AVANTIS - Kick-off event in Leuven

31 January 2024

The kick-off meeting for the HE-AVANTiS project was held on Friday, January 19, 2024, at the Hotel Park Inn in Leuven, Belgium. The meeting was attended by both on-site and remote participants and was a critical initial gathering that marked the start of the project implementation. AVANTiS (Sustainable, decarbonized vanadium, titanium, and iron extraction from Europe’s low-grade vanadium-bearing titanomagnetite deposits) is a collaborative project between research institutions and private-sector organizations with ten partners and three associate partners. The purpose of the meeting was to bring together project partners, stakeholders, representatives from the European Commission, and other relevant individuals to provide an overview of the project’s goals, objectives, scope, and expectations. For more information visit AVANTIS website.



General information about the project:

  • Funding: HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-02
  • Implementation period: 11.2023 – 11.2027 (48 months)
  • Consortium: KU Leuven (Coordinator, BE), University of Oulu (FI), Geological Survey of Finland (FI), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO), Technical University of Crete (GR), AGH University of Krakow (PL), Technical University of Madrid (ES), Titania (NO), Proxis (PL), IMA Engineering (FI), Otanmäki Mine (Associated Partner, FI), Strategic Explorations (Associated Partner, FI), Australian Titanium (Associated Partner, AU)