Launch of the Raw Materials Summit, featuring keynotes and a panel discussion with high-level speakers from the industry and our community. The session will focus on the upcoming response of Europe to the challenges posed Europe’s raw materials dependency towards the full implementation of the European Green Deal.

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Speakers

Introduction: Karin Helmstaedt, Journalist, presenter and moderator

Bernd Schäfer, CEO - EIT RawMaterials

Welcome speech

Guillaume Pitron, Journalist, author and documentary maker

The Rare Metals Race: an Unintended Consequence of the Green Energy Transition

Antti Valle, European Commission, DG GROW C.2 Energy Intensive Industries and Raw Materials

Critical Raw Materials Resilience in Europe

Panel Discussion moderated by Karin Helmstaedt with Antti Valle, Guillaume Pitron, Bernd Schäfer

DIGITALIZATION IN EXPLORATION AND MINING

Ernst & Young, McKinsey and Deloitte, among others, have unveiled that lack of digital solutions and transition of mining industry in this direction will be a major risk, while COVID-19 enhanced this need even more. EIT RawMaterials along with its partners with innovative DNA is steering solutions on this directions. Join the session to witness how digitalization has begun disrupting the mining and exploration industry and how the future looks like. Speakers and discussions will approach the topics both from the policy point of view as well as showing the latest industry developments on how digital technologies are transforming worldwide the raw materials sector towards a more efficient and sustainable industry.

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Speakers

Hilde Van Laere, delegate of the CCMI/EESC Co rapporteur/initiator of the opinion on Digital Mining

Digital mining: New solutions for sustainable production of raw materials.

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Toralf Hagenbruch, McKinsey

Digital and artificial intelligence  solutions in mining in processing

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Roman Krähling, DMT

Monitoring the mining ecosystem

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Moritz Von Plate, Hitachi ABB Power Grids

How Human AI can help tackle the challenges of digital transformation

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Discussion

TOWARDS RESILIENT BATTERY MATERIALS SUPPLY CHAINS

The transition to e-mobility will impact the raw materials sectors in a potentially disruptive way: the session will feature several large-scale initiatives to keep Europe at the edge of innovation and will showcase selected successful ongoing innovation and industrial projects.

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Speakers

Philippe Jacques, EMIRI

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Prof. Takashi Nakamura, Fukuoka Research Commercialization Center for recycling System and Tohoku University

Real Bottlenecks of Reuse and Recycle of LiB in EV

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Marco Evertz, IPCEI Initiative on Batteries

IPCEIs to augment European battery manufacturing

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Nicolas Verdier, ERAMET

Battery Raw Materials Supply & the ReLieVe Project

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Alexander Palkovsky, Euro Lithium Inc.

The Role of the Valjevo Lithium-Borate Project to a resilient battery materials supply chain, and the secure implementation of the European Green Deal and Digital Transformation

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Marco Romero, Euro Manganese Inc.

Green and Made-In-Europe High-Purity Manganese Products – By Recycling Waste!

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Discussion

CIRCULAR ECONOMY: POLICIES AND INNOVATION

Circular Economy (CE) is a key to the deployment of the European Green Deal. Moreover, it is a radical system change that automatically mitigates many of the challenges that the ongoing pandemic is posing (e.g., resilience of the supply chains) and turns them into opportunities for innovation (e.g., dematerialisation).  For the deployment of a Circular Economy, the interplay between different elements such as policy and regulations, technological innovation in industrial processes and digitalisation as well as innovative approaches to create thriving ecosystems is required. The session intends to give a short but comprehensive outlook on each of these elements, providing some examples of the required changes towards the adoption of a climate-neutral Circular Economy.

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Speakers

Martin Stuchtey, System IQ

The business of resource productivity

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Carsten Gerhardt, Kearney

Creating a Circular Valley: the hot spot for Circular Economy

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Jan Tytgat, UMICORE

The essential role of Pb in recycling of technology elements

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Eric Thelen, EIT Digital

EIT Digital: Digital Technologies for the Circular Economy

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Antti Häkkinen, Lappeenranta University of Technology

Urban Infra Revolution

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Discussion

Speakers

Andreas Klossek, EIT RawMaterials

Maros Sefkovic, European Commission

Guillaume Pitron

SecREEts POLICY COUNCIL - Materialising the Green Deal

Realising the EU Green Deal will require European industries to step up their production in a wide variety of fields ranging from energy to mobility, leading to a soaring demand in critical materials, including rare earth elements. How can the European Union best support the establishment of a secure and stable supply of these raw materials? In this session organised by the Horizon 2020 project SecREEts, we will discuss the needs of European industries and how to best address them.

