EIT Raw Materials is supported by EIT,

a body of the European Union Floriana La Marca– 18 October 2017

EIT RawMaterials – Services and opportunities

Innovation in processing and recycling

Landfill Mining – Trends and opportunities

Barcelona, 18-19 October 2017

KIC (acronym of Knowledge Innovation Community) is:

• A thematic innovation community that develop innovative products and services, foster new business, encourage growth and nurture young entrepreneurial talent

• Characterised by a high degree of integration, a long-term perspective, efficient governance, the co-location model and the entrepreneurial culture

• U i ue pa t e ships that i c ease Eu ope’s capacity fo innovation by bringing together leading companies, universities and research organisations

• Driven by a pursuit of excellence

EIT (European Institute of Innovation and Technology) and

EIT RawMaterials KIC

EIT (European Institute of Innovation and Technology)

The EIT aims to increase the cooperation and

integration between education, business and

research to facilitate the transition from:

The EIT is the first EU initiative bringing together the three sides

of the k owledge t ia gle : Business (companies and SMEs),

Higher Education Institutions and Research Centres.

The EIT is an EU body that enhances Eu ope’s ability to innovate

by nurturing young entrepreneurial talent and supporting new

ideas through the Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs).

Entrepreneurship

Student to Entrepreneur

Idea to Product

Lab to Customer

EIT Digital

Climate-KIC

KIC InnoEnergy

EIT Health

EIT RawMaterials

EIT Alumni

EIT Manufacturing

EIT Food

European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)

EIT Community

2017 EIT call

* The EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation

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EIT RawMaterials vision is to develop raw materials into a strategic strength for Europe

by boosting competitiveness, growth and the attractiveness of its raw material sector

– via radical innovation, new education approaches and guided entrepreneurship.

EIT RawMaterials strategic objectives are:

1. Securing raw materials supply

2. Designing solutions

3. Closing material loops

EIT RawMaterials

What is the purpose?

Public Funding (H2020, national)

• Bridging the valley of death

• Market introduction of

production and processes

• Educate entrepreneurs

Market Funding VC, co pa ies, …

Sales

Exploitation of R&D

Pilot Mature Explore Idea

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• A company formed by 120 European partners from metal and mineral sectors

• Financially supported by the European Union (2016 ca EUR 20 M, EUR 270 M over 5-years)

• Aims to improve innovation in the raw materials value chain through financial support and network activities

• Focus is the whole raw material value chain: From exploration to mining, and from processing to recycling, substitution and eco-design

• Pre-commercial funding, TRL* 5-7

* Technology Readiness Level

What is EIT RawMaterials?

TRL 5:

Technology validated in relevant environment

(industrially relevant environment in the case

of key enabling technologies)

TRL 6:

Technology demonstrated in relevant

environment (industrially relevant

environment in the case of key enabling

technologies)

TRL 7:

System prototype demonstration in

operational environment

EIT RawMaterials Knowledge and Innovation Themes

EIT RawMaterials - Innovation, Education and Entrepreneurship Activities

A pan-European partner network

• Coverage of full value chain

• Worlds largest community in the raw

materials sector

• Over 110 partners

• 22 countries

• Six Co-location Centers across Europe

• Headquarter in Berlin, Germany

Industry

EIT RawMaterials partners

Research and Technology Organisations

Partners

Universities

Partners

Raw materials in every day life

Consumption since year 1700

Year 1700

Year 1800

Year 1900

Year 2000

Consumption of mineral raw materials

Anthropocene

A new epoch dating from when

human activities started to have a

significant global impact on Earth's

geology and ecosystems.

Paul J. Crutzen proposed the

Industrial Revolution as the starting

date

Crutzen, P. J. 2002. Geology of mankind: the anthropocene. Nature 415, 23

Anthropocene impact on raw materials

Technosphere

is comprised of all of the

structures that humans have

constructed: from houses,

factories and farms to

computer systems,

smartphones and CDs, to the

waste in landfills and spoil

heaps

Technosphere

Technosphere was calculated to value:

• 30 trillion tons

• 50 kilos for every square metre of the Earth's surface.

• 4.000 tons each person living in the world

A very heavy burden…

Zalasiewicz J. et al., 2016. Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere:

A geological perspective The Anthropocene Review, vol. 4, 1: pp. 9-22.

