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SEArcularMINE - Raw Materials Week 2021 video

SEArcularMINE - Raw Materials Week 2021 video

We invite you to watch Serena Randazzo from UNIPA introduce the SEArcularMINE project when she attended the CRM day at Raw Materials Week 2021 in Brussels.

SCRREEN project had the great pleasure of organising together with DG GROW the opening of the Raw Materials Week 2021 with the 4th CRM Day event. The event took place on Monday 15th November 2021 in Brussels at Le Plaza Hotel and online in an hybrid format counting in total more than 500 participants that gave valuable input to the discussions made. The 4th CRM day was structured in 4 sessions:

Session I: Critical …

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Brine sampling in Tunisia - Mare Alb Zarzis Saltworks

Brine sampling in Tunisia - Mare Alb Zarzis Saltworks

Team members from Tunisian SEArcularMINE partner National Engineering School of Gabes (ENIG), travelled south along the coast last week for a very successful visit to the Mare Alb Zarzis Saltworks to collect samples for analysis.  They were kindly welcomed and enjoyed a tour of the salt production site.

Zarzis saltworks, operated by the Mare Alb Company, is the largest sea salt plant in Tunisia and produces more than 700 000 tons of Sodium Chloride each year used by a variety of industries across Europe and beyond.  The Zarzis saltworks use a traditional, and environmentally sustainable, evaporation method of …

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Real Environmental Laboratory

Real Environmental Laboratory

Project partner SOSALT is excited to share photos of the progress of The Real Environment Laboratory (REL) currently in development within the natural reserve of Trapani and Paceco Saltworks in Sicily. This ancient building in the middle of saltworks is being renovated so that it can host a small laboratory with facilities capable of performing tests on the seawater brines/bitterns. 

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Raw Materials Information System

Raw Materials Information System

Raw materials are essential for the sustainable and sound functioning Europe’s industries.  The RMIS is the EC’s web-based knowledge platform for raw materials to support EU-wide research on raw material flows

SEArcularMINE attended a workshop “Channelling knowledge from European projects into the RMIS”, learning about how our future results will be integrated into this KnowledgePlatform.
Thanks @EU_HaDEA for organising.

Link: https://rmis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

 

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