EURECA-PRO Seminar
The European University EURECA-PRO, a key player for SDG 12

The European Commission, eager to enhance strategic autonomy, particularly regarding supply chain and raw material dependencies, has enacted the Critical Raw Materials Act (2023). The partners of the European university EURECA-PRO, the European University on Responsible Consumption And Production, together with socioeconomic stakeholders contribute to cultivate value chains for EU industrial ecosystems to diminish dependency by increasing extraction, processing, and recycling within the EU. This contributes to enhance clean technologies manufacturing capacities in the EU.

Simultaneously, this transition necessitates significant societal shifts on the consumption front to facilitate a just transition toward a more sustainable and responsible society, as advocated by the Green Deal. This just transition also demands the development of new skills, as highlighted by the UN’s Global Resource Outlook (2024), which identifies skill gaps as a barrier in the framework of the transition. The required new skills could potentially be integrated on the scale of the European higher education area, such as within European Universities.