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RESTART: African European scientific partnership to tackle future critical materials shortages

RESTART: African European scientific partnership to tackle future critical materials shortages

RESTART: African European scientific partnership to tackle future critical materials shortages

This article was first published by Aalto University, one of the RESART project partners

As part of the Long-Term Joint EU-African Union Research and Innovation Partnership on Renewable Energy, a collaborative African European project RESTART dedicated to the implementation of a full value chain for recycling end-of-life lithium-ion batteries and photovoltaic solar panels has begun.

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RESTART will tackle key areas of the value chain including collection, disassembling and characterization of battery and solar panel wastes, sustainable technology development and scale-up of environmentally friendly metals recovery processes. The aim is also to develop a practical business plan and assess the ecological impacts of these technological advances, which will serve as an example of successful sustainable technology development to the larger scale via collaborative African European scientific and economic partnerships.

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LEAP-RE is dedicated to advancing sustainable energy technologies and promoting their widespread adoption through innovative research and development. The partnership operates within the framework of science diplomacy, bringing African and European governments together around shared objectives in science and technology. LEAP-RE fosters a cooperative ecosystem through joint funding calls, institutional twinning, peer-to-peer exchange, capacity-building activities, stakeholder forums, and an online knowledge-sharing platform

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