In early September, the team of BiotaTec had an exciting chance to visit the Laboratory of Metallurgy at The National Technical University of Athens.

We are glad to inform that BiotaTec's application was approved and participation was granted b organizers for Information Day of Horizon2020 Social Challenge 5 2019 Calls. 

We received an invitation to a very exciting event -  EIC Innovators' Summit 2018 from The Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. We will most certainly be there! 

On the 20th of July, we had the privilege to visit Mr. Rein Palvadre  (born in 1934) at his beautiful summer-cottage.

Reydesa Recycling and BiotaTec had a kick-off meeting of LIFE2017-ENV/ES000216 BiotaWEEE project on the 17th of July at the facilities of OTUA Group in Legutio, Spain.

The Geological Survey of Estonia organized a conference "The first year of the georesource policy – ways of strengthening of research and management" on May 14, 2018

Our CEO Mrs. Sirli Sipp Kulli will attend the Raw Material Week 2017 taking place in Brussels from Monday 6 to Friday 10 November 2017.
The Raw Materials Week is centered around a series of events organised by the European Commission addressing the latest news regarding raw materials in the EU. Do join to say "hello"!

National Contact Points for Climate action, Raw materials, Environment and Resource Efficiency - NCPs CaRE has just put together a presentation of success stories in H2020 Societal Challenge 5.
We at BiotaTec are proud to be on the list with the H2020 Instrument phase 1 project  BiotaMet!

Mrs. Anne Menert will share BiotaTec's work with presentation "Nature-based Solutions for valorization of Estonian Black Shale" at NBS2017.

We are very excited and happy to announce that Mr. Anastasios Kaldis is joining BiotaTec team as a coach via Horizon 2020 SME Instrument support programm starting from 4th of October 2017.

Mr. Kladis owns extensive more than twenty years’ experience in Industrial Minerals business: Resources Evaluation and Development, Joint Ventures, Co-specialization alliances, Business Development, Corporate Development, Product Development, Pricing, Purchasing, etc.

The SME Instrument is impact oriented. It is focused on finding the best SMEs and not only giving them a grant but also business innovation coaching.

From 24th-27th of Sept our team attended the biannual International Biohydrometallurgy Symposium (IBS) that is the global forum for experts from academia and industry active in the fields of biomining, bioleaching and bioremediation. 

European Commission authorities have signed the grant agreement related to BiotaTec application (nº782070) titled “Feasibility study on nature based innovative more efficient 2-step bioleaching technology producing methane gas and metal compounds from low grade multimetallic European black shales or wastes containing organo-metallic complexes”.

We are very proud and excited to share the excellent results received from the evaluation process of our application in Horizon 2020 SME Instrument-1-2016-2017 call.  Our proposal received score as high as 4,71 in scale of "1-5" i.e. "very good to excellent".

The Mining Conference 2017 organized extremely well by MTÜ Eesti Mäeselts was taking place in Viljandi, Sakala keskus on the 4th and 5th of May.

In fall 2014 BiotaTec organized a symposium at the Academy of Sciences, the whole-day event that was actively participated by representatives of authorities, scientific community and business sector. For the first time in almost 30 years long period the focus was on possibilities to start again investigating Estonian Dictyonema Argillite. Distinguished researchers like Ello Maremäe and Rein Palvadre presented results obtained from reserach perfomed during the Soviet-area. Members of the Estonian Academia of Science Professor Mihkel Veiderma  and Professor Anto Raukas  shared insights and memories of secretive “non-authorized” Soviet-time studies and plans related to dictyonema argillite.