Minerals Policy Guidance for Europe

Welcome to the MIN-GUIDE Newsletter!

The MIN-GUIDE project has just started.
Since you are working in or showed interest in the minerals sector and its related areas, we thought you might want to know more about our project. This is why you are receiving the 1st MIN-GUIDE newsletter. Below you can find information about the mission, activities and the team of the project.

MIN-GUIDE Validation workshop took place in London on 12 May 2016

The first important milestone in the MIN-GUIDE project was to define, together with the project’s Advisory Board members, a common and stakeholder-tailored approach with regard to innovation, benchmarking and good practice criteria. This approach will guide the project team in selecting minerals policies and legislation that foster innovation in exploration and extraction, processing, and waste management and mine closure. As a result of the workshop a report on innovation, benchmarking and good practice criteria was drafted. The MIN-GUIDE Advisory Board is composed of the following high-level persons: Robert Holnsteiner, Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy; Aurela Shtiza, Industrial Minerals Association Europe (IMA Europe); Jon Hobbs, World Wildlife Fund (WWF); Joseph M. Mankelow, British Geological Survey; Jan Stanilko, Polish Ministry of Development; Susana Borrás, Copenhagen Business School; Jim O’Brien, Honorary President of the European Aggregates Association (UEPG).

MIN-GUIDE 1st Policy Laboratory to take place in Vienna on 4-5 October 2016

The first MIN-GUIDE Policy Laboratory workshop, entitled “Good Governance in Minerals Policy in Europe”, aims to provide an overview of and reflect upon good governance examples in Minerals Policy in the EU Member States. On this occasion, MIN-GUIDE will present 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. Moreover, the workshop will discuss results of a comparative stock-taking and interviews with policy-makers on their national minerals policy governance frameworks. The Policy Laboratory process will engage participants from policy, industry, Geological Surveys, and research in an intensive and interactive exchange. This will allow participants to hands-on learn from good practice cases, explore transferability in their own context, discuss gaps and future needs, also considering innovation-fostering examples and potentials, and further develop the centerpiece of the MIN-GUIDE project – the Online Minerals Policy Guide.

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 innovation and research programme under agreement No. 689527

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