The program for next week’s symposium will not only give participants information as to where they need to go at a specific time, but also contains valuable background information about its goal and scope. To see it and learn more about the symposium, please click here.

SusCritMat aims to educate people from Master’s student level up, both in industry and academia about important aspects of Sustainable critical raw materials. In a novel concept, it introduces courses on these complex and interdisciplinary topics in a modula structure, adaptable to a variety of different formats and accessible to both students and managers in industry. In this context, last January, the first SusCritMat Winter School gave its participants the opportunity to discuss and work with experts from various fields. They did not only learn new things about sustainability aspects, but also enlarged their professional network. Like the other SusCritMat schools which are yet to come, the Winter School responded […]

Visit the Symposium on Availability of raw materials from secondary sources and the Special Workshop on Waste Valorization and Critical Raw Materials on April 24 at the UNECE Resource Management Week: https://www.unece.org/index.php?id=47092  

One of the lectures held at the SusCritMat Winter School in Les Diablerets in January is now available for free download: BRGM’s introduction to Criticality by Dominque Guyonnet and Gaëtan Levebre as well as the associated hands-on exercise.

This April, ESM Foundation will co-host this symposium as part of the UNECE Resource Management Week 2018. It reflects on the future availability of secondary raw materials and the need for a unifying global standard – the United Nations Framework Classification (UNFC) – to manage anthropogenic resources in a circular economy, with special reference to valorizing wastes for the recovery of Critical Raw Materials.