Industry perspective is needed to develop the SafeMine PhD programme for future leaders in Health and Safety Mining Companies around the world are facing greater challenges to recruit skilled miners and mining engineers. Although safety work in the mining and tunneling industry has been very successful in the past decades, the working environment remains unique. [...]
Sustainable wastewater solutions for groundwater treatment start-up ColFeroX successfully delivers a pitch validating their business idea 21 December 2018 was a big day for ColFeroX, a start-up supported by the Horizon 2020 project REGROUND. Two of the start-up founders, Dr Beate Krok and Dr Sadjad Mohammadian from the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of [...]
EIT RawMaterials supported start-up Timegate Instruments raises €2,6 million funding to foster company growth and enter the global market Timegate Instruments Ltd, the world´s leading innovator in time-gated Raman spectroscopy, has raised funding of €2,6 M for product and business development. Funding consists of stakes by venture capital investor Lifeline Ventures Fund Management Ltd, private investor [...]
How the Dutch blockchain start-up Circularise will help communication in value chains to eliminate the concept of waste and accelerate the shift to a circular economy Circularise, a blockchain start-up from the Netherlands supported by EIT RawMaterials, developed a unique communications protocol (from here on system) that can be applied in virtually endless range of [...]
EIT Joint Grand Final 2018 gathered the top innovative start-ups and teams from Central-Eastern and Southern Europe On 16 November 2018, the best 40 innovative start-ups and teams from Central-Eastern and Southern Europe pitched in front of international investors, corporate partners and the EIT Community’s network at the EIT Joint Grand Final in Budapest, Hungary. [...]
EIT RawMaterials and SIP STRIM are launching the annual innovation competition The competition is a unique opportunity for suppliers, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders in the mining and metal industry to present their ideas and thereby be given the opportunity to realize them. One contest – Two winners Two winners will be selected, one by SIP [...]
EIT RawMaterials supported start-up Metalshub celebrates its 1st year of operations Metalshub is transforming the way metals and ferroalloys are bought and sold Metalshub provides a digital marketplace, where physical metals and ferroalloys are efficiently bought and sold. Exactly one year ago, on 13 December 2017 at 10:44 a.m. the first transaction took place between Cronimet [...]
Master in Advanced Materials Innovative Recycling is sixth labelled master programme in the EIT RawMaterials Community Shaping a new generation of students into game changers and innovators Following assessment by the EIT, EIT RawMaterials partners’ master programme in Advanced Materials: Innovative Recycling has been successfully awarded the EIT Label. This brings to six the number [...]
Impact investors and crowdfunders unite to support Fairphone goals The world’s first ethical, modular smartphone This month, one of the EIT RawMaterials supported start-ups Fairphone was able to close a major round of investments totaling €7 million. The mission-aligned funding comes from existing Fairphone investors such as DOEN Participaties and PYMWYMIC, as well as new [...]
Earth observation for the raw materials sector Innovative decarbonising technologies, as well as resource-efficient products and goods, require a variety of materials for their functionality, many of them critical raw materials. Copernicus can be a powerful supply strengthening tool when applied to primary and secondary raw materials challenges, which EIT RawMaterials is investigating [...]
