News
ERA-MIN Stakeholders Conference in Budapest
More than 100 participants from 21 countries gathered in Budapest on the 25th and 26th of March for the ERA-MIN Stakeholders Conference. This event was the occasion to announce the 2nd ERA-MIN joint call opening in April 2014.
The European Federation of Geologists joins ERA-MIN
The European Federation of Geologists has recently joined the ERA-MIN consortium.
The ERA-MIN Roadmap published
Please find here the ERA-MIN Research Agenda (abstract and download) link to Roadmap
A Scarcity of Rare Metals Is Hindering Green Technologies
The Yale Environment 360 review has just published an article by Nicola Jones mentioning ERA-MIN.
A shortage of "rare earth" metals, used in everything from electric car batteries to solar panels to wind turbines, is hampering the growth of renewable energy technologies. Researchers are now working to find alternatives to these critical elements or better ways to recycle them.
ERA-MIN Joint Call 2015 - RESULTS
Six new projects have been selected for funding in the 3rd Joint Call:
1 BatRE ARES - 2 BIOCriticalMetals - 3 CHARPITE 4 COGITO-MIN - 5 HITEM - 6 REMinE
photo: Tamás Hámor
Who we are
ERA-MIN is a network of European organisations owning and/or managing research programs on raw materials.
It is currently comprising 19 partners from 15 countries. The number of partners is set to increase over the project’s lifetime to form a major network for the European non-energy mineral raw materials research community (ENERC).
Our members
Objectives
To contribute to overcome the current state of fragmentation and to foster research in the field of industrial production and supply of raw materials by :
- Networking stakeholders
- Roadmapping research priorities
- Implementing joint actions