Marcin Sadowski

Head of raw materials sector

EASME, European Commission

Speaker profile

Marcin Sadowski obtained a PhD in physics from the University of Warsaw in 1994 and later worked on investigating the optical properties of semiconducting structures and materials at the University of Warsaw, the University of Montpellier, and the High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Grenoble. In 2007 he moved to the European Commission in Brussels. For several years, he was a Research Programme Officer at the Directorate General for Research of the European Commission, responsible for research on advanced materials. Since 2014, he is the Head of the Raw Materials sector at the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (EASME) of the European Commission, responsible for the research and innovation projects of Horizon 2020 concerned with Raw Materials.

Presentation summary

EU-funded research and innovation mining projects

The European Union is funding research and innovation projects on raw materials. I will present an overview of the funding programme, some examples of funded projects on exploration and extraction, as well as an outlook for the near future in terms of European funding.