International projects

One of the main activities of the Foundation is the participation on international projects for the generation of new knowledge, the establishment of novel synergies and the promotion of novel technologies and solutions on the fields of interest. We can highlight here the participation of ICAMCyL in the Horizon 2020 programme, although we also dedicate our efforts to participate in other funding schemes including COST Actions, the European Institute of Technology (EIT) and the Interreg programmes.

The following list includes those projects that we are already participating in, which are related to fields like mining, sustainability, raw materials or solar energy:

CRM-EXTREME: Solutions for Critical Raw Materials Under Extreme Conditions

Call: COST Action CA15102

Expert network to find suitable solutions to critical raw materials (CRMs) under extreme conditions and promote the industrial exploitation of substitution materials.

ENGAGER: European Energy Poverty: Agenda Co-Creation and Knowledge Innovation

Call: COST Action CA16232

Transformational change on the research and Improvement of the energy poverty in the European domestic environment, facilitating the development of a comprehensive, innovative and based on evidence regulatory framework.

MINEA: Mining the European Anthroposphere

Call: COST Action CA15115

International network of experts to evaluate primary and secondary resources necessary to secure the future supply of raw materials.

INNOCAT: Innovative CRM substitution technology

Call: KIC Raw Materials - KAVA Call5 - Internationalisation/RIS

Foster the development of policies for activities related to critical raw materials (CRMs) in RIS countries initiate the operation of innovative territorial ecosystems for the substitution and recycling of catalytic converters.

NEXTOWER: Advanced materials solutions for next generation high efficiency concentrated solar power (CSP) tower systems (Grant Agreement: 721045)

Call: H2020-NMBP-2016-2017/H2020-NMBP-2016-two-stage

Development of a set of innovative materials to boost the performance of atmospheric air-based concentrated solar power (CSP) systems to make them commercially viable

MIREU: Mining and metallurgy regions of Europe

Call: H2020-SC5-15-2016-2017: Raw materials policy support actions (CSA)

Network of mining and metallurgy regions across Europe with the aim of securing the sustained and sustainable supply of raw materials to the EU.

Recovery of Tungsten, Niobium and Tantalum occurring as by-products in mining and processing waste streams (Grant Agreement No. 821159)

Call: CE-SC5-06-2018 - New technologies for the enhanced recovery of by-products

TARANTULA will develop a suite of cost-effective, scalable and eco-friendly – bio-, hydro-, iono-, solvo-, pyroand electro-metallurgical – processes with high selectivity and recovery rates towards new routes for marketready metals, metal oxides and metal carbides.

SMEs for Industry 4.0

Call: Interreg Europe Call 4

SMEs4I4.0 project is born to establish a common basis for policy learning among its members to overcome fragmentation of Industry 4.0 solutions and their enabling potential by dealing with main challenges hampering their diffusion into the European Union SMEs ecosystem.

MINE.THE.GAP: Creation and integration of novel industrial value chains for SMEs in the raw materials & mining sectors through ICT, Circular Economy, Resource Efficiency & Advanced Manufacturing innovation support (Grant Agreement: 873149)

Call: H2020-INNOSUP-01-2019

MINE.THE.GAP, led and coordinated by ICAMCyL, aims at providing technical and financial support to SMEs in the raw materials and mining sectors through direct finance of innovation projects. Technology providers from ICT, circular economy, advanced manufacturing and resource efficiency will be involved to finance at least 30 projects benefiting up to 90 SMEs.

BlackCycle: A major European project for recycling end-of-life tyres into new tyres

Call: H2020-SC5-07-2019

Coordinated by the leading global tyre manufacturer Michelin and uniting 7 industrial partners, 5 Research & Technological Organizations (RTOs) and an innovation cluster into a European consortium in 5 countries, the BlackCycle project aims to enable a massive circular economy of tyres by designing world-first processes to produce new tyres from end-of-life tyres (ELTs).