Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.
A successful transition to a climate-neutral, circular and digitised EU economy relies heavily on a secure supply of raw materials. In order to strengthen EU autonomy and reduce over-dependency, it is necessary to boost domestic sourcing, both for primary and secondary raw materials.
Actions should be based on a common understanding of relevant terms and codes, and develop an understanding of anthropogenic resources and derive the needed aspects for classification of recovery projects and to develop criteria for a transparent, consistent and objective classification, needed to establish a comprehensive resource classification approach. Actions should acquire new data on secondary raw materials via in situ sampling from different regions across the EU, collect existing data and present in a harmonised UNFC format and develop a proposal for EU statistics for secondary raw materials.
The action should focus on the following streams of secondary raw materials, with particular attention to critical raw materials: waste batteries, WEEE, mining waste, slags and ashes, and construction and demolition waste.
The action should envisage clustering activities with other relevant selected projects for cross-projects co-operation, consultations and joint activities on cross-cutting issues, share of results as well as participating in joint meetings and communication events. The action should also contribute to improving the awareness of relevant external stakeholders and the general public across the EU and in non-EU countries.
100%
EU contribution per project: €13,50 million
Proposals including legal entities which are not established in these countries will be ineligible.
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Dr Angelos Ntantos
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Dr Ioannis Theodorou
Scientific Officer
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Email: itheodorou@research.org.cy
(Publish Date: 17/09/2021-for internal use only)
European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
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