ESTEP News, update in September 2013

Prepared for the industriAll Basic Metals Committee meeting in Cremona on 8 October 2013

Jean-Pierre BIRAT, Secretary General, ESTEPEnrico Gibellieri, Vice President, ESTEP Steering Committee

What's ESTEP? (European Steel TEchnology Platform)

Some passed technical achievements of ESTEP

•ULCOS (Ulltra-Low CO2 Steelmaking), with several new processes, like ULCOS-BF, HIsarna, ULCORED and ULCOWIN•3rd generation Advanced High Strength Steels•conclusions of the GT-VET project•ESTEP's community is involved in a large number of RFCS & FP7 projects

What’s new with ESTEP? (1)

• Bertrand de Lamberterie retired in June 2013 and has been replaced by Jean-Pierre Birat from 1 July. JPB used to work for ArcelorMittal Global R&D until June, where he was a Group Expert, headed the Sustainability R&D department and had been in charge of the ULCOS program.

• the High Level Roundtable on Steel published conclusions in June 2013 (http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/metals-minerals/files/steel-action-plan_fr.pdf ): steel is recognized as an essential part of the EU industrial base, which ought to be strengthened in the EU 2020 vision. Research will play a large role in achieving this goal and ESTEP is an important instrument for this.

• a High Level Group on Steel is being created to keep watch on the health and success of the steel sector on a continuing basis. ESTEP was invited by the Commission to join: H. Fisher will represent ESTEP, while JP. Birat works in the Sherpa group.

• the Commission has reviewed the passed achievements of ETPs and, as a result, ESTEP has been recognized in July as a “2020 ETP”*. This gives it more visibility and foster the connect with the workings of the Commission.

* STRATEGY FOR EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS: ETP 2020, COMMISSION STAFF WORKING * STRATEGY FOR EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS: ETP 2020, COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT, Brussels, 12.7.2013, SWD(2013) 272 finalDOCUMENT, Brussels, 12.7.2013, SWD(2013) 272 final

What’s new with ESTEP? (2)

• HORIZON 2020' budget was approved in June (70.2 G€ for 7 yrs) and thus the program is taking shape very quickly now, with a start of implementation at the end of this year.

• SPIRE (Sustainable Process Industries through Resource & Energy Efficiency) wasraised to the status of PPP, thus given process industries and steel in particular a high visibility in the strategy of the 2020 EU strategy, especially relative to R&D&I. ESTEP is very active in the activities of SPIRE.

• this is also true of EMIRI (European Materials Industry Research Initiative), although it did not quite make the PPP status, but will be granted significant budget.

• ESTEP continues to be heavily involved with pre-exiting PPPs (Green Vehicles, E2B, FoF)

What’s new with ESTEP? (3)

• ESTEP is also deeply involved with new EIPs (European Innovation Partnership) such as the EIP on Raw Materials & the EIP on Water..

• ESTEP works closely with other ETPs, like WssTP (Water), TPWind, SusChem, EPoSS, Manufuture, ECTP, ZEP, SMR, EuMat, ERTRAC, etc.

• ESTEP has produced some important documents this year:• the update of its Strategic Research Agenda (SRA)

ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/estep/docs/sra-052013-en.pdf • a mission statement for WG2 – Transport, which will also be presented at the

LCES meeting in Xi'an in September. ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/estep/docs/mission-statement-of-working-group-2-transport_en.pdf

• a document prepared with WssTP on future research areas common to steel and water ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/estep/docs/water-steel-report_en.pdf

• the proceedings of the GT-VET (Greening Technical VET) conference held in February http://www.gt-vet.com