EIT RawMaterials supported start-up REIN4CED reveals its new Europe-based production location To meet customer demand in bringing high-end impact-resistant bicycle frames to the market, REIN4CED is setting up an automated production line. This production line will be installed in Leuven, Belgium and will deliver its patented impact-resistant frames starting late 2019. By opening this production line, REIN4CED [...]
Cleantech project on waste-water decontamination Sustainability is a leading vocation, and opportunity for the modern industries and many efforts are being directed to developing technologies with limited environmental impact and free of Critical Raw Materials (CRMs). The research necessary to implement such new technologies is sometimes quite demanding for the small-medium enterprises and big companies [...]
EIT RawMaterials innovation project NITREM starts operations of the first full-scale denitrifying bioreactor for mine drainage treatment On 19 September 2018, the first litres of nitrate-laden drainage water started to flow through a denitrifying bioreactor at LKAB Kiruna iron ore mine. The bioreactor, which is the first full-scale bioreactor system for the passive removal of nitrate [...]
Empowering young people (15-18 years old) in Central and Eastern Europe with entrepreneurship and STEM skills. Between February – May 2018, EIT RawMaterials and Junior Achievement Europe organised four Innovation Camps across Bulgaria and Romania with the support of EIT RawMaterials partners BASF Romania, Arcelor Mittal Iasi and Veolia. […]
EIT RawMaterials supported project MiRaCLe develops an innovative spin-off company Kerline MiRaCLE is a Network of Infrastructures (NoI), an innovation project supported by EIT RawMaterials since January 2016. The project consortium shares competencies, expertise, equipment, instruments and themes to develop new bio-materials composites from renewable resources for the substitution of critical raw materials or toxic [...]
BE-Mat 2018 – Business Event on Materials, Raw Materials & Circular Economy – Anacapri (Italy) 20-22 June 2018 BE-Mat, the first Open Innovation event jointly organized by EIT RawMaterials and Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) on advanced materials, recycling and circular economy gathered more than 70 participants from 11 EU countries in the premises of the [...]
Resource efficient processing The ZeroWaste Cluster, an innovation project funded by EIT RawMaterials, is a cooperation of eight different Networks of Infrastructures (NoIs). These networks contribute to foster innovation in the field of efficient resource processing and focus primarily on waste streams and/or complex low-grade ores. The ZeroWaste cluster also offers sustainability modelling services enabling [...]
On 4 October 2018 in Budapest, Hungary, the EIT’s Innovation Forum ‘INNOVEIT 2018’ will bring together entrepreneurs, representatives of higher education and research, EU, national and regional policymakers, as well as EIT graduates and other key innovation actors. The EIT Awards promote innovation and encourage entrepreneurs by putting the most innovative ventures, entrepreneurial graduates, innovation teams [...]
REGROUND project receives an award from EIT RawMaterials at EASME “Promoting market-ready water innovations – Investors’ café”, an event dedicated to exploitation, investment and market uptake of eco-innovative solutions in water and circular economy. On 12 June in Brussels, almost 100 attendees voted to select the project that, out of ten contestants, delivered the best [...]
EIT RawMaterials Alumni will draw on the diverse talent and experience within our community to give its members networking and professional development opportunities. EIT RawMaterials Alumni has taken an important next step in the appointment of the first board. The founding board members come from a diverse range of backgrounds and EIT RawMaterials activities, bringing [...]
