Project description
Securing raw materials for a sustainable future
The demand for raw materials is rising as the EU shifts to a greener, more digital economy. However, extracting these materials can harm the environment and create supply chain risks. Geopolitical tensions and future uncertainties make it even harder to plan for the materials needed. Finding ways to balance supply and sustainability is crucial for a successful transition. In this context, the EU-funded RAWCLIC project aims to tackle these challenges. It develops advanced models to predict future raw material needs and their environmental impacts. By exploring alternatives like recycling and urban mining, RAWCLIC identifies risks and opportunities. The project provides decision-makers with a roadmap to support a sustainable and resilient future.
Objective
RAWCLICs main goal is to develop knowledge on the future raw materials (RMs) demand, supply and associated environmental impacts induced by the twin transition in the EU, and to support fact-based industry- and policy- decision-making enabling this transition. RAWCLIC revolutionizes the development and analysis of likely future scenarios of RMs demand and supply, considering challenges and opportunities as to material substitution, future RMs potential (geological and urban mine) deposits, processing technologies, circular use of materials, geopolitical shifts, and induced environmental impacts. It enables to identify the i) challenges, and associated risks to supply, ii) opportunities, and iii) potential mitigation measures, at technology, sectoral and EU-levels. It improves and expands existing models, and develops new ones, to assess and analyse the future demand (WP2), supply from secondary (WP3) and primary (WP4) sources, and environmental effects (including climate change, waste generation, land and water use, and biodiversity impacts; WP5). The models are applied to a selection of 20 RMs justified in the context of the twin transition, while ensuring replicability for future modelling exercises. Modelling activities are harmonized (WP1), and integrated into pathways and strategies facilitating the twin transition while accounting for crucial risks regarding RMs bottlenecks (WP6). RAWCLIC ultimately develops a coherent roadmap for global decision makers working in research, policy, and industry to achieve the twin transition. Industry stakeholders from across the value chain of the focus RMs are in regular dialogue with the project, in a mutually-beneficial collaboration (WP7). This includes engagement with downstream industries in energy and digital technologies to support their resilience, and with upstream mining and refining stakeholders to support their decarbonisation objectives.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
You need to log in or register to use this function
We are sorry... an unexpected error occurred during execution.
You need to be authenticated. Your session might have expired.
Thank you for your feedback. You will soon receive an email to confirm the submission. If you have selected to be notified about the reporting status, you will also be contacted when the reporting status will change.
Keywords
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
45060 Orleans
France
See on map
Participants (14)
9000 Gent
See on map
02151 Espoo
See on map
2311 EZ Leiden
See on map
75011 Paris
See on map
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
92400 Courbevoie
See on map
Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
1630 Linkebeek
See on map
1020 Wien
See on map
14473 Potsdam
See on map
8700 Leoben
See on map
1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
See on map
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
2400 Mol
See on map
164 80 Stockholm
See on map
75015 Paris
See on map
53850 Lappeenranta
See on map
Partners (5)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
8600 Dubendorf
See on map
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
5232 Villigen Psi
See on map
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
EC1N 6RA LONDON
See on map
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
38000 Grenoble
See on map
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
95800 CERGY
See on map