EIT RawMaterials Projects

The ambitious vision of EIT RawMaterials is realised by the creation of a structured collaboration within the Knowledge Triangle, which is the basis of the EIT model.

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EIT RawMaterials Projects Timeline

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FLAME: FLy Ash to valuable MinErals

Project duration: 1 April 2017 – 31 March 2020

Objective

The FLAME project is perfectly aligned with the KIC Raw Materials vision of turning the raw materials dependence into a strategic strength for the European economy. The DPS technology can become key in increasing resource efficiency by enabling dry (ultra)fine mineral classification and extraction of valuable minerals from both primary and secondary resources. This will contribute to closing material loops by minimizing losses of unused materials along the value chain. At large, the project results may trigger alternative applications of the DPS technology to other resource streams and thus benefit the wider KIC community active in (machine manufacturing for) resource extraction.

The solution (technology)

The provision of large amounts of high-quality (ultra)fine minerals to the market is expected to engender the development of more performant, durable and sustainable materials and products in related markets such as high-value construction materials and composite materials. Within the project, intense knowledge exchange between mineral end-users, power central customers and machine builders will enable de-siloing of expertise, sharing of expertise and further build-up of competences of skilled R&D; and technical personnel. In addition, student internships and engagement of engineering master students (MSc theses) will be organized and eventually these training/education activities aim at providing a recruitment base for the commercialising partner.

Partnership

  • Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek NV – (Flemish Institute for Technological Research NV VITO), Belgium (Lead Partner)
  • Atlas Copco Airpower N.V., Sweden
  • Atlas Copco Rock Drills AB, Sweden
  • Kauno Technologies Universitetas (KTU), Lithuania
  • Tallinna Tehnikaülikool, TTÜ – Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
  • Value Ash technologies NV (VASHT NV), Belgium
  • Zavod za gradbenistvo Slovenije, ZAG (Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering  Institute), Slovenia

For more information, please visit the official website of the project.

FOSTER-ERM: Fostering Entrepreneurship in Raw Materials using Serious Game Concept

FOSTER-ERM will create a serious game about entrepreneurship, with a particular focus on raw materials and circular economy.

Objective

The educational goals of the serious game are to transfer knowledge on raw materials and introduce coping strategies such as recycling, substitution, design for reuse and re-assembly, and performance-based business models in a context of entrepreneurial risk and business continuity.

The solution (technology)

The game “RISK & RACE” (“RISK-taking and Resource Allocation in a Circular Economy”) is developed as a table top board game. Players have to run a company and experience through a scenario based approach how external factors have an impact on their cash flow, profitability and licence-to-operate and how circular business solutions perhaps can lead to a greater resilience.

Partnership

 

Circular Economy

FosterERMatSchools: Fostering Entrepreneurship and Raw Materials at Schools Through Serious Gaming

Project duration: 1 January 2018 – 31 March 2019

Objective

FosterERM@schools trains students and teachers on the raw materials sector through a board game co-created with students and teachers.

The solution (technology)

This includes learnings on entrepreneurship, material flow, and business processes. A two-staged tournament motivates the students and is a test stage for an EIT-wide event in a KAVA from 2019 on. The game strengthens the connections between educational training and job opportunities for careers in the RM sector.

Partnership

  • Wuppertal Institut fuer Klima, Umwelt, Energie GmbH (Wuppertal Institute), Germany (Lead Partner)
  • Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek NV (VITO), Belgium
  • Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy

For more information, please visit the project web page.

 

 

Substitution

FREECATS: Critical raw materials-FREE CATalystS

Project duration: 1 January 2016 – 31 December 2018

Objective

The objective of FREECATS NoI is to set up a network able to provide a state-of-the-art service with the scope of supporting LEs and SMEs in the development of critical raw materials free* catalysts to be employed in different fields of industry, such as chemical industry, energy, mobility, as well as environmental applications.

Examples are the substitution of traditional catalysts, based on CRMs (mainly Chromium, rare earths (REEs) and Platinum group metals (PGMs)) in fuel cells and electrolyzes, in VOCs abatement catalysts, in catalysts for industrial chemistry, fine chemicals /commodities synthesis, elastomeric and thermoplastic polymers synthesis.

The solution (technology)

FREECATS can provide two main services:

  • materials characterization by means of state-of-the-art instrumentations/infrastructures available in the labs of the network
  • development of critical raw materials free* catalysts, such as electrocatalysts free of PGMs for fuel cells and electrolyzes, VOCs abatement catalysts CRMs-free, etc

(*the term “CRMs free” should be intended as CRMs-free, with lower (i.e < 0.5 wt. % for PGMs) content of CRMs than usual or/and made of recycled CRMs)

Partnership

GAMES: Great Adventures with Materials: Education for a Recycling Society

Project duration: 01 April 2017 – 31 March 2019

Objective

Dispersing of recycling knowledge and advantages into the wider society.

The solution (technology)

Attracting youngsters to STEM-related education programmes in general and recycling programmes in particular.

Partnership

You can find more information on the official Recycle Game Website.

