ESTEP News,
update in September 2013
Jean-Pierre BIRAT, Secretary General, ESTEP
Enrico Gibellieri, Vice President, ESTEP Steering Committee
Prepared for the industriAll Basic
Metals Committee meeting in
Cremona on 8 October 2013
What's ESTEP?
(European Steel TEchnology Platform)
Some passed technical
achievements of ESTEP
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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)
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Bertrand de Lamberterie retired in June 2013 and has been replaced by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
DOCUMENT, Brussels, 12.7.2013, SWD(2013) 272 final
What’s new with ESTEP? (2)
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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)
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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:
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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-workinggroup-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