The SusCritMat winter school is open for PhD and Master students, as well as engineers from all countries, seeking a professional training in Critical Raw Materials. The SusCritMat winter school will take place on 15-19 January 2018 in Les Diablerets, Switzerland, and will offer modules on the role of critical raw materials in the whole value chain, developed [...]
Circularise, a start-up supported by EIT RawMaterials, showed their product during the Disruptive Innovation Festival, an online open access event that asks the question: what if we could redesign everything? About Circularise Circularise web-based individual product tracking system allows producers to add unique identifiers to any product (e.g. composition product and material contents). This identifier can [...]
Graphene composites could reduce reliance on critical raw materials for automotive, aerospace, and energy applications. This was the message at the workshop co-hosted by EIT RawMaterials, Hub Innovation Trentino and the Graphene Flagship in Trento, Italy, on 12 October 2017. The Graphene Composite Innovation Day workshop, held at the Foundation Bruno Kessler (FBK) in Trento, [...]
EIT RawMaterials and EIT Health transferred business skills to innovative entrepreneurs through an initiative that had a special focus on Central and Eastern Europe and was marked with a 10 November award ceremony in Budapest, Hungary, to honour the winners of a Business Plan Competition 2017. "To boost Europe’s ability to innovate, we will continue [...]
EIT RawMaterials will organise a workshop 'How methodology determines what is critical' during the international conference Resources for Future Generations (RFG), in Vancouver, Canada, 16-21 June 2018. The call for abstracts is open - we will be happy to receive your contribution. Please submit your abstract until 15 January 2018 here. About MIN35: How methodology determines [...]
The Central Colocation Center (Metz, France) of EIT RawMaterials organised a workshop on competitiveness in the Lithium Industry, 11-12 October 2017 in Würzburg, Germany, together with Core Partner Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC. The event attracted roughly 100 participants from across the value chain; one half of them were non-EIT RawMaterials members. The panel [...]
Participants practice collecting and analysing geometallurgical data Outotec is a core partner of EIT RawMaterials, the largest consortium of the raw materials sector worldwide. As part of Outotec's participation in the consortium, we co-hosted a one-week geometallurgy short course at the University of Liege in Belgium in the beginning of October 2017. The course was [...]
Laser guidance helps miners ‘see’ through rock The winner of the first Rockathon, organised by EIT RawMaterials and its partner Sandvik, was the team from SPECTRAL Industries. SPECTRAL Industries develops a system that uses laser guidance to help mining engineers “see” into rock and make precision cuts. Rockathon, a co-creation and open innovation event, took place [...]
EIT a model for European innovation: Commission Report The European Commission proclaimed the European Institute for Innovation and Technology (EIT) to be an effective, coherent and high-impact means of supporting innovation in a Mid-term Evaluation Report of the EIT published on 19 October. “The EIT has successfully supported innovation in Europe via entrepreneurship, support to [...]
The Raw MatTERS Ambassadors at Schools (RM@Schools), an active learning project, has achieved success and recognition by involving experts from EIT RawMaterials to engage students in experiments, and efforts to disseminate the results of those experiments. […]
