What is Rotate?
ROTATE is a EU-funded project that aims to provide environmental solutions that will contribute to facilitate the generation of synergies between diverse industrial sectors related to mining and quarrying. ROTATE goals are the following: to boost efficiency in extractive sites, enhance circularity and waste valorisation, develop sustainable processes along the mining and quarrying productive chain, and improve social awareness about the importance of this strategic sector and its commitment to sustainability. In fulfilling these goals, ROTATE also seeks to ensure a sustainable supply of critical raw materials crucial for the EU industry.
ROTATE is part of Horizon Europe, the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation. It tackles climate change, helps to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and boosts the EU’s competitiveness and growth.
The programme facilitates collaboration and strengthens the impact of research and innovation in developing, supporting, and implementing EU policies while tackling global challenges. It supports creating and better dispersing of excellent knowledge and technologies.
It creates jobs, fully engages the EU’s talent pool, boosts economic growth, promotes industrial competitiveness, and optimizes investment impact within a strengthened European Research Area.
In this sense, ROTATE is perfectly aligned with the scope and outcomes of HORIZON-CL4-TWIN TRANSITION-01-20.
ROTATE is part of Horizon Europe, the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation. It tackles climate change, helps to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and boosts the EU’s competitiveness and growth.
The programme facilitates collaboration and strengthens the impact of research and innovation in developing, supporting, and implementing EU policies while tackling global challenges. It supports creating and better dispersing of excellent knowledge and technologies.
It creates jobs, fully engages the EU’s talent pool, boosts economic growth, promotes industrial competitiveness, and optimizes investment impact within a strengthened European Research Area.
In this sense, ROTATE is perfectly aligned with the scope and outcomes of HORIZON-CL4-TWIN TRANSITION-01-20.
Partners
Asociación Nacional de Empresarios Fabricantes de Áridos – ANEFA
Advanced Mineral Processing
AGREPOR – CIMPOR
AKKODIS Research
Investigación Centro Tecnológico del Mármol, Piedra y Materiales
Canteras Industriales
Chalmers University of Technology
CITEPA
Danish Teknologisk Institut
Fundación Tormes-EB
Gate2Growth
Hormisoria
Imperial College London
LafargeHolcim Francia
Metso
Roctim AB
Université de Liège
UPM
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Velde Industri AS
Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek Nv (VITO)
Zabala Innovation Consulting
Coordination Team
Project Department of ANEFA
Director General of ANEFA
Project Department of ANEF
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Coordination
Team
Project Department of ANEFA
Director General of ANEFA
Project Department of ANEF
SMART, CONNECTED,
SUSTAINABLE, BETTER
ROTATE’S aim is to provide the mining and quarrying market with profitable and replicable solutions regarding:
Cut-off grade decrease
Drop the cut-off grade related to the production of critical raw materials
Ecofriendly extraction & processing
Minimize the environmental impact (zero emissions, materials, resources, and consumption efficiency) for all the common procedures involved in the extraction and processing in open cast critical raw materials mines and quarries.
Circularity
Deliver circular solutions for waste valorization, creating a symbiosis between the critical raw materials and aggregates industries and the construction sector.
Social acceptance
Provide co-creative strategies to enhance the social acceptance of the open cast extracting industry, supported by a robust policy interaction and a strong clustering network.
Cut-off grade decrease
Drop the cut-off grade related to the production of critical raw materials
Ecofriendly extraction & processing
Minimize the environmental impact (zero emissions, materials, resources, and consumption efficiency) for all the common procedures involved in the extraction and processing in open cast critical raw materials mines and quarries.
Circularity
Deliver circular solutions for waste valorization, creating a symbiosis between the critical raw materials and aggregates industries and the construction sector.
Social acceptance
Provide co-creative strategies to enhance the social acceptance of the open cast extracting industry, supported by a robust policy interaction and a strong clustering network.
Goals
1. To increase efficiency and recovery rate of critical raw materials, raw materials, and water.
2. To reduce the emissions of CO2, dust and noise among others, and to increase efficiency during the extraction and processing.
3. To valorize solid and sludge waste
4. To foster site rehabilitation and biodiversity management:
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A unified eco-management model to increase the restoration capacity in mines and quarries.
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Set a range of biodiversity indicators according to the SMART framework (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound).
