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Frankfurt am Main, August 18th, 2021: DGWA, the German Institute for Asset and Equity Allocation and Valuation, has joined the advisory board of CERA 4in1, the global certification scheme covering the entire raw materials value chain.

DGWA is a German Investment Banking Boutique focused on sustainable investments in the mining and resources sector, global small and mid-cap consulting and corporate advisory. The company joins existing advisory board members which include Volkswagen, Siemens, Euromines, University of Southern Denmark, United Nations ECE, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the EU Joint Research Centre (JRC).

As a member of CERA 4in1’s Advisory Board, DGWA will play a consultation and information role, recommending work tasks for CERA 4in1, participating in CERA Board Meetings, exploring possible pilot projects, and joining the CERA 4in1 information network.

Stefan Müller, Chief Executive Officer of DGWA, comments:

“We are delighted to join the CERA 4in1 programme. European investors increasingly emphasize environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations when making investment decisions and demand the highest standards for a sustainable future.

The transition to a carbon neutrality demands sustainably extracted, mined, and processed high-tech minerals. We are looking forward to working with CERA to support the development of the highest standard of certification for the raw materials value chain.”

Andreas Hucke, CERA 4in1 Project Director, said:

“We are excited to welcome DGWA on our advisory board and look forward to DGWA bringing their capital markets experience and financial markets expertise to our existing expert board. DGWA’s experience within the mining and exploration sector and its focus on sustainable investments will bring added value and broaden the stakeholder basis to CERA’s vision and mission.”

The CERA 4in1 project has been in development since 2015, initially within DMT, an international independent engineering and consulting company headquartered in Germany. In 2017 a formal project consortium was formed, partly funded by EIT Raw Materials. The CERA certification programme – which uses blockchain technology to enable the traceability of raw materials along the value chain – launched publicly in November 2019 addressing priority minerals of cobalt, copper, lithium, and graphite.

CERA is supported by the European Commission and aligned with the European Battery Alliance.

ENDS.

For further information, please contact:

Stefan Müller

CEO, DGWA

info@dgwa.org

Knut Hirsch

Head of B2B Marketing / Communications, DMT GROUP

Knut.hirch@dmt-group.com

About DGWA

DGWA is a Frankfurt based Investment Banking Boutique – known and respected as one of the leading German Corporate Boutiques for global small and mid-cap consulting and investments.

DGWA builds solid, substantial and comprehensive bridges for public and private companies to investors, financial institutions and multipliers like press and media and offer finest financial engineering solutions, tailor-made for its clients.

DGWA’s management team runs a 25-year track record in trading, investing and analysing SMEs around the world. It has been so far involved in over 250 IPOs, financings, bond issues, dual listings and corporate finance transactions as well as road shows and awareness campaigns.

About CERA

The CERA 4in1certification scheme is the first holistic, worldwide applicable scheme of its kind to universalize and standardize the evaluation of social, environmental, and ethical practices across the mineral raw materials value chain. By using blockchain as a traceability mechanism, CERA 4in1 intends to prove the origin of a product from the sustainably producing source to the finished product.

CERA 4in1 divides the value-chain into four separate certificates. CERA 4in1’s Readiness Standard assesses exploration and evaluation; Performance Standard assesses mining, processing and refining; Chain of Custody standard covers run-of-mine and traded commodities; and Final Product Standard evaluates the end product and its components.

Under CERA 4in1, applicant value chain actors apply to the CERA 4in1 Association for candidacy and in pursuit of certification for their exploration, extraction, processing or handling and final labelling of mineral raw materials. Applicants’ existing set-ups and the comprehensible adequate implementation of CERA 4in1 requirements are audited and compared to the relevant CERA 4in1 criteria with a finding report identifying areas in which protocols do not meet the CERA 4in1 standard, a CERA 4in1 certificate is only issued when these findings are closed.

CERA4in1 project has been in development since 2015, initially within DMT GROUP, an international independent engineering and consulting company headquartered in Germany. In 2017, a formal project consortium was formed, partly funded by EIT RawMaterials. This consortium has been drawn from some of Europe’s leading raw materials research institutions and technical service providers, including: Leiden University in Netherlands, University of Leoben in Austria, LuleaÌŠ University of Technology, Research Institutes of Sweden, TÜV NORD CERT GmbH and DMT GROUP.

To see the latest video series for CERA 4in1, please visit:

https://www.cera4in1.org/news-pr/tutorials

About DMT

DMT GmbH & Co. KG. is an independent engineering and consulting company, headquartered in Essen, Germany. DMT Group has more than 280 years of experience providing consultancy across the infrastructure, plant and process technology, energy, civil engineering and raw materials sectors and is active in 150 markets globally with 14 international subsidiaries.

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