Ref. Ares(2021)1462805 - 24/02/2021
Mr. Nik Völker
MiningWatch Portugal
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Sent by email only
Ref: 7/2021
Subject:
Access to documents request – EIT RawMaterials projects on social acceptance or targeting
schools and society
Dear Mr. Nik Völker,
We refer to your email dated 13 January, our acknowledgement of receipt dated 22 January 2021 and our
email dated 2 February 2021 concerning the extension of the deadline.
In your application Ref. 07/2021, you request access to the following documents:
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a list of projects implemented in response to the EIT RawMaterials KAVA 6 call branch on "Sourcing
Raw Materials and Social License to Operate (SLO)"
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a list of projects implemented in response to the EIT RawMaterials KAVA 7 call branch on "Wider
Society Learning"
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a list of projects implemented in response to earlier EIT RawMaterials calls branches focussing either
on "Wider Society Learning (WSL)", "Social/Public Acceptance", "Social License to Operate (SLO)", or
"importance of raw materials in society", or whose deliverables include objectives such as material
aimed at the wider society/NGO's/decision-makers/schools/etc., popular science material,
development of WSL events or related activities, development of material addressing career
opportunities in the raw materials sectors, development of awareness-raising training tools,
development of input to organizations, or translation deliverables of materials targeting schools.
In accordance with your request, the list of the above identified projects should contain at least the
projects partners, the duration of the action, and the EIT KAVA funding percentage and amount.
The EIT has carefully examined your request in line with Regulation (EC) 1049/2001 regarding public
access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents ('the Regulation'), as applicable to
the EIT pursuant to Article 13 of Regulation 294/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council
establishing the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, as amended by Regulation 1292/2013
of the European Parliament and of the Council (‘EIT Regulation’).
We regret to inform you that based on your description, we were not in a position to identify documents
held by the EIT.
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By means of the yearly Specific Grant Agreements, the EIT provides financing for a portfolio of KIC
activities. Before the submission of the yearly KIC Business Plans, the KICs organise internal calls for
projects for the KIC Partners. As these calls concern the preparatory phase to the grant applications, the
EIT does not receive the related documents. The calls referred to in your request seem to refer to such
preparatory, internal calls by EIT Raw Materials.
Please note that in line with Article 7(2) of the Regulation, you may, within 15 working days of receiving
this reply, make a confirmatory application asking the EIT to reconsider its position. Such a confirmatory
application should be addressed by post or electronically to the Head of Innovation Communities Unit at
the following address:
Electronically
: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxxxxx.xx
By post: Head of Innovation Communities Unit
European Institute of Innovation and Technologies
Infopark
1/E Neumann Janos utca
1117 Budapest, Hungary
Yours sincerely,
Dávid Tas
Acting Head of EIT Innovation Communities Unit
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Electronically signed on 24/02/2021 17:48 (UTC+01) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482