Call for RIS Projects (Capacity Building and Innovation)

Raw materials are crucial for Europe’s green and digital transformation. To secure Europe’s future, we must build a resilient, sustainable supply chain for critical raw materials and advanced materials within Europe. Innovation in mining, materials processing, and recycling is essential to Europe’s industrial independence and underpins high-quality job creation and economic growth, and the vision of the green transition.
Europe’s Critical Raw Materials Act (CRM Act) sets ambitious goals for domestic production, processing, and recycling. To achieve these goals by 2030, Europe must:

• Increase domestic mining to supply at least 10% of Europe’s Critical Raw Materials’ needs.
• Expand processing capacity to cover 40% of Europe’s raw materials demand.
• Accelerate recycling efforts to reclaim 25% of end-of-life products.
• Diversify supply sources to ensure no more than 65% of any material comes from a single external country.

EIT RawMaterials is committed to transform this vision into reality and making raw materials a strategic strength for Europe. We are the sectors’ leading knowledge and innovation community with more than 300 partners comprising the leaders in industry, research and technology, and academia in the raw materials sector. EIT RawMaterials has successfully deployed over €600mn in strategic funding under the Horizon Europe programme, unlocking secondary funding into research, innovation, upscaling, skills and raw materials projects of more than ~€3.6bn.

For the EIT Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS)1 activities, EIT RawMaterials regards the RIS regions as areas where there are opportunities to make an impact in line with our objectives and the overall aim of increasing the innovation level of RIS countries.