EIT Raw Materials connects more than 120 partners from more than 20 EU countries and it´s the largest consortium in the sector of raw materials worldwide. This consortium includes universities, research bodies and businesses from different parts of the value chain or from different fields of application. The administrative headquarters and the legal seat of the association are situated in Berlin, Germany.
Innovation Themes:
- Exploration and raw materials resource assessment
- Mining in challenging environments
- Increased resource efficiency in mineral and metallurgical processes
- Substitution of critical and toxic materials in products for optimised performance
- Recycling and materials chain optimisation of end-of-life products
- Design of products and services for the circular economy
Structure
EIT Raw Materials has six Co-Location Centers (CLC) across the Europe:
- Innovation Hub (CLC) Baltic Sea - Espoo, Finland
- Innovation Hub (CLC) Central - Metz, France
- Innovation Hub (CLC) East - Wroclaw, Poland
- Innovation Hub (CLC) North - Luleå, Sweden
- Innovation Hub (CLC) South - Rome, Italy
- Innovation Hub (CLC) West - Leuven, Belgium
There are also two regional centres and three regional HUBs:
- Regional Center Freiberg – Freiberg, Germany
- Regional Center Leoben – Leoben, Austria
- Hub – Regional Center Košice – Košice, Slovak Republic
- Hub – Regional Center Adria – Slovenia and Croatia
- Hub-Regional Center Greece
STU in EIT Raw Materials
STU joined EIT Raw materials in 2017 by becoming an Associate Partner. Based on geographic criteria, STU is involved in CLC East situated in Wroclaw, Poland. During 2017 and 2018, STU participated in several networking events, conferences and meetings. In 2019, STU plans to submit two projects for the KAVA calls - one of them as a coordinator of the project and the other as a partner organisation in the project.
Source and more information on EIT Raw Materials website: https://eitrawmaterials.eu/
Find EIT Raw Materials Partners: https://eitrawmaterials.eu/about-us/partners/
Contacts in STU:
For more information about EIT Raw Materials and project possibilities, please contact:
Mgr. Erika Hlavatá, Project Centre, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, phone: +421 917 669 250, email: erika.hlavata@stuba.sk
or Ing. Lucia Uhorskaiová, PhD., director of the Project Centre, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, phone: +421 905 666 688, email: lucia.uhorskaiova@stuba.sk
