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Sustainability Assessment in the Raw Materials Sector

Dr. ir. Wouter De Soete

Bucharest, February 16th, 2017

Dr. ir. Wouter De Soete | Bucharest, RO | February 16th 2017

1) Introduction Ghent University – EIT

2) NoIs and the SSIC

3) Finding Synergies through Clustering: ZeroWaste Cluster

Contents

Dr. ir. Wouter De Soete | Bucharest, RO | February 16th 2017 2


1) Introduction Ghent University – EIT


Ghent University – Global Campus

Internationalisation, Integrated Policy Plan 2014-2018:

• Driver for innovation

• Creation of synergies

• Higher quality of education and research

• Social and global responsibility


Regional Platforms & Thematic Networks


LCA Case Studies and Methodological

Advances

CriticalityAssessment

CircularEconomy

Forecasting & Upscaling

Process Engineering/

Analysis

Input/Output Analysis Resource

Consumption Analysis

IntersectoralSustainable

Supply Chain Management

(SSCM)

Department of Sustainable Organic Chemistry and Technology

Sustainability Assessment

Research Group


AgroFoodIndustry

Fine Chemical &

Pharmaceutical sector

Raw Materials

Environmental Resource Management

EIT – European Institute for Innovation and Technology



Europe’s Global Competitiveness

EU’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation

Sustainable economic growth and job creation: promoting, strengthening synergies and collaborations

Today the EIT Community brings together more than 800 partners across Europe, making it one of the most successful Public Private Partnership projects (PPP) within the EU.


EIT – European Institute for Innovation and Technology

Climate-KIC

EIT Digital

EIT InnoEnergy


EIT Raw Materials

EIT Health

EIT Food

(Added Value Manufacturing KIC)

Urban mobility

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EIT Raw Materials

2) NoIs and the SSIC

Objective NoI: Mapping service aimed to provideoverview and access to facilities and expert knowledgeavailable within the consortium including pilot plants,technical centres and analytical and modellinginfrastructure


Sustainability Support and Information Centre



Join us!

SSIC supports industry, technology developers and policy makers within and outside the EIT Raw Materials in:

• “Exploration and raw materials resource assessment”:

Data management of raw material supplies, supply and demand evolutions(IOA), criticality of raw materials, ore grade/quality, etc.

• “Mining in challenging environments”:

Environmental and economic cost benefit and risk assessments, social hotspotsin global supply chains, etc.

• “Increased resource efficiency in mineral and metallurgical processes”:

Material flow analysis (MFA) applying thermodynamic models and efficiencyassessments on processes and supply chains, etc.


• “Recycling and material chain optimisation for End-of-Life products”

Recyclability benefits, waste management scenario’s through Life CycleAssessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC), EoL criteria, critical raw materialsretained in the EU economy, etc.

• “Substitution of critical and toxic materials in products and for optimisedperformance at technological scale”

Toxicity assessments (e.g. USEtox®), upscaling and learning curves, macro-economic assessments of global megatrends through modelling changes inInput Output tables (IOT), etc.

• “Design of products and services for the circular economy”

Detailed economic analysis (profitability, job creation, etc.) of new businessmodels, ecodesign, developing supporting tools, stimulating industrialsymbiosis systems through flow analysis, etc.


• Sustainability Assessment methods & metrics to evaluate innovation projects & collaborations

• Close collaboration with FSLCI education/outreach activities

• RMIS 2.0 / Criticality & RM Scoreboard DG JRChttp://rmis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/


http://rmis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

Sustainability Support and Information Centre


• Annual Conference of the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on Raw Materials (December 2015, Brussels)

• EIT Raw Materials Information and Brokerage Event (February 2016, Berlin)

• SETAC EUROPE (May 2016, Nantes)

• SETAC EUROPE (May 2017, Brussels)

• LCM Conference (September 2017, Luxembourg)

www.ssic-eitrm.com

http://www.ssic-eitrm.com/

3) Finding Synergies through Clustering: ZeroWaste Cluster

EIP RM Commitment:https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/eip-raw-materials/en/content/eit-rawmaterials-

commitment-zerowaste-networks-infrastructure


https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/eip-raw-materials/en/content/eit-rawmaterials-commitment-zerowaste-networks-infrastructure

• Business model development

• Joint database structure– Based on decision tree

– Front-end + Back-end + SPOC

• Similar governance structure

• Joint communication and dissemination strategy– Joint website

(zerowastecluster.eu)

• Zero Waste matchmaking and networking activities


• ZeroWaste matchmaking at Cleantechfestival(Brussels, November 2016)

• Event linked to the Slag Valorisation Symposium (SVS)(Leuven, April 2017)

www.zerowastecluster.eu

Connect, Collaborate, Create!(Curt Grayson & David Baldwin)

http://www.zerowastecluster.eu/

eit.europa.eu

[email protected]

http://ssic-eitrm.com

http://zerowastecluster.eu

mailto:[email protected]

http://ssic-eitrm.com/

http://zerowastecluster.eu/

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