EU Consortium

Montanuniversität Leoben (MUL)

Franz Josef Strasse 18 – 8700 Leoben

Montanuniversität Leoben was founded in 1840 and soon after became a famous centre of expertise in mining and metallurgy in the Alpine region. Today it is the leading university in Europe for Advanced Resources, Smart Materials and Sustainable Processes. The key themes worked on are energy efficiency, climate neutrality, sustainability, zero waste and circular design.

Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)

1040 Vienna

Euromines

Avenue de Tervueren, 168 – 1150 Brussels

GeMMe Uliège

Allée de la Découverte 9 – 4000 Liège

Réjouisciences is the dissemination unit of science and technology of The University of Liège (ULiège) since 2001. Réjouisciences supports researchers in their communication with the society at large (teachers, school groups, families, informed public, etc.) and organises exhibitions, conferences, tours, “science café”, contests, trainings, practical works, stimulating activities or support for school projects, publications, etc. The GeMMe group of the University of Liege is dedicated to education and research on the RMtopic, especially on the characterisation and the development of processes to recover materials from minerals and wastes.

Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO)

Boeretang 200 – 2400 Mol

University of Banja Luka

Bulevar vojvode Petra Bojovica 1A – 78000 Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska

University of Zagreb

Pierottijeva 6 – 10000 Zagreb

Tallinn University of Technology (TTÜ), Department of Geology

Ehitajate tee 5 – 12616 Tallinn

Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), the only technological university in Estonia, is the flagship of Estonian engineering and technology education. TalTech is the leading engineering R&D institution in Estonia. The mission of TalTech is to support Estonia’s sustainable development through R&D and science-based higher education in the field of engineering, technology, natural and social sciences. Here the synergy between different fields (technological, natural, exact, economic and health sciences) is created.

Aalto University

Otakaari 1 – 02150 Espoo

Aalto University is a multidisciplinary community of bold thinkers, where science and art meet technology and business. We are committed to identifying and solving grand societal challenges and building an innovative future. Aalto University specialises in science, art, technology and business. We have improved markedly in rankings specific to these fields, and place high in well-known ranking lists.

Fraunhofer IFAM

Wiener Straße 12 – 28359 Bremen

Fraunhofer IFAM is one of the leading independent research organizations in Europe in the fields of Shaping and Functional Materials and Adhesive Bonding Technology and Surfaces. The focus of all the R&D activities is to provide customers with effective, application oriented solutions. Lightweight design at Fraunhofer IFAM is particularly concerned with fiber reinforced plastics containing glass, carbon, and natural fibers. The expertise ranges from resin development, design, component manufacture, and surface modification to automated assembly as well as joining technologies. Quality assurance is an absolute must in all phases – namely during the manufacture, assembly, and repair of FRP components. This is aided by Fraunhofer IFAM‘s comprehensive range of training courses. The training courses are a means of technology transfer, whereby technological findings and methods are passed on to industry. Since 2008, the Fraunhofer IFAM has been offering several, still ongoing programs to attract teenagers to STEM subjects, to foster their interest and/or to train them in this field or to motivate them to choose STEM subjects in academic education.

Freiberg University of Mining and Technology

Akademiestraße 6 – 09599 Freiberg

RWTH Aachen University – Cybernetics Lab IMA

Dennewartstraße 27 – 52068 Aachen

The Cybernetic Lab IMA/ZLW at RTWH Aachen University contributes to the methodologies of delivering the information through workshops, summer schools,labs, games, etc. This interdisciplinary institute is expert in education 4.0 processes and hosts teaching simulators as the virtual theatre as well as immersivemobile devices such as Oculus Rifts and Hololenses. Virtual education environments and processes are researched in a variety of empirical studies. The IMA/ZLWalso coordinates Monitoring- and Meta-Projects dealing with topics such as innovative capability or challenges of demographic change in order to derive future research and development demands as well as enabling a tailor-made transfer of results into politics and society at an early project stage. Main competencesthat IMA/ZLW master are the development of serious games, didactical concepts and using augmented and virtual reality in different contexts for evaluatingresearch questions. Apart from that IMA/ZLW participated in a EIT RM project, called aRAWness, and thus have experience with raising awareness in the raw material field.

