EIT RawMaterials and Eramet team up in Real-time Monitoring Challenge 2020 for smart raw materials processing solutions
EIT RawMaterials and Eramet are jointly organising the Eramet Real-time Monitoring Challenge 2020 to find new innovative solutions for in-situ and real-time monitoring. The challenge offers start-ups and SMEs the opportunity to collaborate with a global industrial leader and to validate their solution.
30 innovative ideas to fight water scarcity in Southern Europe
The Cross-KIC project on Finding innovative solutions for water scarcity in Southern Europe is bringing together 30 start-ups from all over Europe to provide solutions to this issue. In the next three months, the start-ups will receive training and advice and the best ones will receive an economical award. The program will end with a final competition between the start-ups in Spain.
Recycleye to build the world’s first fully digitised materials recovery facility
Recycleye start-up supported by EIT RawMaterials secures a GBP 0.5 million project to reinvent recycling facilities with 21st-century technology. The world’s first fully digitised materials recovery facility will accelerate the transition towards a circular economy.
EIT RawMaterials SME Call accelerating the commercialisation of innovation to the benefit of European citizens
EIT RawMaterials SME Call supports innovative solutions for the sustainable raw materials sector EIT RawMaterials is committed to supporting Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as they lead activities that will improve innovation capacity across its community. Launched in March 2020, the SME Call aim is to boost and accelerate the launch on the market of new products within the context of the value chains and topics of the three EIT RawMaterials Lighthouses […]
EIT RawMaterials Booster in response to the COVID-19 crisis grants EUR 9.8 million to support 60 innovators
Supporting start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs during the COVID-19 crisis Over 170 innovators from 25 countries applied for the EIT RawMaterials Booster Call in response to the COVID-19 crisis. As part of the EIT’s Crisis Response Initiative, this activity directly contributes to the European Union’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
Policy instruments and incentives for the circular economy
POLICE project shares key findings on policy instruments and incentives for the circular economy The importance of the circular economy is growing due to unresolved global challenges, such as climate change and resource scarcity. As defined and shown in the report by the POLICE project, the circular economy is an economic system that creates value by catching and reusing the limited raw material and energy resources by slowing, narrowing and closing their loops. […]