This MOOC has been developed by the EU Horizon 2020 funded SUMEX project.
Mineral extraction is crucial to Europe’s twin digital and green transition. The SUMEX MOOC will address the most pressing issues and practical challenges faced by decision makers within the extractive industry. You’ll critically reflect on sustainability, discover best practice strategies, and learn how to respond to sustainability challenges faced by the mineral resource extraction sector.
Course brief facts:
TOPICS: impact assessment, health and safety, land use planning, permitting, reporting.
FORMAT: Free to attend, online, learning on your own time (on average two hours per week).
WHEN: Start 7th November 2022.
WHO: Young professionals in public administration, industry and research alongside established experts who would like to get a bird’s eye view on most recent sustainability challenges and solutions in the extractives.
DURATION: 6 weeks.
COST: free access between 7th November and 19th December 2022 (first live run).
Find out more and enrol in this course:
Other dissemination links:
School on Geoethics and Natural Issues:
IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics:
Nothing sustainable in this, but the standard social engineering practices of recent times, including the promotion of industry concepts like the "Social License to Operate" (SLO). The course is held by researchers that were, already in 2020 while working for the EU funded Horizon 2020 project "MIREU", accused of breaching scientific code of conduct and manipulation of research results to the disadvantage of European NGO's and CSO's, while favouring extractive industry actors colaborating in the same project. Researchers presenting this MOOC later admitted that project "case studies were not done in a scientific way" (University of Eastern Finland and Geological Survey of Finland, GTK) and confessed that research results were strategically omitted from project deliverables ("Government would have to step…