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Participation in the 9th international Slag Valorisation Symposium in Leuven

From 08.04.2025 to 11.04.2025 the 9th international Slag Valorisation Symposium took place in Leuven, Belgium.

SPP 2315 Annual Meeting 2025 marked the end of the first funding period and the kick-off for the second 3-year funding phase

The German Research Foundation-funded priority programme SPP 2315, which has been running since 2021, is dedicated to researching “Engineered Artificial Minerals (EnAM) - a Geometallurgical Tool to Recycle Critical Elements from Waste Streams”.

The DFG Priority Program 2315 on Recycling Critical Elements enters its second funding period.

The five projects from Clausthal University of Technology (TU Clausthal) have convinced in the first period and will be further funded with a total of €2 million.

Contribution to the EXRS 2024 in Athens

From the 24.6.24 to the 28.6.2024 the European Conference on X-ray Spectrometry was held at the marvelous venue in Athens Greece. Frithjof Mähler and Ursula Fittschen presented their work in two poster presentations and an oral contribution. About 300 researchers and company representatives from all over the world discussed topic from X-ray spectrometry the entire week. Two new manufacturers of lab-XAFS instruments were present. Very interesting were also the new fluorescence XAFS developments at the University of Helsinki. Invited talks from the MEET on the usefulness of charge transfer multiplet calculations was given online, all other presenters made it to Athens in person. All in all we experienced a very vivid and fruitful meeting which got us back home with many new ideas and excitement to test them in our laboratories. The next EXRS 2026 will be held in Catania Italy.