Electronics manufacturer and a founding funder of Cobalt for Development in 2019. C4D's paper names it among the partners of the first phase (2019–2022) only, and it is absent from the second phase and from the late-2024 continuation; that departure rests on the paper alone.
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Founding funder in 2019, named among the partners of the first phase (2019–2022) only; its absence from the second phase rests on C4D's paper alone.
In January 2019, the companies BASF, BMW, Samsung Electronics and Samsung SDI commissioned the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
The project is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of and with funding from the participating companies.
Together with the relevant authorities in the province of Lualaba, the project has selected a legal artisanal mine site near the town of Kolwezi