualities considered to be important for a leader are: the ability to motivate the employees, to share success and to make well-informed, effective and

timely decisions. The survey ap-pears to be an important database of information that could be used in future calls, where so far there is nothing related to this subject.

Progresses WG 6, Pietro Gimondo

A particular attention should be given to EASE, which deals with energy storage. In EMIRI the 90% of energy storage refers to batteries, which is not a topic for our sector. EASE on the

contrary deals with every kind of energy storage. Regarding SPIRE, different meetings were held with the EC. In one of them, it was stated that

the matter for NMP calls: is not so much large companies, but RTOs and universities.

The main interest of WG6 lays in RFCS proposals (quite large number of proposals produced by WG members has been submitted).

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7. Summary of the activities of the technical working groups

7.1 Working Group 1 – Profit through Innovation

Date 18 February 2014

venue Confcall

Participants 10

Outcome Besides a general information on the recent news concerning ESTEP (document prepared by the Secretary General), the main point discussed during the meeting was the involvement of

the ESTEP WGs in the various H2020 initiatives and in particular in SPIRE, which is of direct in-terest for WG1. A more transparent and systematic information on the SPIRE organisation is

expected mainly from the ESTEP representatives.

The WG members are requested by the chairman to rapidly communicate: - a list of the proposals submitted for the 1st H2020 calls (no sufficient information are availa-

ble at this stage) - a list of new priorities and items to be put in the next calls, having notably in mind the cur-

rent SPIRE roadmap.

Another point of attention concerns the renewal and the selection of the annual priorities for the RFCS program.

Date 17 June 2014


Participants 15

Outcome As usual, a short information summarizing recent activities inside ESTEP are presented by the

Secretary General with notably a focus on the discussion running with the Commission on the way to finance high-TRL projects.

Concerning the different H2020 initiatives and especially the SPIRE PPP, the sharing of information on the proposals submitted for the various calls is particularly debated in order to

find the best compromise between keeping the confidentiality on the items and a sufficient

knowledge on the submitted projects to avoid overlapping and competition. The preparation and selection of the future priorities for the 2016-2017 SPIRE calls has also

been discussed. In a similar way, the discussion on the identification of the 2015 RFCS priorities was carried on.

Date 1 October 2014

Venue Confcall

Participants 16

Outcome Update about the recent ESTEP news and Horizon 2020. In particular update about SPIRE: the

Partnership Board is foreseen for the 18 October and a first set of draft priority calls will be

discussed with the European Commission. Information on the 2014 RFCS calls and preparation of the 2015 priorities.

News from the ad hoc group Integrated Intelligent manufacturing. The group is working on a new definition of I2M and a cross-sectorial approach will be central in the definition of the

topics and calls that will be discussed.

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Figure 23 - WG1 members in June 2014

7.2 Working Group "Intelligent, Integrated Manufacturing" (I2M)

Date 29 January 2014

Venue ESTEP/Brussels

Participants 11

Outcomes Roundtable on the news of the different organizations. J-P. Birat, the Secretary General of ESTEP, gave an update on the work of the Technological Platform which is particularly focused on

industrial renaissance in Europe ad climate and energy package, dealing notably with CO2

emissions and energy strategy. CSM has now become part of the RINA group, which is an Engineering and Consultancy company

of international size. Definition of I2M and rework the I2M roadmap were the main discussions. Tata Steel,

ArcelorMittal, voestalpine, BFI, SSSA, CSM and CETIC presented their thoughts about the topic.

Costanzo Pietrosanti (CSM) will present the keynote lecture for one of the I2M sessions at ESTAD conference.

Regarding Horizon2020, Harald reported that BFI has started brokering activities in the SPIRE scope, especially regarding SPIRE 1 proposals, but also for other SPIRE calls. There are work in

progress on the consortia and cross-sectorial topics. RFCS: BFI reported that in the last call two proposals dealing with I2M topics have been

successful: SoProd (coordinated by BFI) and DynergySteel (coordinated by CSM).

Date 6 May 2014


Participants 10

Outcome ESTAD conference was at the center of the discussion of the meeting. A brief summary of the

ideas on the next ESTAD 2015 in Dusseldorf are also discussed. The definition of Integrated Intelligent manufacturing is examined.

Regarding the roadmap for I2M, next steps and tasks are identified. RFCS priorities 2015 are discussed.

Date 30 October 2014


Participants 11

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Outcome A particular attention is given to a new internal roadmap in Tata Steel about advanced measurement and control. Furthermore the company is partner in a new Big data project on

“Multi-objective online control”. About ESTEP, it was underlined by the Secretary General the involvement to preserve the RFCS

program. Members of ESTEP participated in 9 SPIRE proposals.

7.3 Working Group 2 –Transport

Date 31 January 2014


Participants 10

Outcomes Based on an internal survey, a list of future priorities for steel in the transport sector was

compiled and discussed. All members agreed that 40% to 50% of the WG2 meeting hours should be used to discuss project ideas and proposal. In the meeting, the new RFCS priorities

for 2015 were drafted.

Date 14 May 2014

Venue Duisburg

Participants 12

Outcome A Creative Workshop was organized to identify and analyze the H2020 calls. As a result, the

existing calls do not quite fit the interest of WG2. Members agreed that future calls should insist on keywords such as high volume, affordable lightweight and LCA.

Date 25 November 2014

Venue Essen

Participants 8

Outcome Members to collect “success stories” of steel applications in vehicle in order to share them with the group. Members were informed that one of the coming call for green vehicle may consist

of keywords such as high volume, affordable lightweight and LCA. Members agreed to compile

the EU Action Plans for relevant calls other than SPIRE (such as FoF, MG, EGVI, etc.)

7.4 Working Group 3 – Construction

Date 9 June 2014

Venue Brussels

Participants 12

Outcome 1- Next year's Priority: Development and improvement of hybrid solutions (e.g. Steel/concrete, steel/glass, HSS/MSS, etc..) for new and existing constructions in view of structural performance (e.g. efficiency, ductility, durability, etc..) and overall building performance (e.g. multi-functional, building physics, LCA, etc..) All the priorities will be discussed with the Commission and a list issued for next year. 2- WG3 memberships Thyssenkrupp - Dr. Markus Rudack has been nominated to join the WG3 Ruukki - Heikki Ylonen will confirm who will be the representative Arcelor Mittal - Olivier Brun contacted and will confirm who else will be joining WG3 in addition to the current team.

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Figure 24– WG 3 members in February 2015

7.5 Working Group 4 – Planet

Date 5 February 2014

Venue CSM, Dalmine (Bergamo)

Participants 12

Outcome Research is recognized as a way to keep EU competitiveness and strength in the global market. The H2020 work programme reflects better than in FP7 the need of the stakeholders. Industry's contribution and views are expected from the European Technology Platforms (ETPs). The number of proposal in preparation for the next SPIRE calls might be a lot from different sectors, which means that efforts could be wasted. To limit this risk the suggestion is to merge ideas into few very strong proposals. The multi-sector approach is fundamental, which mean that at least 3 industrial sectors need to be involved in the proposal. A good summary of the published calls is shown and distributed to the participants. The calls of SPIRE which are of interest for WG4 are briefly discussed: within SPIRE4-2014 the Commission wants a tool to be produced to manage all the research within the SPIRE PPP. The steel industry faces the challenge to hold big pilot projects (e.g. HISARNA) with a multi-sector approach: one key approach could be industrial symbiosis for resource (energy and raw material) efficiency The WG4 mandate has been revised and the main tasks are as follows:

It is agreed to write a roadmap on sustainable production. Firstly an index will be produced by Jonas Rottorp, Luis Brimacombe, JPB, that will be circulated among the group for further addition. The objectives of the roadmap should be to address the societal challenges (i.e. optimising and maximising well-being and minimising risks for health and safety inside and outside the factory). Also safety issues must be included.

Date 5 May 2014

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Venue confcall

Participants 13

Outcome The RFCS priorities are discussed and in particular it is proposed a slightly different version of 2.7 priority. Update on first proposals submitted to the h2020- SPIRE 2014 call. The target to produce an index of the roadmap on sustainable production is still to be achieved It is confirmed the need to write an index. As agreed in the February meeting it will be produced by Jonas Rottorp, Luis Brimacombe, and JPB. The objectives of the roadmap should be to address the societal challenges (i.e. optimising and maximising well-being and minimising risks for health and safety inside and outside the factory). Also safety issues must be included. An interesting contact of ESTEP (JPB) is ongoing with Mrs Clara De La Torre regarding financing of project with high TRL. These projects usually require huge funding and it is difficult to be cross-sectorial especially for pilot and demonstration project. There is also a need for continuity of funding to reach high TRLs, which need high funding. The possibility to get co-funding for these kind of projects should be further explored and some of the H2020 calls already explicitly encourage these kind of partnerships. Finally many publications have been issued by ESTEP WG4, one will be presented at CLEATECH 2014 in Washington by V. Colla on June 16 2014. Another one has been submitted by E. Malfa for possible presentation to a Conference in Rome in October 2014.

