SCRREEN LAUNCHING & 1st ANNUAL CRITICAL RAW MATERIALS EVENT

More than 200 stakeholders from the raw materials community attended the SCRREEN LAUNCHING & 1ST ANNUAL CRITICAL RAW MATERIALS Event held in Brussels on 7^th November 2017.

Co-organised by the European Commission and the Horizon 2020 project SCRREEN , together with CHROMIC (GA 730471), EQUINOX (GA 689510), PLATIRUS (GA 730224), INREP (GA 641864) AND SCALE (GA 730105), it took place in the framework of the  Raw Materials Week 2017 in parallel to the Advanced Mining Countries Conference on Responsible Mining and Sourcing, starting with a joint plenary session.

At its 2^nd edition, the Raw Materials Week is considered the most important forum to discuss about raw materials policies, international cooperation, framework conditions, technologies and sharing knowledge. This year the first Annual Critical Raw Materials Event was inaugurated and opened by Antti Peltomäki, Deputy Director General, Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW).

In the morning a more general session about EU policies and networking was held. The second session focused on EU actions on CRM, providing update about latest EU activities in the field of Critical Raw Materials. Then, Mr Stéphane Bourg, the SCRREEN Coordinator, from French Atomic Energy Commission, presented the action that SCREEN has been deploying in terms of networking, permanent dialogue between stakeholders and decision-making in the field of raw materials. In addition Ms Liesbeth Horckmans (VITO) representing CHROMIC project, Mr Panagiotis Kavouras (NTUA) on behalf of EQUINOX project, Ms Emma Goosey (TECNALIA) from PLATIRUS project, Mr Thymis Balomenos (NTUA) in representation of SCALE project and Mr Duncan Allsopp (University of Bath) from INREP project gained the floor presenting R&D activities in the field of CRM, highlighting best practices and methodologies.

The event reached the conclusions by centring the debate around how the EU is supporting actions on CRM.

Welcome and Opening Remarks by Mr. Antti Peltomaki, Deputy-Director General, Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs,, European Commission (DG GROW, EC)

Joint Plenary Session of EU Critical Raw Materials and Advanced Mining Countries events – Chaired by Mr. Antti Peltomaki, Deputy-Director General, DG GROW, EC

• Critical Raw Materials Assessment 2017 – Mr Gwenole Cozigou, Director, Industrial Transformation and Advanced Value Chains, DG GROW, EC
• Policy perspective of the Government of Canada on global governance of raw materials – Mr. Alan Bowman, Minister-Counsellor & Deputy Head of Mission, Mission of Canada to the European Union

Session II: EU actions on CRM – Chaired by Ms Malwina Nowakowska-Ketterle, Deputy Head of Unit, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials, DG GROW, EC

• Circular Economy and Critical Raw Materials – Mr Magnus Gislev, DG GROW, EC and Mr Fabrice Mathieux, Joint Research Centre, EC
• Critical Raw materials and trade – Mr Andrew Coop, Directorate-General for Trade, EC
• EU funded actions in the area of Critical Raw Materials – Mr. Dimitrios Biliouris, EASME
• SCRREEN – the EU CRM network – objectives, ambitions, first results, Stéphane Bourg, CEA

Session III: EU R&D actions on CRM – Chaired by Mr Stéphane Bourg, SCRREEN Coordinator, French Atomic Energy Commission, PROMETIA

• CHROMIC – Ms Liesbeth Horckmans, VITO
• EQUINOX –Mr Panagiotis Kavouras, NTUA
• PLATIRUS – Ms Emma Goosey, for TECNALIA
• SCALE – Mr Thymis Balomenos, NTUA
• INREP – Mr Duncan Allsopp, University of Bath

Session IV: EU supporting actions on CRM – Chaired by Mr. Constantin Ciupagea, Head of Land Resources Unit, DG Joint Research Centre, EC

• CRMs for the EU: Summary of JRC support – Mr Fabrice Mathieux, DG JRC, EC
• SCRREEN and RMIS – Mr Daniel Cassard, BRGM
• Education initiative on CRM: the EIT-RawMaterials SusCritMat project (Sustainable Management of Critical Raw Materials) – Ms Alessandra Hool, ESM Foundation