MICA meeting in Brussels
The second MICA meeting took place in Brussels from the 27th to the 29th of September.
The 3-day meeting provided valuable inputs for the Work Packages, as well as a general overview for all participants on the project’s progress.
LPRC brought in the last day with a presentation on Raw Materials Past International Foresight Study Cases during WP5’s meeting.
Read more about MICA here.
Minatura2020 workshop hosted in La Palma
La Palma Research Centre hosted a Minatura2020 scenario workshop in La Palma on the 27th and 28th of September.
Result from the meeting will be available soon!
Read more about Minatura2020 here.
Work Package leader Michiel introduces the iCLUE approach and discusses projections based on historical data and business-as-usual scenarios.
Group picture during star gazing.
UNEXMIN follow-up meeting in Porto
UNEXMIN partners met in the beautiful city of Porto during the 28th and 29th of July.
The reason for this reunion was a UNEXMIN follow-up meeting on the project where every currently running Work Package (a block of the work breakdown structure) coordinator presented a review of the work done until now, and a planning of respective future developments.
There were also many relevant discussions on topics related to UNEXMIN’s overall advancement, such as project organisation and the development of UX-1, the multi-robotic platform.
UNEXMIN team discussing UX-1 developments
Second INTRAW WP2 meeting in Brussels
The second INTRAW WP2 workshop took place in EFG’s offices in Brussels. The meeting was related to a scenario building exercise. The partners defined the influence factors during the first workshop and produced projections for each of them as their “homework”.
During the meeting, cross impact analysis were performed in order to develop groups of projections which might plausibly appear simultaneously in the future, with 2050 defined as the target time-horizon.
Far-left: Luis and Tamas participating in the workshop.
KINDRA Copenhagen meeting with the Joint Panel of Experts
Project partners introduced and discussed the latest results of the KINDRA project with the Joint Panel of Experts. Adrienn participated during this meeting from LPRC.
INTRAW WP2 meeting in Brussels
INTRAW WP2 just kicked off in Stuttgart with its first workshop.
The partners performed a scenario-building exercise in order to define the most relevant influencing factors which are likely to shape the future of Raw Materials.
Tamas Miklovicz took part in the workshop on behalf of LPRC.
Discussion on influencing factors
UNEXMIN meeting in Tampere
From the 24th to the 26th of May, UNEXMIN partners held a meeting in Tampere, Finland.
The meeting, entitled “End-user requirement specification workshop”, aimed to define and specify the technical features of the autonomous multi-robotic explorer in order to best serve end-users who will enlist UX-1’s services in the future.
Discussions included everything from the robot’s size, weight, shape, its autonomy, navigation, survivability under harsh conditions such as underground mines, to the instruments it will carry for geological data collection and post-processing on its future missions.
Discussion during the technical workshop
UNEXMIN meeting at the Deep Ecton mine
UNEXMIN consortium members visited the Deep Ecton mine, one of the copper mines located in Ecton Hill, Staffordshire (near Manchester), UK.
Deep Ecton will be the last and most technologically challenging test site (from a total of four) for the UX-1 multi-platform robot’s surveying work.
Adrienn and Luis participated in the meeting on behalf of LPRC.
UNEXMIN representatives studying analogue operating conditions for UX-1 at Deep Ecton
INTRAW WP2 meeting in Stuttgart
An INTRAW consortium meeting took place in Stuttgart. Work Package 2 (Programming) has just launched under the coordination of Fraunhaufer.
WP2 will ensure the development of cooperation strategies based on the best practices identified in the target countries (Australia, Canada, Japan, S.Africa, US) on applied research and innovation, joint educational and skills programmes, trade, exploration, exploitation, processing, recycling, and substitution in the raw materials sector.
UNEXMIN kick-off meeting in Miskolc!
The UNEXMIN kick-off meeting took place in Miskolc, Hungary on the 18th and 19th of February 2016.
Thirteen organisations from seven countries across Europe are collaborating in an ambitious project to develop a submersible robotic system to be used for surveying and exploring flooded mines.
The €5M project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research programme, will include the development of a Robotic Explorer (UX-1) for autonomous 3D mine-mapping to gather valuable geological information which cannot be obtained in any other way – in general the mines are too deep and dangerous for access by human divers.
Balazs and Tamas represented the LPRC team at the event.
Read more about the UNEXMIN project here.
Work Package 8 introduction by Balazs