MIN-GUIDE – Minerals Policy Guidance for Europe

CESAM Responsible researcher

Luis Menezes Pinheiro

Programme

Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programm

Dates

01/02/2016 - 31/01/2019

Funding for CESAM

70971 €

Total Funding

1999625 €

Funding Entity

European Commission

Proponent Institution

Wirtschaftsu Universitat Wien - Austria

URL / WWW

https://www.min-guide.eu//

MIN-GUIDE is a project addressing the need for a secure and sustainable supply of minerals in Europe by developing a ‘Minerals Policy Guide’. The key objectives of the project are (1) providing guidance for EU and MS minerals policy, (2) facilitating minerals policy decision making through knowledge co-production for transferability of best practice minerals policy, and (3) fostering community and network building for the co-management of an innovation catalysing minerals policy framework. This will be achieved through a systematic profiling and policy benchmarking of relevant policy and legislation in Europe, which includes the identification of innovation friendly best practices through quantitative indicators and a qualitative analysis country-specific framework conditions, as well as through the compilation of minerals statistics and reporting systems. These insights will form the basis for developing an interactive, tailor-made online ‘Minerals Policy Guide’. Another key feature of the MIN-GUIDE project will be knowledge coproduction for minerals policy decision makers through Policy Laboratories exploring these best practice examples along the whole mineral production value chain (exploration and extraction, processing, recycling and mine closure). Furthermore, MINGUIDE will facilitate the building of a sustainable minerals policy stakeholder network through this knowledge coproduction and utilization in Policy Laboratories as well as through three major Conferences. These conferences will explore the minerals governance framework, work on recommendations for promoting innovation along the whole minerals production value chain, and put it into the wider context of the circular economy. The MIN-GUIDE project and in particular the dissemination of the ‘Minerals Policy Guide’ to specific target audiences will have the expected impact of guiding EU MS and EU level minerals policy-making towards a more coherent, transparent and innovation-catalysing framework.