Minerals Intelligence Network for Europe - Minerals4EUOverview & Achievements
Final meeting, Brussels, 24-25 August, 2015
Nikolaos Arvanitidis, Scientific Coordinator, SGU/EGS MREG http://www.minerals4eu.eu/
Minerals4EU – the leading European minerals information network structure providing tools and expertise to enhance resource efficiency, minerals supply security and support sustainable minerals development for Europe
European Minerals Network-eMINEnt An initially MREG-based conceptual
approach•Since early 2010 the EGS Mineral Resources Expert Group (MREG) was addressing the need for an organisation to facilitate provision of accurate and adequate mineral information within Europe and outside for the European Union institutions, industry and members states
•eMINEnt proposal and position paper made the 1st conceptual approach
•eMINEnt was issued to be a major recommendation of the Working Group on Exchanging Best Practice on Land Use Planning, Permitting and Geological Knowledge Sharing, in becoming the core of networking activities coordinated by the EuroGeoSurveys.
•Further and broader geoscientific SIP EIP synergies resulted to EURMKB and relevant H2020 calls From eMINEnt to
Minerals4EU
Nano-particle products from new mineral resources from Europe
Application of web GIS technologies for the sustainable supply of Europe with Energy and Mineral Resources
Development of a sustainable exploitation scheme for Europe's REE ore deposits
Minerals Intelligence Network for Europe
EU Raw Materials Statistics
European Geological Data Infrastructure
Mineral resources databases and intelligence networking
BlueMining
ProSUM – Prospecting Secondary raw materials in the Urban Mine and mining waste. Creating the European knowledge base on secondary sources for Critical Raw Materials
EUMINETEUMINETEuropean Mineral European Mineral
Information NetworkInformation Network
ERANETERANETon Applied Geoscienceson Applied Geosciences
MICA
Mineral Intelligence Capacity Analysis
EU / global standards ensuring the knowledge base is interoperable
All the developments made in EU-FP7 Eurare and Minerals4EU and in H2020 ProSUM are INSPIRE/OGC compliant, thus ensuring the highest degree of interoperability
Minerals4EU has worked on the INSPIRE code lists and has already created a good basis for interoperability with links EURARE and ProSUM, covering the secondary resources component.
It is recommended to have an action looking at the EURMKB platform in overall as the outcomes of various projects keeping delivered and updated.
M4EU: 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 Project Officer: Germán Esteban Muñiz, DG Research and
Innovation/Manufacturing, Processing and Bio-technologies Technical reviewer: Emilio Nieto
COORDINATOR1.GEOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUSPARTNERS2.EUROGEOSURVEYS – EGS (BE)3.SELOR eeig (NL)4.Institut Royal des Sciences
Naturelles de Belgique (BE)5.Natural Environment Research
Council (UK) 6.Bureau de Recherches Geologiques
et Minieres (FR)7.Bundesanstalt fuer
Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (DE)
8.Ceska Geologicka Sluzba (CZ)9.Geologische Bundesanstalt (AT)10.Geoloski Zavod Slovenije (SI)11.The Geological Survey of Denmark
and Greenland (DK)12.Institutul Geologic al Romaniei (RO)13.Department of Communications,
Energy and Natural Resources (IE)14.Instituto Geológico y Minero De
España (ES)15.Ethniko Kentro Viosimis kai
Aeiforou Anaptyxis (GR)
16. Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (IT)
17. Laboratorio Nacional de Energia e Geologia I.P.(PT)
18. Magyar Foldtani és Geofizikai Intezet (HU)
19. Geological Survey of Norway (NO)20. Panstwowy Instytut Geologiczny
(PL)21. Geoinform Ukraine (UA)22. Statny Geologicky Ustav Dionyza
Stura (SK)23. Sveriges Geologiska Undersokning
(SE)24. Nederlandse Organisatie voor
Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NL)
25. Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment & Energy (DE)
26. Hrvatski Geološki Institut (HR)27. Joint Research Centre JRC (IGO)28. Fraunhofer -Institut für System- und
Innovationsforschung (ISI) (DE)29. Swiss Geological Survey Federal
office of topography Swisstopo (CH)30. Geological Survey Department GSD
(CY)31. Sherbimi Gjeologjik Shqiptar AGS
(AL)32. Raw Materials Group (SE)
Deliverables addressed
Establishment of a permanent structure to guarantee the sustainability of the minerals intelligence network in the long term.
Identification of existing data sources and assessment of data availability and quality for primary and secondary raw materials, on land and the marine environment, to achieve harmonization and standardization of EU mineral statistics.
