Minerals4EU - European Intelligence Network on the Supply of Raw Materials

European Intelligence Network on the Supply of Raw Materials - Minerals4EU

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Juha Kaija

MINERALS4EU – the leading European mineral information network structure will provide tools and expertise to enhanceresource efficiency, minerals supply security and support sustainable mineralsdevelopment for Europe

Minerals4EU, London Event, Grant Thornton UK, November 11, 2014

www.minerals4eu.eu

Contents

Background

Goals

Facts and figures

Partnership

Impacts

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Minerals4EU - London Event at Grant Thornton, UK, November 11, 2014

Background – EIP SIPEuropean Innovation Partnership, Strategic Implementation

Plan (EIP SIP), 2013 Priority areas: Raw materials research and innovation coordination Technologies for primary and secondary raw materials

production Substitution of raw materials Improving Europe's raw materials framework conditions,

knowledge base and infrastructure Improving Europe's waste management framework conditions

and excellence Knowledge, skills and raw materials flows

Action area nII.8: European Union Raw Materials Knowledge Base (EURMKB) Minerals4EU responds fully on the goals of EURMKB!!!

International cooperation

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Background – why Minerals4EU? Current situation regarding the minerals raw materials data

availability is variable within Europe Data scattered amongst a variety of institutions, including governmental

agencies, universities, NGOs and industry.

National Surveys hold national databases, but great variation between them: different content, different systems, methodologies, not standardized,

National systems are not always interoperable different rules on accessibility, confidentiality issues

Products – databases of past EU funded projects are not necessarily maintained or updated – public money wasted ??!!!

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Background – why Minerals4EU?

Past and ongoing projects (e.g. EGDI-Scope, EuroGeoSource, ProMine, EURARE, Minventory) present significant steps in the right direction of the raw materials intelligence, but there are still a number of barriers that need to be addressed: no raw materials knowledge infrastructure at EU level no legal framework or EU institution with formal responsibility for

mineral intelligence accessibility of national mineral information is governed by

national legal frameworks while EU geological surveys have a strong network in place,

important information needed to monitor the issues of critical raw materials and to identify priority actions are held by other organisations

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What is needed?

a complete and reliable knowledge base as well as a supply and demand foresight and statistical information on raw materials for a proper policy making to ensure an adequate access to raw materials.

a sustainable network to facilitate access to these resources and to promote collaboration among experts;

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Minerals4EU – goals Minerals4EU is designed to meet the recommendations of the

Raw Materials Initiative and to make fundamental contribution to the European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials – will offer continuity and stability!!

Minerals4EU will provide the most extensive data and high-quality knowledge-based products on mineral resources and their utilisation: Permanent EU Mineral Intelligence network The most comprehensive European Minerals Yearbook INSPIRE compliant EU Minerals Knowledge Data Platform Forward looking analysis on minerals supply and demand in Europe -

Foresight

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Facts and figures Funding scheme: FP7-NMP-2013-CSA-7; Coordination

and Support Actions (CSA) Work programme topics addressed: NMP.2013.4.1-3

(European Intelligence Network on the Supply of Raw Materials)

Total budget: 2 772 289 € EC funding: 1 999 000 € Person-months: 304,5 Consortium: 31 partners, 26 NGSOs, 26 countries Official start date: 1.9.2013 (+2 years) Technical and overall coordination: GTK Scientific coordination: EGS-MREG, GTK EC: DG Research and Innovation

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Partnership

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• GEOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS (GTK) -• EUROGEOSURVEYS – EGS• SELOR eeig• Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique • Natural Environment Research Council • Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres • Bundesanstalt fuer Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe • Ceska Geologicka Sluzba • Geologische Bundesanstalt • Geoloski Zavod Slovenije • The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland • Institutul Geologic al Romaniei • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural

Resources • Instituto Geológico y Minero De España • Ethniko Kentro Viosimis kai Aeiforou Anaptyxis • Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca

Ambientale• Laboratorio Nacional de Energia e Geologia I.P• Magyar Foldtani és Geofizikai Intezet

• Geological Survey of Norway • Panstwowy Instytut Geologiczny - Panstwowy

Instytut Badawczy • State Geological and Subsurface Survey of

Ukraine • Statny Geologicky Ustav Dionyza Stura • Sveriges Geologiska Undersokning • Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast

Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Tno • Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment

and Energy• Hrvatski Geološki Institut • Joint Research Centre JRC• Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und

Innovationsforschung (ISI)• Swiss Geological Survey Federal office of

topography swisstopo• Geological Survey Department GSD• Sherbimi Gjeologjik Shqiptar AGS• Raw Materials Group


Impacts of Minerals4EU Transparency: ensures harmonised data for all of Europe that will

be available in one place. Should make Europe a more attractive area of investment for

mineral resources industry The network will be maintained following the project lifetime

thereby ensuring a continuity of the benefits arising from new mineral resources data becoming available in the future.

Policy making decisions on the European level would become more transparent with such a database to use as reference in relation to the needs of society.

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Thank you for your attention!Juha Kaija, GTK: [email protected]

www.minerals4eu.eu


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