Metalshub start-up celebrates its 1st anniversary revolutionising the world of metals trading
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 and Traxys. This is an excellent occasion to review the start-up’s achievements. […]
AMIR Master awarded EIT Label
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 of master programmes within the EIT RawMaterials Academy that have been granted this quality seal […]
EIT RawMaterials supported start-up Fairphone surpasses investment target with €7 million from impact investors
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 parties including the impact investors, PDENH, Quadia and the crowd investment of €2,5 million. Additionally, Fairphone received €13 million in debt finance from creditors including the consortium of ABNAMRO and the Dutch Good Growth Fund. […]
RawMatCop features at Raw Materials Week 2018
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 in the 4-year RawMatCop programme. […]
EIT RawMaterials and JA Europe join forces to foster innovation-driven entrepreneurship in the raw materials sector
The EU is committed to creating 10,000 new jobs in the European raw materials sector in the short term. JA Europe and EIT RawMaterials’ partnership blends entrepreneurship and STEM education to bring innovation focusing on raw materials into the classroom in Bulgaria and Romania. Fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in the raw materials sector A new innovative partnership between JA Europe and EIT RawMaterials seeks to equip 1200 young people aged 15-18 from Bulgaria and Romania with entrepreneurship and STEM skills, and spark their interest in the raw materials sector. The initiative combines STEM and entrepreneurship education through a blend of [...]
RawMatCop Programme 2018-2020 Projects Kick Off in Brussels
On 24 September and 25 September, the Kickoff Workshop for the five new RawMatCop 2018-2020 projects selected for funding in the 1st Call for proposals took place at the EIT House in Brussels on the 24th and 25th of September. The workshop was attended not only by the individual post-doctoral and placement project researchers, but also by members of EIT RawMaterials’ education and business development teams and a representative from the European Commission DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW). At the workshop, the RawMatCop project researchers were given an overview of the goals and activities of the [...]