These slides, presented by Minerals4EU Scientific Coordinator Nikolaos Arvanitidis at the Minerals4EU Final Conference, gives an overview of the project and its achievements.

1. Minerals Intelligence Network
for Europe - Minerals4EU
Overview & 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

2. 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

3. 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 andintelligence 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
EUMINETEUMINET
European MineralEuropean Mineral
Information NetworkInformation Network
ERANETERANET
on Applied Geoscienceson Applied Geosciences
MICA
Mineral Intelligence
Capacity Analysis

4. 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.

5. 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

6. COORDINATOR
1. GEOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS
PARTNERS
2. 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)

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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)

11. 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

12. 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/Commissi
oning
 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

13. 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 & Secondary
Raw Materials,
focused on mining
waste
Any links to JRC- launched Raw
Materials Information System (RMIS) ?

14. 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?

15. Thank you for your attention
www.eurogeosurveys.org
nikolaos.arvanitidis@sgu.se
greenminerals@nikolaosarvanitidis.eu http://www.minerals4eu.eu/