Sustainable exploration, mining and circular economy of mineral resources
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| Date: | 02.09.2024 - 26.01.2025 |
| Aim of the course: | The aim is to emphasise the environmental, economic, social, and political aspects of mining activities worldwide to enhance knowledge of the global mining industry. It provides insights into mining governance and regulatory frameworks, financing, the role of mining companies as agents of change, cross-cultural management, gender issues, small-scale mining, Indigenous communities, community engagement, the resource curse, and the impacts of climate change on mining. It gives an overview and understanding of novel technologies in mineral exploration. An understanding of circular economy on raw materials and resource efficiency and to develop the skills to implement sustainable processes in the mining and mineral raw material value chains. |
| Target group: | The target group is professionals in the industry and master-level students across the EU and beyond. |
| Prerequisites: | BSc / Motivation letter by e-mail to Karin Robam, karin.robam@taltech.ee (By August 20th 2024) |
| Topics: | NGG0331 Mining in a Global Environment / 6 ECTS / Tony Hand NGG0401 Circular Economy for Materials Processing / 6ECTS / Karin Robam |
| Study results: | After completing this micro-degree program, the participant: - has an understanding of the global mining industry, emphasising the environmental, economic, social, and political aspects of mining activities worldwide, with a focus on sustainable practices and technological advancements; - knows and can explain the role and importance of novel exploration technologies; - knows and can explain the state-of-the-art circular economy and resource efficiency practices and defines basic concepts of circular economy; - describes materials flow: from mining, processing, and manufacturing until end-of-life recycling and re-usage; - gets an idea of how to create new business opportunities to re-enter materials into the circular economy. |
| Learning outcomes: | Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics |
| Course language: | in English |
| Volume: | lectures: 128 academic hours independent studies: 184 academic hours |
| Credit points (ECTS): | 12.0 |
| Graduation document: | TalTech certificate |
| Lecturer: | Nthati Monei, TalTech Karin Robam, TalTech |
| Contact: | Karin Robam, +372 620 3048, karin.robam@taltech.ee; Centre for Open Education, mikrokraadid@taltech.ee |
| Remarks about the price: | Free of charge for participants. Agile Exploration and Geo-modelling for European Critical Raw materials (AGEMERA).
This project has received funding under the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101058178. |
| Registration start: | 05.08.2024 00:00 |
| Registration deadline: | 23.08.2024 |
| Place: | TalTech Moodle (look up location on map) |
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