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 …
The second edition of the Raw Materials Week took place last 7-9th November in Brussels (Belgium), with the aim of gathering EU stakeholders to share information about the EU actions in Raw Materials, be informed about the EU needs and opportunities in this sector and doing networking. IDENER participated in this successful event, attending to the Raw …
After one year since the beginning of the project, FUDIPO consortium met last 17-19 October in Vienna to present the project advances and discuss the developments in parallel sessions. Thus, the first day, after the project coordinator opening (see the photo below), the different developments in each study case and work packages were presented. IDENER, …
Last week, within its education and knowledge activities, PROMETIA organised a techno-tour in Poland, involving 25 young researchers working in the institutions that are members of the PROMETIA association. The techno-tour, which took place from 9 to 12th October, was aimed to gain knowledge in the metal production value chain, from the mining activity to the metal …
Last 19 September 2017 the Process Industry Conference, SPIRE mid-term policy event took place in Brussels, with the relevant stakeholders for the European Process Industry, including a session for a brief presentation of SPIRE projects on this topic, as FUDIPO, Monsoon, ProPat, etc. As FUDIPO dissemination leaders, we presented the project main goals and business opportunities and had the opportunity to …
AFTERLIFE kick-off meeting was held last 11-12th September, at the Hotel Palace, in Bari (Italy) During the first part of the meeting, partners introduced themselves and general aspects of the project were discussed, with the participation of the BBI-JU project officer, Pilar Llorente Ruiz de Azua, representing European Commission. The external expert advisory board (EEAB) …
IDENER attended to H2020 Business opportunities in the circular economy event, which took place last 19th September in Oslo. The first part of the event consisted on the following presentations: – Introduction to the circular economy (Marit Aursand, research director, SINTEF Ocean) – EU policy news – Circular economy: State of the implementation and way …
Last 13-14th September, the “INNOVATION & RESEARCH IN THE E-WASTE RECYCLING CHAIN: IMPROVING CIRCULAR ECONOMY OF CRITICAL RAW MATERIALS” event took place in Aachen (Germany). The aim of the event was to discuss the state of the art of e-waste recycling, looking at the entire recycling chain, from collection and logistics to sorting, pre-processing and materials …
On Monday 18th September, the REE4EU coordinator welcomed all the REE4EU consortium to the M24 Progress Meeting which coincided with midterm. Especially the project officer from the EU Commission, Dr. Istvan Ritz was welcomed. During the meeting, the work package leaders presented the updates on the activities realized so far. IDENER, as leader of WP3 …