5. To develop a multi-parameter platform that will improve the monitoring of the following aspects: emissions, equipment performance, environmental impacts, energy efficiency, risk assessment and biodiversity.
6. To test and validate the aforementioned solutions in 5 pilots across the EU (Spain, France, Portugal, and Norway).
7. To create a powerful and solid network of key stakeholders and end users to expand the project’s scope towards new market opportunities defining a clustering plan to build a collaborative grid that ensures the transfer of knowledge.
8. To increase social awareness by obtaining the Social License to Operate and engaging key stakeholders through several educational initiatives.
9. To ensure the market uptake of these technological solutions defining specific exploitation strategies and business models.
Development
1. To increase efficiency and recovery rate of critical raw materials, raw materials, and water.
2. To reduce the emissions of CO2, dust, noise… and to increase efficiency during the extraction and processing.
3. To valorize solid and sludge waste.
4. To foster site rehabilitation and biodiversity management:
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A unified eco-management model to increase the restoration capacity in mines and quarries.
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Set a range of biodiversity indicators according to the SMART framework (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound).
5. To develop a multi-parameter platform that will improve the monitoring of the following aspects: emissions, equipment performance, environmental impacts, energy efficiency, risk assessment and biodiversity.
6. To test and validate the aforementioned solutions in 5 pilots across the EU (Spain, France, Portugal, and Norway).
7. To create a powerful and solid network of key stakeholders and end users to expand the project’s scope towards new market opportunities defining a clustering plan to build a collaborative grid that ensures the transfer of knowledge.
8. To increase social awareness by obtaining the Social License to Operate and engaging key stakeholders through several educational initiatives.
9. To ensure the market uptake of these technological solutions defining specific exploitation strategies and business models.
News
Rotate: dress rehearsal
Today, a preparatory session was conducted in preparation for the upcoming meeting with the Project Officer (PO) and external reviewer to justify the first third of the ROTATE project. This simulation served as a [...]
ROTATE at the XV International Mining Congress in Spain
The XV International Mining Congress, organized by the Spanish Consejo Superior de Colegios de Ingenieros de Minas (Higher Council of Colleges of Mining Engineering) and the Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Minas del Centro [...]
Presentation of the ROTATE Project at SECYT 2023 Murcia
Antonio Espín and Francisca Carreño from the Geological-Mining Technological Unit of the Centro Tecnológico del Mármol (the Spanish Marble Technology Center) introduced ROTATE to the participants of the Spanish Science and Technology Week that [...]
Rotate at the XV International Congress on Energy and Mineral Resources
The XV International Congress on Energy and Mineral Resources will take place in León organized by the Spanish Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Minas del Centro de España (Official Association of Mining Engineers of [...]
Join the DigiEcoQuarry Massive Open Online Course on Aggregates
The DIGIECOQUARRY Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) invites you to explore the importance of aggregates and their applications, along with the exploitation techniques, digitalization, and sustainability of this extractive industry, and discover the solutions [...]
ROTATE, recycling, and built environment
ROTATE was present at the V International Conference Progress of Recycling in the Built Environment (V. PRE) held on 10-12 October in Weimar, Germany. Yury Villagran Zaccardi presented the work "Optimizing Self-Compacting Mortar Mixes with Recycled Wash-Sludge Fines," developed [...]
Rotate Consortium Meeting video: Pilot site visit
As part of the program for our recent Consortium Meeting in Granada, we visited one of the pilots involved in the project: Canteras Industriales. As part of our communication efforts, we have shot and [...]
Pilot visit: Environmental and biodiversity visit to Canteras Industrial
The first global Rotate consortium meeting was a success but did not finish after almost everyone left to continue working in their own countries and institutions. SomeRotate team members stayed in Granada to continue [...]
Consortium Meeting Granada
News
Rotate: dress rehearsal
Today, a preparatory session was conducted in preparation for the upcoming meeting with the Project Officer (PO) and external reviewer to justify the first third of the ROTATE project. This simulation served as a [...]
Marius-Febi Matei. Technical Senior Consultant at Gate2Growth
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Samuel Bouchoms ULiège – Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech Biodiversity and Landscape
Please introduce yourself first and tell us about your background, areas of expertise, and your position in your institution.I'm a geographer specializing in climatology by training and hold a Ph. D. in science. During [...]
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