Innovation, circularity, and sustainability. These three concepts sum up the new challenge led by the National Association of Aggregates Manufacturers -ANEFA and funded by the European Commission, to contribute, from aggregates mining to more efficient, conscious, and resilient development. The project (part of the Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Program with the number: 101177746) has been approved with an outstanding mark of 14 out of 15 by the European Commission. This acronym stands for Sustainable & Circular Production of Mineral Critical Raw Materials. It exemplifies a further step forward by the sector, and by ANEFA, in the command of top-level R&D&I projects.