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In the first year of the project, TUKE staff and partners were proposed to follow online training regarding general knowledge on project management and administrative skills, with a focus on European projects. Specific sessions on business plan, clustering and networking were also addressed. The training programme was designed to have : sessions covering project proposal […]

During the first half of the WIDEX project, TUKE staff participated in training on optimized hydrometallurgical processes for the recovery of critical raw materials (CRMs). Provided by Fraunhofer IKTS (Freiberg, Germany), the training comprised pre-training materials, hybrid seminars, and on-site experimental sessions at Fraunhofer IKTS to apply and disseminate the acquired knowledge. The training introduced

On 26 November 2025, the Faculty of BERG at TUKE hosted an internal workshop of the WIDEX project, focused on knowledge transfer gained during the visit of two researchers at Lapland University of Applied Sciences (Lapland UAS) in Finland. The workshop aimed to present and provide hands-on training in virtual reality (VR) for students and

On 26 November 2025, an internal WIDEX workshop on lithium battery recycling: innovative solutions and research directions was held at the UVZ TUKE facility in Herľany, Slovakia. The event was part of the Lithium Batteries Forum, organized under the national project OptiLib, supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV). OptiLib focuses on developing

On 17 September 2025, the Raw Materials Day 2025 seminar took place in Košice as part of SlovakiaTech, organized by EIT RawMaterials – RIS Hub Slovakia at the Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnologies (FBERG) of the Technical University of Košice (TUKE). The event provided an opportunity to connect experts from the raw

As part of the WIDEX project, TUKE staff participated in training on chemical process modeling, optimization, and control, including digital process simulation. Delivered by IDENER.AI (Seville, Spain), the training was conducted in three phases: online seminars, onsite sessions at IDENER.AI, and workshops at TUKE to apply and share the knowledge. Process modeling provides mathematical representations

On June 24, 2025, an interactive seminar on the use of the Python programming language in chemical engineering took place at the Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Materials, Metallurgy and Recycling, at the Institute of Recycling and Environmental Technologies, as part of the WIDEX project. The seminar was titled “Chemical Engineering with Python –

The 4th of June 2024 a kick-off meeting took place in Košice (Slovakia), where the WIDEX consortium partners, beneficiaries of Horizon Europe funding, met and presented their role within the project:  the Technical University of Košice (TUKE, Coordinator), ICAMCYL Foundation, the Iberian Sustainable Mining Cluster, MNLT Innovations, Fraunhofer IKTS, IDENER, Consentia, Lapland UAS, Polê Avenia,