CA25131 - Risk and Resilience in the Supply Chain of Critical Raw Materials (DeepImpact)

DeepImpact tackles Europe’s Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) challenges by addressing fundamental differences between natural and social sciences, with the aim of empowering European buyers to more effectively contribute to meet the EU CRM Act targets. The project focuses on fragmentation between geoscience and supply chain management research in addressing CRM issues, at the dataset, methodology and incentive structure levels. Solving those challenges helps in improving managerial adoption of incentive and financing schemes available to European buyers and, in turn, address CRM issues in their supply chains.

DeepImpact’s objectives are to coordinate research and build research capacity across natural and social sciences. It will create an integrated research agenda, a data catalogue and interoperability framework, and method alignment for mapping and risk analysis, run dialogue platforms and collect evidence on best practices in incentive and relevant financing schemes. Work is organised in four WGs: Data & Interoperability, Risk/Resilience & Governance, Finance & Incentives, all supported by a Living Lab (WG4) that aims at facilitating 5–10 cross-disciplinary pilots, runs Annual Conferences, manages STSM “voucher” calls, and publishes relevant broad scope literature. By the end of the Action, the network aims to engage more than 1,000 participants, seed 2–5 EU project proposals, and demonstrate measurable improvements across transdisciplinary pilots of research-industry collaboration. The expected impacts are reduced research fragmentation, better buyer decisions in dealing with CRMs, and wider use of transdisciplinary evidence in incentives and financing schemes, turning policy intent into operational change along CRM supply chains in mobility and power generation.