Register now for a seminar on "Green transition challenged by the metal supply chain". The event takes place on March 12, 2020 in the Flemish Parliament in Brussels (Belgium). Various EU H2020 projects will cluster around the challenges they face.

From Wednesday 13 till Friday 15 November, NEMO consortium members from 8 different counties across the European Union gathered in Leuven to discuss progress and prospectives for the coming months. In this meeting, our new partner Boliden exchanged their ideas for the first time with the group. The meeting kicked off with an exploitation workshop. Different partners afterwards met in ...

Registrations are open for the satellite event at the EU Raw Materials Week on the "Public Acceptance and Social Impact of Mining and Mineral Recycling in Europe" (Brussels, 22 Nov. 2019). Several policy recommendations for the European Commission will be debated.

Location: Le Plaza Hotel, Adolphe Maxlaan 118/126, 1000 Brussel Date: Thursday 21 November 2019 To reduce the import dependency of the European Union for raw materials, industrial by-products and residual streams are increasingly looked at as low grade resources. Indeed, many materials such as metallurgical slags, incineration ashes or mine tailings contain significant amounts of metals that are currently not ...

5-6 November 2019, Espoo, Finland: The Symposium brings together researchers and industry experts to share latest results and developments in the area of Process Metallurgy, or extracting metals from their primary and secondary raw materials in a sustainable manner. The symposium is co-organized by the Horizon2020 European Training network SOCRATES, which targets the sustainable valorisation of critical-metal-containing industrial process residues using ...

Registration for the 5th International Symposium on Enhanced Landfill Mining (ELFM V; Leuven (Belgium), February 6, 2020) is now open. The event will further develop the lessons learned from ELFM IV and from the 2nd seminar on ELFM in the European Parliament.

Antonio Pedro of the UN International Resource Panel presented several key challenges for 'mineral resources governance in the 21st century' during a short webinar. Feedback from the workshop 'Ensuring the SLO concept is adaptive and resilient' complemented the debate.

“Ensuring that ‘Social License to Operate’ (SLO) is Adaptive and Resilient” was the topic of a recent workshop organized by EU MIREU (supported by NEMO, CROCODILE & TARANTULA). This article reflects upon the key lessons learned.

The 12 month NEMO project meeting took place on 24 and 25 April, 2019. The meeting was hosted by VTT at their premises in Espoo, Finland. The NEMO Consortium partners discussed the project progress, consortium modifications due to CLC’s decision to withdraw from the NEMO project and the adaptation of the project scope to the new situation (with Boliden as ...

Between 6 and 8 November 2018, a NEMO network-wide event took place in Sevilla (Spain), 6 months after the NEMO project Kick-off (GD, 29.11.2018)