On 21 August, the Marriott Hotel in The Hague hosted the summit by ChemistryNL on critical raw materials in the energy transition. As part of the summit, outgoing Minister Micky Adriaansens from Economic Affairs and Climate received the knowledge agenda ’Strategic autonomy of raw materials’ – an agenda with which the parties involved aim to stimulate the development of knowledge through cooperation between business, administrations and knowledge institutions.
The knowledge agenda is an initiative by the Top Sector ChemistryNL and the MaterialenNL Platform, within which the Top Sectors ChemistryNL, Energy and Holland High Tech are working together. The agenda was drafted with contributions from over one hundred fellow thinkers and doers from Dutch business, research institutions and the government. During the summit in The Hague, Jacqueline Vaessen, Lead for the Chemistry Top Sector, presented the document to Minister Adriaansens.
This agenda comes at the perfect time. Developing knowledge is essential for the success of our raw materials strategy. It’s not only a technical agenda, but also a geopolitical one. We know we can’t go this alone as the Netherlands, or as Europe, and we need to find a way to cooperate with the world around us. I have total faith that we will succeed.
