PASSENGER at the EU Raw Materials Week

18.11.2021

Prof Alberto Bollero presents the PASSENGER project at the key EU event.

Prof. Alberto Bollero, Scientific and Technological Coordinator of the PASSENGER project, was invited to present the project at the Critical Raw Materials Event –part of the Raw Materials Week organised by the European Commission. The aim of the event was to gather a wide range of stakeholders to discuss policies and initiatives in the field of raw materials.

The Project was presented at the session “Technology opportunities for Critical Raw Materials mining, recycling, substitution.” Although the project is just reaching it sixth month, Prof Bollero talked about some promising results that have been achieved in this short timescale as well as giving an overview of the future aims of the project.

About PASSENGER

The multidisciplinary PASSENGER consortium (coordinated by IMDEA Nanociencia) consists of 20 partners including key end users and SMEs/LEs (14 companies) from 8 EU countries: Spain, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Germany, France, Greece and United Kingdom. It involves major European industries, academic leaders and associations occupied with permanent magnets manufacturing, alloy production, powder fabrication, electric motors, e-vehicles, eco-design and product/process standardisation. Thus, PASSENGER covers the whole magnets production value chain, from studying fundamental properties to the production of high-technology end products, while aiming at making the transition from a linear to a circular model involving citizens, international platforms and relevant stakeholders.

The 6 month consortium meeting of the project will be celebrated next week at the headquarters of the coordinator IMDEA Nanociencia on 24-25^th November 2021. It will be a hybrid meeting, with a mixture of in-person attendance and online presence.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101003914 which contributes €8.9 M from the €11.3 M total budget. PASSENGER addresses to the topic CE-SC5-10-2020 on raw materials innovation under subtopic d) Pilots on substitution of critical and scarce raw materials (2020).

More information: https://www.eurawmaterialsweek.eu/2021

https://youtu.be/H-0_Y5kwB9I?t=16768 4h39:30

Contact

Dr. Alberto Bollero
alberto.bollero [at]imdea.org
passenger.project[at]imdea.org
https://passenger-project.eu/

IMDEA Nanociencia Outreach Office
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Source: IMDEA Nanociencia