About

Eight work packages,
one resilient rare-earth value chain.

REMHub brings 24 partners together to secure Europe's supply of rare earths and permanent magnets – from finding and recycling the raw materials to building the magnets, the people network and the innovation hub around them.

Project timelineMonth 20 of 48
24Partners
8Work packages
48Months

Technical work packages

WP2 – WP5

The research and innovation that builds the value chain: exploring, recovering and recycling rare earths, then turning them into sustainable permanent magnets and electric machines.

Work package02
University of Oulu 🇫🇮

Novel technologies for exploration & primary production

Finds and unlocks new European sources of rare earths, applying advanced exploration tools and developing cost- and energy-efficient ways to process REE minerals – backed by sustainability analysis and geo-traceability.

Key outputsMineral beneficiationHydrometallurgyGeo-traceability system
Work package03
OPIGEO 🇮🇹

Rare earths from side streams

Recovers rare earths from industrial and mining side streams that would otherwise be wasted – developing new materials and processes that cut environmental impact and quantify sustainability.

Key outputsLeaching & separationREE replacementSustainability analysis
Work package04
OSAI Automation 🇮🇹

Re-X technologies from end-of-life products

Recycles rare earths and valuable metals from end-of-life electronics and electric machines, building automated dismantling and novel separation technologies that deliver consistent, high-quality recycled materials.

Key outputsAutomated dismantlingChemical separationRecycling logistics
Work package05
Domel 🇸🇮

Rare earths for sustainable E-machine design & production

Turns rare-earth materials – recycled, newly produced, or blended – into permanent magnets and the electric machines that use them, designed from the start for circularity (Re-X) and traced with a "magnet passport".

Key outputsPermanent magnet productionE-machine designDigital twinMagnet passport

Building the ecosystem & sharing impact

WP6 – WP8

Connecting REMHub to the people and markets around it – engaging stakeholders, building the innovation hub, and sharing results through communication, dissemination and exploitation.

Work package06
IMI 🇮🇪

Stakeholder engagement

Builds understanding and trust around rare earths across the whole value chain – mapping stakeholders, running inclusive engagement with a penta-helix approach, raising public awareness, and helping align policy.

Key outputsStakeholder analysisEngagement activitiesPolicy impact
Work package07
CLIC Innovation 🇫🇮

Innovation Hub development

Creates the REMHub itself – a lasting innovation hub and digital platform that connects labs, pilots, services and end-users across Europe's REE value chain, with a business model and a training platform for future experts.

Key outputsHub concept & blueprintDigital platformMarket analysisTraining platform
Work package08
CLIC Innovation 🇫🇮

Communication, dissemination & exploitation

Shares REMHub's results with the world and turns them into impact – strategy, channels and materials for communication and dissemination, plus exploitation of results through IPR, commercialisation and education.

Key outputsDissemination, exploitation & communication planPublic engagement report

Steering the project

WP1

Coordinating the 24-partner consortium and keeping the whole project on track.

Work package01
CLIC Innovation 🇫🇮

Management & Coordination

Keeps the 24-partner consortium running smoothly – coordinating the work, managing risk, tracking KPIs, and embedding ethical and data-management good practice across everything REMHub does.

Key outputsData Management PlanRisk managementPerformance handbook