EU Co-funded ERA-MIN Joint Call 2021 on Raw materials for sustainable development and the circular economy,  launched on 15th of January 2021, counted with the participation of 24 funding organizations with a total budget of €19.5 million. The pre-proposal submission closed on 1st April 2021, being a huge success in ERA-MIN history, being the call with the highest amount of submitted pre-proposals to date. Now, full proposal submission has recently closed on 8th September 2021, being a huge success too.

Some preliminary statistics are the following:

• 45 submitted full-proposals by deadline
• 284 applicants of which 35% are companies and 29 are Associated partners not requesting funding
• €51 Million Total Costs
• €37 Million Total Requested funding
• €14 Million Total Own contribution

Moreover, 6 applicants not requesting funding are from other countries, namely, Brazil, Morocco, Peru , Switzerland, UK and USA. The 5 main topics have been addressed in the submitted  full proposals, with the following distribution: 3 (Topic 1), 9 (Topic 2), 9 (Topic 3), 23 (Topic 4) and 1 (Topic 5).

For further information check the following infographic.