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The University of Liege (ULiège) - through its laboratories GREENMat and GeMMe - announces its participation in the RESiLEX project (Resilient Enhancement for the Silicon Industry Leveraging the European Matrix) launched in June 2022. A project funded by the European Union's Horizon Europe program that aims to improve the resilience and sustainability of the entire Silicon value chain in Europe.
A €12,5 million grant was awarded by the European Commission (EC) to improve the resilience and sustainability of the full Silicon value chain in Europe. The RESiLEX project is being developed under the leadership of the Iberian Sustainable Mining Cluster (ISMC) by a consortium of 21 partners from 8 European countries (including Switzerland and UK), including research organizations, SMEs, universities and associations*. RESiLEX project activities will be carried out over a 4-year time frame to end in June 2026.
ULiège will participate in the RESiLEX project through two research entities : GeMMe (Georesources, Minerals Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy) and GREEnMat (Group of Research in Energy and Environment from Materials)
RESiLEX aims to develop technological solutions for reusing Silicon, recycling PV modules and designing new products. In particular, it will identify pathways to reduce the environmental impact of the whole Silicon Value Chain. Silicon is one of the few critical raw materials used in most of the strategic renewable energy applications: improving its value chain is of major importance for the EU’s resilience, as this material is used in several key sectors, from batteries to PV & ICT, and it’s not easily reusable without serious loss of end performance or increase of cost.
The core activity of RESiLEX is to strengthen each part of the Silicon value chain, through the technological improvement of all its processes, from the extraction and transformation of the raw material up to the optimization and recycling of PV modules, and the reuse of Silicon for Li-ion Batteries.
The scientific and technical work of RESiLEX covers the full value chain of Silicon. The project activities will demonstrate 8 industry-driven innovative solutions, aiming at sustainable and resilient critical raw material value chains in Europe. Each activity has a dedicated demonstration pilot, reaching TRL 6-7.
Such activities include :
* ISMC, Fundacion Icamcyl, Cetaqua, Brunel University London,Tharsis, Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet Ntnu, Nanopow AS, CSEM, CNRS, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, COMET Traitements, RECMA, Envie2E Occitanie, Cleancarb Sarl, Université de Liège, Universiteit Gent, ETA Florence Renewable Energies, Epia Solarpower Europe, Association Tenerrdis, Efund Group.
This project has received the funding of the Horizon Europe Program under grant agreement No. 101058583.
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The SPECULOOS project, led by the University of Liège, has revealed the existence of an Earth-sized planet around SPECULOOS-3, a nearby star similar in size to Jupiter and twice as cold as our Sun.
Co-discovered by researchers from the University of Liège, this exoplanet is larger but seven times less massive than Jupiter and is the second least dense planet discovered to date.