admin-idener Last June 7-8th, the kick-off meeting of the Crocodile project was celebrated in Tecnalia facilities (Bilbao, Spain). This project will showcase innovative metallurgical systems based on advanced pyro-, hydro-, bio-, iono- and electrometallurgy technologies for the recovery of cobalt and the production of cobalt metal and upstream products from a wide variety of secondary and …
The 4th JNIC18 (http://2018.jnic.es/) took place in San Sebastian(SPAIN) on 13rd – 15th June. This research conference is the most scientific-related to the cybersecurity in Spain. During these days, the best research works are awarded in a lot of different areas like forensics, cryptography, artificial intelligence, big data, etc. Our colleague Jose Antonio attended for …
The kick-off meeting of NEMO project took place in Vuokatti (Finland) on 22nd – 23rd May. The location was close to the Terrafame mine, in Sotkamo, which is one of the case studies of the project. The first day, all partners introduced their organisations and, after that, work package leaders presented an overview and a …
On May 3th, the members of the MORSE consortium met at Dusseldorf in order to interchange updates on the project execution. The meeting, which lasted one day, was held at the BFI facilities in the city. The meeting was dedicated to the review of the last actions performed for each partner as well as for …
FUDIPO consortium members met last 24-25 April in Brussels to present the project’s progress and new advances to reviewers. The meeting was divided into two different sessions, the first one celebrated the first day exclusively among the consortium members and the second one with the presence of the reviewers. First-day presentations were about the state …
The REE4EU project parner VAC (VACUUMSCHMELZE GmbH & Co.) hosted the last project meeting which corresponds to the 30th month of the project. VAC is one of the key REE4EU partners, as leading global manufacturer of advanced magnetic materials and related products. Mr. Bernd Schleede, Director Product Management of VACUUMSCHMELZE GmbH & Co. KG gave a very …
In the bid to raise the awareness of new critical raw materials, the European SCRREEN project is launching a multilingual communication campaign on 26 March 2018. This campaign is geared towards informing and educating the European public on the challenges linked to the 27 raw materials classified as ‘critical’ by the European Commission. Cars, wind turbines, …
BioRECO2VER project, which was launched the past 1st January, will focus on refining biotechnological processes which can turn CO2 from industrial point sources into valuable platform chemicals like lactate and isobutene. The project kick off meeting was held last 17-18th January in Brussels, where different work packages were presented and discussed. IDENER introduced the activities and …
From 28th to 29th November, MORSE project consortium gathered in Finland to visits the SSAB and OUTOKUMPU facilities and define the use cases and needs. On 28th November, the consortium visited SSAB facilities in Raahe, where also the project researchers presented their potentials developments for SSAB. The visit was mostly centered on the secondary metallurgy steps. The …
The annual PROMETIA Scientific Seminar was held on 28-29 November 2017 in Barcelona, Spain, and focused on “Raw Materials Flexibility”. The event addressed the following issues: -Pocesses that can be used with different types of feeds (primary, secondary, evolution of the composition…) to produce a given metal -Processes easily adaptable for the production of different …