Date 2 October 2014


Participants 13

Outcome JPB summarizes the activities of the different WGs of ESTEP: WG7 was closed. ESTEP participates to a certain number of projects: for instance RECREATE (CSA, where AM is proxy for ESTEP) and MATVAL, which has been now concluded (where AM is proxy for ESTEP). ESTEP also supports a number of conferences and dissemination events. ESTEP is committed to write a number of papers to present what is really ongoing in the Steel community and the contents of the SRA. SSSA officially joined SPIRE (V. Colla is now the representative of SSSA in SPIRE). SSSA is a multi-disciplinary academic institution, with a well-known and well referenced commitment to the research in the Steel sector. The question arises whether it might be "strategic" or not to present it with the "Steel label", just in order to strengthen the presence of the steel sector within the SPIRE WGs.

In the last meeting it was agreed to write a roadmap on sustainable production. Steel and its connection with society must be addressed: how steel will address the needs of the society in the future. As safety and well-being is a key priority for the EU, also safety issues must be included. JPB confirm that the priorities cannot last for more than 3 years and any new priority should replace an older one.

The activities within the WssTP Action Group on Industrial Water Reuse and Recycling is also presented: in particular the two mock calls prepared for the H2020 WATER 2016/2017 calls have been briefly presented.

7.6 Working Group 5 – People Date 28 January 2014

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Venue ESTEP Brussels

Participants 10

Outcome SSD: Nathalie Darge gave a presentation about activities and actions of SSD. She mentioned the im-portance of monitoring the topics of the EU Steel Action Plan.

Communication from Secretary General: Jean-Pierre Birat reported on the new framework pro-gram HORIZON 2020 and the public-private-partnerships (PPP). He recommended a people chapter

as added value to H2020 projects.

Current projects:

Talent Management: A. Schroeder presented the recent draft of the online survey “Retaining

Talents in European Steel Industry”

Innovation Management: Mr. Schroeder informed about four Social Innovation projects TU

Dortmund – sfs is involved in. It was decided by the working group members to use the concept

of social innovation as a cross-cutting theme that should be offered to the other working groups

of ESTEP. A first offer will be made at the following Support Group meeting.

GT VET Follow up: The GT-VET follow up project "GREEN STAR: GREEN skills for enterprises

Sustainable Training for Automotive suppliers cluster" had its launch at 10th of December 2013 in

Venezia Marghera (Italy). In the context of the development of green skills the susteel (sustaina-

ble steel mark) project was presented in short by Stefania Rosso.

Upcoming funding programs and WG 5: It was discussed, that people topics should be

stronger integrated in technology related proposals of H2020 an SPIRE. As one attempt for an in-

tegration of people aspects, it was decided to formulate a proposal for the RFCS program, topic

2.9.

Date 16 May 2014

Venue ESTEP Brussels

Participants 7

Outcome ESTEP news: On behalf of Jean-Pierre Birat, Mr. Schroeder gave an overview of on-going ESTEP activities and actions, including an update of the new framework programs HORIZON 2020 and RFCS

Calls. SSD: In Representation of Nathalie Darge, Mr. Gibellieri gave a short overview about the latest activ-

ities of the SSD.

Current projects:

Talent Management: A. Schroeder presented the first results of the very successfully accom-

plished online survey “Retaining Talents in European Steel Industry”.

Innovation Management - Green Star: Mr. Schroeder showed the agenda for the Green Star

Event “Focus Group: Reskilling and Up-skilling of Green Skills” on 4th of June 2014 in Dortmund

an invited the working-group-members to participate.

EUWIN: Mr. Schroeder invited the members to collaborate with the knowledge Bank of EUWIN.

H2020 (SPIRE): Mr. Schroeder reported on ESTEP Activities at the HORIZON 2020 Launch of

Social Science and Humanities at the session “Making sense of social innovation” on 26th of Feb-

ruary 2014 in Athens.

RFCS-Priorities: A new proposal of paragraph 2.9 was discussed and agreed.

Date 02 October 2014

Venue Conference call

Participants 5

Outcome SSDC: In representation of Nathalie Darge Mr. Echterhoff gave a short overview about activities and

actions of SSD. In this context he reported that EUROFER is now an official partner of the campaign

2014-2015 “Healthy Workplaces: managing stress”. Communication from Secretary General On behalf of Jean-Pierre Birat Mr. Echterhoff gave an

overview of on-going ESTEP activities and actions including an overview of ESTEP publications, an

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update of SPIRE, EMIRI, EIPs and RFCS. Current projects:

Talent Management: Mr. Echterhoff thanked for active support in development and implemen-

tation of the survey. The large response rate shows its success. The evaluation was discussed. In

summary it can be stated that the issues leadership, personal development and company culture

are essential for the surveyed talents. Improving these subjects should be on the focus for HR

professionals.

GT VET / GREEN STAR: The transferability of the GT VET modules to the small and medium

sized enterprises of regional clusters within the automotive suppliers branch were discussed with

the GREEN STAR partners and representatives from different VET institutions (BIBB in Germany,

UNESCO-UNEVOC), from the employers‟ associations (chambers of commerce) and from econom-

ic development agencies. There is also request by the Istanbul Mineral and Metals Exporter Asso-

ciation IMMEA Istanbul for a new transfer of innovation project based on GT VET.

Proposals H2020 /RFCS: Mr. Echterhoff mentioned that one proposal in which ThyssenKrupp

Steel Europe is partner in FOF-4 was successful, as the only project in the steel sector. The pro-

ject is called Facts4Workers and its aim is to increase innovation skills, job satisfaction and

productivity of workers.

7.7 Working Group 6 – Energy

Date 13 March 2014


Participants 30

Outcome Information from the WG Chairman. The chairman presented the major outcomes of the last

meetings within ESTEP, with the European Commission, and with other Platforms. In addition he gave to

members a feedback about the specific meetings held with DG Enterprise and DG Research for each specific projects.

Submission of new proposals to RFCS 2013 call and to H2020. The WG leader reported some highlight about the proposal for submission to RFCS call. Contributions were given by the various

members. As main point he underlined the fact that quite 25-30 proposals in 2013 have been submitted. RFCS priorities 2014. There was a discussion on the RFCS priorities for 2014 and the group decided to

propose some new items concerning priorities for the RFCS 2015.

EMIRI and SPIRE presentation The activities carried out in the frame of the SET-plan for materials that are now proposed for a new PPP called EMIRI have been presented by Mr. Vleck The chairman of

the group illustrated in details the topics concerning the SPIRE PPP and mainly on the working group Application.

Date 8 May 2014


Participants 15

Outocome Information from the Group Leader. Mr Gimondo presented the major outcomes from the latest

meetings within ESTEP, with the Commission and with other Platforms. He pointed out the most relevant

items concerning the WG6 works, presented to the past Support Group. Submission of proposals to RFCS 2013 call and to H2020.

The WG leader reported some highlight about the proposal submission to RFCS September 2013 call (25-30 proposals have been submitted). Contributions were given by the various members. The possible

H2020 calls have also been shortly discussed. The coming calls of H2020 of interest of the group have been illustrated.

RFCS priorities 2014

Discussion on RFCS priorities for 2014. After long and detailed discussion the group decided at that this stage to propose some new items concerning priorities for the RFCS 2015 to the group.

EMIRI and SPIRE presentation The activities carried out in the frame of the SET-plan for materials that are now proposed for a new PPP

called EMIRI have been presented by Mr. Vleck. Mr Gimondo illustrated in details the topics concerning

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Figure 25 - members of WG 6 in march 2015

7.8 Activities of the Implementation Group

There was no specific meeting of the Implementation Group in 2013, mainly because ESTEP has been meeting extremely frequently with Commission officials in connection with the new instruments of Horizon 2020 and H2020 itself and with RFCS.

the SPIRE PPP with a focus on the working group “Application”.

Date 23 September 2014

Venue confcall

Participants 8

Outcome Information from the Group Leader. The status of the general situation in ESTEP has been present-

ed. The chairman pointed out the most relevant items concerning the WG6 works, presented to the last

Support Group. Submission of proposals to RFCS 2013 call and to H2020.

The WG leader reported some highlight about the proposal submission to RFCS September 2014 call. Contributions were given by the various members ad he underlines that 25-30 proposals in 2014 have

been submitted. The possible H2020 calls have also been shortly discussed. RFCS priorities 2015

Discussion on RFCS priorities for 2015. After long and detailed discussion the group decided at that this

stage not to propose new items concerning priorities for the RFCS2015 related to the group. EMIRI and SPIRE presentation

The activities carried out in the frame of the SET-plan for materials that are now proposed for a new PPP called EMIRI have been presented by the chairman of the gorup. The topic concerning the SPIRE PP and

mainly on the working group „Application‟ have also been illustrated.

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7.9 Number of participants attending the Support Group and Steering Committee meetings.

Participation to the various committees of ESTEP is shown in Figure 26 and Figure 27.

The attendance to the high level committees of ESTEP remains level over the years, which demonstrates a continuous interest of all stakeholders to the activity of the Technological Platform.

