Welcome to GREENE!

Pioneering a Sustainable Future with Single-Grain Re-Engineered Nd-Fe-B Magnets

About GREENE

GREENE, short for SINGLE-GRAIN RE-ENGINEERED ND-FE-B PERMANENT MAGNETS, is an EU-funded project focused on pioneering advancements in high-performance permanent magnets, re-engineering their microstructure to make them more powerful while at the same time reducing Rare Earth (RE) content. Led by the Slovenian Jožef Stefan Institute, our consortium of 15 European partners is tackling the environmental and supply challenges associated with these crucial components of high-tech products that power a green energy future, such as e-vehicles and wind turbines.

Mio EU Funding

Partners from 10 European Countries

Years
(1^st June 2024 until 31^st May 2028)

Project Goals

Resource-efficient, high-performance Nd-Fe-B magnets with -20% RE content, +20% coercivity, and maximum energy product by 20%.

Independent, resilient and scalable supply of key materials, magnets and components within Europe.

Increased sustainability of magnet production with -5% scrap rates, -15% energy consumed and -30% toxicity.

Society and stakeholders better equipped for a sustainable green transition in Europe.

GREENE Partners

GREENE brings together 15 leading organisations from across Europe, each contributing unique expertise to create breakthrough solutions in material science.

GREENE News and Events

New Scientific Publication: How can the environmental impact and costs of magnets be reduced?

20. August 2026

Ultra-high-grade neodymium‑iron‑boron (Nd-Fe-B) magnets are essential components of clean energy technologies, including electric vehicles and wind turbines. However, they often contain dysprosium (Dy), a heavy rare earth whose extraction poses environmental, social and supply risks. Dysprosium is often used in high-performance magnets because of its ability to maintain their magnetic

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New Scientific Publication: Can recycled magnets perform even better than the original?

13. August 2026

GREENE research partners have shown that the answer may be yes. By combining a recycling route that preserves the original microstructure with in-situ grain-boundary diffusion, they produced recycled Nd-Fe-B magnets with a coercivity 13% higher than that of the starting material. Read the paper: In-situ Grain-Boundary Diffusion in Near-Equilibrium Nd-Fe-B Powders

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New GREENE Video! Learn about GREENE’s mission

6. August 2026

After several months of work, we gladly present GREENE’s new project video. Watch it now and learn about the challenge GREENE is tackling, our mission to reingeneer magnets, and how GREENE pioneers a sustainable future with permanent Nd-Fe-B magnets. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube. To access

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Welcome to GREENE!

Pioneering a Sustainable Future with Single-Grain Re-Engineered Nd-Fe-B Magnets

About GREENE

Project Goals

GREENE Partners

GREENE News and Events

New Scientific Publication: How can the environmental impact and costs of magnets be reduced?

New Scientific Publication: Can recycled magnets perform even better than the original?

New GREENE Video! Learn about GREENE’s mission

GREENE-Partners in Austria

UNIVERSITÄT FÜR WEITERBILDUNG KREMS – Krems, Austria

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN – Vienna, Austria

GREENE-Partners in Germany

HOCHSCHULE PFORZHEIM – Pforzheim, Germany

HOCHSCHULE AALEN - TECHNIK UND WIRTSCHAFT – Aalen, Germany

STEINBEIS 2I GMBH – Karlsruhe, Germany

HYPROMAG GMBH – Pforzheim, Germany