Project duration: 01 April 2020 – 31 March 2022

Objective

The solution (technology)

The project develops a free online course, which can be attended by anyone interested in Critical Raw Materials and on how to manage them in a sustainable fashion.

Partnership

• ESM Foundation (Entwicklungsfonds Seltene Metalle – Foundation for Rare Metals), Germany (Lead Partner)
• EMPA – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland
• Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, BRGM (The French geological survey), France
• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Fraunhofer), Germany
• Leiden University, The Netherlands
• Outotec (Finland) Oy, Finland
• Technische Universiteit Delft (Delft University of Technology), The Netherlands
• Université de Bordeaux, France

For more information, please visit the project website.

Project duration: 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2020

Objective

TrainMeUp is a Lifelong Learning programme designed for the fields of mining and metalworking to help reduce non-quality in metallurgical processes and welding, thus increasing resource efficiency.

Four partners in industry, education, and research gather here to develop e-learning modules tailored to the needs of an initial 150 professionals, before further outreach and dissemination among KIC members and beyond the community.

The solution (technology)

TrainMeUp is a Lifelong Learning program designed for the fields of mining, metal production and metalworking processes. It brings together partners from education, research and industry.

TrainMeUp envisions to create a know-how in e-learning within European industrial companies, helping them to meet their evolving training demand. In the first round of the project, e-learning courses will be tailored to the needs of 150 professionals, before further outreach and dissemination.

Competencies will be acquired through engaging content and continuous assessment. This is expected to help industry to reduce non-quality in metallurgical processes and welding, increasing resource efficiency.

The added value compared to existing e-learning or classroom training is a comprehensive pedagogical approach encompassing the context of work and learning, designed to address precise, unanswered industrial needs.

Partners

• Institut de Soudure, France (Lead Partner)
• ArcelorMittal Maizières Research SA, Spain
• Aubert & Duval, France
• ERAMET Research, France
• Eramet Services, France
• Mondragon Corporation S. Coop., Spain
• MONDRAGON GOI ESKOLA POLITEKNIKOA S. COOP. (MGEP), Spain

Project duration: 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2021

Objective

This project aims to find the most promising training ideas that infuse the industry with new research results, and encourages experts to share their knowledge with professionals. A call asks all subject experts to provide their solutions to the industry’s current challenges. The best ideas will be selected and the Subject Experts will be assisted with a programme to guarantee that their topic and pedagogical implementation will fit industry needs.

The solution (technology)

The project encourages subject experts of all fields to propose solutions for the industry’s pressing training needs and will develop new state of the art training courses. Elaborating on successful methods and with mapping processes already in place, it is possible to provide focus topics that challenge trainers and professionals to provide training solutions.

A board of educational and industry experts will evaluate the training proposals and the best ideas will be developed into courses. Content experts and trainers will be supported by a trainer seminar and personal coaching sessions to assist them in designing effective training programmes, and to develop a common training style throughout all EIT RawMaterials Professional School courses. A team of experienced event managers will support the trainers to organize the courses and assure a high level of quality throughout the whole EIT RawMaterials Professional School, which will guarantee customer satisfaction and brand recognition. A pre-existing network and professional processes already developed will make sure that industry’s current needs will be constantly assessed so that new courses will exactly meet the demand.

Partners

• Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF), Germany (Lead Partner)
• Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas M.P., CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), Spain
• Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, l’Energia e lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile (ENEA), Italy
• BASF SE, Germany
• Instytut Metali Niezelaznych, IMN (Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals), Poland
• Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
• Monolithos Ltd, Greece
• OCAS N.V., Belgium
• Outotec Oy, Finland
• University of Limerick, Ireland

For more information, please visit the project web page.

Project duration: 01 April 2020 – 31 March 2022

Objective

The solution (technology)

The project aims to implement four tailored workshops (teaching methodology, project development and management, innovative andentrepreneurial skills and science to business skills) for the academic staff of the six RIS ESEE universities, and develop six acceleration train-the-trainer programmes.