TU Clausthal

Adolph-Roemer-Straße 2A – 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld

Clausthal University of Technology covers today in research and study programmes the whole range from RM to Material Sciences, over Mechanical and Process Engineering to Economics, and advanced Electronic Waste Recycling. It possesses a distinguished visibility in the area of recycling, beneficiation and material sciences and enjoys an outstanding reputation for its research in the field of mining (surface and underground). The University supports a well-established network with regional and nationwide industrial partners. Clausthal University offers a bouquet of different dissemination activities (i.e. visits in scientists labs, week-courses of lectures during the summer holidays, etc.). Moreover, Clausthal University introduced in 2004 the “Flying Science Circus”, a program where Scientists from University visit schools (pupils of 16 – 19 yrs) and explain their research with exhibits and hands-on experiments.

National Technical University of Athens

Zografou Campus 9, Iroon Polytechniou str – 15780 Zografou

Bay Zoltán Ltd

Kondorfa u. 1 – 1116 Budapest

Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. (BZN), founded in 1993 as an applied research public foundation, now is the largest and most successful institution of applied research in Hungary, and it has collected a wide experience range on transferring research results into the market by actively participating to EU framework programmes. BZN plays the role of a “bridge of innovation” for the partner institutes through activities of applied research-development and technology transfer to enterprises. BZN annually organized European Researchers’ Night in Hungary, the single most important science communication event in Hungary (an attendance of 15,000 in 2014) since 2010.

University of Miskolc

Egyetem út 1 – 3515 Miskolc

Alma Mater Studiorum

Via Zamboni 33 – 40126 Bologna (BO)

The Department of Agricultural Sciences of Bologna University offers a diverse range of scientific disciplines that conduct their research activities and education in the RM topic. In particular, the scientific section of Agricultural Chemistry is engaged in the study of use and recycling of wastes as a possible remedy to recovery macro and micronutrients for crops. This group offers a range of different dissemination activities to schools through lectures and visits in scientists labs. On the basis of a long pedagogical experience, an experimental activity focused on phosphates as important economic resource for industry and agriculture, and on the environmental benefits of P recycling will be proposed in the RM@Schools 3.0 framework, and it will developed as a new toolkit.

CNR

The National Research Council (CNR) is the largest public Research Institution in Italy and develops multidisciplinary research activities in many fields. CNR is distributed all over Italy through a network of institutes. CNR leads several breakthrough research activities on micro/nanotechnologies focused and applied on development of new processes for the substitution of metals and conventional fossil-based materials obtained from non-renewable sources by renewable carbon and bio-based innovative materials. CNR has a long experience in dissemination activities. Since 2003 CNR research scientists have promoted The Research Language (RL), a successful national dissemination project that involves every year about 4000 school students from 11 to 19 years, their teachers, more than 40 researcher scientists and popularization experts. RL aims to turn on young people’s interest in respect of scientific research, as well as scientific communication through their involvement in a popularization work.

CNR ICCOM

Via Madonna del Piano, 10 – 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI)

CNR ISOF

Via Piero Gobetti, 101 – 40129 Bologna (BO)

CNR ISMAR

Via Piero Gobetti, 101 – 40129 Bologna (BO)

CNR ISMN

Via Ugo la Malfa, 153 – 90146 Palermo (PA)

CNR SCITEC

Via De Marini, 6 – 16149 Genova (GE)

ERION Consortium

Via Messina, 38 – 20154 Milano (MI)

Politecnico of Milan

Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 – 20133 Milano (MI)

The MAT4En2 group of Politecnico of Milan has been active to contribute to dissemination, carry out activity in communication/dissemination actions. Staff of the group has been already involved in presentation of news of scientific character, as well as lectures or labs activity for divulgating scientific concepts to a large audience. Moreover, direct experience of dissemination (seminars, meetings) with the non-scientific social communities (school, citizens) is already part of “know-how” of the group and constitute an important value in communication of science, in particular on environmental problems, at a non-academic level. Finally, the group has relationships with Companies involved in previous applied research project to favor a direct scientific and technological transfer of knowledge.

