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Register for SIM² General Assembly Meeting – 10FEBRUARY 2022 (13.30-17.15h)

MS TEAMS ON-LINE EVENT PROGRAMME Timing Item Speakers 13.30-14:00h Welcome & status overview SIM² Peter Tom Jones 14:00-15.15h Pitch presentations by NEW ZAP SIM² members + 1 Q&A session after the last presentation Xing Yang, Giuseppe Granata, Veerle Vandeginste, Anouk Borst, Olivier Namur 15.15-15.45h Coffee break 15.45-16.45h SIM² Café: Parallel Sessions/Workshop formula: Task Force Batteries (JP) – MS Teams: Click here to join the meeting – Link 2 New …

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Free online hydrometallurgy course

Hydrometallurgy in raw materials utilization – an educational and communication programme HydroMetEC is a lifelong learning program organized within EIT Raw Materials academy, coordinated by NTNU. It will educate engineers from industry, scientist at RTOs, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students about hydrometallurgy. Employees from mining, metallurgical, recycling and chemical industry are welcome to …

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Register for the DEMETER Closing Symposium (5-7 Feb’ 2019)

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ETN DEMETER (Design and Recycling of Rare-Earth Permanent Magnet Motors and Generators in Hybrid and Full Electric Vehicles) organises the DEMETER Closing Symposium in Feb’ 2019 (together with SIM² KU Leuven, GloREIA and Valeo).

Circular Economy & Raw material experts meet in Vienna

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The EU project CROCODILE will organise a session on Cobalt recovery during Going Green CARE INNOVATION 2018 on Nov 28 2018 in Vienna (Austria). The event is highly relevant for experts working on raw materials and circular economy

Milestone biohydrometallurgy event in Orléans on 10-10-2018

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PROMETHEE & BRGM are organising a milestone workshop dedicated to biohydrometallurgy on October 10, 2018. The event is highly relevant for researchers working in the EU projects CROCODILE, NEMO, METGROW+, ETN SULTAN & SOCRATES…

DEMETER Summer School

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August 24 – August 26

REDMUD Summer School

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August 29 – August 31

“(Re)mining extractive waste – Perspectives for the EU?” (15-11-2022, Brussels)

On November 15, 20222, the closing event for NEMO was organised as a Satellite Event of the 7th EU Raw Materials week. The key outcomes of the project were presented. read more >>
Final EU CROCODILE video released during EU Raw Materials week

The closing EU CROCODILE video has been released. Featuring Nand Peeters (KU Leuven), Flavia Forte (Eco Recycling) and Zhangqi Wang (Accurec), the video covers the recycling value chain for the read more >>
Documentary “Responsible Mining in Europe”: what the experts say

On October 20, 2022, the documentary “Responsible Mining in Europe: A new paradigm to counter climate change” was officially launched. Here we provide an overview of testimonials as obtained from read more >>
“(Re)mining extractive waste – Perspectives for the EU?” (November 15, Brussels)

SAVE THE DATE for the satellite event of the EU Raw Materials Week “(Re)mining extractive waste – Perspectives for the EU?” (Closing NEMO event – Le Plaza Hotel, Brussels, 15 read more >>
Systematic quantification of Waste Electric & Electronic Equipment plastics

The KU Leuven’s lifecycle engineering (LCE) research group (SIM² – KU Leuven) has explored a new methodology to systematically quantify the composition of WEEE plastics. The work was published in read more >>
How green are choline chloride-ethylene glycol based deep-eutectic solvents?

SOLVOMET/SIM2 researchers have demonstrated in the journal Green Chemistry that choline chloride-ethylene glycol based deep-eutectic solvents (DESs) are not stable during high-temperature leaching processes for cobalt recovery.

Responsible Mining in Europe:
A new paradigm to counter climate change

Full documentary

Waste from the past, houses for the future

EU MSCA-ETN SULTAN

Recycling the strongest metals

H2020 TARANTULA's new video

THE MISSING LINK

of the Circular Economy 2.0

5th Enhanced Lanfill Mining Symposium

The Dark Side of the Circular Economy

CHARMING

Immersive learning in Chemical Engineering

SOCRATES

Stairway to Sustainability - Research on recycling of industrial waste

SULTAN

Transforming mining waste (tailings) into valuable products

DEMETER

First Recycled Electric Motor

COSMIC

Europe on the wave to innovation

CROCODILE

Efficient recovery of cobalt

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Final EU CROCODILE video released during EU Raw Materials week

November 15, 2022

Documentary “Responsible Mining in Europe”: what the experts say

October 28, 2022

“(Re)mining extractive waste – Perspectives for the EU?” (November 15, Brussels)

September 26, 2022

Systematic quantification of Waste Electric & Electronic Equipment plastics

September 2, 2022

How green are choline chloride-ethylene glycol based deep-eutectic solvents?

August 30, 2022

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