Figure 26 - Average number of participants attending the Support Group Meetings (2014, 2013, 2012)

Figure 27 - Number of participants attending

the Steering Committee (2014, 2013, 2012)

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8. Implementation of ESTEP's SRA priorities

This section was a traditional one in the previous annual reports, as, indeed, one of ESTEP's major targets is to implement the priorities of its SRA.

This is carried out in several ways, which are reported in other sections:

• by using the Ministry of the Word, i.e. presenting ESTEP, its vision and its missions in a broad way, to stakeholders in the EU, the Commission, the European Parliament, the broad biodiversity of new organisms related to H2020, scientists and universities, and beyond the borders of Europe - ESTEP's SRA has indeed become a fairly unique document of its kind in the world. This includes communication, lectures, participation to international events and publications of important documents in the technical literature (cf. 4.1)

• by participating to the various H2020 instruments, like SPIRE, EMIRI, some of the other contractual PPPs, the EIPs, especially the ones on Raw Materials and Water. In practice, this means participating to the writing of the various roadmaps, with end up being coherent, where it counts, with our own vision and vice versa. And being part of the governance groups, which follow the progress of these instruments and help set up the priorities for the next calls of H2020. ESTEP thus participates at this level to SPIRE and EMIRI, for example. This was extensively covered in section 3

• by being a meritorious member of the group of European ETPs, which has been meeting regularly since the format was officially created in July 2013 (cf. 3.2)

• by participating to the governance of the RFCS program (cf. 2.3).

• last, the most important way to implement the SRA is to participate in EU research activities, by answering calls as part of adequate consortia and writing proposals that are excellent and thus will be selected for funding (cf. 2.2).

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9. Networking and Communication

An essential part of ESTEP's missions, particularly the Secretary General's, is to connect, liaise, network and communicate with the European community, the "EU-sphere", and beyond (9.1 to 9.5).

A very detailed version of this section was published in the annual report of 2013. The section here is simply a reminder.

Figure 28 – networking and liaison diagram of ESTEP

A day-to-day diary of these activities focuses on the details of this networking (9.6).

The communication plan is presented at the end of the section (9.7).

9.1 Communications to/with EU Institutions

ESTEP has been in regular contact with organizations connected with the European Union: various DGs of the European Commission (DG RTD, DG ENTR, DG CLIMA, DG ENER, DG Environment, DG Connect, Joint Research Center – JRC, DG EMPL, DG Social Affairs & Inclusion, DG Education & Culture, etc.); the European Parliament (ITRE committee); EU-related banks, (EIB and EBRB); Comity of the Regions; European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) [51];EURATOM (WG6); High Level Group on Steel; foresight organization of EU institutions (formerly ESPAS); National Contacts Points (NCP) of Member States.

9.2 Communications to/with Horizon 2020 instruments

As a reminder, ESTEP has been deeply connected with: PPP SPIRE; EMIRI; contractual PPPs, like EeB, FoF and EGVI; EIP Raw Materials; EIP Water; Smart Cities and Communities EIP (to be organized); HCT (Hydrogen & Fuel Cells) JTI [52];KETs

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Advanced Materials and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing (through EFFRA & Manufuture).

9.3 Links with ETPs and other relevant associations

ESTEP has been connected to all ETPs in the high level group on European Technology Platforms, but more closely with the following: ECTP, the European Construction Technology Platform; ERTRAC, the European Road Transport Advisory Council (WG2); Waterborne, the maritime transport ETP (WG2 & WG6); SUSCHEM, the European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry; ETP-SMR, the European Technology Platform on sustainable mineral resources; European Technology platform for the future of textiles and clothing; ZEP, the Zero Emission Platform; EU PV TP, the European Photovoltaic Technology Platform; TP Wind, the European Technology Platform for Wind Energy14; EPoSS, European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration (WG I2M); Forest-Based Wood Platform; Manufuture;15 Smart Grids European Technology Platform (WG6); EASE, the platform on energy storage; WssTP, Water supply and sanitation technology Platform; Industrial Safety, a cross-sectoral platform; Nanofutures, also a cross-sectoral platform; ETPIS, the Health & Safety Platform (WG5).

ESTEP is connected with associations of academic, business or societal interest: A4M, Alliance for Materials; EPE (Entreprises pour l'Environnement).

ESTEP has also connections with international agencies: IEA, the International Energy Agency; IEA-GHG; OECD (Steel Committee) [53];Global CCS Institute (GCCSI) [54].

Connections are active with the following professional associations: EUROFER, FFA, the French Steel Federation, The German Steel Federation, Jernkontoret, the Swedish Steel Federation, UNESID the Spanish steel association, Alacero, the South America's Steel Association; AISI, the North American steel association; SRI (Steel Recycling Institute); worldsteel, the world steel association; national Steel Technology Platforms, PLATEA in Spain, PPTS in Poland and more under construction (Sweden, Italy, etc.); CEFIC, the chemical industry association; EUROMETAUX, the non-ferrous metals association; European Aluminum Association; ETRMA (European Tire & Rubber Manufacturer's Association); CEMBUREAU, the cement association; E-United, the European Engineering Industries association [55]; EPRG, the European Association of Pipeline Manufacturers [56];EWEA, the European Wind Energy Association [57];SNETP, the Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform [58].

9.4 Links with RTOs and other laboratories

A group of RTOs close to the European steel sector (CRM, CSM, Swerea MEFOS and

VDEh‐BFI) have created an organization called RIES (Research Initiative for

European Steel) in 2011 and they are indeed part of the close connections of ESTEP [59].

ESTEP entertains close connections with other RTOs: VTT; IVL; VITO; Tecnalia; CIRCE; TNO; SINTEF; CEA; ENEA; LIST formerly TUDOR

14 ESTEP's SG is a member of the Industrial Advisory Board

15 ESTEP's SG is a member of the High Level Group

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9.5 Links with Universities

The Steel sector in Europe is so very deeply connected with the academic world, so that it is not possible to give an exhaustive list of Universities, which are not mentioned in Figure 28 either.

We only mention here those which are members of ESTEP: RWTH, University of Liège, Brescia, Denmark, Dortmund, Gliwice, Stuttgart, Pisa, Ljubliana, Oviedo, Brescia, Chalmers, Luleå, Lorraine.

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9.6 Diary of networking and liaison activities

This diary of 2014 and early 2015 activities is provided in the table of the next few pages.

Organizer Meeting Venue Date Participants ESTEP Com-

munity Talk Paper Comments

1 EMIRI Advocacy Group Brussels 09/01/1

4 JP. Birat

2 ESTEP Meeting with H. Fischer Duisburg 14/01/1

4 JP. Birat preparation of Steering Committee

3 SNR (Stratégie Nationale de la Recherche)

Energy Roadmap Paris 24/01/1

4 JP. Birat invitation by Franch government

ESTEP Support Group Brussels 04/02/1

4 yes

3 ESTEP WG4 Dalmine 05/02/1

4 JP. Birat + 10 yes "ESTEP news"

4 Biodiversity & Ecosystem services

Seminar organized by WG4 Dalmine 06/02/1

4 JP. Birat +10 yes yes Summary paper

5 SNR Energy roadmap (SNR) Paris 10/02/1


6 Climate strat-egy in the EII's project

Radboud University Nijme-gen

Tel con 17/02/1

4 JP. Birat survey, interview, final document will be made available

7 Program Committee

SILC II special meeting Brussels 18/02/1

4 JP. Birat + 3

8 ESTEP WG1 Tel con yes "ESTEP news"

9 Horizon 2020 NMP

NCP meeting F Paris 18/02/1

4 JP. Birat

10 A4M H2020 project construction Tel con 20/02/1

4 JP. Birat H2020 Call "Materials Common House", name chosen: MATCH

11 SPIRE information on SPIRE 7 call Metz 25/02/1

4 JP. Birat

12 SNR Energy roadmap (SNR) Paris 25/02/1


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13 EMIRI Steering Committee Brussels 27/02/1

4 JP. Birat

14 EPE Circular Economy Tel con 28/02/1

4 JP. Birat survey organized by EPE

15 A4M Construct of MATCH propo-sal

Brussels 05/03/1

4 JP. Birat consortium and proposal building "Materials common house" call

16 vinnova TEL CON 10/03/1

4 JP. Birat interview on Swedish involvement in ESTEP

17 CRU CRU World Steel Confe-rence

Prague

1703/2014

JP. Birat

yes yes Steel and Humanity's grand challenges 19/03/1

4

18 A4M Construct of MATCH propo-sal

TEL CON 20/03/1

4 JP. Birat consortium and proposal building "Materials common house" call

19 MATVAL FP7 project progress mee-ting

Brussels 24/03/1

4 JP. Birat, M. Chiappini

20 MATVAL workshop

FP7 project workshop Brussels 25/03/1

4 M. Chiappini

20 ESTEP Steering Committee SC-11 Brussels 01/04/1

4 50 people yes

21 IMZ Visit and seminar

Gliwice, Poland

03/04/14

JP. Birat yes

Conference: "What is ESTEP?"