GATEWAY2: Gateway to Developing Economies

01 April 2017 – 31 March 2020

Objective

Based on the result of Gateway-1 project developed in 2016 which created an interactive map of mining projects in emerging and developing countries, the Gateway-2 project aims at facilitating new collaborative projects of EIT RM partners in developing countries and supporting international business development as well as enhancing local capacity building with education and research activities in those countries. The project addresses all value chain themes and will be focused on in Latin American and African regions. By integrating business development activities into existing education, research projects and networks, we aim at forming new approaches to support sustainable business development in developing countries.

The solution (technology)

The solution is based on the formerly developed interactive map which will be further enriched with a series of upcoming organized events in the focused countries. We will actively contact the local stakeholders for potential collaboration and organize partnering opportunities to be promoted among the EIT RawMaterials partners.

Partnership

  • Geologian tutkimuskeskus, GTK (Geological Survey of Finland), Finland (Lead Partner)
  • Aalto-Korkeakoulusaatio (Aalto University), Finland
  • Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), Spain
  • Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, BRGM (The French geological survey), France
  • CBI Betonginstitutet AB, Sweden
  • DMT GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
  • Geological Survey of Sweden, SGU, Sweden
  • Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium
  • Sandvik AB, Sweden
  • Sandvik SRP AB, Sweden
  • Spinverse Innovation Management Oy, Finland
  • Tallinna Tehnikaülikool, TTÜ – Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
  • Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF), Germany
  • Tecnalia Ventures, S.L., Sociedad Unipersonal, Spain
  • Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Sustainable Mining

GeoKTPro: Georesources Engineers in the Knowledge Triangle

Project duration: 1 January 2016 – 31 December 2016

Objective

The project builds on the existing EMerald master program in Georesources Engineering and aims to increases students’ exposure to the European raw materials industrial sector and its challenges, and improve the training of Emeralds’ students as T-shaped engineers.

The solution (technology)

We aim to create a triple win situation between the students, the scholar, and the host Institution. The students will learn from the scholars, the scholars will have access during their stay to the research facilities of the institution and the research team of the institution will expand their network and possibly have the opportunity to create a partnership or develop projects with the scholars.

Partnership

  • Université de Liège, Belgium (Lead Partner)
  • Université de Lorraine (UL), France
  • Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF), Germnay
  • Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB, LKAB, Sweden
  • Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Sweden

For more information, please visit the project web page.

 

 

GeoKTPro 2.0: Georesources Engineers in the Knowledge Triangle 2.0

Project duration: 01 January 2017 – 31 December 2018

Objective

The first activity is the Winter Business School for geo-resources engineering students. Since this first experience was organized in the CLC West, we wish to organize the 2017 Winter Business School in Freiberg (CLC East). On the long term, we could come to use the Circular economy Online Platform in Entrepreneurship – COPE that will be set up by the RWTH Aachen (of which the University of Liège is a partner). The idea is to diffuse an open call (after a meeting with the partners to decide on the chosen areas), organize a selection and host the best candidates. On the long-term, duplication of the activity and extended partnership, synergies with ID campus and Venture lab would take place. For the second activity, we want to invite professors, Post doc or PhD students from Tech countries or RREM countries specialized/specializing in a specific area (this year, the chosen areas were geostatistics, mineral processing and Geology/Process Mineralogy).

The solution (technology)

We aim to create a triple win situation between the students, the scholar and the host Institution. The students will learn from the scholars, the scholars will have access during their stay to the research facilities of the institution and the research team of the institution will expand their network and possibly have the opportunity to create a partnership or develop projects with the scholars. This activity will enable us to gain more visibility worldwide and will definitely benefit the EIT RawMaterials itself. The third activity is the geo-resources job day. It’s important that the students get to meet with European industrials (their possible future employer). They can present their master thesis research project topics and expand their professional network. On the long term, this geo-resources job day could become accessible to all graduates in the raw materials sector. It would without any doubt help the students in their job application process if they get to meet many industrials in one single day in one single place.

Partnership

  • Université de Liège, Belgium (Lead Partner)
  • Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. (HZDR), Germany
  • Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Sweden
  • Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF), Germany
  • Université de Lorraine (UL), France

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For more information, please visit the project website.

GeoKTPro3: EMerald + Georesources Engineers in the Knowledge Triangle 3

Project duration: 01 January 2019 – 31 December 2021

Objective:

This project is closely linked to the EIT labelled master programme – EMerald – that has now been running for five years. It aims on one hand to complement the master by financing activities integrating an important entrepreneurship component to enhance the training of T-Shape engineers and, on the other hand, to make the master more visible and attractive worldwide by financing student grants and promotional material.

The solution (technology):

This project is the complementary project of the EMerald master course (labelled by the EIT) and is coordinated by four EU Universities: ULiège, UL (Nancy), LTU ( Lulea) and TUBAF (Freiberg). The main objective of the EMerald master course is to educate young engineers with a strong entrepreneurial mindset to develop the innovative processes and efficient uses of mineral/metal resources required to move towards a more circular economy. The project aims at strengthening the training of T-shaped engineers and enhancing students’ exposure to the European raw materials industrial sector and its challenges. It will also help promote the programme and increase its attractiveness among international students and professors by organizing a series of activities (Business School, virtual microscopy platform, job day etc). Moreover, every student enrolled in the master programme will have the opportunity to be awarded a travel and subsistence allowance as well as an AVSA grant.

Partners:

For more information, please visit the project website.

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