K1-MET's management board and researchers presented K1-MET, its financial supporters and currently running projects of the COMET program in the first half of 2021.

Following contributions took place:

• 2021/02/21-2021/02/25 (virtual): 11^th International Conference on Molten Slags, Flux and Saltes
  Key note lecture from Prof. Johannes Schenk "Processing and utilization of steelmaking slags in the European Union
  
  Contribution of Dr. Elizaveta Cheremisina "Evaluation of dissolution rate and behavior of MgO carriers for primary and secondary metallurgical slag systems"
  
  Contribution of Dr. Irmtraud Marschall "Investigation of calcium aluminate based mold slag compositions"
  
  Contribution of Hamed Mazaheri, M. Sc. "Determination of redox state of steelmaking slag using electrical conductivity measurement"
• 2021/02/23 (virtual): TÜV Süd Impulsforum to the topic "Energy from Hydrogen"
  Contribution of Dr. Axel Sormann dedicated to the use of hydrogen in steel industry
• 2021/04/14-2021/04/15 (virtual): European Combustion Meeting (ECM)
  Contribution of Dr. Markus Bösenhofer "opiTemp: A low budget, open-source optical temperature sensing system"
• 2021/05/09-2021/05/14 (virtual): International Conference on Processing & Manufacturing of Advanced Materials (THERMEC)
  Contribution of Paul Estermann, M. Sc. "Modeling grain boundary segregation in polycrystalline materials"
• 2021/06/14-2021/06/18 (Stockholm, Sweden):5^th European Steel Technology and Application Days (ESTAD)
  Contribution of Dr. Stefanie Scheiber "Influence of calcination condition on the dissolution behaviour of lime in synthetic slags"
• 2021/06/29-2021/07/01 (Nashville, USA): The Iron & Steel Technology Conference and Exposition (AIS Tech)
  Contribution of Dr. Markus Bösenhofer "The Influence of coke reactivity on the raceway size - a case study"