The working group led by Tim Chapman has been exploring opportunities for Euro-CASE to provide policy advice to European stakeholders on the topic of critical raw materials (CRMs). The objective is to:
• Raise awareness of the importance of the topic amongst European engineering academies;
• Stimulate pan European collaboration amongst expert engineers to contribute to this important emerging topic;
An internal workshop is currently being organised with the aim of identifying and defining how to address critical issues related to raw materials and circular economy. This will be prepared by organising a consultation with academies to gain their insights and suggestions on identifying 6 to 10 crucial areas of current uncertainty.
This will be an opportunity to present the recent reports published by two member academies: