ERA-MIN 2 in the spotlight at EU Raw Materials Week

The European Commission is promoting, in the week of 15 to 19 November, the Raw Materials Week 2021, in which the ERA-MIN 2 Final Conference and the Final Seminar of the projects of the Call 2017, completed between 2020 and 2021, will be highlight events.

ERA-MIN 2 is coordinated by FCT and is an ERA-NET (European Research Area Network), a funding instrument that promotes the creation of European research networks clustered around a scientific area. ERA-MIN 2 has the specific objective of supporting research and innovation projects in the area of non-agricultural and non-energy raw materials, namely construction, industrial and metallic minerals. This network involves 21 public research funding organisations from 13 EU countries/regions, one EU associated country (Turkey) and 4 non-EU countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile and South Africa). Through 3 Calls transnational, has given the raw materials community the opportunity to apply for coordinated funding across the world, gaining access to cutting-edge knowledge and new markets, while at the same time reducing the fragmentation of R&I funding in Europe and globally.

Scheduled to last between 2016 and 2021, ERA-MIN 2, which will be succeeded by ERA-MIN 3 (2020-2025), also coordinated by FCT, now presents at the end of this cycle of research activities the objectives and results of the projects it financed, showing the responses produced in relation to the industry's needs in relation to primary and secondary resources and the implementation of a circular economy approach based on the replacement of critical raw materials.

These ERA-MIN 2 events will be attended by representatives of projects funded during the network's 5 years of activity, and representatives of the 16 projects funded under the 2017 Call , now concluded, will have the opportunity to disseminate the results and promote their use by industry, civil society or policy makers.

The President of the FCT Board of Directors, Helena Pereira, will open the conference on November 18th, at 1 pm, and the work on this first day will end at 6 pm. On November 19th, the program will take place between 12pm and 3:30pm. The entire conference can be watched online, free of charge, upon prior registration .