22 04/04/1

4

23

JSI-31-ESAD-1 Conference Paris

07/04/14

JP. Birat + n chair

24 08/04/1

4

25

EUC Industrial technologies 2014 Conference

Athens

09/04/14

JP. Birat yes Materials and societal challenges

26 10/04/1

4

27 11/04/1

4 yes Raw materials for the steel sector

28 ANCRE GP8 (energie) Paris 17/04/1

4 JP. Birat

29 CEMBureau lunch with K. Coppenhole Brux. 15/04/1

4 JP. Birat no

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30 VITO Dr. Jan Duerinck Brux. 15/04/1

4 JP. Birat no invitation to do a keynote at SAM-8

31 Commission Ms de la Torre Brux. 22/04/1

4 JP. Birat, Wim Moonen

32 JCC RECREATE meeting Brux. 23/04/1

4 JP. Birat + JST

round table

33 ICF telecon 24/04/1

4 JP. Birat ICF study on Industrial Emission Directive and emerging technics

34 CEA EU KNIGHTS Brux. 28/04/1

4 JP. Birat reaction by email

35 ESTEP WG1 E2M Brux. 06/05/1

4 JP. Birat

36 ESTEP WG6 Brux. 07/05/1

4 JP. Birat

37 Tecnalia CRM Innonet Brux. 13/05/1

4 ?

38 Commission survey on Commission web - 13/05/1

4 JP Birat

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s_thankyou.aspx?sm=0BL6OIcwjhvDP15H1y7L9WooQcPftm1c8sp1M03%252f1rw%253d

39 EMIRI telecon 13/05/1

4 JP Birat preparation of next EMIRI Steering Committee with voestalpine

40 ESTEP WG2 Duisburg 14/05/1

4 +JP.BIrat yes ESTEP news

41 EUROFER European Steel Days Brux. 15/05/1

4 JP. Birat no

42 SOVAMAT SAM-8 conference Liège

22/05/14

JP. Birat yes introduction, conclusion, one keynote, one paper and one poster

23/05/14


4

44 ESTEP WG4 telecon 26/05/1

4 yes

45 SPIRE Communication plan telecon 28/05/1

4

46 NEPIC EE16 proposal 31/05/1 JPB declined to participate to the project

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47 ESTEP Support Group SC-33 Brux. 10 june

48 ADEME Euopean CCS days Le Havre 11 june no JPB did not go, finally, no time and loose connection with present activi-ties

49 ADEME Euopean CCS days Le Havre 12 june no

50

ESTEP WG3 Brux. 09/06/1

4

DANRO connection between ETPs & H2020 work program

telecon 11/06/1

4 telephone interview

51 WssTP Water Innovation Europe Brux. 25/06/1

4 ?? Valentina?

52 WssTP Water Innovation Europe Brux. 26/06/1

4

53 ECCC-2014 Graz 23/06/1

4 JPB yes

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ECCC-2014 Graz 26/06/1

4 JPB

AIST Was-hington DC

16/06/14

valentina

55 USS telecon - 16/06/1

4 JPB participation of USS to SPIRE calls and ERA-Nets

56 8th ECCC 8th ECCC - 23-

24/06 JPB yes introductory lecture

57 Eunited Business conference Brussels 25/06/1

4 JPB no

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EU Commis-sion

HLG on steel Brussels 25/06/1

4 JPB no

58 ESTEP SKYPE conference - 26/06/1

4 JPB

59 UDL networking Metz 27/06/1

4 JPB no contact with Sabine Denis, of IJL, a new member of ESTEP

60 ANCRE GP8 Paris 30/06/1

4 JPB no

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GLTE Role of Gas Round Table London 01/07/1

4 JPB yes roundtable

IJJ RECREATE meeting Brux. 01/07/1

4 JPB

62 IJJ RECREATE meeting Brux. 02/07/1

4 JPB

63 CEREN Etude de la récupération de la chaleur fatale

Paris 07/07/1

4 JPB no

64 CRM VISIT AS ESTEP Lège 08/07/1

4 JPB no

65 EU HLG of ETPs Brux. 09/07/1

4 JPB no

66 ESTEP SPIRE Monitoring Commitee Brux. 10/07/1

4 JPB

animama-tion

67 EU SPIRE Partnership Board Brux. 11/07/1

4 JPB + mem-bers

no

68 GIER Phone interview telecon 15/07/1

4 JPB

Prof. Karsten Neuhoff, Ph.D.,German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Head of Department for Climate Policy

69 ESTEP biodiversity strategy plan-ning

telecon 21/07/1

4 jpb + E. Malfa

70 ELCI filled in questionnaire sur-vey

internet 18/08/1

4 jpb -

Mainstreaming life cycle approaches around the world: An invitation to take part in a survey for a global assessment report

71 Daniéli new steel production pro-cesses, especially for CO2 mitigation

phone email

19/08/14

jpn

72 EC survey on materials for con-struction

internet 21/08/1

4 jpb

http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=materialsroadmap

73 EMIRI leaders & coleaders' mee-ting

Brux. 01/09/1

4 jpb

74 EIP Water action group Brux. 01/09/1

4 vc



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75 TECNALIA AGATE proposal to SILC II mails jpb jpb accepts to be part of the project advisory board

76 Mines de Nancy

Journée en l'honneur de Denis Ablitzer

Nancy 03/09/1

4 jpb

77 IJL membership of IJL to ESTEP Nancy 09/09/1

4 jpb

78 SPIRE A.Spire IRIAG meting Brux. 10/09/1

4

79 EMIRI Roadmapping exercise Brux. 11/09/1

4 write introducotry to CCS and CCU chapter in EMIRI set of mock calls

80 ESEC European Steel Environ-ment Congress

Teesside 15/09/1

4 jpb

intro-ducto-

ry

81 KU Leuven Slag Congress Scientific Committee

telcon 20/09/1

4 jpb accepted to become a member of scientific committee

82 Future Circular Materials Conference 2014

Stockholm

23/24/09

jpb invi-ted

83 WssTP mock calls 25/09/1

4 vc, jpb approved two mock calls and gave ESTEP imprimatur

84 EPO cooperation on CC mitiga-tion categories

email 26/09/1

4 jpb accepted to advice them on their classification

85 MATVAL @ LET'14

MATVAL workshop Bologna 30/09/1

4 jpb

yes, table ronde

86 MATVAL @ LET'14

final project meeting Bologna 01/10/1

4 jpb NdF to ArcelorMittal

87 EUROFER REFOCUS meeting Brux. 08/10/1

4 jpb + preparation of SAG meeting

88 ESTEP SAG-CAG Brux. 09/10/1

4 jpb +

89 PLATEA LIFE project ECOSTEEL Brux. 10/10/1

4 letter of support, LIFE ECOSTEEL

90 EUROFER Research Committee Brux. 13/10/1

4 yes update on ESTEP's activities

91 ESTEP Support Group SG-34 Brux. 14/10/1

4 yes

92 SPIRE Partnership Board Brux. 20/10/1

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4

93 SPIRE General Assembly Brux. 20/10/1

4

94 EC PPP info days Brux. 21/10/1

4

95 IEA Industry workshop Paris 23/10/1

4

96 NCP (F) H 2020 meeting Paris 29/10/1

4

97 H2020 EE 16 call - letter of support phone 04/11/1

4 jpb [email protected]

98 Archives na-tionales (F)

Paper on Martin process 07/11/1

4 jpb yes

99 UdL class on steel Nancy 13/11/1

5 jpb yes

100 EC ETP stakeholders meeting Brux. 14/11/1

4 jpb no yes

101 EP EIPP seminar on innovation Brux. 17/11/1

5 jpb no

102 ESTEP Mirror Group Brux. 18/11/1

4 jpb yes

103 EUROFER Environmental Committee Brux. 19/11/1

4 jpb yes

104 SF2M/AFM

Matériaux 2014 Mont-pellier

24/11/14

jpb yes Matéraiux 2014, 24-28 novembre 2014, Montpellier

25/11/1

5

105 EC FTA conferenc Brux.

27/11/14

jpb yes yes poster

28/11/1

4

106 SPIRE IRIAG meeting Brux. 02/12/1

5 jpb+5

107 Tecnalia CRM Innomet tel con 01/12/1

4 jpb answer to questions on CRM

108 IRT-M2P CCSI meeting Metz 03/12/1

4 jpb

109 A4M Board of Directors Brux. 11/12/1

4 jpb

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110 EUROFER Social committee Brux. 11/12/1

4 jpb yes

111 SPIRE Partnership Board Brux. 11/12/1

4 jpb+3

112 Kairos strategy steel tel con 12/12/1

4 jpb Rikard Molander, Kairos Future, Consultants for Strategic Futures

113 In memoriam book for Prof. Kai Kaike

sent a paper - 31/12/1

4 jpb yes

114 Tecnalia RECREATE 05/01/1

5 jpb comments on D5.1 deliverable & scenarios

115 Cembureau liaison Brux. 06/01/1

5 jpb

116 MEFOS scientifc committee 07/01/1

5 jpb accepted to be a member

117 ESTEP WG chairs meeting Brux. 09/01/1

5 jpb+6

118 ESTEP visit to H. Fischer Duisburg 12/01/1

5 jpb no no program of SC-12

119 EC HLG on Raw Materials Brux. 13/01/1

5 jpb

120 EUROFER REFOCUS meeting Brux. 14/01/1

5 jpb+10

121 EC SAG meeting Brux. 15/01/1

5

122 EC ad hoc CAG & SAG meeting Brux. 16/01/1

5

123 ESTEP letter of support to the CROSSRECOVEY project

- 19/01/1

5


5 yes


5 yes

126 EC MultKETS meeting Brux. 22/01/1

5 no

127 Tecnalia EU!GREAT kickoff Brux. 21/01/1

5 jpb+1 no

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128 Manufuture answered survey question-naire

