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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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 Project at PDAC
The European Commission continues to advance towards a more secure, sustainable, and competitive supply of essential and critical raw materials by supporting research and innovation projects under the Horizon Europe programme. Within this framework, the ROTATE (project plays a central role in promoting circular [...]
Rotate & Aggregates Europe: Biodiversity Indicators Webinar
The European Rotate project, funded by the European Commission and led by ANEFA, in collaboration with Aggregates Europe (the European association of aggregate producers) and with the support of the Tormes-EB Foundation, the University of [...]
Rotate Webinar: Biodiversity Indicators
The Rotate project, with the support of Anefa, the Federación de Áridos, the University of Liège, Aggregates Europe, and the Tormes Foundation, will hold an explanatory webinar next Monday, 2 February, at 11:00 a.m., aimed at the aggregates extractive sector. The [...]
ROTATE Project and CO₂ emissions
Every 28 January, World CO₂ Emissions Reduction Day is commemorated, a key date to raise awareness of the need to move towards more sustainable production models. Reducing CO₂ emissions and other pollutants directly contributes [...]
Second Phase of the European Biodiversity Indicators Questionnaire
Aggregate Europe, in collaboration with the ROTATE project funded by the European Commission and led by ANEFA, and with the participation of the Fundación Tormes-EB, theUniversity of Liège, and FdA, continues to promote responsible biodiversity [...]
ROTATE: Towards a More Sustainable Mining Industry
Rotate, funded by the European Commission and led by ANEFA under the Horizon programme, continues to move steadily toward its goals of sustainability, digitalization, and efficiency within the European extractive industry. The mid-term [...]
Consultation on New ERA Act to Boost Research Integration and Competitiveness
The European Commission has opened a Call for Evidence on a forthcoming European Research Area (ERA) Act, a legislative initiative aimed at transforming the EU’s research and innovation landscape into a more integrated, competitive, [...]
Updated: Guide for Biodiversity Management in Aggregate Operations
Updated: Guide for Biodiversity Management in Aggregate Operations The Guide for Biodiversity Management in Aggregate Operations provides practical guidance for companies, public administrations, and organizations aiming to integrate biodiversity protection across all phases of [...]
Consortium Meeting Granada
News
ROTATE Project at PDAC
The European Commission continues to advance towards a more secure, sustainable, and competitive supply of essential and critical raw materials by supporting research and innovation projects under the Horizon Europe programme. Within this framework, the ROTATE (project plays a central role in promoting circular [...]
Rotate & Aggregates Europe: Biodiversity Indicators Webinar
The European Rotate project, funded by the European Commission and led by ANEFA, in collaboration with Aggregates Europe (the European association of aggregate producers) and with the support of the Tormes-EB Foundation, the University of [...]
Rotate Webinar: Biodiversity Indicators
The Rotate project, with the support of Anefa, the Federación de Áridos, the University of Liège, Aggregates Europe, and the Tormes Foundation, will hold an explanatory webinar next Monday, 2 February, at 11:00 a.m., aimed at the aggregates extractive sector. The [...]
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