Advanced Materials
This webpage focuses on the initiative of developing and promoting advanced materials that reduce dependencies on critical raw materials (CRMs), strengthening Europe’s autonomy in key sectors and fostering sustainable innovation.
The project, Reducing Dependencies on Critical Raw Materials through Advanced Materials, targets three strategic sectors: mobility, construction, and electronics.
Project Timeline
How You Can Get Involved
Your expertise and feedback are essential to guide and validate our project’s direction.
We want to invite stakeholders across industry, research, policy to engage with the project by registering and provide relevant information via this link: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/2bb562f7-994c-32d2-3997-a0537a630212
We encourage stakeholders to participate actively in:
- Workshops and Webinars
- Collaborative Discussions
Further details
For further details on the European Commission's priorities in this field, you can access:
- The European Commission Research & Innovation (RTD) website
- The EU Communication on Advanced Materials for Industrial Leadership
“One of the key strategies is the substitution of CRM and reduction of their use, in order to improve material efficiency and reduce dependencies on critical resources. The Commission will seek to identify what R&I is needed to help promote the substitution of CRMs with alternative advanced materials”
"The Commission, with the support of the Board, should identify projects in the Union intended to start or expand the extraction, processing, or recycling of strategic raw materials, or the production and scale-up of materials that can substitute strategic raw materials in strategic technologies"