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Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

European Network for Sustainable Quarrying and Mining

Objectives of the commitment

Promote an open, constructive and cooperative dialogue on quarrying practices in specific member States where Industry, local community, local NGOs and governmental authorities can resolve positively environmental, social and econmic issues relating to existing, closing or forthcoming quarrying activities. This dialogue will start with a workshop aiming at creating a continued exchange and cooperation after the workshop.
Promote after the workshop continuous interaction between the national, regional and local stakeholder to achieve active and constructive cooperation in sustainable quarrying. Ideally this workshop could convert into a forum for discussion between the national,regional, local authorities, industry and local NGOs, and trade unions.

Description of the activities

Organise a workshop in Spain with Cominroc as the coordinator of this workshop. Each country has a local coordinator who hosts the workshop and assemble all the stakeholders around the table. The national coordinator is responsible for the folow up of this workshop including reporting.
Organise a workshop in Spain-October 2016
Organise a workshop in Germany-2017
Organise a workshop in France-date to be assessed
Organise a workshop in Poland-date to be assessed
Organise a workshop in Italy-date to be assessed
Organise a workshop in the UK-date to be assessed

Description of the expected impacts

Through this workshop and through implementation of sustainable quarrying principles mentioned in the execuitve summary, the network aims at facilitating access to resources in the Member States, including within Natura 2000 areas, at developing best practice for rehabilitation and enhancement of biodiversity, at resolving land-use planning conflict, at managing social and environmental impacts,at ensuring the well-being of employees and promote employment, at protecting cultural inheritage.
Through this workshop, the national stakeholders may (not exhaustive list): set up a code of good practices for sustainable quarrying, a mechanism to resolve conflicts, Biodiveristy Action Plans to promote the compatibilty of their activities with biodiversity, protection of the workers.

Coordinating organisation & role

Name of the coordinating organisation: Eurogypsum-European Plaster and Plasterboard Manufacturers AssociationCountry: EuropeEntity profile: OtherRole within the commitment:

Networking Lead Coordinator

Other partners

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.

Name of the organisation: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V. Country: Germany Entity profile: Governmental/public body
Role within the commitment: Fraunhofer will lead the CFRP and GFRP recycling research.
Fraunhofer will perform corrosion tests on the developed materials.
Fraunhofer will work with CIDAUT on the implementation, validation and refinement of LCCA tools for the project. Fraunhofer is the Quality Manager of the Consortium and will oversee deliverables and general reporting are produced with the best possible quality following agreed review standards.

Fundacion Cidaut

Name of the organisation: Fundacion Cidaut Country: Spain Entity profile:
Role within the commitment: CIDAUT will lead the research activities on materials recycling and compounding, implementing lab scale demonstrators of each process at its premises and, later, supporting end-users upscale the processes.
CIDAUT will perform mechanical tests, microstructural analyses, injection moulding capability studies on the developed materails, and will work with Fraunhofer on the implementation, validation and refinement of LCCA tools for the project.

RWTH Aachen University (Institute of plastic processing (IKV)

Name of the organisation: RWTH Aachen University (Institute of plastic processing (IKV) Country: Germany Entity profile: Governmental/public body
Role within the commitment: RWTH will implement the novel 3D Generative Preforming process (3D Fibre Spraying) that enables to create high-value long fibre-reinforced 3D preforms for thermoplastic and thermoset composites at low process costs (different kinds of yarn as a raw material, low tooling costs due to low cavity pressures). This cost effective technology allows to align the sprayed fibres in order to produce high-performance, engineered anisotropic products.

Universita' di Cagliari

Name of the organisation: Universita' di Cagliari Country: Italy Entity profile:
Role within the commitment: University of Cagliari is one of the leading European organization in the resin design and coupling with thermoplastic and thermose materials. University of Cagliari will support in the definition of the composite materials, both from CFRP/GFRP, ABS and Rare Earth composite material.

Relight

Name of the organisation: Relight Country: Italy Entity profile: Private sector - SME
Role within the commitment: RELIGHT will work with ITRB to provide the research partners with residues for the recycled ABS supply and the REE recovery processes, including their HydroWEEE process as part of the processes to be studied and analyzed.

Piaggio Aerospace

Name of the organisation: Piaggio Aerospace Country: Italy Entity profile: Private sector - large company
Role within the commitment: Piaggio Aerospace is one of the project End Users (Aeronautics Industry): as such it will provide requirements and further applications that could be developed with the Consortium Materials. Piaggio will assist in the compounds selection, provide Fraunhofer with specific corrosion requirements on business jet size aircraft, and will assess that the developed materials performance fits the selected applications desired improvements.

Blackshape Aircrafts

Name of the organisation: Blackshape Aircrafts Country: Italy Entity profile: Private sector - SME
Role within the commitment: Blackshape Aircrafts is one of the project End Users (Aeronautics Industry): as such it will provide requirements and further applications that could be developed with the Consortium Materials. Blackshape will support to fulfill the requirements of the aeronautics industry on ultra light jet, light jet and trainer for Syllabus, and will assess that the developed alloys performance fits the selected applications desired improvements.

KU Leuven

Name of the organisation: KU Leuven Country: Belgium Entity profile: Academia
Role within the commitment: KUL will collaborate on the balance problem studies and will lead the rare earth recovery research with the solvometallurgical and ionometallurgical processes.
KUL will also contribute to the final compounding selection.
KUL is the Dissemination Manager of the project, promoting that all partners are active on the project Dissemination.

FIDAMC

Name of the organisation: FIDAMC Country: Spain Entity profile: Governmental/public body
Role within the commitment: FIDAMC is going to lead the Work Package on Compression Moulding with CFRP-enhanced materials. As part of the AIRBUS Group, FIDAMC will also be able to provide the input material.
FIDAMC successfully developed a 3D Printer of own design to serve the Aerospace Industry and will be supporting Smart Lab 3D Industries in its 3D printer design.

COMPOSITE INNOVATION CENTER

Name of the organisation: COMPOSITE INNOVATION CENTER Country: Canada Entity profile: Governmental/public body
Role within the commitment: Composite Innovation Center is one of the world leading organization in the field of Composite materials, both from carbon fiber and vegetal-based fibers.
Composite Innovation center has successfully implemented, at lab-scale, recycling processes for CFRP and GFRP.

Existing EU Contribution: No

Period to implement the commitment: from 15-03-2016 to 31-12-2020