Key Enabler for a Sustainable Circular Economy of Minerals and Metals
The Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF) pursues the objective of developing innovative technologies for the economy so that mineral and metalliferous raw materials can be made available and used more efficiently and recycled in an environmentally friendly manner. The institute is a constituent part of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. It researches within the Materials and Technologies for the Energy Transition Program of the Helmholtz Association. HIF works in close collaboration with TU Bergakademie Freiberg and is a core member of the European EIT RawMaterials network.
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Metal-Binding Peptides Conference from 1. - 4. September 2026 in Dresden
The 3rd International Conference on Metal-Binding Peptides is an interdisciplinary congress related to metal-binding peptides, the methodologies used and applications specific to these kinds of peptides.
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PDAC Convention 1 - 4 March 2026
The Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) is the leading voice of the mineral exploration and development community. As every year, HIF will be an exhibitor of the PDAC.
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Huge opportunity for the recovery of technology metals: Freiberg researchers secure innovation funding for electronic waste recycling
A team of six researchers from the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF) has reached the first round of the current SPRIND Tech Metal Transformation Challenge. This secures the HIF team, which is part of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), more than one million euros in funding from the Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND) for the coming year. The young team will then test and further develop the proposed process for recovering technology metals from electronic waste in order to reach the next stage of the three-stage innovation competition if the evaluation is positive.
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