Minerals Policy Guidance for Europe
In this edition you will find: MIN-GUIDE Annual Conference, 2nd Minerals Policy Laboratory, project achievements and upcoming events.
MIN-GUIDE Annual Conference
“Minerals Policy and Governance in Europe”
Brussels, 2 Dec 2016
First The first MIN-GUIDE Annual Conference will take place during the European Raw Materials Week in Brussels on 2 December 2016. It will focus on EU and EU Member State minerals policy frameworks, as well as minerals governance approaches in the EU Member States. The Annual Conference will host up to 200 participants from all over Europe, in order to exchange knowledge and experiences, based on the stock-taking of mineral policies in all EU Member States and the EU level undertaken in the project. In addition to high-level keynote presentations and interactive sessions, the MIN-GUIDE online Minerals Policy Guide will be presented. Moreover, the Annual Conference will provide a platform for networking and community building, allowing participants to make use of an informal meeting space to
exchange with peers and stakeholders from related areas and communities.
The Conference will comprise three interactive sessions, introducing participants to good practice results along the three pillars of the MIN-GUIDE approach for Good Governance: 1. Policy coherence (strategic national policy frameworks), 2. Enabling business environment (streamlined permitting procedures), and 3. Transparency & legitimacy (stakeholder involvement). The format of the sessions will allow participants to hands-on learn and exchange about good practice success criteria; explore transferability in their own context; and discuss gaps and future needs. In that sense, the three sessions will be informed by the
outcomes of the MIN-GUIDE Policy Laboratory workshop 1, entitled "Good Governance in Minerals Policy in Europe" and, thus, enable a wider audience of participants to learn from its results and, moreover, further complement good practice learning and transfer.
1st Policy Laboratory Workshop"Good Governance in Minerals Policy in Europe"
Vienna, 4-5 Oct 2016
Minerals policy decision-makers and high-level experts from across Europe met in Vienna to share their experience and learn from good practice cases. The first MIN-GUIDE Policy Laboratory workshop on Good Governance in Minerals Policy enabled 50 experts from 17 EU Member States to learn from 9 good practice cases that are improving governance in the mining sector.
For this purpose, experts engaged in discussions about hands-on implementation experience and knowledge on policies while reflecting on their own institutional capacities for policy transfer.
On this occasion, MIN-GUIDE presented version 1.0 of the Online Minerals Policy Guide, a user-friendly online knowledge
repository based on up-to-date and comparable information on mineral policy and related policy areas at EU level and in the 28 EU Member States. Discussions among experts made clear that overall political commitment and a coordinated stakeholder approach based on shared objectives are key drivers in fostering policy implementation.
The outcomes of this interactive exchange will serve as an important source of knowledge and inspiration for new mineral policy developments all over Europe. A series of 4 other MIN-GUIDE Policy Laboratory workshops will facilitate the formation of a European minerals policy expert network.
Major Project Milestone - Version 1.0 of the MIN-GUIDE Minerals Policy Guide went online!
The MIN-GUIDE project team finalised the first version of the online Minerals Policy Guide – a user-friendly online knowledge repository based on up-to-date and comparable information on minerals policy and related policy areas at EU level and in the 28 EU Member States.
MIN-GUIDE Report on Innovative Exploration and Extraction
The MIN-GUIDE Project team recently published a new report that 1) provides the key findings on innovation in exploration and mining, 2) identifies a list of key innovations and their drivers, and 3) describes innovation cases which will be described in more detail and how they are linked to the policy framework in key EU member states (outlined in upcoming project reports). This Report is a major building block for the 2nd MIN-GUDIE Policy Laboratory Workshop, to be held on 20-22 March, 2016 in Leoben, Austria.
MIN-GUIDE Report on Policy Guide Framework and Features
This report sets out the first iteration of background research which informs the development of the MIN-GUIDE Policy Guide, to be used in both an offline report and the MIN-GUIDE online ‘Minerals Policy Guide’. All of the suggestions in this report relate to both elements of MIN-GUIDE's Policy Guide development work. The report comprises results on i) a review of various existing policy guides to understand what has worked elsewhere; ii) a visioning exercise of user needs, iii) interviews with target users on what they find useful for a Policy Guide. Based on this, the report has proposed a first stage proposal of how to structure the MIN-GUIDE Policy Guide online interface to inform the future activities planned in development of the Policy Guide.
2nd MIN-GUIDE Policy Laboratory workshop on Innovative Exploration and Extraction
The MIN-GUIDE project is currently preparing its 2nd Policy Laboratory workshop on Innovative Exploration and Extraction. The main objective of the workshop is to highlight industry good practice cases in exploration and extraction and what are the cornerstones of an enabling policy framework in this regard. The workshop will take place on 20-22 March, 2017 in Leoben, Austria.
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EU Raw Materials Week, Brussels,
28 Nov - 2 Dec 2016
The 1st edition of the "Raw Materials Week" will gather a wide range of stakeholders to debate and discuss raw materials policy and initiatives. It will take place in Brussels from 28th November to 2nd December 2016. The Raw Materials Week is centered on a series of events organised by the European Commission addressing the latest news regarding raw materials in the EU.
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21-22 Nov 2016
Conference Sustainability of Mineral Resources and the Environment
Bratislava, Slovakia
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23-24 Nov 2016
EIT Raw Materials: 1st Greek Raw Materials Community Dialogue
Athens, Greece
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29 Nov 2016
EU Raw Materials SLO- Reconnecting raw materials with society
Brussels, Belgium
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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 innovation and research programme under agreement No. 689527
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