Events

“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 third CROCODILE Consortium meeting took place on Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd of May, 2019 in Dusseldorf, Germany, 12 months after the start of the CROCODILE project – first of a kind commercial compact system for the efficient recovery of cobalt designed with novel integrated leading technologies. The meeting has been excellently organised by ACCUREC in the beautiful Goethe Museum building. ...

The Crocodile project will be showcased in a webinar on metal recovery, organised by the BreakIt-project.

The EU project CROCODILE has organised a session on Cobalt recovery during Going Green – CARE INNOVATION 2018 on November 28, 2018 in Vienna (Austria). The event was highly relevant for experts working on material recycling and circular economy in general.

The Crocodile concept was presented by one of the project partners at the KIFEE10 forum. The Kyoto International Forum for Environment and Energy (KIFEE in short) was held on board of the beautiful Art Nouveau style vessel MS Finnmarken along the Norwegian coast from October 5 to 8, 2018. KIFEE is a Japan-Norway bilateral cooperation inspired by the Kyoto protocol, and the KIFEE ...

SusCritMat will hold a short course on Cobalt in the framework of the Raw Materials Week in Brussels on Friday, November 16 (2018). At the event, participants will experience a short version of a SusCritMat training school, covering several topics related to the sustainable management of Cobalt across the value chain, amongst others: Criticality assessment of Cobalt Primary and secondary sourcing Future demand scenarios Geopolitical ...

The EU project CROCODILE will organise a session on Cobalt recovery during Going Green CARE INNOVATION 2018 on Nov 28 2018 in Vienna (Austria). The event is highly relevant for experts working on raw materials and circular economy

Under the umbrella of the European Battery Alliance (EBA), EIT RawMaterials and its partner TU Darmstadt organise a 2-days workshop on Sustainable Materials for Future Mobility: E-drives. Magnets. Batteries, which will take place on 23-24 October 2018 in Darmstadt, Germany. The workshop is a next step in implementing some of the action points raised in the EBA Action Plan and the Commissions Strategic Plan ...

On September 10-12, 2018, the Summer School “To mine or not to mine – A multi-criteria assessment of the landfill mining of municipal and industrial solid waste deposits” is organised in Leuven (Novotel). The Summer School is a joint initiative of the EU Horizon 2020 projects ETN SOCRATES and ETN NEW-MINE, in collaboration with the EIT KIC IMAGINE programme. Further support is provided by SIM² ...

On June 6th the kick-off meeting of the starting project CROCODILE (first of a kind commercial Compact system for the efficient Recovery Of CObalt Designed with novel Integrated LEading technologies) was organised in the TECNALIA facilities in Bilbao (Spain). This project will showcase innovative metallurgical systems based on advanced pyro-, hydro-, bio-, iono- and electrometallurgy technologies for the recovery of ...