European Training Network for the Design and Recycling of Rare-Earth Permanent Magnet Motors and Generators in Hybrid and Full Electric Vehicles (DEMETER)

ETN DEMETER, which investigates how to extract and recycle rare earth magnets from electric vehicle motors, features on the EC website in the series "Success Stories". Prof. Binnemans (coordinator DEMETER) outlines the challenges.

The EU FP7 EURARE project team has published a concluding project brochure, explaining how Europe can create a sustainable European rare-earth supply chain. A must read!

DEMETER contribution: 1st Place Award in the TOP STARS 2017 – Innovation challenge in Raw Material framework – BioTechNO3 team The TOP STARS 2017 EIT RawMaterials Winter School introduces PhD students to entrepreneurial thinking and behavior, business and innovation processes, ...

Suite aux succès en 2010 (Toulouse-France), 2012 (Montréal-Canada), 2014 (Albi-France) et 2016 (Genève-Suisse), la nouvelle édition de conférence CONFREGE aura lieu les 28, 29 et 30 mai 2018 à Sherbrooke-Canada. Pour plus d’informations cliquez ici: 1er-Appel-CONFREGE-2018_flyer-non-pliable.pdf  

Gwendolyn Bailey, a KU Leuven researcher in the EU H2020 DEMETER project, presented her work at the high-level 7th Trilateral EU-US-Japan Conference on Critical Materials (October 12, 2017) in Pittsburgh, USA.

As part of “Artefact 2018: This Rare Earth - Stories from Below”, a unique symposium on the Social License to Operate with respect to the mining and recycling of critical metals is taking place on February 21, 2018 (Leuven).

AUTHOR: Gwendolyn Bailey As an environmentalist from Texas, a steadfastly Republican and climate-change-denying state, I know better than anyone the challenge of communicating environmental science to a non-scientific community. Thus, I have grown accustomed to speaking about my field, environmentally ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have developed a new, more efficient permanent magnet that removes the deficiencies of conventional samarium and neodymium magnets.  The proposed magnet stems from the well-known samarium and cobalt (SmCo5, CaCu5-type structure) magnet, but goes a step further ...

During the annual JRC EU4Facts conference in Brussels, the EU MSCA-ETN DEMETER video was awarded as a showcase example on how science can contribute to evidence based policy making.

November 6 – November 10 Following the success of the 1st edition of the ‘Raw Materials Week‘, the 2nd edition will take place in Brussels from Monday 6 to Friday 10 November 2017.  See details.