04 Green Transition

Minerals, metals and advanced materials are key enablers to achieve the objectives of the European Green Deal. Today, only a fraction of the most relevant raw materials is produced in Europe. This can be changed through a circular economy approach, through innovation in recycling, substitution, processing, mining, and exploration. Europe needs to secure a sustainable raw materials supply by driving innovation, education, and deep tech talents across European industrial ecosystems.

Europe should develop a European raw materials skills and capacity-building initiative. Allocate substantial funding to scale up the European Raw Materials Academy to develop the modules necessary to attract the needed human capital for industry and to provide the ever-changing needs of this green industrial revolution.

Europe needs to increase investment in the primary and secondary raw materials sector and ensure a robust R&D and innovation ecosystem. We must strengthen Europe’s global leadership in science and research to accelerate innovation output particularly via public-private open innovation ecosystems. In this context Europe should allocate additional funding in competitive grants to boost EU R&D and innovation capacity and establish IPCEIs for critical and strategic raw materials value chains constrained by market failures, setting up the ground for a future European Partnership in the raw and advanced materials field.

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Green Transition Tech Sovereignty

JARA PASCUAL / COLLABWITH

EUNIKA MERCIER-LAURENT / INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING (IFIP)

Create a tax incentive/reduction of taxes to private organizations which are buying innovative solutions from the European area via the ‘innovation procurement’ process and ‘partnership of innovation procurement’ where the private organizations have public consultations about innovative solutions for their needs, and they modify and adapt their procurement processes to be able to purchase products, services and solutions from startups and SMEs in Europe.

Take forward more actions for greening and smarting software. Produce more simulators for evaluating impact of actions/design before implementation. Combine the Knowledge-based AI with connectionist AI. Apply the software invented in Europe in constraint programming for optimizing, scheduling and planning actions. Pursue data sliming as an alternative to big data, and invest in an increase in Knowledge Scientists and circular energy. Stop programmed obsolescence and find alternatives to adds-based business models.

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