The Material Life Cycle: A Steering Wheel for Europe’s Raw Materials Academy

Abstract

EIT Raw Materials is a major European initiative supported by more than 120 core and associate partners from industry, research and academia. Among the core missions of this network is the establishment of a Raw Materials RM Academy to educate T-shaped professionals that will contribute to the development of a sustainable and resource efficient Europe.

Every T-shaped professional should combine an in depth knowledge of his own discipline with a sound understanding of the challenges of the full raw materials value chain and with a mindset for innovation and entrepreneurship. The main objective of the RM Academy is to connect all T-shaped professionals to help create the circular economy steering wheel. Therefore, the RM Academy has the following missions:

• Label and support educational programs.

• Promote a permanent offer of cross-disciplinary programmes, workshops and courses.

• Train T-shaped professionals into T-shaped entrepreneurs.

• Promote lifelong learning initiatives.

• Stimulate wider society learning initiatives aiming at raising social and political awareness.

• Closely collaborate with industry

• Enable a high degree of mobility of students and professionals