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Speakers

Martin Watson, Prospex Institute

Maria Sunér Fleming – CEO of the Swedish Mining Association

Evangelos Tzimas, European Commission

Cecilia Mattea, Transport & Environment

Milan Grohol, DG GROW, European Commission

Roland Gauß, EIT RawMaterials

Arne Petter Ratvik, SINTEF

Carlo Burkhardt, Hochschule Pforzheim

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DMT GROUP PANEL Sustainability, Exploration and Operations

DMT GROUP is a leading and independent, globally active engineering service provider and consulting company in the raw materials, energy, infrastructure and civil engineering as well as plant and process engineering markets. DMT is actively and continuously developing innovative and robust solutions in the raw materials sector, and is contributing to numerous international innovation projects funded by the European Union.

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We present these three current innovation projects the panel:

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NEXT – Development of cost-efficient and sensitive new exploration technologies

NEXT will develop new geomodels, novel sensitive exploration techniques and data analysis methods, which together are fast, cost-efficient, environmentally safe and potentially more socially accepted.

Speaker: Torsten Gorka

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CERA – A holistic certification scheme for raw materials

CERA is a new standardized certification scheme that ensures the environmental, social and economic sustainability in mining, processing, trading and of all mineral resources. The presentation will introduce the system and report on the first practical experiences.

Speaker: Andreas Hucke

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HoloMine – Realizing the Potential of Augmented Reality in Mining

Mine digitalization (Mining 4.0) is identified as key technology for success, while Mixed Reality (MR) is the most promising way to enable users to leverage all benefits to improve operational efficiencies, by integration of real world and virtual world in one 3D/4D environment.

Speaker: Ben Wolters

SOCIAL LICENSE TO OPERATE

Session covering the critical issue of how to improve acceptance and community engagement of new mining projects: we will showcase best practices and selected successful cases.
 

Speakers

Pamela Lesser, University of Lapland

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Masuma Farooki, Minehutte

ESG Ratings, Investor Standards and the SLO; What Counts?

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Tobias Kind, World Wide Fund For Nature

Between Profits and Losses. Environmental and social impacts in areas of mining

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Anders Forsgren, BOLIDEN

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Ferdinand Maubrey, RCS Global

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Discussion

DISRUPTIVE MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES

New materials modelling approaches are paving the way to the introduction of advanced materials with unprecedented properties. We will showcase examples of new materials disruptions, giving the possibility to obtain improved mechanical, electrical and magnetic properties.

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Speakers

Prof. Tejs Vegge, Danish Technical University

BIG-MAP: Battery Interface Genome – Materials Acceleration Platform

Prof. Elvira Fortunato, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Sustainable materials for low cost and flexible electronics​

Joachim Antonissen, Guaranteed

From Additive Manufacturing to Functionally Graded Materials

Maximilian Fries, Magnotherm

Facing the cold crunch: can magnetic cooling make a difference

Discussion

ADVANCED METALLURGICAL PROCESSING

Resource efficiency, waste minimization, CO2 emissions reduction, process optimization, value chains simplification, processing digitalization are the trends of metallurgical processing to meet the environmental, social, economic and overall Green Deal requirements in the short and long term future. The session will show case industrial applied innovations on this direction in the mining, in the processing and in the recycling parts of the value chain.

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Speakers

Michael Missalla, Outotec

Efthymios  Balomenos, Aluminium of Greece

Scandium Extraction from Bauxite Residue using Sulfuric Acid and a Composite Extractant-Enhanced Ion-Exchange Polymer Resin. Pilot Scale Results

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Lance Christodoulou, Harrison Law & Bartosz Dabrowski

A summary of pilot testing campaigns using the REFLUX™ Flotation Cell showing enhanced kinetic performance

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Carl De Maré, ArcelorMittal

Emission reduction via CO2 to bio-ethanol conversion

Discussion

EASME SESSION

After an introduction by EU representatives on the role of innovation in EU research funding, in H2020 and in the future Horizon Europe, the 1st part of the session will be the occasion to engage with beneficiaries of H2020 projects with a high innovation potential and capacity. In the 2nd part of the session, H2020 and EIT RawMaterials projects will be presented as examples of synergies to boost and scale-up innovative results along the raw materials value chain.

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EARTH OBSERVATION APPLICATION TO RM

We will show the opportunities offered by EITRM’s beachhead RawMatCop programme, which is opening new opportunities for innovation in the raw materials sector driven by the use of satellite observations.

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Speakers

Dr. Zoltan Bartalis, Europen Space Agency



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Dr. Carsten Laukamp, CSIRO Mineral Resources



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Dr. Ignasi Vilajosana, CEO Worldsensing



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Irene Benito, EIT RawMaterials

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Dr. Gerardo Herrera, DG GROW RawMaterials Unit


Massimiliano Vitale, Planet

Pitching session of the winning business models ideas of the Circular Societies prize, our successful competition run in collaboration with ICLEI and RREUSE and Veolia.

We will show the funding opportunities offered by the pan-European network ERA-MIN3 to support the transition of linear raw material values chains to a circular economy model.

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Speaker

Holger Grünewald, Project Management Jülich/ ERA-MIN 2 EU Project

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