The PROMETIA Tech Tours are back in 2026, offering a unique opportunity for early-career professionals to explore Europe’s raw materials sector from the inside. From 15 to 19 June 2026, the next edition will take place in Germany, bringing participants to the heart of one...
Hosted in Naples, the seminar gathered researchers and industry experts from across Europe and beyond, showcasing the breadth of innovation happening within our community. Get a snapshot of the key discussions in the article below: Day 1: Understanding the Raw Materials Landscape and Preparing for What...
Europe is facing a growing challenge: the scarcity of critical raw materials, essential for industries ranging from renewable energy to high-tech manufacturing. Yet this challenge also presents a tremendous opportunity. By investing in innovative recycling and processing technologies, Europe can transform raw material limitations into...
Learn more about the role raw materials play in our everyday life, understand better the notion of criticality and find out what the EU is doing to ensure reliable and unhindered access to raw materials by watching SCRREEN's video below. https://youtu.be/7f-UbN0Dm7U This video is part of...
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...
Webinar Dates: 8 and 15 May 2019 Webinar Start Time: 12:00 (UK) / 13:00 (CEST) Raw materials are crucial to Europe’s economy and essential to maintaining and improving our quality of life. Securing reliable and unhindered access to certain raw materials is a growing concern within the...
The SCRREEN project focuses on critical raw materials (CRMs), i.e. metals, minerals and biotic materials which have a combination of two factors in the EU: a high economic importance and a high supply risk (official list of CRMs available here). With the support of other...
In the bid to raise the awareness of new critical raw materials, the European SCRREEN project launched a multilingual communication campaign in March 2018. This campaign is geared towards informing and educating the European public on the challenges linked to the 27 raw materials classified...
In addition to the well-known applications of tantalum, a new one is emerging: orthopaedic applications. As part of the European MSP-REFRAM project, a survey prepared by Ana Diez de la Rosa from ADE (Agency of Innovation, Business Financing and Internationalization of Castilla y León in Spain),...
The results from the MSP-REFRAM project (Multi-Stakeholder Platform for a Secure Supply of Refractory Metals in Europe) are now available. Refractory metals (tungsten, tantalum, rhenium, molybdenum and niobium) are highly strategic metals today, and are mainly imported from a limited number of countries. The European primary production remains...
