PERIOD
2017-2020
COORDINATOR:
University of Zagreb - Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, Department of Mineralogy, Petrology and Mineral Recourses, Department of Mining and Geotechnical Engineering
CORE PARTNERS: Montanuniversitaet Leoben (MUL)
ASSOCIATED PARTNERS:
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering (UNIZG-RGNF);
AGH University of Science and Technology Krakow;
Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute (ZAG);
Technical University of Kosice (TUKE F-BERG)
TASK PARTNER:
University of Miskolc; University of Belgrade Faculty of Mining and Geology (UNIBG-RGF); Mining University Ukraine (NMU)
GOAL
Key higher educational and research institutions from the East-and South-Eastern European (ESEE) region aim to design a unique tailor-made multidisciplinary education program (Mining School) for RM professionals, academicians and PhD students form the ESEE region, KIC RM community and world-wide. Project will be developed in close collaboration with national industry partners of all countries involved and will be focused on gaining detailed knowledge of the advanced methods and technologies relevant to the mining industry in which additional training is of crucial importance to the mining sector.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
1. Delivering a competence-driven and industry-related DIM ESEE Mining School for RM professionals, academics and PhD students, addressing the topics of the primary interest of the RM community (zero waste management, deep intelligent mining, small mining sites, recycling), as a long-lasting, self-sustainable, collaborative education project, supported by strong Higher Education Institutions (HEI) within the region, accompanied by on-site experiments.
2. Creating a new collaborative, multidisciplinary network between eight partners from eight ESEE countries, contributing to building and de-siloing of the overall ESEE KIC community, and key industrial partners from ESEE active mining regions: Istria, Croatia; Legnica-Glogow Copper District, Poland; Hochsteiermark, Austria; Savinja region, Slovenia; the North Hungarian Mountains area; Prievidza and Roznava, Slovakia; Timok, Eastern Serbia and Kryvorizkyi Iron Ore Basin, Central Ukraina.
3. A constructive dialogue with 100 SME-s and large companies in order to tailor the DIM topics according to the industrial needs, increasing the educational level and subsequently attracting identified industrial partners to the KIC consortium. This should in the long run increase the number of successful matches in industrial symbiosis, demonstrations, new and advanced technological solutions, pilot plants/prototypes, up-scaling projects etc.
4. Branding a DIM ESEE Mining School among industrial partners within the ESEE region, under the ESEE Regional Innovation Strategy (link to Project ID 16-0253 RIS ESEE), RM community and Europe and worldwide through presentation of the DIM at annual industry-academia workshops within the DIM consortia countries, EIT RM annual meetings, brokerage and matchmaking events and highly-ranked European mining conferences.
5. Through communication with wider society (web-pages with information in nine different languages) increasing public awareness on environmental aspects of mining and circular economy as one of the main focus areas of the RM community and increasing public acceptance of overall mining activities.