To develop skills suitable to support the transition to circular economy, the Consortium is promoting a series of PhD Summer Schools entitled “Closing the loop: building circular skills on the entire value chain for Circular Economy”, with a strong focus on techno-scientific topics. It t will be a 1 week international school, providing an Open Badge, with a specific thematic orientation for each edition, complemented by extra activities such as in-field laboratories at industry, MOOC, hackathon.

The project consortia will scale up technology that turns CO2 emissions from industries to valuable sustainable carbon nanomaterials and graphite for making greener batteries. Within this project a scalable shipping container synthesis pilot reactor unit will be designed and built. This unit will increase the capacity to ton-scale per year and is further easily scalable to provide nanocarbons that will be manufactured into sustainable batteries.

CSyARES creates a standardised sustainability certification for rare earth elements (REE), focusing on a "Product Environmental Footprint". The project intends to integrate REIA’s sustainability standards for REE with Circularise's patented traceability technology and Minviro's sustainability metrics. The integrated solution provides affordable confidentiality-preserving certification to suppliers, proving their sustainability metrics.

DEETECHTIVE intends to transform each participating HEI into a university of significantly increased entrepreneurial and innovation capacity and to enhance their impact on surrounding ecosystems.

DEETECHTIVE’s unique approach is based on Deep Tech, Open Innovation, Sharing Economy and Social Product Development, as we are facing a major shift in the way how people work, innovate and study. It is caused not only by the Industry 4.0 era and social media – based reality but also a huge impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the way how education and daily work has changed.

Low level of innovativeness in the ESEE RM-sector is partly related to lack of professional LLL courses. Project aims to implement four innovation workshops in exploration, orebody characterization, extraction, and ore processing for the ESEE RM-professionals, and four spin-off programmes for RM-students at the participating ESEE Universities. Programmes content has been drafted based on questionnaire campaign conducted in the ESEE region.

Drone geophysical measurements can improve cost, time, accuracy, environment and work safety, but are held back by unreliable drones and heavy sensors. DroneSOM will develop specifically fitted drones, a novel drone electromagnetic and world’s first drone gravity sensor and novel data integration software. As the main product, Partner Radai will commercialize this solution as a service for mineral exploration offering 50% savings to a 395 M€/a market, CAGR 4.6%.

DysCovery scales-up a recycling processes for EoL permanent magnets through hydrogen-free leaching process, extraction chromatography metal separation and metal/alloy production. The new plant will recycle 630 t/a EoL material, enhancing EU recycling capacity by min 23%, to produce magnet-specification metals (300 t/a), commercialised 30% lower than current market prices. The metals will be tested in NdFeB/SmCo magnets for e-mobility application.

ECHO aims to commercialize the patented electrical, programmable, breaker hammer (LEH) which is capable of interaction in multi-hammer setting to boost the fragmentation process, decrease environmental impact (reduces emissions up to 100%), and increase efficiency (up to 60%) within underground and open-pit mining. Piloting and go-to-market activities will ensure a full commercial deployment of LEH to be introduced to a global 1,46B€ market.