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EQT Foundation awards critical minerals grants

Analysis based on 6 articles · First reported Jun 16, 2026 · Last updated Jun 16, 2026

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Market Impact

The grants from EQT Foundation are expected to positively impact the renewable energy and materials science industries by fostering innovation in critical mineral solutions. This could lead to more stable supply chains and accelerate the global energy transition, potentially benefiting companies involved in battery technology, hydrogen production, and solar energy.

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Event Summary

EQT Foundation has awarded over EUR 1 million in grants through its Critical Minerals Science Grants program to researchers across 11 institutions in 9 countries. These grants support high-risk, high-impact scientific research focused on developing alternatives to critical minerals used in climate technologies. The funded projects aim to reduce reliance on constrained raw materials by advancing technologies for lithium recovery, battery recycling, rare-earth recovery, low-iridium hydrogen production, and earth-abundant energy materials. The initiative seeks to strengthen supply-chain resilience and accelerate the global energy transition, with EQT Foundation also providing commercialization support and access to EQT AB's global network to help bring these scientific discoveries to market.

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EQT Foundation
EQT Foundation awarded over EUR 1 million in grants to researchers developing critical mineral solutions, aiming to strengthen supply-chain resilience and accelerate the global energy transition.
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EQT AB
EQT AB is the parent organization of EQT Foundation and provides its global network and expertise to support the grantees.
Importance 40.0 Sentiment 20.0
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Kiana Amini
Kiana Amini received a grant to develop an electrochemical platform for lithium recovery from seawater and carbon dioxide removal.
Importance 30.0 Sentiment 50.0
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Bertrand Paviet-Salomon
Bertrand Paviet-Salomon received a grant to advance resource-light photovoltaic technologies.
Importance 30.0 Sentiment 50.0
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Jonas Elsborg
Jonas Elsborg received a grant to build scalable manufacturing platforms for earth-abundant electrocatalysts for green hydrogen production.
Importance 30.0 Sentiment 50.0
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Rhiyaad Mohamed
Rhiyaad Mohamed received a grant to develop ultra-low-iridium electrolyser anodes for green hydrogen deployment.
Importance 30.0 Sentiment 50.0
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Weiran Zhang
Weiran Zhang received a grant to create transition-metal-free battery chemistries based on silicon and lithium-salt systems.
Importance 30.0 Sentiment 50.0
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Xiaochu Wei
Xiaochu Wei received a grant to develop electrochemical recycling technologies for high-purity battery materials.
Importance 30.0 Sentiment 50.0
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Xiao Su
Xiao Su received a grant to advance electrochemical technologies for rare-earth element recovery and recycling.
Importance 30.0 Sentiment 50.0
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Juchen Guo
Juchen Guo received a grant to develop a novel chloroaluminate-based process for lithium-ion battery recycling.
Importance 30.0 Sentiment 50.0
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Adrian Oehmen
Adrian Oehmen received a grant to create bio-integrated technologies to recover lithium and rare earth elements from industrial waste streams.
Importance 30.0 Sentiment 50.0
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André Studart
André Studart received a grant to use microorganisms to recover rare earth elements from urban waste sources.
Importance 30.0 Sentiment 50.0
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Sajid Alvi
Sajid Alvi received a grant to engineer silicon anode materials for resilient and low-carbon lithium-ion batteries.
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CSEM
CSEM is one of the institutions whose researcher, Bertrand Paviet-Salomon, received a grant from EQT Foundation.
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Technical University of Denmark
Technical University of Denmark is one of the institutions whose researcher, Jonas Elsborg, received a grant from EQT Foundation.
Importance 20.0 Sentiment 30.0
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