Join us at the FutuRaM’s annual event taking place in the fringe of UNECE Resource Management Week on 26 March 2025 from 14:30 to 16:30. The event will bring together experts and stakeholders to discuss the project’s progress and its impact on resource management. Consortium partners will share the results of over two years of project work. It will also explore the application of the United Nations Framework Classification (UNFC) to anthropogenic resources, with additional insights on its relevance to secondary raw material (SRM) projects. Experts from different European countries will discuss how the outcomes of FutuRaM (and especially the improved version of the Urban Mine Platform) can support informed resource management decision making.
In order to register for the FutuRaM session participants will have to create an account on the UN’s page which gives also the possibility to register for free to other sessions of the UNECE Resource Management Week.
Practical information
Date: 26 March 2025
Time: 14:30-16:30
Location: Palais des Nations Geneva Switzerland
Agenda
14:30-14::35 Welcome and introduction | James Horne, Project Manager, WEEE Forum
14:35-14:45 More about FutuRaM | Kirsten Remmen, Group Lead, Empa
14:45-15:00 What have we achieved so far? First results of the project | Kees Baldé, Senior Scientific Specialist, UNITAR SCYCLE
15:00-15:10 Q&A
15:10-15:15 UNFC applied to anthropogenic resources | Soraya Heuss-Aßbichler, Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology, LMU München
15:15-15:20 Mining waste case study | Ronald Arvidsson, Senior Geophysicist, SGU
15:20-15:30 Timber recovery | Jonas Breidenbach, Research Fellow, UCL
15:30-15:40 Phosphorous recovery | Soraya Heuss-Aßbichler, Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology, LMU München
15:40-15:50 Battery recycling | Iman Dorri, Scientific Researcher, LMU München and Franziska Maisel, Research Assistant, Fraunhofer IZM
15:50-16:00 Q&A
16:00-16:30 Panel discussion: How FutuRaM can be useful to observatories and policy makers | Moderated by Erika Ingvald, Economics Affairs Officer, UN | Panellists from European CRM Observatories and Representative(s) from European Commission
16:30-16:35 Closing remarks | James Horne, Project Manager, WEEE Forum