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Raw Materials in Horizon Europe (2021-2027) ~ EUR 300 mln budget, 2021-2022 Opening: 22 Jun 2021 6 topics in 2021                        Deadline: 23 Sep 2021 Opening: 12 Oct 2021 7 topics in 2022                        Deadline: 30 Mar 2022 Work Program of Cluster 4, Funding portal: Digital, Industry and Space: wp-7-digital-industry-and-space horizon-2021- Funding & tenders (europa.eu) 2022 en.pdf (europa.eu)

Raw Materials topics in 2021 Innovation for responsible EU sourcing of primary raw materials, the foundation of the 1 Green Deal 2       Building innovative value chains from raw materials to sustainable products Reducing environmental footprint, improving circularity in extractive and processing value 3 chains 4       Building EU-Africa partnerships on sustainable raw materials value chains 5                  Identifying future availability of secondary raw materials 6                   Developing climate neutral and circular raw materials

Raw Materials topics in 2022 1 Monitoring and supervising system for exploration and future exploitation activities in the deep sea 2          Technological solutions for tracking raw materials flows in complex supply chains Earth observation technologies for the mining life cycle in suport of EU autonomy and transition to 3 a climate neutral economy 4                 Developing digital platforms for the small scale extractive industry Streamlining cross-sectoral policy framework throughout the extractive life-cycle in 5                                   environmentally protected areas Innovative solutions for efficient use and enhanced recovery of mineral and metal by-products 6 from processing of raw materials 7                 Sustainable and innovative mine of the future

Horizon Europe Info Days 29-30 June Possible to ask questions to European Commission on the text of the calls for 2021 Slido is already open for questions under the link: Cluster 4 - Digital, Industry & Space | Horizon Europe Info Days 2021 (horizon-europe-infodays2021.eu) Session on 30 June 10:30 CET,                                     Session on 29 June 13:17 CET, 5 calls on raw materials:                                         1 call on raw materials*: Destination 2 - Increased autonomy in key strategic value           Destination 1 - Climate neutral, circular and digitised chains for resilient industry | Horizon Europe Info Days          production | Horizon Europe Info Days 2021 (horizon- 2021 (horizon-europe-infodays2021.eu))                                    europe-infodays2021.eu) *Reducing environmental footprint, improving circularity in extractive and processing value chains

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