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...
MSP-Refram Final Conference After one year of studies and analyses, the MSP-Refram partners came together on 9-10 March in Brussels to share the main results and conclusions of their work. The final project conference aimed at answering the following questions: Why are tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum, niobium and rhenium important to our society?What...
After one year of studies and analyses, the MSP-Refram partners came together on 9-10 March in Brussels to share the main results and conclusions of their work. The final project conference aimed at answering the following questions: Why are tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum, niobium and rhenium important to our society? What...
MSP-REFRAM organised its second workshop in Brussels from 27-29 September 2016. Building on the results and feedback collected during the first workshop, it opened discussions on potential innovation pathways that optimise the balance between resource availability and usage. The event gathered 30 participants, including experts who...
