Towards a sustainable management of raw materials in the EU

Floriana La Marca

Project Adviser, Raw Materials

European Commission - EASME

Raw Materials

EU R&D evolution

FP4 - EUROTHEN

EU Raw materials initiative

FP6 2002-2006 FP7 2006-2013

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Horizon 2020

2000-2010 Lisbon strategy - ERA EU2020 strategy/Juncker priorities

FP5

European Platform on Sustainable Mineral Resources

ERA-MIN I+II

EIP on Raw materials

EIT Raw Materials

SC5 Raw materials

FP5 - NESMI

Horizon Europe

GEO-ERA

New priorities

Raw Materials

ENTR G3

Raw Materials

Competitive &

carbon neutral industries

in 2050

2050 strategy

ENTR G3

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‘the Commission is invited to present, by the end of 2019,a long-term vision for the EU’s industrial future, with concrete measures to implement it. It should address the challenges European industry faces, touching upon all relevant policy areas’

Upcoming policies

‘To become world’s first climate-neutral continent’

‘We will be a world leader in circular economy and clean technologies. We will work to decarbonise energy-intensive industries’

‘I will propose a New Circular Economy Action Plan focusing on sustainable resource use, especially in resource-intensive and high-impact sector’

European Green Deal

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Why raw materials matter?

Circular economy

ICT

Mobility Batteries

Space

Low carbon tech.

Defence

Impact on all value chains and economy

Transition to a low carbon and circular economy

Increase of raw materials demand

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EU „Raw Materials Initiative” = EU raw materials policy

Aim to secure sustainable supplies of raw materials

Launched in 2008, consolidated in 2011

Non-energy, non-agricultural raw materials

Connecting EU external and internal policies

Integrated strategy (3 pillars)

Introduced a list of Critical Raw Materials (CRM)

Policy strongly supported by EIP on Raw Materials

Foster sustainablesupply from

Europeansources

Boostresourceefficiency

and recycling

Ensure levelplaying field in

access to resources in

third countries

Raw Materials Initiative

https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/sites/horizon2020/files/ce_booklet.pdf

HORIZON 2020 SUPPORT TO CIRCULAR ECONOMY

• Going beyond waste - Interdependence across the Value Chain

• 5 priority sectors, including Critical Raw Materials

• All forms of innovations: (technological and non-technological)

• Large scale demonstration projects

• Focus on impact

7EU Circular Economy

Action Planadopted in Dec 2015

(Mancini et al., 2018)

Raw materials contribution to SDGs

Raw Materials Information System (RMIS)

• RMIS is the EC’s knowledge platform on non-fuel, non-agriculture raw materials from primary to secondary sources, along the entire value/supply chains

• RMIS includes both abiotic and biotic materials

• RMIS act as key interface for policy support

What is RMIS?

• RMIS acts as the reference access point to the EU RawMaterials Knowledge Base (EURMKB)

• RMIS facilitates the availability, coherence, and quality of knowledge required by specific EU raw materials policies and EC services

• RMIS provides structured quantitative knowledge within Europe and beyond and contribute to developing country & material specific profiles

Goals & Scopes

2019 RMIS Roadmap

• Provides an overview of RMIS

• Highlights progresses made since the release of the 2017 Roadmap report

• Illustrates development priorities and milestones

• Gives a chance to discuss needs & priorities

RMIS Newsletter to better inform stakeholders

on new releases related to RMIS, upcoming events, ongoing work, etc.

RMIS – Other news

• Acceptance and trust from local communities and other stakeholders in relation to activities, mainly – but not exclusively – in the mining sector (exploration and extraction)

• The sustainability and responsibility in production of raw materials in the EU may meet society’s expectations and thus improve approval and consent

• Develop a life-cycle based impact assessment method for sustainable sourcing based on a common understanding

Social license to operate (SLO)

Raw Materials

EASME data hub: https://sc5.easme-web.eu/?theme=green (filter "raw materials")Societal Challenge 5 on the EASME website: https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/horizon-2020-societal-challenge-climate-action-environment-resource-efficiency-and-raw-materials

EASME data hub

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FP1 FP2 FP3 FP4 FP5 FP6 FP7 H2020 HEU

EU Research & Innovation 1984-2027

Projects & results: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/projects-results;programCode=H2020

Evolution of investment in EU R&I (billion € current prices)

Addressing the whole value chain

Raw Materials in Horizon 2020

Open to the world

66 projects with 365 million € EU funding

1024 project participations by 665 organisations

Researc

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Innovation

CE-SC5-07-2018-2019-2020: Raw Material Innovation for the Circular Economy: Sustainable processing, reuse, recycling and recovery• Sustainable processing and refining of primary and/or secondary raw

materials• Recycling of raw materials from end-of-life products• Recycling of raw materials from buildings• Advanced sorting systems for high-performance recycling of complex

end-of-life products• …

TRL 6

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SC5-10-2019-2020 - Raw materials innovation• Mining pilots• Substitution of Critical Raw Materials

CE-SC5-08-2018-2019-2020: Expert Network on Critical Raw MaterialsSC5-26-2020: Sustainable management in extractive industries

PolicySupport

88 million € more in 2020

Competitive, low-carbon and circular industries:

• CE-NMBP-42-2020 - Materials life cycle sustainability analysis

• CE-SPIRE-01-2020 - Tapping into the potential of Industrial Symbiosis

• CE-SPIRE-07-2020 - Preserving fresh water: recycling industrial waters industry

• CE-SPIRE-09-2020 - Alternative mineral resources for high volume production

• CE-SC5-31-2020 - Develop, implement and assess a circular economy oriented product information management system for complex products from cradle to cradle

• LC-SC3-CC-9-2020 - Industrial (Waste) Heat-to-Power conversion

• LC-SC3-NZE-5-2020 - Low carbon industrial production using CCUS

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call 2019 – under evaluation

Raw Materials Week: 18-21November 2019

Deadline for proposals for the 2020 call – February 2020

Horizon Europe, 2021 - 2027

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Funding and tender opportunities portal

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