Development of a ‘European Mineral Raw Materials Yearbook’ and a roadmap for future implementation, updating and maintenance after the project.
Development of an operational EU Knowledge data platform compliant to INSPIRE providing an efficient access to all available and new data related to mineral resources.
Production of foresight studies on mineral raw materials future supply and demand in the EU with special attention given to critical minerals including primary and secondary raw materials.
Management Committee members and 6 WP Leaders
WP1. Management - Juha Kaija, GTK WP2. Sustainable Minerals Intelligence Network - Luca
Demicheli, EGS WP3. Knowledge management – Christian Burlet, RBINS WP4. Minerals statistics – Teresa Brown, NERC-BGS WP5. Knowledge Data Platform - Daniel Cassard, BRGM WP6. Foresight study – Henrike Sievers, BGR
Other members of MC: Nikolaos Arvanitidis, EGS-MREG James Baker, SELOR David Ovadia, Exploitation Manager
Industrial Consultation Committee
The members of ICC are, Corina Hebestreit ,EUROMINES; Michelle Wyart-Remy & Aurela Shtiza, IMA; Jim O’Brien, UEPG; Eberhard Gschwindt, EIB.
All WPs were assessed, one by one, using the same questionnaire, and recommendations were delivered and received accordingly by SC and WP leaders
Overall overview of project achievements against objectives were constructive and pointed out the main challenges are beyond the lifetime of the project, facing the options for a sustainable and permanent service. These will require more intensive and continuous interaction with the future users, industry and public decision makers in order to take up their views and expectations.
Main results & achievements A sustainable Minerals Intelligence Network to maintain and
update the Minerals4EU services. An interactive European Minerals Yearbook covering statistics
from 40 European countries. First edition of the e-Yearbook is available as part of the
Minerals4EU Portal at http://minerals4eu.brgm-rec.fr/m4eu-yearbook/theme_selection.html
Minerals4EU Knowledge Data Platform with a free, public web-service. Available and operational at http://minerals4eu.brgm-rec.fr/ Totally INSPIRE compliant
Foresight Study on mineral raw material supply and demand in the EU Today afternoon a dedicated WP6 Session: Looking Ahead – Exploring
Different Facets of Raw Material Supply and Demand (BGR)
Yearbook potential impacts
will enable more informed national or EC policies and decisions to be developed for the benefit of society.
will facilitate the identification and prioritisation of future research on mineral-related topics to be commissioned by national Governments or the EC.
regular updates will enable national Governments and the EC to monitor the impact of policy decisions on mineral-related activities
the use by industry may inform future decisions and may facilitate investment in particular countries and/or Europe as a whole.
provides a source of data for academic and other researchers for use in future studies into mineral-related topics for Europe
Minerals4EU organisation & structure
Network of “spokes” , a separate entity Minerals Intelligence
Network with members including both GSOs and other organisations.
Memorandum of Understanding signed by the members setting up of a M4EU-Minerals Intelligence Network for Europe
Permanent body is the ”hub”, has no members Focus on operational
management and maintenance of database & products : Web portal Yearbook Foresight studies Tendering/
Commissioning Service Legal
Agreements
• Minerals Intelligence Network Members will act as the advisory board of the Permanent Body• Finance for the Permanent Body would be expected from the Minerals Pillar of the ERA-NET funding to be sourced from the EC • Various business plan options were considered for the structure
M4EU Intelligence Capacity
Minerals4EU deliverables enabling:• An information infrastructure with coherent interoperable databases. • Access to Pan-European, high-quality mineral resources related geological data.• High quality data on mineralised areas, exploration and mineral production and flows; intelligence and foresight studies for public and private decision-makers, raw material producers and society.
Minerals4EU creates intelligence on both Primary & SecondaryRaw Materials, focused on mining waste
Any links to JRC- launched Raw Materials Information System (RMIS) ?
EURMKB- Current state
Pre- SIP EIP databases (ProMine, EuroGeoSource) Syn- och post -SIP EIP driven database structuring
Minerasl4EU/MIN/PB, euRare, ProSUM (GSOs -based) MICA- Mineral Intelligence Capacity Analysis about to kick-off EUMINET/RMC making a conceptual basis and vision for the
EGS MREG community DG Growth data platform version JRC Raw Materials Information System (RMIS)
No financial support from the Commission Options for EGS-JRC joint efforts / cooperation? ERA-NET in applied geosciences intends to deliver financial
and in-kind resources to ensure operational sustainability?
Thank you for your attention
www.eurogeosurveys.org [email protected]@nikolaosarvanitidis.eu
http://www.minerals4eu.eu/