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On 18 June 2026, the WIDEX consortium gathered in Oviedo for a full day dedicated to project progress, knowledge transfer and collaboration across the European critical raw materials ecosystem. The programme combined the project’s M24 General Assembly with the Cross-Fertilisation Workshop “Advancing Collaboration in Critical Raw Materials and Innovation Ecosystems”, bringing together consortium partners, European […]

WIDEX will host a Cross-Fertilisation Workshop in Oviedo on 18 June 2026 to connect European raw materials projects, innovation hubs and stakeholders working towards a more sustainable and resilient raw materials sector in Europe. Event detailsDate: 18 June 2026Time: 11:00 – 13:30Venue: Eurostars Palacio de Cristal Hotel, Oviedo, AsturiasRegister here! The WIDEX project will organise

As part of the WIDEX project’s commitment to strengthening TUKE institutional capacities, ICAMCyL, together with Pole AVENIA and ISMC, has successfully led a series of targeted training sessions focused on European project development and strategic research management. These activities fall under the broader framework of WIDEX Strategic Line 3: Research management, coordination, and administrative skills,

On 11 March 2026, the WIDEX project co-organised the stakeholder workshop “From S3 Benchmarking to Cluster-Led Action” in Seville (Spain), in collaboration with the IRM-HUB project. The event took place within the framework of the S3P Mining Regions General Assembly and the Interregional Exchange of Experiences promoted by the Interreg EMRIE project. The workshop brought

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