European Raw Materials Alliance (ERMA)
Strengthening Europe's competitiveness by:
- diversifying its supply chains
- attracting investments for raw materials
- fostering innovation
reskilling & upskilling the future workforce
By 2030, ERMA will:
- build the projects, not just the plans: a pipeline of extraction and processing capacity that converts the Critical Raw Materials Act's 2030 benchmarks into operating assets, developed to environmental and social standards no competing supplier can match;
- close the loop on Europe's most complex products: making recycling a primary source of supply, not a secondary ambition, and delivering the circularity that the CRMA and the Circular Economy Act now require;
- rebuild the full value chain: extraction, design, manufacturing and recycling — with a decisive focus on the midstream processing gap, where Europe's dependency is most acute and least addressed;
- turn innovation into industrial production: channelling strategic investment from lab to market so that European capability, not foreign supply, meets European demand.
Where ERMA Operates: Global Partner Network
The alliance supports critical and strategic raw materials needs, including materials for energy storage and conversion including batteries and fuel cells.
Building Europe's Raw Materials Capability
“Five years ago, Europe's raw materials challenge was diagnosed. Today it is being delivered.
The European Raw Materials Alliance has grown from an idea into a network of hundreds of partners that has turned critical raw materials from a policy ambition into a concrete pipeline of projects across extraction, processing and recycling. The next phase is execution: meeting the Critical Raw Materials Act's 2030 benchmarks, and meeting them to the highest environmental and social standards — the standard that sets Europe's approach apart.
With ERMA, Europe is no longer only diversifying supply; we are rebuilding the industrial capability, and especially the midstream processing, on which our economic and strategic security now depends.”
Bernd Schäfer
CEO, MD, EIT RawMaterials
