Project description
European network for sustainable supply of mineral raw materials
The European mining and metallurgy regions play a crucial role in ensuring a steady supply of mineral raw materials. The EU-funded MIREU project will create a network of such regions across Europe that will guarantee the long-term and sustainable supply of mineral raw materials to the EU. Additionally, it will foster investment, innovation and growth in the extractive industry sector. The network will facilitate the exchange of knowledge and experiences among various regional stakeholders, including regulatory authorities, political and administrative bodies, development agencies, mining companies, non-governmental organisations and the general public. Moreover, MIREU will develop a shared knowledge base that factors in the unique geographic and economic characteristics, cultural and societal diversity, and historical developments of each region.
Objective
The project MIREU aims to establish a network of mining and metallurgy regions across Europe with a view to ensure the sustained and sustainable supply of mineral raw materials to the EU. The network will help the regions to share knowledge and experiences when facing the challenge to establish and maintain an extractive industry. MIREU will facilitate an exchange between all interested stakeholders in the regions, namely regulatory authorities, political and administrative bodies, development agencies, mining companies, non-government organisations, as well as the general public. The project will develop a shared knowledge base, taking into account the region-specific geographic and economic features, cultural, societal and language diversity, and their historical developments. The network will also learn from experience in other regions of the World. This knowledge base will allow to understand what has been conducive and what hampering to the development of extractive and metallurgical industries. It will also provide the context for a bottom-up integration of these activities into their respective socio-economic and socio-cultural context. Development is about people and, therefore, bringing people into the decision-finding procedure in order to achieve a ‘social license to operate’ will be a key aspect of the project. Guidelines and recommendations for actions to be taken to foster a sustained and sustainable development of the extractive industries will be developed in close co-operation with a range of selected regions from the European Union. These regions will form a nucleus and multipliers for a more extensive network beyond the life-time of the project.
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02151 Espoo
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Participants (32)
09599 Freiberg
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30-059 Krakow
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96101 Rovaniemi
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2829 516 Caparica
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45060 Orleans
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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157 80 ATHINA
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75015 PARIS 15
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EX4 4QJ Exeter
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2721 Bad Fischau-Brunn
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96100 Rovaniemi
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8700 Leoben
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41092 Sevilla
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50004 Zaragoza
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47014 VALLADOLID
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971 87 Lulea
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47151 BOECILLO VALLADOLID
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80110 JOENSUU
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D02 X285 Dublin
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430311 Baia Mare
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TR1 3AY TRURO
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8790 EISENERZ
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8790 EISENERZ
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042 66 Kosice
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042 00 Kosice
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50-527 WROCLAW
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901 89 UMEA
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6000605620 SANTIAGO
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7004 514 EVORA
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24412 Cubillos Del Sil Leon
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96700 ROVANIEMI
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