SCRREEN news

The SCRREEN Symposium will take place at the Grand Plaza Hotel of Ljubljana on 30th March 2023 and will be dedicated to key presentations and debates assessing the impact of the European Critical Raw Materials Act, the current and anticipated demand and supply of essential raw materials, the various value chains and the associated environmental and social aspects, technology gaps and innovation potential, challenges

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It’s EU Raw Materials Week! A whole week dedicated to discussions about policies and initiatives in the field of raw materials. For us, it is the opportunity to launch our online Raw Materials for Future Quiz! This quiz has been created at the initiative of the SCRREEN project, as part of our Raw Materials for Future campaign! It is being launched in partnership with PROMETIA and the

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SCRREEN project had the great pleasure of organising together with DG GROW the opening of the Raw Materials Week 2021 with the 4th CRM Day event. The event had taken place on Monday 15th November 2021 in Brussels at Le Plaza Hotel and online in an hybrid format counting in total more than 500 participants that gave valuable input to

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15 November 2021, Brussels, Belgium – To raise the awareness of raw materials, the EU funded SCRREEN2 project is launching the multilingual campaign Raw Materials for Future. The campaign will inform the European public and professional audiences about the key role these materials play in our everyday life and how they can help us reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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The Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) event offers an opportunity to a variety of stakeholders to get a fresh update about the latest EU activities in the field of Critical Raw Materials. The event is co-organised by the European Commission, the Horizon 2020 project SCRREEN2 – expert network on CRMs in the frame of sixth edition of the “Raw Materials Week”

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The first SCRREEN workshop of 2021 has been held in Brussels from 20th to 22nd of October. Organised in different sessions all the following materials were screened: Zirconium, Helium, Hafnium, Cork, Strontium, Bentonite, Gallium, Diatomite, Tin, Fluorspar, Arsenic, Limestone, Phosphate rock and elemental phosphorus, Bore, and Rhenium. This three-day workshop has been moderated by the leaders of work packages 3 (market analysis), 4 (EU demand)

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PRESS RELEASE The EU is highly dependent on critical raw materials (CRMs), which are crucial for a strong European industrial base. There is a need for an expert advice to better understand the value chains of the raw materials screened in the CRMs assessment in order to secure the sustainable access to primary and secondary raw materials and particularly Critical Raw

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Our project has gathered experts from European initiatives, associations, clusters, and projects working on CRMs into a long lasting Expert Network on Critical Raw Materials, including the stakeholders, public authorities and civil society representatives. Therefore acting as a point of reference in Europe for CRM strategy and served as an umbrella network providing a single voice to communicate CRM data,

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Six Expert Groups have been established in the SCRREEN project to support the development of the network with hopes to have their work to become a focal point of advice for decision making with regard to CRMs: Market, Governments & Policies, Resources, Circular Economy, Production, Substitution. Plans were made for the future to maintain and keep a Long Lasting Network of experts.

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SCRREEN organised three clustering events during the lifetime of the project, see their short descriptions below: The first clustering workshop took place in parallel with the project’s first round of Expert Group meetings on Resources and Policy, 30 – 31 May 2017, Brussels. 16 projects were invited, of which 9 attended the event. All projects had 10 minutes to introduce

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