28/01/1

5

129 Tecnalia RECREATE meeting Brux. 27/01/1

5 jpb could not attend (sick)

130 EMIRI General Assembly Brux. 28/01/1

5 jpb could not attend (sick)

131 EUROFER Research Committee Brux. 02/02/1

5 yes

132 ESTEP SG-35 Brux. 03/02/1

5 yes


5 yes

134 ESTEP WG I2M Brux. 05/02/1

5 yes

135 EC Meeting with cabinet of Cer Maedas and DG research

Brux. 13/02/1

5 jpb+6 regarding RFCS

136 SPIRE partnership board Brux. 24/02/1

5

137 SPIRE SPIRE working group mana-gement

Brux. 24/02/1

5

138 Tecnalia CRM Innonet Brux. 03/03/1

5 jpb no


5 jpb+10

140 SPIRE Board of Directors Brux. 16/03/1

5 JPB+2

141

EC ad hoc CAAG & SAG meet-ing

Brux. 18/02/1

5

19/02/1

5

142 SF2M 70 years of SF2M 20/02/1

5 yes invited

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9.7 ESTEP website and CIRCA database

ESTEP operates an intranet on the Circabc database, and an extranet, on the cordis system, both hosted by the Commission.

The Circabc database is the intranet of ESTEP, used by working groups and committees (cf. Figure 29). Access is granted to members, automatically or by simple request to the secretariat.

All minutes and presentations at the Steering, Support Group, Implementation Group and Working Group meetings are uploaded on this database. Each working group has its own section and separate sections are devoted to specific projects. Access is reserved to members, through an authorization procedure.

Figure 29 – Screen capture of the CIRCAbc webpage (March 2015)

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Figure 30 – view of ESTEP's webpage, captured on 2 March 2014

The ESTEP website is managed by Cordis, which enhances its European image. The ESTEP website was re-designed in 2012 to make it clearer and more user-friendly, cf. Figure 30. The website contains extensive information about ESTEP such as organization, WG activities, projects, events and publications: http://cordis.europa.eu/estep/ .

The website is regularly updated.

http://cordis.europa.eu/estep/

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Communication is also based on press releases, technical and scientific documents, a newsletter published twice a year (cf. Figure 31) and the present annual report. All are eventually available on the ESTEP website.

Figure 31 – facsimile of ESTEP's newsletter

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Annexes

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1. ESTEP membership and people active in various groups

a. Membership of the Steering Committee

Chairman: Dr Heribert Fischer – ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe

Adam Schwedler, IMZ

Andrés Barceló, UNESID

Bernhard Kohl, voestalpine

Carl De Maré, ArcelorMittal

Christian Marique, CRM group

Danny Croon, EUROFER

Enrico Gibellieri, EESC/CCMI & EMF

(Deputy Vice-Chairman)

Enrico Malfa, CSM

Francesco Rubio Rubiralta, Celsa

Frank Schulz, ArcelorMittal

Franz Androsch, voestalpine

Giancarlo Quaranta, Riva group

Goran Backblom, Lkab

Göran Carlsson, Swerea MEFOS

Heikki Ylonen, Ruuki

Herve Lavelaine, Arcelormittal

Hubert Zajicek, voestalpine

Jan Borlée, CRM group

Jan Olov Wikstrom, Swerea

Jean Claude Hermann, CRM Group

Jean Jouet, CMI Groupe

Jean-Pierre Birat, ESTEP

Jörgen Sjöberg, Chalmers University

Karin Aussersdofer, voestalpine

Klaus Peters, Thyssenkrupp

Koen Meijer, Tatasteel

Lars-Eric Aaro, Lkab

Lionel Platteuw, EUnited

Luc Chefneux, Arcelormittal

Marc Solvi, Paulwurth

Mauro Pontremoli, CSM

Michael Steinhorst, Tatasteel

Oliver Hoffmann, Thyssenkrupp

Paul Brooks, Tata Steel Europe

Pekka Erkkilå, Outokumpu

Peter Dahlmann, Stahlinstitut VDEh

Peter Sikstrom, Lkab

Pietro Gimondo, CSM

Ralph Sievering, BFI

Veit Echterhoff, Thyssenkrupp

Veronique Baes-Dehan, ECCS/CECM

Wim Moonen, Tatasteel

Winfred Resch, Eunited

Wojciech Szulc, IMZ

Representatives of EU Commission

(DG RTD, DG Enterprise & Industry)

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b. List of Mirror Group representatives

Adam Schwedler, Director of the

Institute for Ferrous Metallurgy,

Poland

Algirdas Vaclovas Valiulis, Vice-Rector

Vilnius Gediminias Technical

University, Lithuania

Anargyros Tzamtis, National Technical

University of Athens, Greece

Brian Greenwood, Deputy Head,

Manufacturing & Materials,

Department for Business, Innovation

and Skills, United Kingdom

Dirk Grabowski, Responsible for Steel,

Ministry of Economics, Germany

Dusan Jurik, Ministry of Economy,

Slovakia

Edoardo Bemporad, Professor of

Material Sciences, University of Roma

Tre, Italy

Gerald Vones, Federal Ministry of

Economy, Family and Labour, Austria

Gilles Le Marois, NCP, NMP,

Commissariat à l‟Energie Atomique,

France

Ioannis Paspaliaris, National Technical

University of Athens, Greece

J. Mazais, Riga Technical University,

Latvia

J. Ozolins, Riga Technical University,

Latvia

JM Huijbregts, Ministry of Economic

Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation,

Netherlands

Helmut Burghause, Deputy Head of

Division IV C3 Steel, Defence and

Security, Federal Ministry of

Economics and Techonology

Jose-Luis Rendueles, UNESID, Spain

Kari Keskinen, Development Manager,

Finnish Funding Agency for

Technology and Innovation, Finland

Leon Diederich, Ministère de la

Culture, de l‟Enseignement Supérieur

et de la Recherche, Luxembourg

Marco Walentiny, Ministry of the

Economy, Luxembourg

Milan Klempai, Ministry of Economy,

Slovakia

Nolwenn Cezilly, Ministère du

Redressement Productif, France

Peter Lukacs, Dunaferr, Hungary

Petru Ianc, General Director, Ministry

of Economy, Trade and Business

Environment, Romania

Rik Zweers, Ministry of Economic

Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation,

Netherlands

Sten Afeldt, Unit Manager, Swedish

Energy Agency, Sweden

Thomas Pardoen, Université

catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Ulf Holmgren, Head of Department,

Vinnova, Sweden

Zsolt Topa, National Office for

Research and Technology, Hungary

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c. Membership of the Support Group

Chairman: Michael Steinhorst- Tata Steel Europe

Anna Utsi – Swerea MEFOS

Christian Marique – CRM

Danny Croon - EUROFER

Enrico Gibellieri - EESC/CCMI & EMF

Enrico Malfa, WG4

Hans Ferkel, ThyssenKrupp

Heikki Ylonen - SSAB

Jan- Olov Wikstrom – Swerea MEFOS

Jean-Pierre Birat - ESTEP

Karin Ausserdorfer - voestalpine

Luc Chefneux - ArcelorMittal

Oliver Hoffman- Thyssenkrupp

Pietro Gimondo - CSM

Rachel Petterson - Jernkontoret

Ralph Sievering – VDEh

Samir Boudjabeur, WG3

Sara Mc Cann-Bartlett - British

Constructional Steelwork Association

Vasilij Presern - Slovenian Steel Group

Veit Echterhoff - Thyssenkrupp

Wim Moonen- Tata Steel

Winfried Resch - EUnited

Wolfgang Schneider - European

Commission, DG Research, RFCS

Representative of EU Commission (DG

Research, DG Enterprise and Industry)

d. Membership of the Implementation Group

Chairman: Jean-Pierre Birat

Karin Ausserdorfer

Samir Boudjabeur

Luc Chefneux

Pietro Gimondo

Enrico Gibellieri

Oliver Hoffmann

Christian Marique

Veit Echterhoff

Wim Moonen

Giancarlo Quaranta

Michael Steinhorst

Wolfgang Schneider

Ralph Sievering

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2. Membership of Working Groups, updated at the

end of 2014

a. Working Group 1: Profit through Innovation

Chairman: Christian Marique - CRM

Alessandro Osta – Riva Group

Bernard Vanderheyden - CRM

Bogdan Garbarz - IMZ

Diego Carrascal – UNESID

Ernest Fuhrmann - Siemens VAI

Gérard Griffay – ArcelorMittal

Harald Peters – BFI


Jens Kempken – SMS Demag

Jose Luis Rendueles Vigil -

ArcelorMittal

Juho Talonen – Outokkumpu

Klaus Josef Peters – ThyssenKrupp

Steel Europe

Klemens Mraczek – VA Stahl

Luc Chefneux – ArcelorMittal

Mats Karlberg – Mefos

Mervi Leinonen – Ruuki Metals Oy

Peter Bartlam - ISQ

Wim Moonen - Tata Steel

b. Working Group –I2M

Chairmen: Luc Chefneux - ArcelorMittal, Harald Peters - BFI

Ramon Laso Ayuso - ArcelorMittal

Markus Brummayer - Voestalpine

Valentina Colla - SSSA

Jerken Delsing - Lulea University

Pierre-Jean Krauth - ArcelorMittal

Gédo Kuiper - Tata Steel

Gaël Mathis - ArcelorMittal

Stéphane Mouton - CETIC

Klaus Peters - TKS

Guenther Winter – Primetals

Deputies: Norbert Holzknecht (BFI), F.

