/ EUROPEAN COMMISSION
ENTERPRISE AND INDUSTRY DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
Resources Based, Manufacturing and Consumer Goods Industries
Raw materials, Metals, Minerals and Forest-based industries

EIP on Raw Materials Annual Conference and Horizon 2020 Brokerage Event on Raw Materials

13th-14th January 2015 – Hotel Le Plaza, 1000 Brussels

Draft Agenda

Day 1: EIP on Raw Materials Annual Conference

08.00-09.00 Registration and setting of posters

09:00-09.30 Networking with coffee served in atrium outside of the conference room

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09.30 High-Level Panel

Welcome and Key Note speech by Mrs. Elżbieta Bieńkowska, Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry, EC (tbc)

09.45 Session introduced and moderated by Mr. Daniel Calleja Crespo, Director General for Enterprise and Industry, EC

Key Note presentation: The contribution of the mining sector to socioeconomic and human development – Mr. Paulo de Sá, World Bank

Mr. Sigmar Gabriel – Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy and Vice Chancellor of Germany, (tbc)

Mr. Emmanuel Macron, Minister of Economy, Industrial Renewal and Information Technology, France (tbc)

Mr. Reinhard Bütikofer, Member of European Parliament

Mr. Lars Eric Aaro, President & Chief Executive Officer of LKAB

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11.15-11.45 Coffee break – informal networking

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11:45 Session I: Overall Picture – Chaired by Mr. Mattia Pellegrini, Head of Unit, DG Enterprise and Industry, EC

Global Picture in the field of exploration and extraction – Mr. Michel Bonnemaison, Director General of Variscan Mines

ERECON: A value chain approach in the specific case of REEs – Mr. Allan Walton, Senior Science City Research Fellow at University of Birmingham (tbc)

The role of primary supply in a Circular Economy – Mr. Raimund Bleischwitz, University College London

Beyond responsible to sustainable mining? Ensuring environmental performance underwrites development success – Mr. Jon Hobbs, Director, Extractives Sector, WWF International

Interactive Session – Q&A

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13:00-14:00 Buffet Lunch

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14:00 Session II: Raw Materials at regional level – Chaired by Mrs. Katja Reppel, Acting Head of Unit, DG Regional and Urban Policy, EC

European Network of Raw Materials Regions, Mr. Wiktor Kowalczyk, Foundation for Lower Silesian Mineral Cluster (Poland) (tbc)

North Sweden Regional Mineral Strategy, Mr. Sven-Erik Österberg, County Governor in Norrbotten (Sweden)

Interactive Session – Q&A

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14:40 Session III: Raw Materials Commitments – Chaired by Mrs. Flor Diaz Pulido, Deputy Head of Unit, DG Enterprise and Industry, EC

ECAMOB (Enhancing the cascade use of wood by integrating an intensified mobilisation of forest resources) – Mr. Andreas Kleinschmit, Institut Technologique FCBA

OPTIMIN_2020 (Optimizing the Minerals Policy Framework at EU and National Levels by 2020) – Mr. Gunter Tiess, Montanuniversitaet Leoben

CRM_Innonet (Critical Raw Material Innovation Network) – Mrs. Claire Claessen, Knowledge Transfer Network Ltd.

EHI (Creation of a European Hydrometallurgical Institute) – Mr. Frédéric Goettmann, CEA Marcoule Research Centre

I2Mine (Innovative Technologies and Concepts for the Intelligent Deep Mine of the Future) – Mr. Karl Erik Rånman, Boliden AB

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15:30-16:00 Coffee break

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16:00 Session IV: International Co-Operation Panel – Chaired by Mrs Genoveva Ruiz Calavera, Head of Unit, European External Action Service (tbc)

AELPK (Africa-EU-Latin America Raw Materials Platform Kandandu) – Mr. Ricardo da Mota Veiga, SOMINCOR- Sociedade Mineira de Neves-Corvo, S.A.

E3M (Ecole des Mines et de la Métallurgie de Moanda) – Mr. Jean-Marc Montel, ENSG

Mr. Ian Satchwell, Director of International Mining for Development Centre (Australia)

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16:35 Concluding remarks – Representative of the Latvian Government – Presidency of the Council of the European Union (tbc)

Opening of the poster session – Mr. Carlo Pettinelli (Director, DG Enterprise and Industry) and Mr. Kurt Vandenberghe (Director, DG Research and Innovation)

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17:00-19:00 Networking cocktail

Day 2: Horizon 2020 – Brokerage Event on Raw Materials

08:15-09:15 Registration with coffee served in atrium outside of the conference room

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09:15 Welcome and introduction

Welcome and introduction by Mr. Mattia Pellegrini, Head of Unit, DG Enterprise and Industry, EC

09:25 Raw Materials in Societal Challenge 5

State of Play – WP2014-2015 and the next Strategic Programme – Mr. Milan Grohol, DG Enterprise and Industry, EC

Implementation of Raw Materials in SC5 – Mr. Marcin Sadowski, Head of Sector Raw Materials, EASME

10:00 Presentations of the topics of WP2015

SC5 Topics: Mr. Milan Grohol, Mr. Patrice Millet, Mr. Manuel Gomez Herrero, Mr. Igor Kalinic – Policy Officers, DG Enterprise and Industry

SPIRE-7 and NMP 23: Mr. Soren Bowadt, Mrs. Anne de Baas – Programme Officers, DG Research and Innovation

Interactive Session – Q&A

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11:00-11:30 Coffee break

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Session IIa: Brokerage Session CSA Chaired by Mr. Marcin Sadowski, EASME and Mr. Milan Grohol, DG Enterprise and Industry, EC
Presentation of Projects' ideas / Session IIb: Brokerage Session Technology Chaired by Mrs. Judit Fejes, EASME and Mr. Patrice Millet, DG Enterprise and Industry, EC
Presentation of Projects' ideas

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______13:00-15:00 Buffet Lunch

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