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Press Release “Europe’s Mining Renaissance, a Catalyst for Climate Neutrality”
On 27 March 2024, during the prestigious DOCVILLE film festival in Leuven, the KU Leuven Institute for Sustainable Metals and Minerals (SIM²) will be releasing a new Storyrunner documentary that investigates the status of this Mining Renaissance in Europe.
“Europe’s Mining Renaissance, a Catalyst for Climate Neutrality”, the debate
On March 27, 2024, a new documentary entitled “Europe’s Mining Renaissance”, will premiere in Leuven during the DOCVILLE film festival. After the film a high-level panel discussion will take place, featuring Ia Modin, Julia Poliscanova, Nick Meynen, Peter Tom Jones and John Vandaele.
La-doped MgFe-layered double hydroxides and their sorption properties towards tungsten oxyanions (WO24-) at alkaline pH’s
A new Tarantula publication! Elena M. Seftel, Jeroen Spooren, Monika Kus, Pegie Cool, Bart Michielsen Abstract The present study focuses on the tungsten recovery from alkaline solutions using for the first time La-doped MgFe-LDH type sorbents (pH ≥ 13). A small-scale...
Press Release: “The Sami Perspective: a new mini-documentary”
The long-awaited mini-documentary “The Sami Perspective” is now available. The film tries to understand why the indigenous reindeer-herding Sami communities are so strongly opposed to metal mining in the North of Sweden. This joint press release provides the essential background.
Interviews with our colleagues
Meet our TARANTULA colleague: Elena Seftel (Vito)
Elena M. Seftel obtained her PhD in the field of Material Science in 2010. She is a researcher at VITO, unit Sustainable Materials Management within the Coating and Shaping Technologies. Her main research interests are in the development of inorganic sorbent materials for metal recovery from complex mixtures.
Meet our TARANTULA colleague: Michel BONNEMAISON
Doctor of Sciences, Michel Bonnemaison is the manager of a small company specializing in the search for secondary deposits of critical metals with the ambition of valuing them to minimize the environmental impact of metal extraction. Find out more about his work in this latest #H2020TARANTULA interview
Meet our TARANTULA colleague: Laura Borge del Rey (PNO)
Laura Borge del Rey works as a consultant at PNO Innovation in Belgium. Laura is delivering innovation services such as business plans or market analysis, and is engaged in several EU projects leading or contributing to the exploitation and dissemination activities. Find out more about her work in this latest interview.
Meet our TARANTULA colleague: Martina Orefice (KU Leuven)
Martina Orefice is one of the actresses of our short-movie and much more within the TARANTULA project. Enthusiast of the environmental case since the age of 10 thanks to a board game, she has been working hard and, although there’s always to learn, she is happy and satisfied to be an expert of critical raw materials.
Meet our TARANTULA colleague: Patricia Lassaux (MBPEL-GIGA-Uliège)
Patricia Lassaux is a researcher in biochemistry and head of the molecular biomimetic and protein engineering laboratory (MBPEL), based within GIGA in the University of Liège, Belgium. Her mission is to develop applied research aimed at meeting industrial needs by...
Meet our TARANTULA colleague: Jeroen Spooren (VITO)
Jeroen Spooren obtained his PhD in the field of solid state chemistry in 2005. He currently holds the position of senior researcher at the unit “Sustainable Materials Management” within the team “Waste Recycling Technologies”. His main field of expertise is the...