Sanfilippo (CSM),

Jonas Gustafsson, Pär-Erik Martinsson

(Lulea)

c. Working Group 2: Transport

Chairman: Oliver Hoffmann- ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe

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Ahmed Rassili - University of Liege

Alfred Beltran – CTM

Damien Abou Khalil - ArcelorMittal

Daniele Bassan - Centro Ricerche Fiat

Enno Arenholz - voestalpine

Floriano Ferro – Riva Group

Inigo Aranguren – Tecnalia

Jia-Uei Chan – Thyssenkrupp Steel

Europe

Joachim Larsson – SSAB

Jose Maria Cabrera - CTM

Juanjo Martin – CTM

Leopoldo Rizzo - CSM

Massimiliano Pagliaro - Riva Group

Nico Langerak - Tata Steel

Peter Urban - FKA Aachen

Philippe Antoine - ArcelorMittal

Pierre Duysinx - University of Liege

Reinhard Hackl - voestalpine

Wolfgang Bleck - Institut für

Eisenhüttenkunde RWTH Aachen

d. Working Group 3: Construction

Chairman: Samir Boudjabeur – Tata Steel

Bassam Burgan – SCI

Didier Bridoux - ArcelorMittal

Heli Koukkari - VTT

Jose Antonio Chica – Tecnalia

Louis-Guy Cajot – ArcelorMittal

Markus Feldman – RWTH

Markus Rudack - Thyssenkrupp

Milan Veljkovic - Luleå University

Renata Obiala – ArcelorMittal

Veronique-Dehan - ECCS

Walter Salvatore –University of Pisa

e. Working Group 4: Planet

Chairman: Enrico Malfa - CSM

Angélique Léonard - ULG

Bo Björkman - Luleå University

Borja Pena - Tecnalia

Camilla Kaplin - Outukumpu

Carola Hermoso - Unesid

David Anderson - Tata Steel

Eduardo Manuel Dias Lopez - ISQ

Fabio Praolini - Tenaris

Fernando Verniory - ACYMA

Günter Harp - VDEh BFI

Hermann Wolfmeir – Voestalpine

Jean-Sebastian Thomas - ArcelorMittal

Jennifer Hodges - Tata Steel

Johan Eriksson - Mefos

Jonas Rottorp - IVL

Jose Barbero – Labein

Katia Papalia - PaulWurth

Kevin Linsley - Tata Steel

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Louis Brimacombe - Tata Steel

Marco Antonio Medina Estrela - ISQ

Matthias Kozariszczuk - BFI

Niilo Suutala – Outukumpu

Peter Bartlam – ISQ

Richard Reasbeck - Harsco

Santiago Oliver – Unesid

Stefano Barozzi - Paul Wurth

Uwe Fortkamp -IVL

Valentina Colla - University of Pisa

f. Working Group 5: People

Chairman: Veit Echterhoff - ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe

Antonious Schröder -

Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund

Daniele Quantin – ArcelorMittal

David Rozenblum - Steelbel

Enrico Gibellieri – EESC/CCMI & EMF

Frank Haers - ArcelorMittal

Ernst Balla - voestalpine

Gema Palazon - UNESID

Goetz Hessling - RWTH Aachen

Guido Bockting - Corus

Ivan Peteira Otero – ArcelorMittal

Ivo de Kegel - Tata Steel

Hanna Salovaara - Ruuki


Juanjo Arias - ArcelrMittal

Karin Kronsteiner - voestalpine

Lars-Erik Folkesson - Ifmetal

Lars Nyborg - Chalmers University of

Technology

Marcello Gelfi - University of Brescia

Martin Neuhäuser - Salzgitter AG

Nans Sluiters-Van der Bijl – Tata Steel

Nathalie Darge – EUROFER

Peter Limberger - Thyssenkrupp

Wojciech Szulc - Institute for Ferrous

Metallurgy (IMZ)

g. Working Group 6: Energy

Chairman: Pietro Gimondo - CSM

Adam Bannister – Tata Steel

Alexander Jungermann -

Thyssenkrupp

Andrzej Klimpel – Polsl

Christine Buelens – Metalogic

Claudio Testani - CSM

Eduardo Dias Lopes – ISQ

Elisabetta Mecozzi - CSM

Gerhard Knauf - SZMF Coordinator E&

P& T

Gilles Auclair - Ascometal

Giuseppe Cumino- Tenaris Dalmine

Giuseppe Demofonti – CSM

Jacqueline Lecomte – ULG

Javier Belzunce – Oviedo University

Jean-Claude Herman - CRM

Johan Vlcek – Voestalpine

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John Hald - DTU/Elsam, Coordinator

Power Generation

Karl Hermann Tacke - Dillinger, Coor-

dinator New Energies

Kristof Radwanski – IMZ

Marion Erdelen-Peppler – SZMF

Matjaz Godec – University of Ljubliana

Olivier Ricard - Total

Oriana Tassa – CSM

Philippe Rigo – Uni Liege

Philippe Thibaux - ArcelorMittal/Ocas

Rachel Petterson – Jenkontoret

Ricardo Lezcano – Foundacion ITMA

Stefan Zickler – MPA.Uni-Stuttgart

Susanne Hoeler - SZMF

Sven Sundberg - Jernkontoret/Sandvik

Sylvain Pillot - ArcelorMittal /Industeel

Vojteh Leskovsek – IMT

Walter Bendik - SZMF

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3. Updated list of acronyms

Acronym Full name category

0

1 A4M Alliance for Materials association

2 ACARE Advisory Council for Aviation Research and Innova-tion in Europe

ETP

3 ACEA European Automobile Manufacturers' Association transport

4 ADAS Advanced Driver Assistance Systems transport

5 ADEME Agence de l'Environnemebt et de la Maîtrise de l'Energie (F)

Agency energy France

6 AEII Advanced (?) Energy Intensive Industries industry

7 AFV Alternative Fuel Vehcile transport

8 AHSS Advanced High Strength Steels steel

9 AISI American Iron & Steel Institute steel association NA

10 AMDC African Minerals Development Centre minerals

11 AOD Argon Oxygen Decarburization (steelmaking) steel

12 ARAS Advanced Rider Assistance Systems transport

13 ARPA-E The Advanced Research Projects Agency US

14 ARTEMIS Embedded Computing Systems ETP

15 ATM Air Traffic Management air transport

16 B2B Business to business

17 B2C Business to Customer

18 BAT Best Available Technology DG Envrionment

19 BAT AEL Average Emission Level DG Envrionment

20 BAT Conclusions DG Envrionment

21 BEPA Bureau of European Policy Advisors

22 BERD Basic Expenditure in R&D OECD

23 BEV Battery-driven Electric Vehcile transport

24 BF Blast Furnace steel

25 BH Bake Hardening (steel) steel

26 BMS Battery Management Systems transport

27 BOF Basic Oxygen Furnace (steelmaking) steel

28 BOS Balance of system

29 BREF BAT Reference document

30 BRICS brazil, Russia, India, China

31 BRIDGE Biobased and Renewable Industries for Develop-ment and Growth in Europe’

PPP

32 CAD Computer aided Design

33 GAGR Compound annual growth rate economic sector

34 CAM Compter aided Manufacturing

35 C-Mn Carbon Manganese (steel) steel

36 C&D Construction and Demolition economic sector

37 CAD Computer aided Design

38 CAM Compter aided Manufacturing

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39 CCS Carbon Capture & Storage climate technology

40 CCUS Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage

41 CEFIC The European Chemical Industry Council ETP

42 CEN European Committee for Standardization

43 CENELEC European Committee for Electro-Technical Stand-ardization

44 CES Confédaration europénenne des syndicats

45 CES Comité économique et social

46 CF Cohesion Fund

47 CFRP Carbon Fibre Reinforced Composite

48 CIMBETON Centre d'information sur le ciment et ses applica-tions

association (cement, EU)

