Maditrace midterm event at the Raw Materials Week in Brussels

The MaDiTraCe project has reached its halfway point, and we want to share the main first results of the project with stakeholders during Raw Materials Week 2024 in Brussels, next 13th December morning in Plaza Hotel.

MaDiTraCe’s main goal is to enlarge and integrate the portfolio of technological solutions for traceability and certification of responsible and sustainable raw materials supply chains into a digital product passport (DPP which is compatible with the EU battery passport). The project is exploring several technical solutions in the field of material fingerprint and taggants, working in four commodities essential for twin transition: lithium, cobalt, natural graphite and rare earths. Each one of these materials present very different supply chains contexts, a different degree of implementation of responsible sourcing initiatives and different ways to trace material’s origin. In MaDiTraCe project material traceability in raw materials is naturally associated to due diligence obligations and responsible sourcing initiatives around the world. In the project the set of standards of sustainable sourcing Cera4in1 are being developed. Additionally, intrinsic origin information from materials and any certification of materials is integrated as a new information in DPP. With that, battery passport will not be only a tool for circular economy purposes but also would be aligned with due diligence obligations and recommendations.

Date: 13th December,

Place : The Plaza Hotel, meeting room "Paola", Brussels, Belgium

Time : 9h to 11h CET

Agenda:

• Introduction to MaDiTraCe Mid-Term Event by the coordinator (Daniel Monfort, BRGM)
• Welcome Address by Maria Nyberg (DG GROW)
• Raw Materials Traceability in Due Diligence and Benchmarking Sustainable Minerals Standards (Paulina Fernandez, MUL)
• Geochemical and Material Fingerprinting for Critical Raw Materials Traceability (Delphine Losno, UGHENT; Daniel Monfort, BRGM)
• Traceability in Raw Material Supply Chains: MaDiTraCe DPP Approach (Doruk Sahinel, Spherity)
• CERA4in1 Certification System (Lukas Forster, DMT)
• Q&A