Circular futures – critical raw materials (CRM) in the urban context
Date: Thursday 27.11.2025, 9.00 – 12.15
Location: Hanken, Arkadiankatu 22, Helsinki, room A309
Link to registration. Participation is possible on-site or on-line.
Join us for a future-focused seminar presenting the outcomes of two projects:
- UrbanSymbiosis – exploring synergies for circularity and critical raw materials
- UC-Mobility – advancing circular economy through recovery of critical metals in micro-mobility
By bridging together outcomes of two projects funded by the Research Council of Finland and Business Finland, this seminar brings together practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to discuss resilience, critical raw materials, and circular transitions in the urban context.
The seminar provides insights about circular economy solutions of critical raw materials in the urban context as well as policy recommendations for critical raw materials strategies.
Agenda
- 8:30 – 9:00 Registration and coffee
- From 9:00 onwards
- Opening and welcome (Associate Professor Anna Aminoff, Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility at Hanken School of Economics)
- Introduction to resilience of critical raw materials (Professor of Practise Christian Fjäder, PoP in Societal Resilience Hanken School of Economics)
- Project outcomes and Q&A
- Advancing sustainable circularity in IT Addressing procurement challenges and exploring pathways for adopting circular practices in Sweden and Finland, Mohammad Ayati (Hanken)
- CRMs in electric micromobility: challenges and future scenarios, Siiri Perämäki (University of Jyväskylä) and Emilia Suomalainen (SYKE)
- Technical innovations in CRM recovery from spent magnets and batteries, Krista Oikarinen and Jimi Siljanto (University of Jyväskylä)
- Evaluating environmental impacts – from product to system-level LCA, Jáchym Judl (SYKE)
- Sustainability of e-micromobility, Jaana Sorvari (SYKE)
- Transition paths toward circularity of CRMs – case ebike/smart buildings, Mona Arnold (VTT)
- Highlights from policy recommendations (Senior Researcher Topi Turunen, SYKE)
- Commentary, NN
- Concluding remarks (Research Manager Katri Valkokari, VTT)