49 CIP Competiveness & innovation framework program

50 CISL Conférence internationale des syndicats libres

51 Clean Sky2 PPP

52 CNG Compressed Natural Gas energy

53 CNRS Centre National de la recherche Scienitfique (France)

National Research Center

54 COSME Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Me-dium-sized Enterprises

55 CP Complex Phases (Steel) steel

56 CRL Customer Readiness Level innovation

57 CRM Critical Raw materials CRM_InnoNet

58 CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones

59 CSA Coordination & support action EU

60 CSO Civil Society Organizations

61 CSP Concentrated Solar Power energy

62 CSP Compact Slab Casting (steelmaking); proprietary technology of SMS

steel

63 CSR Corporate Social Responsibility management (green)

64 CVD Chemical Vapor Deposition

65 CYTED Programa Iberoamericano de Ciencia y Tecnologia para el Desarollo

66 DALY Disability adjusted life year

67 DH District Heating energy

68 DG-EAC Education And Culture

69 DP Dual Phase (steel) steel

70 DRI Direct Reduced Iron steel

71 E2B Energy Efficient Buildings PPP

72 EA Euro area

73 EAF Electric Arc Furnace (steelmaking)

74 EAP Environment Action Programme

75 EARTO European trade association representing RTOs

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76 EASE Energy Association for the Storage of Energy

77 EATIP Europe Aquaculutre Technology & Innovation Plat-form

ETP

78 EBA European Banking Authority

79 EC European Commission EU

80 ECB European Central Bank

81 ECHR European Convention on Human Rights Council of Europe

82 ECTP European Construction Technology Platform ETP

83 ECRA Europen Climate Research Alliance

84 ECCREDI European Council for Construction Research, Devel-opment and Innovation

85 EEA EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA

86 EEA European Environment Agency

87 EED Energy efficiency Directive

88 EEE Electrical and Electronic Equipment

89 EEIO Environmental Extended Input-Output Tables

90 EEPR European Energy Program Recovery RU

91 EERA European Energy Research Alliance

92 EFFRA European Factories of the Future Reseacrh Associa-tion

ETP

93 EFTA European Free Trade Association

94 EGCI European Green Car Initiative Former name of EGVI

95 EGVI European Green Vehicles Inititative PPP

96 EIA Environment Impact Assessment.

97 EID Electronic Identification

98 EII European Industry Initiative

99 EIP European Innovation Partnership

100 EIP Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program

101 EIP Energy Infrastructure Priorities

102 EIRMA European industrial research management associa-tion

association

103 EIS Expected Impact Statement innovation manage-

ment

104 EIT European Institute of Innovation and Technology EU

105 ELCD European Reference Life Cycle Data System

106 ELFM Enhanced LandFill Mining industrial ecology

107 EMAS Environmental Management and Audit Scheme

108 EMEP European Monitoring and Evaluation

109 EMEs Emerging economies

110 EMIRI Energy Materials Industrial Research Initiative future PPP

111 EMS Energy Management System

112 ENIAC European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Coun-cil

ETP

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113 ENVI Committee, of EP

114 EoL End of Life

115 EP European Parliamenr

116 EPoSS European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration

117 ERA European Research Area

118 ERA-MIN ERA-NET on non-energy mineral resources

119 ERA.NET European Research Area Network

120 ERC European Research Council

121 ERDF European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

122 ERECON European Rare Earths Competency Network

123 EREP European Resource Efficiency Platform

124 ERRAC European Rail Research Advisory Council ETP

125 ERTRAC European Road Transport Research Advisory Council ETP

126 ESERI

127 ESF European Science Foundation

128 ESF European Social Fund

129 ESPAS European Strategy & Policy System Analysis

130 ESPP European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform. ETP

131 ESTAD European Steel Technology & Application Days conference

132 ETAP Environmental Technology Action Plan

133 ESTEP European Steel Technology Platform ETP

134 ETC European Topic Center

135 ETP European technology Platform

136 ETP-SMR European Technology Platform on Sustainable Min-eral Resources

ETP

137 ETP4HPC ETP

138 ETPGAH European Technology Platform for Global Animal Health

ETP

139 ETS Emission Trading System (Scheme) climate

140 ETVS Environmental Technology Verification System

141 EU European Union EU

142 EU 27

143 EU 28

144 EUA European Emission Allowance

145 EUMAT European Technology Platform for Advanced Engi-neering Materials

ETP

146 EURMKB European Raw Materials Knowledge Base

147 EUROFER European Steel Association

148 EUROMETAUX European Metals Association

149 EUROP European Robotics Technology Platform ETP

150 EV Electric Vehicle Transport

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151 EWEA European Wind Energy Association

152 FABRE TP Farm Animal Breeding and Reproduction Technolo-gy Platform - F

ETP

153 FCEV Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Transport

154 FCH JU Fuel Cells Hydrogen Joint Undertaking

155 FDI foreign direct investment

156 FET Future and Emerging Technologies

157 FEV Full Electric Véhicles

158 FFA Fédération Française de l'Acier

159 FINE

160 FoF Factory of the Future PPP

161 FP6 6th framework program (200-2006) DG Research

162 FP7 7th framework program (2007-2013) DG Research

163 FREVUE Freight Electric Vehicles in Urban Europe FP7 project

164 FSC Forest Stewardship Council

165 FTA Free trade agreement

166 FTA Future-Oriented Technology Analysis foresight

167 FTC Future Textiles and Clothing ETP

168 FTP Forest-based Sector Technology Platform

169 Gen 3 HSHF Genration 3 High Strength, High Formability (steel)

170 GVC Global value chain

171 ETVS Environmental Technology Verification System

172 H2020 Horizon 2020 DG Research

173 HLRS Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart

174 HMI Human Machine Interface transport

175 HSLA High Strength Low Alloy (steel)

176 HSS High Strength Steel

177 I2I Intelligent Infrastructure rail transport

178 I2M Intelligent Integrated Manufacturing

179 IAG Industrial Advisory Group SPIRE

180 IARC International Agency for Research on Cancer

181 IBI International Biochar Initiative

182 ICE Internal Combustion Engine automobile

183 ICMM International Council on Mining and Metals

184 ICT Information and Communication Technologies

185 ICT-PSP Information and Communication Technologies Poli-cy Support Programme

186 IDA Industry Driven Initiative

187 IEA International Energy Agency related to OECD

188 IEAGHG IEA GreenHouse Gases related to OECD

189 IED Integrated Emissions Directive

190 IETS

Industrial Energy-Related Technologies and Systems

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191 IF Interticial Free (steel) steel

192 IF-HS Interticial free High Strength (steel) steel

193 IFP OECD International Futures program OECD

194 IFP Institut français du Pétrole (now IFP Energies Nou-velles)

France

195 ILO International Labour Organisation

196 ILUC Induced Land Use Change LCA

197 IPCC International Panel on Climate Change (UN) UN

198 IPPC Integrated Pollution Prevention and control

199 IPR Intellectual property rights

200 IRIAG Industrial Research and Innovation Advisory Group

201 IS Implementation Scenario

202 ISA International Society of Automation

203 ISI Integral Satcom Initiative ETP

204 ISISE Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Struc-tural Engineering

University

205 ISO International Organisation for Standardization

206 ITF International Transport Forum

207 ITN Initial Training Netwrok

208 ITO Indium Tin Oxide

209 ITRE Committee on Industry, Research and Energy EP

210 IWT Inland Waterways Transport Water transport

211 JIPP Joint Institute for Innovation Policy Belgium

212 JPI Join Program Initiaitives

213 JRC Joint Research Centre

214 JRC Joint Research Center DG JRC

215 JSI Journées sidérurgiques internationales conference, Paris

216 IWA International Water Association

217 JTI Joint Technology Initiatvie

218 JU Joint Undertaking

219 KET Key Enabling Technology EU speak

220 KIC Knowledge and Innovation Community EU speak

221 KIT Knowledge & Innovation Community EU speak

222 kMC kinetic Monte Carlo physics

223 LAC Latin America and the Caribean geopolitics

224 LCA Life Cycle Assessment (Analysis) LCA

225 LCC Life Cycle Costing LCA

226 LCIA Life Cycle Impact Assessment

227 LCM Life Cycle Management LCA

228 LCT Life Cycle Thinking LCA

229 LCWT Life Cycle Working Time

230 LED Light-emitting diode technology

231 LEUR League of Research Universities

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232 LEIT Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies EU speak

233 LNG Liquid natural gas energy

234 Logistics ETP on logistics ETP

235 LRTAP Long-range Transboundary Air LTO Long-term objec-tive

236 LUC Land Use Change LCA

237 Manufuture ETP on intelligent manufacturing ETP

238 MARPOL International Convention for the Prevention of Pol-lution from Ships

239 MATCH MAT Common House H2020 project

240 MatSEEC Materials Science and Engineering Experts Commit-tee

ESF

241 MATVAL MATerials VALue chain FP7 project

242 MEDDTL Ministère de l'Ecologie, du développement durable, des Transports et du Logement

France

243 MEMS microelectromechanical system

244 MEP Member of European Parliament

245 MERA-NET MS+EC+Industry participation

246 MIRAGE Modelling International Relationships in Applied General Equilibrium

economics

247 MFA Material Flow Analysis

248 MML Mobilisation and Mutual Learning action

249 MS Member State

250 MSU (supervision bancaire unique)

251 NAT North Atlantic Treaty

252 NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization

253 NAIA Nationally Appropriate Innovation Action political science

254 NAMA Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action political science

255 Nanomedecine ETP

256 NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

257 NCP National Contact Point

258 NEEI Non-Energy Extractive Industry

259 NEM the European Thechnology Platform where New Media Content and Networks meet

ETP

260 NESSI Networked European Software and Services Initia-tive

ETP

261 Net!Works Converged fixed and Wireless Communication Net-works

ETP

262 NGO Non-Government Organization

263 NMP FP7 'Cooperation' - Research theme: 'Nano sciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new production technologies'

