SPP 2315: Customised artificial minerals (EnAM) - a geometallurgical tool for recycling critical elements from waste streams
Funded since 2021, spokesperson: Prof. Dr.-.Urs A. Peuker, Institute of Mechanical Process Engineering and Mineral Processing

SPP 2045: Highly Specific Multidimensional Fractionation of Technical Fine Particle Systems
Funded since 2017, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr Urs A. Peuker, Institute of Mechanical Process Engineering and Mineral Processing

SPP 1418: Refractories - Initiative for the Reduction of Emissions
Funding from 2009 to 2015, spokesperson: Prof. Dr.-.Ing. Christos Aneziris, Institute of Ceramics, Refractories and Composite Materials

SPP 1204: Algorithms for fast, material-compatible process chain design and analysis in forming technology
Funding from 2006 to 2014, spokesperson: Prof. Dr.-Ing.

GRK 2802: Refractory Recycling: A Contribution to Raw Material, Energy and Climate Efficiency in High Temperature Processes
Funding since 2022, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christos Aneziris, Institute of Ceramics, Refractories and Composite Materials

GRK 413: Transport Processes in Porous Systems in Process and Geotechnical Engineering
Funded from 1997 to 2003, spokesperson: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Bast, Institute of Mechanical Engineering

GRK 6: Spatial Statistics
Funded from 1997 to 2003, spokesperson: Prof. Dr Dietrisch Stoyan, Institute of Stochastics

FOR 3010 - "Refrabund" Multifunctional, coarse-grained, refractory composites and material composites for large-volume key components in high-temperature processes
Funding since 2020, spokesperson: Prof Dr Christos Aneziris

FOR 1897 - Low-loss electrical sheets for energy-efficient drives
Funding from 2014 to 2022, spokesperson: Prof Dr Rudolf Kawalla, Institute of Metal Forming