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Australia's Economic Accelerator grants offered in National Reconstruction Fund priority areas The first round of Australia’s Economic Accelerator (AEA) grants is now open to researchers and industry in key areas identified by the federal government such as refining and processing of critical minerals, renewable hydrogen, and green metals. $180 million in funding is available for university researchers and their industry partners to commercialise research related to the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (Priority Areas) Declaration 2023. The first round of grants will prioritise projects that align with one or more of the following focus areas: Critical and strategic minerals processing, Sustainable fuels, Digital agriculture, Quantum, Artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced manufacturing. #ResearchUpdates #manufacturing #manufacturingnews https://lnkd.in/gt4Q8ghz

🔋 Results of the Delphi Survey on a Just and Sustainable Lithium Battery Value Chain 🌱 I am pleased to announce that the results of the Delphi survey "A Just and Sustainable Lithium Battery Value Chain" are now available. This survey aimed to gather insights from experts worldwide regarding the challenges for sustainability and justice in the mining segment of the lithium battery value chain. The Executive Report presents a summary of the principal results in an aggregate format, while the Results Report displays findings broken down by respondents' country of residence (lithium-demanding vs. lithium-rich) and stakeholder group (industry, government, NGO, and academia). We encourage you to explore these materials and share them with potential stakeholders who may benefit from the insights provided. We trust that the findings will enhance your professional endeavors and contribute to the advancement of sustainability and justice in the lithium battery industry. This study was conducted as part of the research project “Green Dealings: Negotiating Lithium between South America and Europe for Batteries that Fuel a Just Transition”, funded by the Swiss Network for International Studies and led by the Geneva Graduate Institute. We are grateful for the support of our institutional partners: Inter-American Development Bank, ECLAC, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), EU-LAC Foundation / Fundación EU-LAC and the European Lithium Institute eLi Download the full report (EN): https://lnkd.in/dTxNvTvr Download the executive report (EN): https://lnkd.in/dbmgqVvw #Sustainability #Lithium #GreenDealings #JustTransition #Research #Innovation #GenevaGraduateInstitute #SustainableEnergy #InternationalCollaboration

GTK Mintec is the only research infrastructure in Europe which combines ✅ mineral research laboratories with and ✅ industrial scale pilot processing plant Testing on the industrial scale is a requirement for investment decisions both in terms of primary and secondary raw materials. It is also one step towards circular economy. See video for more info. Jouko Nieminen Tuuli Kalliosalo Asse Marjasvaara #RawMaterials Week 2023 #RMW2023

📢 News update: E-TANDEM was presented during the 13th NGCS in Xiamen, China in April this year. Prof. Michael Claeys (from University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Prof. Gonzalo Prieto ( From Institute for Chemical Technology (CSIC), Valencia, Spain), were invited to lecture at the NGCS. This meeting brought together more than 800 participants representing over 220 industrial and academic institutions from around the globe. This prestigious triennial conference series has served for nearly 40 years as a prime forum to discuss advances in the valorization of C1 unconventional feedstocks, such as methane and CO2, into valuable energy carriers and chemicals. Claeys and Prieto presented recent developments in their teams on the (tandem) catalytic conversion of syngas to high-performance e-fuels. The Horizon Europe E-TANDEM project develops innovative hybrid catalytic routes to produce higher oxygenate compounds as advanced liquid e-fuels for hard-to-abate transport sectors, such as waterborne transport. 👉 For more news updates of our project, subscribe to our newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eBZEacwY 📄 https://e-tandem.eu/ngcs/ #HorizonEurope #CINEA #innovation #research #development #efuel #sustainability #tandemcatalysis #syngas #transport #waterbornetransport

📢 publication alert 📢 A publication originating from the BioWood project (funded by Research Foundation Flanders - FWO) in which KU Leuven, University of Antwerp and VITO joined forces to develop a new value chain for the Flemish bio-economy through inventive wood refining towards highly valuable agro-industrial chemicals. This paper describes the integration of a model on resource availability, a techno-economic assessment and MooV supply chain design to support the design of wood-based value chains at low TRL. To show the relevance, the methodology is applied to a case study on emerging reductive catalytic fractionation in Flanders. A joint effort of Annelies De Meyer, Sanne Verdonck, Ilié Storms, joachim lopez, Maxim Tschulkow, Tine Compernolle, Steven Van Passel, Jos Van Orshoven, Bruno Verbist, Guisson Ruben, Wouter Arts, Sander Van den Bosch, Joost Van Aelst, Bert Sels, Bart Muys. Find out how "I + I = V" (VITO-quote): https://lnkd.in/ep73ww4G

