Congratulations to the Finnish start-up Cuitu on winning the EIT RawMaterials Circular Economy award at the JA Europe Enterprise Challenge 2019 in Oslo! Cuitu is a start-up created by students aged from 19 to 30 who have participated in the JA Start Up Programme, a year-long programme during which students gain real experience of the [...]
Learning the uses of minerals through non-conventional teaching tools with Briefcase project The Briefcase project brings the opportunity to learn more about minerals through hands-on experience. The specific target audience will be primary schools which include from 6 to 14-year-old students and their teachers. The project is orientated for Wider [...]
Fostering skills and talent development SETI, an education project supported by EIT RawMaterials, demonstrated remarkable success in achieving the goal of innovation in education and enabling skills and talent development, connecting partners from business, research and education (knowledge triangle) and transferring skills to local SMEs. […]
Geomatics programme aims to educate future leaders and innovators in Mineral Resource Management The rising global demand for raw materials necessitates the extraction of mineral resources in harder-to-access areas of the geosphere. Simultaneously, the highest levels of safety and environmental and social regulations need to be fulfilled, as well as the optimisation of natural resource [...]
BroadBit develops revolutionary new batteries to power the future green economy BroadBit Batteries has installed and qualified a new cathode pilot production process that is exceptionally low cost and environmentally friendly. The pilot process can produce a constant thickness of cathodes over one meter in length. Uniquely, it does not use slurries, heating ovens, complex [...]
Label Student Board meeting in Berlin brought together the newly elected Board members and kicked-off two key upcoming initiatives EIT RawMaterials EIT-Labelled Master programmes, a segment of the EIT RawMaterials Academy portfolio, offer six unique Master programmes that enable students the opportunity to study at several centres of excellence throughout Europe. […]
Powering sustainable raw materials design, sourcing, processing and recycling for Batteries EIT RawMaterials called innovators from across Europe to share their ideas on how to radically change raw materials sourcing, processing and design for energy storage in electric mobility. […]
RawMatCop Call for Applications – Uncover the power of Copernicus for raw materials solutions! Apply for the call by 5 July 2019! In December 2017, as a result of the call – Copernicus Building Skills Actions – from the European Commission/DG GROW, EIT RawMaterials was awarded a three-year action, the RawMatCop 2018-2020 Programme. […]
Morecovery is a metal and mineral recovery service at a laboratory and/or pilot scale that allows organisations in the raw materials extractive industry to assess whether it is worth recovering metals and minerals from their solid and liquid side streams. The demand for raw materials, especially those that are on the list of critical raw [...]
The BioLeach project will develop innovative bio-treatment of raw materials On 13 March 2019, a new innovation project BioLeach officially kicked off at the premises of UVP TECHNICOM, led by Ing. Darina Štyriaková, PhD, Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnologies of the Technical University of Košice. The EIT RawMaterials funded project brings [...]