Partnership

• University of Zagreb – Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering (UNIZG-RGNF)
• University of Miskolc
• University of Mining and Geology St. Ivan Rilski, Sofia, Bulgaria
• Technische Universitaet Wien (Vienna University of Technology)
• Technical University of Kosice
• National Technical University of Athens – NTUA
• Montanuniversität Leoben
• KGHM Cuprum sp. z o.o. Centrum Badawczo-Rozwojowe (KGHM Cuprum Ltd. Research & Development Centre)
• Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation
• Dnipro University of Technology (NMU Ukraine)
• AGH University of Science and Technology
• Aalto-Korkeakoulusaatio (Aalto University)

For more information, please visit the project website.

Project duration: 01 January 2020 – 31 December 2020

Objective

The solution (technology)

This project will further roll out the Summer School internationally and implement e‐learning elements to boost the competitiveness, growth and attractiveness of the European raw materials sector via radical innovation and entrepreneurship.

Partnership

• Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences (MEERI), Poland (Lead Partner)
• Lodz University of Technology, Poland
• Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium
• Green Back sp. z o. o., Poland
• AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
• Observatory of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (OPII), Poland
• Politechnika Slaska (Silesian University of Technology), Poland
• RISE IVF AB, Sweden
• Université de Liège, Belgium

For more information, please visit the project web page. 

Project duration: 01 January 2018 – 31 March 2021

Objective

The solution (technology)

The exposition will be combining interactive participatory activities and workshops about the importance, availability and challenges of reaw materials sector.

Partnership

• Université de Lorraine (UL), France (Lead Partner)
• University of Oulu, Finland
• Universidade Nova de Lisboa (New University of Lisbon) – Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FCT NOVA), Portugal
• Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Eesti Kaevandusmuuseum SA/Estonian Mining Museum, Estonia
• Czech Geological Survey, Czech Republic
• Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, BRGM (The French geological survey), France

For more information, please visit the project website.

Project duration: 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2019

Objective

VR-Lab is a piece of education programme content, introducing raw materials and experiment procedures, including an interactive VR environment mimicking metallurgical facilities and labs. The VR-Lab allows students and professionals to gain hands-on experience in planning, performing and evaluating experiments in a test facility, and operating high-temperature processes, without high costs, preparations and safety issues. VR-Lab is accessed via VR-devices, PCs and mobiles.

The solution (technology)

The value chain of raw materials starts with exploration, goes through many steps such as manufacturing and consumption, and then ends up in collection and recycling. All of these elements contribute to the circular economy as well. The focus on education mostly focuses on mining, which comes after exploration, and on recycling, which is at the end of the chain. Therefore, the new generations find those fields particularly attractive.

Processing, just like any of the steps, plays an essential role. In recycling practices, processing uses complex techniques which remove individual materials from recycled products and makes them available for new products. Improving and enhancing the processing phase results in processes that are more efficient and tends to a more complete circular economy cycle. Therefore, it is necessary to promote and improve the education in the fields of processing and in particular of the metallurgical techniques used in processing. VR-Lab will develop an education package for Master students studying metallurgy and professionals already working in the industry. VR-Lab will be accessible by these learners every year allowing them to roam and experiment freely in a highly interactive, responsive, informative, educational and safe virtual laboratory. At the same time, VR-Lab will also have an indirect impact of boosting the image of metallurgy Master programmes by demonstrating that the programmes use cutting-edge, modern VR technology in the classroom, with the aim to boost the student recruitment figures of these programmes. This, therefore, helps by graduating generations which have a deeper and clearer understanding of metallurgical processes and therefore develops creative minds that will eventually drastically improve these processes and support the entire value chain.

Partners

• Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen), Germany (Lead Partner)
• Aalto University Executive Education Oy, Finland
• Aalto-Korkeakoulusaatio (Aalto University), Finland
• Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden
• National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
• Swerea SWECAST AB, Sweden
• TalTech University, Estonia
• TATA STEEL NEDERLAND TECHNOLOGY B.V. (TATA), Netherlands

For more information, please visit the project web page.