The Horizon Europe-funded FutuRaM project (Future Availability of Raw Materials) was established to extend the knowledge base on critical raw materials in Europe and to develop tools to expand the infrastructure for the recovery of these as secondary raw materials. 

It covered waste streams which are key for critical raw materials:

1. batteries
2. buildings 
3. wind turbines
4. end-of-life vehicles
5. mining waste
6. slags & ashes
7. waste electrical & electronic equipment.

The project ended in May 2026. It has developed the Urban Mine Platform, a secondary raw materials knowledge base on the availability and recoverability of secondary raw materials within the EU, with a special focus on critical raw materials. The platform gives detailed insight into the availability and recoverability of secondary and critical raw materials contained in these waste streams in the EU plus Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, with projections along different scenarios to 2050.

The Urban Mine Platform presents the quantities placed on the market. It provides data on the raw material content and insights into availability of secondary raw materials. Data for mining waste is geographically located. Users can explore the data using the interactive parts of the knowledge base to focus on areas of interest, with datasets available for download for further analysis.

It has found that improved recovery systems could enable Europe to recover between 4.1 and 5.7 million tonnes of CRMs annually by 2050, with the potential to substitute up to 56% of primary material imports under a circular economy scenario.