Topic description
Specific Challenge:
In order to secure sustainable supply of raw materials to the EU society, the raw materials sector needs to strengthen its performance and competitiveness through research and innovation. Stronger integration of national and regional R&I programmes across the whole EU is needed to tap the potential of available funding and to reach the critical mass pushing the EU raw materials sector to the forefront in the sustainable production of primary and secondary raw materials and substitution of critical or scarce raw materials.
Scope:
The objective of the ERA-NET is to strengthen co-ordination of national and regional research programmes in the field of non-energy non-agricultural raw materials, while building on the experience of previous ERA-NETs ERA-MIN and ERA-MIN 2. This should be achieved in line with the integrated strategy proposed in the EU Raw Materials Initiative (RMI) and the Strategic Implementation Plan of the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on Raw Materials. The ERA-NET should cover the whole raw materials value chain including exploration, extraction and processing technologies and recycling, as well as substitution.
Proposals should pool the necessary financial resources from the participating national (or regional) research programmes with a view to implementing a joint call for proposals resulting in grants to third parties with EU co-funding in this area.
Proposers are requested to include other joint activities including additional joint calls without EU co-funding.
The proposal should demonstrate that these co-funded other activities exclude any overlaps with related on-going actions co-funded by the EU under Horizon 2020 SC5.
The Commission considers that for this topic, proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of up to EUR 5 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.
Expected Impact:
The project results are expected to contribute to:
- achieving the objectives of the EIP Raw Materials, particularly in the area of research and innovation co-ordination maximising impact of other actions in the Technology pillar of the Strategic Implementation Plan of the EIP on Raw Materials;
- reduced fragmentation of raw materials research and innovation efforts across Europe;
- improved synergy, co-ordination and coherence between regional, national and EU funding in the relevant research fields through transnational collaboration, and where appropriate international collaboration;
- improved use of human and financial resources in the area of raw materials research and innovation;
- improving the competitiveness and the environmental, health and safety performance of raw-materials operations.
Cross-cutting Priorities:
ERA-NET
Keywords
Paper and wood
Product innovation
Environmental regulations and climate negotiations
Forestry
Industrial design
Robotics
Mining and mineral processing
S3 - Land monitoring (Copernicus service)
Occupational health
Chemical process engineering
Remote Sensing Instruments / Sensors
Political systems and institutions, governance
Radio Frequency / Microwave Communications
Econometrics, statistical methods
Environmental planning
Social structure, inequalities, social mobility, i
Remote sensing
Waste water treatment
Industrial design (product design, ergonomics, man
Urban and regional economics
Global and transnational governance, international
Robotic system development
Seabed mining and minerals extraction
Geo-information and spatial data analysis
Biodiversity conservation
Chemical engineering (plants, products)
Geology
Adult education
Minerals and mining
Industrial waste
Political economy, institutional economics, law an
Geochemistry and geophysics
Industrial Automation and Robotics, mechatronics
Science education
Business plan
Intelligent robotics, cybernetics
Analytical chemistry
Earth observations from space/remote sensing
Informal science education
Formal science education
Physical chemistry, Polymer science, Electrochemis
Natural resources exploration and exploitation
Control engineering
Patents
Earth Observation Payload Data Exploitation
Inorganic and nuclear chemistry
Terrestrial ecology, land cover change
Environmental and geological engineering, geotechn
Robotics for mining and quarrying
Technology development
Metallurgy
Computational engineering and computer aided desig
Mineralogy, petrology, igneous petrology, metamorp
Networks (communication networks, sensor networks,
Systems engineering, sensorics, actorics, automati
International trade
Robot navigation
Licensing
Applied and industrial chemistry
Waste recycling
Materials engineering
Mechatronics
Mining and extraction
Mineralogy
Materials engineering (biomaterials, metals, ceram
Public engagement
Tags
exploration
EIP
competitiveness
ERA-MIN
innovation
processing technologies
minerals
fragmentation
extraction
recycling
substitution
production
European Innovation Partnership
society
safety performance
RMI
health and safety
mining
industrial minerals
metals
raw materials
critical raw materials
ERA-NET
health
value chain
Strategic Implementation Plan
Raw Materials Initiative
ERA-NET Cofund
non-agricultural raw materials
materials
construction materials