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Intensified collaboration in East and North Finland through MIREU & REMIX

Hilary Webb — Tue, 11 May 2021 08:54:36 +0000

Intensified collaboration in East and North Finland through MIREU & REMIX Hilary Webb Tue, 11/05/2021 - 10:54

MIREU partner regions North Karelia and Lapland from Finland have been activators in the development of interregional collaboration among all East and North Finland Regions (Central Ostrobothnia, Kainuu, Lapland, North Karelia, Northern Ostrobothnia, Pohjois-Savo and South Savo). The REMIX project resulted in regional action plans to encourage to use the opportunities of smart and green mining in the regions generating an emerging SME industry, jobs and vitality to the regions. Both regions support the actions where SME service development will be better integrated into mining value chains operations.

In the regions, the potential for SMEs operating in the mining sectors to grow was clearly recognised. Regions also noticed that this development would require extra effort from the regional business developers. Therefore, the North-Karelia region launched the ‘Development of international cooperation, businesses and investment projects in global value chains in mining industry – GloMine’ project, funded by the ERDF. GloMine is a joint project of the Business Joensuu (leader) from North-Karelia and Digipolis from Lapland (Arctic Industry and Circular Economy Cluster). GloMine is a balanced combination of the regions’ specific and generic development, which is benefiting from the partners’ complementary competencies.

In Business Joensuu, GloMine is supporting Outokumpu Sustainable Mining Solutions Hub establishment. The aim is to create an internationally leading centre of excellence in the extractive industries, managing the circular economy practices throughout the mining industrial value chain. The hub will provide sustainable innovation and development services to the mining industry in Finland and globally. The service’s core production is based on the Geological Survey of Finland GTK’s more than a hundred years of experience in utilising the raw materials of the earth’s crust. The hub is strongly anchored in Outokumpu Industrial Park and its surroundings while networking nationally and internationally.

For Digipolis, the focus of the GloMine project is in integrating the competence and knowledge of Digipolis, connecting the Arctic Industry and Circular Economy Cluster to the efforts of the Finnish SMEs in strengthening European cooperation and cluster level collaboration. Digipolis supports the GloMine project by operationalising the cluster services for the benefit of the SMEs. The broad national and international network of Digipolis in mining and industrial circular economy provides the GloMine project with significant value-added elements.

In autumn 2020, East and North Finland regional governors launched an initiative to develop East and North-Finland’s mining action plan 2021-2024 – responsible mining as a regional strength. The action plan was developed by the GloMine project with the support of the working group representing regions, expert organisations and ministerial level. During the action plan development, the MIREU and CoMMER were also introduced and the East and North Regional Office in Brussels took an active role in the CoMMER development as ERRIN’s task force on Raw Materials.

For more information contact: Ilkka.Nykanen@businessjoensuu.fi; teemu.saralampi@digipolis.fi

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Networking Regions

Framework Conditions for Mineral Raw Materials Exploitation

Business Joensuu

Geological Survey of Finland

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Deliverable 4.3

Hilary Webb — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:02:00 +0000

Deliverable 4.3 Hilary Webb Mon, 26/10/2020 - 15:02

The attached document is deliverable 4.3 from the MIREU project.

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Partner

AGH University of Science and Technology

Exploration and Mining Division

Geological Survey of Finland

Geological Survey of France

Junta de Castilla y León

Košice Self-governing Region

Luleå University of Technology

MinPol

Montanuniversität Leoben

National Technical University of Athens

NOVA University of Lisbon

Region Västerbotten

Regional Council of Lapland

SIEMCALSA

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Styrian Iron Route

Technical University of Kosice

University of Exeter

University of Lapland

W E Falck

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Future of EU mining regions collaboration

Hilary Webb — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 14:49:45 +0000

Future of EU mining regions collaboration Hilary Webb Fri, 26/02/2021 - 15:49

The Industrial modernisation S3P Mining industry and the CoMMER (ERRIN Task Force on Raw Materials) invite you to an online roundtable discussion on the future of the EU mining regions collaboration. It will be an opportunity to learn more about the initiatives supporting the networking of mining regions.

The online roundtable will take place on 4th March 2021 from 13:00 - 15:00 CET.

During the session, the S3P Mining Industry and the task force will be introduced as two sides of the same coin having a common objective to develop responsible EU mining. In addition, we will have an introduction to the H2020 project SCRREEN2 - Solutions for Critical Raw materials - a European Expert Network 2.

The meeting will the share aims and current status of these collaborations and to invite you to a brainstorming session exploring the good practices supporting and strengthening the EU mining regions collaboration. A more detailed agenda and instructions will be shared with registered participants from 1st March 2021 onwards.

Please register here before 18:00 CET on 3rd March, the link to join the meeting on Microsoft Teams will be sent on the morning of 4th March.

Agenda

The roundtable will be moderated by Ryan Titley, Director of Projects, ERRIN

13.00 - 13.05	*Opening and introduction*, Ryan Titley, Director of Projects, ERRIN
13.05 - 13.25	*Industrial modernisation S3P Mining industry – Supporting the development of the EU Regional Innovation Hubs of Responsible Mining & Metallurgy Business Solutions*, Ilkka Nykänen, partnership coordinator, Business Joensuu, North-Karelia, Finland and supported by the partners
13.25 - 13.45	*CoMMER, ERRIN Task Force on Raw Materials – supporting the regions in project making, policy shaping, partnering, and profiling,* introduction and background Juha Kaija, Geological Survey of Finland – GTK, MIREU project manager, and commented by the Brussels regional offices’ representatives
13.45 – 14.00	*CoMMER and SCRREEN2 - Synergies for improving the raw materials awareness across the EU regions,* W. Eberhard Falck, Vice-President, International Raw Materials Observatory
14.00 – 14.45	*Open roundtable* – moderated by the Ryan Titley, Director of Projects, ERRIN What are your expectations from the European regional collaboration? How the regions can operationalise their role in the implementation of the responsible mining and metallurgy industries? How to maximise the EU investments to develop sustainable regional and interregional mining ecosystems? How can regional cooperation promote a competitive mining & metallurgy sector and sustainable solutions? How the existing platforms Mining industry S3P and CoMMER can support each other?
14.45 – 15.00	*Conclusions and next steps,* Mika Riipi, County Governor, Lapland, Finland