The Comission press release from Research and Innovation of 18 February 2022 on the “New Research Fund for Coal and Steel calls: EUR 142 million for research in support of the European Green Deal and Just Transition”, showcases the RECOVERY project: “The ‘Big Tickets’ calls will build directly on previous research funded by the RFCS, as for instance the ‘Green Steel for Europe’ and ‘RECOVERY’ projects“, and “The RECOVERY project with a budget of about EUR 2 million, gathers 7 partners from 4 EU countries, targets land rehabilitation and ecological restoration of underground and opencast coal mining-affected areas. It applies an ecosystem services concept to accelerate the recovery of degraded and transformed ecosystems to a good ecosystem status, in a large-scale real setting“.
New Research Fund for Coal and Steel calls: EUR 142 million for research in support of the European Green Deal and Just Transition | European Commission (europa.eu)