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: Can recycled magnets perform even better than the original?

13. August 2026

GREENEresearch partners have shownthat the answer may be yes. By combining a recycling route that preserves theoriginal microstructure with in-situ grain-boundary diffusion, they producedrecycled Nd-Fe-B magnets with a coercivity 13% higher than that of the startingmaterial. Read the paper: In-situ Grain-Boundary Diffusion in Near-Equilibrium Nd-Fe-B Powders for High-Coercivity Reprocessed Magnets.

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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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G7 Leaders Call for More Resilient Critical Minerals Supply Chains – EU Projects Develop Solutions for Rare Earth Magnets

16. July 2026

Following the G7 Summit in Évian in June 2026, heads of state and government underlined the strategic importance of critical minerals for economic prosperity, energy systems and global security. Against the backdrop of geopolitical tensions, concentrated supply chains and increasing trade restrictions, access to critical raw materials has evolved from

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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: Can recycled magnets perform even better than the original?

New GREENE Video! Learn about GREENE’s mission

G7 Leaders Call for More Resilient Critical Minerals Supply Chains – EU Projects Develop Solutions for Rare Earth Magnets

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