Proceedings of the “Knowledge needs – EU-Africa focus” event - Raw Materials Week, Brussels, 18 November 2021
The sixth edition of the "Raw Materials Week" took place from the 15 to 19 November 2021, as a hybrid and online event, gathering a wide range of stakeholders discussing policies and research initiatives in the field of raw materials.
The 2021 Raw Materials Week was centred around the eighth annual High-level Conference of the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on raw materials. Several complementary events took place, addressing the latest news on raw materials in the EU, including: Critical Raw Materials, Trends in innovation and Skills for raw materials, EU Horizon technology success stories, EU-Canada Partnership, UNECE Resource management. As part of the event, the JRC jointly with DG GROW, organized the 4 th EU Raw Materials Knowledge Base event titled “Knowledge needs – EU-Africa focus”, on November 18th, 2021.
This report is a proceeding note of this event. It gives an overview of the themes touched by the speakers in a concise and balanced way. Finally, it includes (as Annexes) the agenda, the speakers’ biography, and the slides and available abstracts of the presentations.
The event also touched upon few broader aspects in the context of the relation between the EU and the Africa continent, including the needs of both parties for a fair, responsible and secure transition towards a green society – highlighting how sustainable raw materials value chains could contribute to these overarching objectives.
D'ELIA Eleonora;
HAMOR Tamas;
MANFREDI Simone;
PENNINGTON David;
2022-02-16
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC128512
978-92-76-47709-9 (online),
OP KJ-07-22-078-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC128512,
10.2760/542952 (online),
