MINERALS4EU – Biodiversity of Freshwater Ecosystems: Status, Trends, Pressures, and Conservation Priorities

 

MINERALS4EU – Biodiversity of Freshwater Ecosystems: Status, Trends, Pressures, and Conservation Priorities

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.

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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. The network will provide data, information and knowledge on mineral resources around Europe, based on an accepted business model,making a fundamental contribution to the European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials (EIP RM). The Minerals4EU project will firstly establish the EU minerals intelligence network structure, comprising European minerals data providers and stakeholders, and transform this into a sustainable operational service.Minerals4EU will therefore contribute to and support decision making on the policy and adaptation strategies of the Commission, as well as supporting the security of EU resource and raw materials supply, by developing a network structure with mineral information data and products, based on authoritative information sources. The Minerals4EU project is built around an INSPIRE compatible infrastructure that enables EU geological surveys and other partners to share mineral information and knowledge, and stakeholders to find, view and acquire standardized and harmonized georesource and related data.

The target of the Minerals4EU project is to integrate the best available mineral expertise and information based on the knowledge base of member geological surveys and other relevant stakeholders, in support of public policy-making, industry, society, communication and education purposes at European and international levels. The Minerals4EU consortium possesses the skills and resources to make this the leading European mineral information network structure that will provide tools and expertise to enhance resource efficiency,minerals supply security and support sustainable mineral development for Europe.

Geological Survey of Finland (GTK), Finland;
Geological Survey of Finland (GTK), Finland; EuroGeoSurveys - EGS (EGS), Belgium; SELOR EEIG (SELOR), Netherlands; INSTITUT ROYAL DES SCIENCES NATURELLES DE BELGIQUE (RBINS), Belgium; NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL (NERC), United Kingdom; BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GEOLOGIQUES ET MINIERES (BRGM), France; BUNDESANSTALT FÛR GEOWISSENSCHAFTEN UND ROHSTOFFE (BGR), Germany; CESKA GEOLOGICKA SLUZBA (CGS), Czech Republic; GEOLOGISCHE BUNDESANSTALT (GBA), Austria; GEOLOSKI ZAVOD SLOVENIJE (GeoZS), Slovenia; The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Denmark; INSTITUTUL GEOLOGIC AL ROMANIEI (IGR), Romania; Department of Communications, Energy and Natural resources (GSI), Ireland; INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA (IGME), Spain; ETHNIKO KENTRO VIOSIMIS KAI AEIFOROU ANAPTYXIS (EKBAA), Greece; Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Italy; Laboratorio Nacional de Energia e Geologia I.P. (LNEG), Portugal; MAGYAR FOLDTANI ES GEOFIZIKAI INTEZET (MFGI), Hungary; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY (NGU), Norway; PANSTWOWY INSTYTUT GEOLOGICZNY - PANSTWOWY INSTYTUT BADAWCZY (PGI-NRI), Poland; STATNY GEOLOGICKY USTAV DIONYZA STURA (SGUDS), Slovakia; SVERIGES GEOLOGISKA UNDERSOKNING (SGU), Sweden; NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK - TNO (TNO), Netherlands; WUPPERTAL INSTITUT FUR KLIMA, UMWELT, ENERGIE GMBH. (WI), Germany; HRVATSKI GEOLOSKI INSTITUT (HGI-CGS), Croatia; JRC - JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE- EUROPEAN COMMISSION (JRC), Belgium; FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V (FhG), Germany; EIDGENOSSISCHES DEPARTEMENT FUR VERTEIDIGUNG, BEVOLKERUNGSSCHUTZ UND SPORT (VBS DDPS), Switzerland; MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT OF CYPRUS (GSD), Cyprus; PER SHERBIMIN GJEOLOGJIK SHQIPTAR (AGS), Albania; Raw Materials Group RMG AB (RMG), Sweden;
Project start year: 2013
Project end year: 2015

This project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological
development and demonstration under grant agreement no 603218.

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