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Professor Rodrigo Martins elected member of the "KIC Raw Materials" Board

12-03-2019

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Professor Rodrigo Martins, Full Professor of the Materials Science Department of FCT NOVA, has once again won a prestige place in the scientific community.

Elected by the permanent members of the "CLC Central" of "KIC Raw Materials" for the administration of the KIC (Community of Knowledge and Innovation), which will operate in Berlin, he will start in March 2019 his new functions. With this election, he will leave the KIC Appointments Committee, for which he was elected in 2018.

EIT RawMaterials is the largest consortium in the raw materials industry in the world. It brings together 120 partners from leading industries, universities and research institutions from more than 20 European Union countries. The consortium's mission is to boost competitiveness, growth and attractiveness of the European raw materials industry through radical innovations, new educational approaches and oriented entrepreneurship. The Innovation Centers (CLCs) provide local operational and administrative support as well as coordination of the different local activities and resources for EIT's RawMaterials partners.