European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials, 2016. Raw Materials Scoreboard,

Europe import dependency

Critical Raw Materials

EC, 2017. Communication on the 2017 list of Critical Raw Materials for the EU

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Material Stage11 Main global

supplier

Share Material Stage Main global

supplier

Share

1 Antimony P China 87% 23 Natural graphite E China 69%

2 Baryte E China 44% 24 Natural Rubber E Thailand 32%

3 Beryllium E USA 90% 25 Neodym ium E China 95%

4 Bismuth P China 82% 26 Niobium P Brazil 90%

5 Borate E Turkey 38% 27 Palladium P Russia 46%

6 Cerium E China 95% 28 Phosphate rock E China 44%

7 Cobalt E DRC 64% 29 Phosphorus P China 58%

8 Dysprosium E China 95% 30 Plat inum P S. Africa 70%

9 Erbium E China 95% 31 Praseodym ium E China 95%

10 Europium E China 95% 32 Rhodium P S. Africa 83%

11 Fluorspar E China 64% 33 Ruthenium P S. Africa 93%

12 Gadolinium E China 95% 34 Sam arium E China 95%

13 Gallium* P China 73% 35 Scandium P China 66%

14 Germanium P China 67% 36 Silicon metal P China 61%

15 Hafnium P France 43% 37 Tantalum E Rwanda 31%

16 Helium P USA 73% 38 Terbium E China 95%

17 Holm ium E China 95% 39 Thulium E China 95%

18 Indium P China 56% 40 Tungsten E China 84%

19 I r idium P S. Africa 85% 41 Vanadium P China 53%

20 Lanthanum E China 95% 42 Yt terbium E China 95%

21 Lutet ium E China 95% 43 Yt t r ium E China 95%

22 Magnesium P China 87%

Legend

Stage E = Extraction stage P = Processing stage

HREEs Dysprosium, erbium, europium, gadolinium, holmium, lutetium, terbium,

thulium, ytterbium, yttrium

LREEs Cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, praseodymium and samarium

PGMs Iridium, palladium, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium

–

Europe dependency

European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials, 2016. Raw Materials Scoreboard,

The Circular Economy concept

from landfill? resources

knowledge flexibility

Circular economy is a continuous positive

development cycle that preserves and

enhances natural capital, optimises resource

yields, and minimises system risks by

managing finite stocks and renewable flows. It

works effectively at every scale.

• Exploration and mining

• in more challenging environments – not only for primary resources? • facing also secondary resources status

• Processing

• improving, innovating and rethinking processes and technologies • more efficiency and less environmental impact • reshaping the idea of what a resource is and securing supplies of raw materials for the future

• Recycling

• industrial waste and end-of-life-products as resources • major pillar of raw materials supply • quality of raw materials recovered

• Circular economy

• designing solutions: multi-scale modelling and decision-making support tools • closing material loops: from linear to circular thinking, end-of-life products as resources for other

cycle, losses and stocks minimisation along the value chain, systemic standpoint

Innovation in EIT Raw Materials

Some projects

Short Title Title

ANCORELOG UpS - Analytical Core Logging System 2018-2020

PAiRED-X UpS - Portable Analyzer combining fluoREscence and Diffraction of X-rays 2018-2019

SlagVal UpS - Slag valorisation for multi metal recovery and mineral resource production 2018-2021

raPHOSafe RIS - Classification and Sorting of Radium-rich Phosphogypsum Tailings 2018

RIS-RECOVER RIS - Regional innovation scheme for zero waste extraction of critical raw materials 2018-2020

SPL-CYCLE RIS - Closing the loop of the Spent Pot-line (SPL) in Al smelting process 2018-2020

BizMet LLL - Competitive sustainable business from metal recycling 2018-2019

CEE-SIMP3 PhD - Circular Economy Entrepreneurship in System Integrated Metals Processing 2018-2020

E-M@S WSL - E-Mining@school 2018-2019

WM-CRM WSL - Blended learning Course Waste Management and CRM’s 2018-2019

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topics and events

Participate in our thematic centric or regional Matchmaking & Networking events

organized all year round

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Apply for funding instruments offered by EIT RawMaterials

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Contacts

Floriana La Marca

floriana.lamarca@eitrawmaterials.eu