ERA-MIN 2 featured at EU Raw Materials Week

The European Commission is promoting Raw Materials Week 2021 from November 15 to 19, with the ERA-MIN 2 Final Conference and the Final Seminar of the Call projects, completed between 2020 and 2021, as the 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 focused on a specific scientific area. ERA-MIN 2 has the specific objective of supporting research and innovation projects in the field of non-agricultural and non-energy raw materials, namely construction, industrial minerals, and metals. This network involves 21 public research funding organizations from 13 EU countries/regions, one EU associated country (Turkey), and four non-EU countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and South Africa). Through three Calls , it has given the raw materials community the opportunity to apply for globally coordinated funding, gaining access to cutting-edge knowledge and new markets while reducing the fragmentation of R&I funding in Europe and globally.

Scheduled to run from 2016 to 2021, ERA-MIN 2, which will be followed 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 has funded, showing the responses produced in relation to the needs of industry regarding primary and secondary resources and the implementation of a circular economy approach based on the substitution of critical raw materials.

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

The Chair of the FCT Governing Board, Helena Pereira, will open the conference on November 18 at 1:00 p.m., and the first day's proceedings will end at 6:00 p.m. On November 19, the program will run from 12:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The entire conference can be viewed online, free of charge, upon prior registration.