AfricaMaVal: EU-Africa Partnership on Raw Material Value chains

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Secure the access to raw materials represents a critical issue for European ambition to deliver the Green Deal and perform the energyand digital twin transition. As future demand of primary critical raw materials will continue to be largely met by importations, EU needsto diversify its supply chain and engage strategic partnerships with resources-rich third countries covering extraction, processing andrefining such as African countries. In this framework, AfricaMaVal project aims to develop EU-Africa partnership ensuring a responsiblesourcing of mineral resources for the European industry while granting a sustainable local co-development in the best Environmental,Social and Governance (ESG) conditions and leading to a long-terms business environment for European and African companies. Theconsortium, created with partners coming both from Africa and Europe, is based on experienced organizations and networks deeplyanchored and involved in the raw material domain with a specific expertise and knowledge of the African culture, organisations,difficulties and resources. The mineral, financial, environmental, social, institutional and economical aspects will be studied along withall the value chains, including the ASSM activities, to the project completion to reach its operational targets: - Building an EU andAfrica business networking on the whole CRM value chains. - Developing a strategy on the integration of identified and emergingEU and African raw materials value chains for the energy and digital transition. - Assessing responsible investment opportunities.The AfricaMaVal project will conduct ten case studies in African countries and an evaluation of 100 investment opportunities, awide dissemination within Europe and Africa to promote responsible sourcing and will implement a sustainable organisation after thecompletion of the project.