Empowering young people (15-18 years old) in Central and Eastern Europe with entrepreneurship and STEM skills. Between February – May 2018, EIT RawMaterials and Junior Achievement Europe organised four Innovation Camps across Bulgaria and Romania with the support of EIT RawMaterials partners BASF Romania, Arcelor Mittal Iasi and Veolia. […]
EIT RawMaterials supported project MiRaCLe develops an innovative spin-off company Kerline MiRaCLE is a Network of Infrastructures (NoI), an innovation project supported by EIT RawMaterials since January 2016. The project consortium shares competencies, expertise, equipment, instruments and themes to develop new bio-materials composites from renewable resources for the substitution of critical raw materials or toxic substances. […]
BE-Mat 2018 – Business Event on Materials, Raw Materials & Circular Economy – Anacapri (Italy) 20-22 June 2018 BE-Mat, the first Open Innovation event jointly organized by EIT RawMaterials and Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) on advanced materials, recycling and circular economy gathered more than 70 participants from 11 EU countries in the premises of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Anacapri (Italy), […]
Resource efficient processing The ZeroWaste Cluster, an innovation project funded by EIT RawMaterials, is a cooperation of eight different Networks of Infrastructures (NoIs). These networks contribute to foster innovation in the field of efficient resource processing and focus primarily on waste streams and/or complex low-grade ores. The ZeroWaste cluster also offers sustainability modelling services enabling its customers to take strategic decisions favouring the transition towards a circular economy. […]
On 4 October 2018 in Budapest, Hungary, the EIT’s Innovation Forum ‘INNOVEIT 2018’ will bring together entrepreneurs, representatives of higher education and research, EU, national and regional policymakers, as well as EIT graduates and other key innovation actors. The EIT Awards promote innovation and encourage entrepreneurs by putting the most innovative ventures, entrepreneurial graduates, innovation teams and women from the EIT Community in the spotlight. They create role models for change. […]
REGROUND project receives an award from EIT RawMaterials at EASME “Promoting market-ready water innovations – Investors’ café”, an event dedicated to exploitation, investment and market uptake of eco-innovative solutions in water and circular economy. On 12 June in Brussels, almost 100 attendees voted to select the project that, out of ten contestants, delivered the best business pitch in front of a panel of investors. Congratulations to the winners of the competition: […]
EIT RawMaterials Alumni will draw on the diverse talent and experience within our community to give its members networking and professional development opportunities. EIT RawMaterials Alumni has taken an important next step in the appointment of the first board. The founding board members come from a diverse range of backgrounds and EIT RawMaterials activities, bringing a wealth of experience and enthusiasm to their roles. […]
EIT RawMaterials is one of the key actors in the European Battery Alliance (EBA). Together with some of our partners, we are actively involved in the industry stakeholder consultation process coordinated by EIT InnoEnergy as well as in consulting the European Commission in its Strategic Action Plan for Batteries. As our society moves towards a New Energy and Mobility Age, strongly driven by digitalization, the resources we depend on fundamentally change. […]
PMC starts the processing factory construction in Delfzijl, The Netherlands Last week, EIT RawMaterials supported start-up and now a well-established SME – Purified Metal Company (PMC) has completed the financing for the construction of a large-scale state-of-the-art processing plant that recycles contaminated steel scrap (i.e. asbestos and other toxic materials) into a high-quality raw material for the steel industry. […]
Talk Nerdy To Me (TNTM) has gathered the EIT RawMaterials innovation community to connect and train on how to effectively present and pitch their research to policymakers and investors. EIT RawMaterials together with its partners RWTH Aachen and TU Clausthal launched the science communication bootcamp “Talk Nerdy To Me 2018”, the past 2-4 July at Rammelsberg, in Goslar (Germany), the only mine in the world which had been in uninterrupted operation for over 1,000 years […]
