Sustainable processing of Europe's low-grade sulphidic and lateritic nickel/cobalt ores and tailings into battery-grade metals

Energy Transition Metals event organised by ENICON & EXCEED project within RawMat2023 conference in Athens

The Horizon Europe projects ENICON and EXCEED co-organise in the frame of the 2nd  International Conference on Raw Materials and Circular Economy “RawMat2023”, an event about Energy Transition Metals, in order to bring together academia and industry to discuss all the current trends and challenges towards the transition to a net-zero economy. This event will include selected […]

1st ENICON Capacity Building Seminar

The ENICON (https://enicon-horizon.eu) Horizon Europe funded research project, organizes the 1st Capacity Building Seminar, on the 2nd and 3rd of October 2023.The target group of the seminar involves mainly graduate and post graduate students and early stage researchers, however all students and researchers in topics related to ENICON’s objectives are welcome. The seminar will take […]

244th ECS Meeting

ECS is pleased to return to Europe for our first biannual meeting there in over 10 years! Gothenburg, the second largest city in Sweden, has held the #1 ranking on the Global Destination Sustainability Index since 2016. This commitment to compassionate science and a sustainable future helps make Gothenburg a very attractive destination for our attendees. As the […]

EU SuperCluster Lapland Geoconference

ENICON, along with other eleven EU-funded Raw Materials projects EIS, AGEMERA, CIRAN, GOLDENEYE, GREENPEG, SEMACRET, M4MINING, MaDiTraCe, MinExTarget, MultiMiner, S34I, and the University of Queensland (Australia) are partnering up to organize a one-and-a-half-day clustering event “European Union SuperCluster Lapland Geoconference”, which will take place on Monday 30th and Tuesday 31st October 2023 in Rovaniemi, Finland.With this event, […]

IPMS symposium

INTERNATIONAL PROCESS METALLURGY SYMPOSIUMin honour of Professor Ari Jokilaakso Metallurgy as a tool for challenges in circular economy Dipoli, Otakaari 24, 02150 Espoo, Finland 31st October – 1st November, 2023 Aalto University, School of Chemical Engineering Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering

FEM 2023 ‒ The 14th Fennoscandian Exploration and Mining Conference

Do you want to know what’s hot in the Fennoscandian exploration and mining – the current players and upcoming commodities? The 14th Fennoscandian Exploration and Mining conference (FEM), will be held on 31 October – 2 November 2023 in Levi, Lapland, Finland.30 – 31 October: Pre-conference short courses Analytical methods in geology The hyperspectral mineralogy and applications across […]

EU Raw Materials Week 2023

The 8th edition of the Raw Materials WeekThe Raw Materials Week is an annual event organised by the European Commission. It gathers a wide range of stakeholders discussing policies and initiatives in the field of raw material, providing an overview of ongoing EU activities in this sector. The Raw Materials Week 2023 will take place from […]

Annual Meeting of the Cluster Hub “Production of raw materials for batteries from European resources”

The Cluster Hub “Production of raw materials for batteries from European resources” is a knowledge exchange ecosystem, where partners involved in different European projects (private companies, support organisations, experts, universities and research institutes) can identify and discuss common topics related to their projects, and to the production of materials for batteries, as well as synergies that can […]

Mineralteknik 2024

Conference in Minerals Engineering 2024 It is time for one of the winter’s highlights, the Annual Conference in Mineral Processing! In the beginning of February, when it is getting icy cold in Northern Sweden, the time has come for our annual Conference in Minerals Engineering in Luleå. This year we have an online technical programme […]

2nd Capacity Building Webinar by EU projects EXCEED and ENICON

The Horizon Europe projects EXCEED and ENICON, members of Cluster Hub  for Production of raw materials for batteries from European Resources, co-organise  a joint  capacity building webinar on the 21st of June.  The target group of the webinar is graduate and postgraduate students, as well as early-stage researchers. Four lectures will be given by Priyadharshini Perumal (UOulu), Fernando […]

12th ACI/RILEM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS AND ALTERNATIVE BINDERS FOR SUSTAINABLE CONCRETE

Transition to low-carbon concrete The purpose of this international conference is to present the latest available scientific and technical information in the field of supplementary cementitious materials and novel binders for use in concrete. The purpose of this edition is to highlight advances in the field of alternative and sustainable binders and supplementary cementitious materials, for […]

Towards responsible mining and processing of energy-transition metails in Europe: a mere pipedream or a realistic opportunity?

Critical Raw Materials are essential in the modern-day economy, for renewable energy technologies, electric vehicles, long-duration energy storage (LDES) and digitalisation, allowing our society to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).1 The European Commission’s (EC) Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) sets mining, processing and recycling benchmarks to reduce Europe’s dependency on just a few third […]