✈ Our Trade Mission in #Morocco just came to an end after an intense week for #MineTheGap awardees 🥇 ➡ J&C Bachmann (Germany) and MNLT Innovations PC (Greece) won their tickets for this mission when ranked among the most active #SMEs of the two open calls within MINE.THE.GAP EU project. The programme was divided into two parts: 1️⃣ Institutional sessions, high-level roundtables, matchmaking and B2B series in which MINE.THE.GAP team facilitated a #pitching session with more than 15 companies with oral presentations on-site that were simultaneously translated to English, Spanish and French. There was plenty of time for companies to interact and engage in #business conversations. 2️⃣ Technical #field visits: - An underground #mine in operation for Pb-Zn-Cu and a #research centre, both belonging to the Groupe Managem. - OCP Group which operates on five continents and covers the entire #valuechain from mining to #education & #community #development  - Finally, we visited the UM6P - Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and its departments of research and valorisation of critical #minerals ➕ In addition, we also visited the Green Energy Park, a platform for #experimentation, research and training in #renewable #energies in collaboration with the IRESEN - Research Institute for Solar Energy and New Energies and UM6P.  🔝 We would like to thank to all organisations that make this possible: Fédération De l'Industrie Minérale - FDIM, AMINER, Andalucía TRADE, ICAMCyL Foundation and Iberian Sustainable Mining Cluster (ISMC). 🙌 Merci*! #MineTheGap #Sustainability #GreenMining #RawMaterials #SMEs #EUfunds #Euroclusters #RIVs #EUGreenDeal #CRMAct #CRMA #criticalrawmaterials #rawmaterialsweek2023 Cluster IDiA MetaIndustry4 European Cluster Collaboration Platform (ECCP) European Clusters Alliance Associação Cluster Portugal Mineral Resources ASSIMAGRA AXELERA Geokompetenzzentrum Freiberg e.V. Digipolis.fi Klaster Gospodarki Odpadowej i Recyklingu - Krajowy Klaster Kluczowy Industrial Cluster Srednogorie https://lnkd.in/dMise4yx

The #University - #Industry #Collaboration (UIC) has always been a #challenge. The #Resources #Technology and #Critical #Minerals #Trailblazer Program is a great #opportunity to facilitate #research and #development for those #businesses that are in the #battery #valuechain. Curtin University as the leading party, James Cook University (#JCU) and UQ as partners, aim to increase the technology readiness level (#trl) of #innovations and #commercialise them into the #market. #innovation, #commercialization, #technologytransfer #randd

🔎Learn more about the WIDEX EU Project & the WIDENING Instrument!!   🌍🔬 #HorizonEurope supports efforts to reduce disparities in R&D performance across the #EU through the Advancing Europe Package, specifically the Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (#WIDENING) initiative, which receives 3.3% of the total Horizon Europe budget and plays a central role in strengthening the #EuropeanResearchArea. 🏗️This initiative builds on the four main instruments from H2020 (TEAMING, TWINNING, ERA Chairs, and COST) and introduces new instruments, activities, and services. 🔄️The WIDENING instrument #TWINNING, through which the WIDEX EU Project was established, focuses on institutional #networking, exchange of #BestPractices, enhancing #Management and #Administrative skills, and elevating the #research profile of institutions.   #WIDEX #WIDERA #HorizonEurope #ResearchInnovation #EuropeanResearchArea #Twinning #AdvancingEurope #Sustainability #Innovation   Technical University of Košice, ICAMCyL Foundation, Iberian Sustainable Mining Cluster (ISMC), MNLT Innovations PC, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft IDENER.AI, #Consentia, Lapland University of Applied Sciences, Pôle AVENIA, EIT RawMaterials, Representation of the KOSICE SELF-GOVERNING REGION to the EU European Research Executive Agency (REA)

Two PhD positions in the governance of natural resources and sustainability for a just and fair energy transition Both PhD positions (project A and project B) form part of work packages under the research project ‘Frontiers of natural resource and sustainability governance for a just energy transition’ (FRONTIERS).   At an overall level, FRONTIERS aims to advance knowledge for a just and fair transition, which involves and respects those (such as communities or individuals) who are at risk or in practice adversely affected by mining of minerals for the green transition. Comprising four complementary work packages and a focus on land-based and potential deep-sea mining as a field of natural resource exploration, we will explore effects of risk-based due diligence demands for the industry; industry and investors practices; and potentially complementary normative ideas related to the rights of nature. Ultimately, the project seeks to develop insights that may support a comprehensive assessment of eco-system impacts as an aspect of risk-based due diligence for mining of minerals for the transition and investments in the industry and the value chain, including the solar and wind power and energy storage industries. Some fieldwork in mining countries and/or with relevant industries is envisaged. Please see https://frontiers.cbs.dk/ for details. Link to application: https://lnkd.in/eax6dYQh

Our advisory board is key to the success of EES Catalysis. Get to know our members and explore their publications. 🔸 Elucidating the validity of electronic characteristics of transition metal perovskites as descriptors bridging electro- and chemocatalysis: https://lnkd.in/ggCpVAFJ Regina Palkovits 🔹 Tunable product selectivity on demand: a mechanism-guided Lewis acid co-catalyst for CO2 electroreduction to ethylene glycol: https://lnkd.in/eyVBRPrp Charles Dismukes 🔸 High performance acidic water electrooxidation catalysed by manganese–antimony oxides promoted by secondary metals: https://lnkd.in/eMJwQCVn Doug MacFarlane 🔹 Insights into zero-gap CO2 electrolysis at elevated temperatures: https://lnkd.in/d_j24hxf Ib Chorkendorff 🔸 Descriptor-based identification of bimetallic-derived catalysts for selective activation of ethane with CO2: https://lnkd.in/dd2BFzQs Jingguang Chen 🔹 Phase shuttling-enhanced electrochemical ozone production: https://lnkd.in/eZR_pDNq Zhichuan Xu Join in | Be part of the EES family Energy #RSCEnergy