The Minerals4EU Project is designed to meet the recommendations of the Raw Materials Initiative and will develop an EU Mineral intelligence network structure delivering a web portal, a European Minerals Yearbook and foresight studies. This presentation gives an overview of the Project. More information about the Project is available at www.minerals4eu.eu

1. 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 enhance
resource efficiency, minerals
supply security and support
sustainable minerals
development for Europe
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www.minerals4eu.eu

2. Contents
 Background
 Goals
 Facts and figures
 Partnership
 Impacts
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3. Background – EIP SIP
European 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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
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10. 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: juha.kaija@gtk.fi
www.minerals4eu.eu
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