Natural Resources and CCUS R&D Program

The Natural Resources and CCUS R&D Program is KETEP's resource-security and industrial-carbon track. Its public sub-areas are resource development, resource recycling, and carbon capture, utilization, and storage, with named priorities in petroleum and gas exploration, critical minerals, spent-battery recovery, and integrated CCU. The materials specifically cite titanium, molybdenum, lithium, and nickel, plus lithium, cobalt, and rare earth recovery from spent batteries and fuel cells. The program is annual, the eligible applicant set matches KETEP's other Korean calls, and individuals are excluded. The batch sources do not give a standard award cap. The CCUS side also calls out capture, storage, and transport technology, pilot domestic CO2 storage sites, and integrated CCU for refining and steel. The strongest fit is a proposal that connects mineral security or circular-material recovery to a concrete process chain, not a general decarbonization concept. That is also true for the carbon side, where the program's language points toward pilots and applied systems work rather than abstract policy research. In other words, this is the KETEP program for material supply, industrial recycling, and carbon-management engineering.

Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.