DG Research

264 NMPB NMP next step DG Research

265 NMVOC non-methane volatile organic compound

266 NPV Net Present Value Economics

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267 OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Devel-opment

International organiza-tion

268 OEEC Organisation for European Economic Cooperation International organiza-

tion

269 OEM Original quipement Manufacturers transport

270 OG Operational Group EIP RM

271 OICA Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles

association transport

272 OLED Organic Light-Emitting Diode

273 OSCE Organisation for Security and Cooperation of Europe International organiza-

tion

274 PAH Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon

275 PAT Process Analyzer Technology

276 PCM Phase Change Materials Energy storage

277 PCR Product Category Rule

278 PEF Product Environmental Footprint

279 PEFC Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certifica-tion

280 PEID Petits Etats Insulaires en Développement

281 PGM Platinum Group Metals

282 PHEV Plug-In Electric Hybrid Vehicle transport

283 PHV Plug-In Hybrid Vehcile transport

284 PM Particulate matter

285 PNO Flemish consultitng firm

286 POP Persistent Organic Pollutant

287 PPP Public Private Partnership

288 PPP on electronics Public Private Partnership PPP

289 PPP Purchasing Power Parity economics

290 PPS Purchasing Power Standards economics

291 PRM Persons of Reduced Mobility

292 R&D Research and development

293 R&D&I R&D & Innovation

294 R&I Research & Innovation

295 RDD&D research, development, demonstration and de-ployment

296 RCF Refractory Ceramic Fibers

297 REACH registration, evaluation and authorisation of chemi-cals

298 RECREATE

REsearch network for forward looking activities and assessment of research and innovation prospects in the field of Climate, Resource Efficiency and raw mATErials

FP7 program, where AM represents ESTEP

299 REE Rare Earths Element

300 REF

301 ReFINE REnewable FunctIoNal matErial

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302 ReFINE Research for Future Infrasturctures in Europe

303 REI Rare Earth Industries (???)

304 RF Radiative Forcing

305 RFCS Research Fund for Coal and Steel

306 RHC Renewable Heating & cooling platform ETP

307 RIES Research Initiative for European Steel

308 RM Raw materials

309 RRI Responsible Research & Innovation innovation manage-

ment

310 RTO Research and Technology Organisations

311 RWA risk-weighted assets banking

312 SAGE Sustainable And Green Energy

313 SAT Sustainability Assessment of Technologies

314 SAUT Sustainability Assessment of the Use of a Technolo-gy

315 SC Steering Committee ESTEP

316 SCC Smart Cities & Communities EIP

317 SDT Sustainability Declaration of a Technology

318 SEII Solar European Industry Initiative ETP?

319 SESAR Single European Sky Air traffic management Re-search

Air transport

320 SETAC Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

321 SET-Plan Strategic Energy Technology Plan

322 SF Strechtched Flangeable (steel) steel

323 SFA Substance Flow Analysis

324 SG Secretary General

325 SIA Strategic Innovation Agenda EU speak

326 SIA Secondary inorganic aerosols

327 SILC Sustainable Industry Low Carbon DG industry initiative

328 SIP Strategic Implementation Plan EU speak

329 SIS

330 SME Small and Medium Enterprises

331 SMGP Single Market Green Product

332 SMR Sustainable Minerals Resources

333 SOA Secondary organic aerosols

334 SOER State of the environment report

335 SNETP Sustainable Nuclear Technology Platform ETP

336 SPE Society of Petroleum Engineers

337 SPIRE Sustainable Process Industry through Resource and Energy efficiency

PPP

338 SRA Strategic Research Agenda

339 SSC Sulfur Stress Corrosion (steel) steel

340 SRIA Strategic Research Agenda (of ACARE)

341 SSH Socio-economic Sciences & Humanities

342 SSL Solid State Lighting

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343 STAR Sustainable Technology Assessment Report

344 STI OECD Directorate for Science Technology & Industry OECD

345 STTP Sustainable Transport Technology Plan

346 SUSCHEM Sustainable European Technology Platform for Chemicals

ETP

347 TBT Technical Barriers to Trade

348 TCO Total Cost of Ownership

349 TCM Thermochemical Materials Energy storage

350 TCR Technology Category Rule

351 TES Thermal energy storage technology

352 TGR Top Gas Recycling (Blast Furnace)

353 TGS Technical Group Steel RFCS

354 TOC Total Cost of Ownership

355 TP Wind Wind Energy Technology Platform ETP

356 TRIP Transformation Induced Plasticity (steel) steel

357 TRL Technology Readiness Level general

358 TFP total productivity factor

359 TSAP Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution

360 TTIP Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

361 TWIP Transformation Induced Twinning (steel) steel

362 UCTE Union for the Co-ordination of Transmission of Elec-tricity

363 UHSS Ultra-High Strength steel

364 ULCOS Ultra-Low CO2 Steelmaking FP6 & RFCS

365 UNCLOS United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

366 UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Develop-ment

steel EU

367 UNECE United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

368 UNEP United Nations Environment Programme UN

369 UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organization UN

370 USC Ultra-SuperCritical (powerplant) energy

371 V2I vehicle to infrastructure

372 V2V vehicle to vehicle

373 VD Vacuum Degasing (steelmaking) steel

374 VDeH Verein Deutsche Eisenhütten Leute steel association

375 VET Vocational Educational Training

376 VHSS Very High Strength steels steel

377 VITO Vision on Technology

378 ViU Value in Use

379 VOD Vacuum Oxygen Decarburization (steelmaking) steel

99

380 VTT Technical Research Center of Finland National Research Cen-

ter

381 Waterborne water transport ETP

382 WBCSD World Business Council for Sustainable Develop-ment

international associa-tion

383 WEEE Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment

384 WEU Western European Union International organiza-

tion

385 WEVA World Electric Vehicle Association transport

386 WHO World Health Organization UN

387 WG-VET cf. VET ESTEP

388 WG1 Profit (Process) ESTEP

389 WG2 Transport ESTEP

390 WG3 Construction ESTEP

391 WG4 Planet ESTEP

392 WG5 People ESTEP

393 WG6 Steel for energy ESTEP

394 WG7 Energy roadmap ESTEP

395 WH Waste Heat

396 WISCO Wuhan Iron & Steel

397 WSSTP Water Supply and Sanitation Technology Platform ETP

398 WTO World Trade Organization UN

399 WMO World Meteorological Organization

400 WNO World Nature Organization

401 ZEP Zero Emission Platform ETP

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Index

A.SPIRE, 11

A4M, 21

acronyms, 87

ARCELORMITTAL, 11

BFI, 11

Big Data Value, 16

bottom-up program, 10

CASI, 24

CRM-Innonet, 24

CSA, 12

DISIRE, 23

E2B, 8

EIPs, 9

EIT, 27

EIT KIC, 27

EIT Raw Materials, 27

Energy-Efficient Buildings, 16

ERA-NETs, 28

ETP, 8

EU!GREAT, 24

EU-KNIGHTS, 23

EUREKA, 28

European Technology Platform, 8

Fact4Workers, 23

Factories of the Future, 16

fast track to innovation, 9

Green Cars, 16

GT-VET, 24

H2020, 8

Heribert Fischer, 2

High Level Group on Steel, 8

HIsarna, 16

Horizon 2020, 8, 9

IA, 12

IMZ, 11

innovation, 40

IRIAG, 11

KIC on manufacturing, 28

KICs, 27

Knowledge and Innovation Communities, 27

LKAB, 28

LoCo2Fe, 23

Manufuture, 28

MATCH, 22

MATVAL, 22

MEASURE, 23

M-era.Net, 23

Metallurgy Europe, 22

Metallurgy4Europe, 22

Mirror Group, 40

Partnership Board, 12

PPPs, 8

RECOBA, 23

RECREATE, 24

RFCS, 8

RIA, 12

SET-Plan, 18

SI-DRIVE, 24

SIMPACT, 24

Societal Challenge 5, 17

SPIRE, 8

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SRA, 8

Steering Committee, 40

Strategic Implementation Plan, 17

Strategic Research Agenda, 8

STYLE, 23

Support Group, 40

Tata Steel, 11

Tenaris, 11

think tank, 8

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe, 2, 11

top-down program, 9

ULCORED, 25

ULCOS, 16

ULCOS-BF, 25

ULCOWIN, 16

Urban ERA-NET, 28

voestalpine, 11

WG4 Planet, 40

WGI2M, 28

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