University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB)

Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8 – 20100 Milano (MI)

UNIMIB has competences in Material Science field and in working with high school’s students. In fact, UNIMIB, since 2005 has been the coordinator of a National project, called “Lauree scientifiche on Material Science”, financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. This project aims to raise interest and competence in Material Science in students of secondary schools ,mainly through laboratory activities, as well as in their teachers. The on-going project (2015-2018), coordinated by Simona Binetti, involves nine Universities in different regions of Italy. In 10 years it has been addressed to more than 8.000 students and 300 schools. In Milan’s area about 300 students a years are involved in education activities related to material science mainly carried out in laboratories of the Department of Material Science of UNIMIB.

Riga Technical University

Kaļķu iela 1 – 1658 Riga

WETSUS

Oostergoweg 9 – 8911 Leeuwarden

Wetsus, European Centre of Excellence for Sustainable water technology is performing research aiming for pre-competitive development of entirely new concepts and breakthrough technologies in the field of water treatment. A unique environment is created at Wetsus, where 90 companies worldwide and 20 EU knowledge institutes can participate to create innovative solutions to water-related problems. The institute carries out multidisciplinary research performed by 65 PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, mostly located in the Wetsus laboratories in Leeuwarden. Besides the research program, Wetsus also intends to increase employment opportunities in the technical sector for the future knowledge worker.

AGH University of Science and Technology

al. Mickiewicza 30 – 30-059 Kraków

Nova University – Dept. Material Science

Campus FCT Nova – 2829-516 Caparica

Functional Materials, Substitution of Critical RM, Recycling and salivation of RM The Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa is a public university with ca. 8,000 students and 500 professors and researchers. It is involved in 15 Doctoral Programmes funded by the National Science Foundation and has 11 research centers. It has a great experience in communicating science and forming teachers of young students from 8 to 17 years old (e.g. “Program with Schools”). Some of these actions are also open to society in general or can be especially developed for the scientific community.

Technical University of Kosice

Letná 1/9 – 040 01 Košice

Geological Survey of Slovenia (GeoZS)

Dimičeva ulica 14 – 1000 Ljubljana

Geological Survey of Slovenia (GeoZS) is a multidisciplinary public research institute in the field of geosciences that performs basic research and application-related tasks on the national and international market, as well as public services in support of the Slovenian government and the EU. GeoZS provides knowledge about geological conditions in Slovenia, which serves as a basis for addressing national challenges in the areas of environmental and health protection, drinking water and energy supply, protection against natural disasters, spatial planning and management of mineral resources.

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)

Calle Ramiro de Maeztu 7 – 28040 Madrid

Technical University of Madrid (UPM) has competence in topics such as Recycling, Vaporization and Substitution of Raw Materials and train engineers in the fields of Energy, Geology, Metallurgy, Mining and Environmental Engineering, providing a quality educational offer that meets the challenges of knowledge and responds to the society needs. It has a large experience in organizing outreach activities to recruit students for engineering studies related to mining and petrol activities. UPM owns the Historical Mining Museum Don Felipe de Borbon y Grecia, one of the best Spanish museums for minerals, fossils and history and has a great experience in science dissemination.

Geology Survey of Sweden (SGU)

Villavägen 18 – 752 36 Uppsala

The Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU) is a central governmental agency under the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation for matters relating to geology and management of mineral resources. As the agency for geological tasks, SGU actively is working to increase to use of geological information and the understanding of the importance of geology and raw materials for society.

KTH (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan) – Dept. of Chemical Engineering

Brinellvägen 8 – 114 28 Stockholm

KTH is responsible for one third of Sweden’s capacity for technical research and is the country’s largest organizer of technical/engineering education at university level. KTH is organized into ten Schools, each covering a major field of engineering science. KTH education and research covers a broad spectrum from natural sciences to all branches of engineering plus architecture, industrial economics, urban planning, work science and environmental technology. In addition to the research carried out by KTH’s Schools, a large number of national Competence Centers are located at KTH. Various research foundations also finance a number of research programs.