GSEU/ EU ICE SRM UNFC Training - level 2

May 14 – 15, 2024 | Ljubljana
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The main aim and focus of the trainings is to support critical raw material initiatives (CRM Act) to classify projects using UNFC and establish project inventories across Europe.

A program of systematic capacity building ensures that synergies are retained between the EU Member States and data on raw materials are collected consistently, and are of the required quality, across Europe. The development of UNFC capacity within the EU ICE SRM serves to facilitate and improve the handling and understanding in particular to: 

  • the further development of UNFC classified inventories across Europe that are consistent with the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) for mineral resources;
  • the comparability in national resource reporting, in particular the way resource quantities are classified according to UNFC and linked to different EU instruments, such as INSPIRE.

The EU ICE SRM is taking a step-by-step approach to increase the necessary capacity in all related areas, starting with CRM.

Our first target group are experts who are trained to become trainers. The trainings will be implemented in three level approach.

Level 2 – User need specifics (suitable for practitioners, builds up on Level 1 training)

Topics:

  • Using and developing bridging documents
  • Reporting in line with CRMA requirements
  • Case specific hands-on exercises
  • Exercise on using the UNFC templates

Training materials

Recap of Level 1 Training (Snježana Miletić, GeoZS)

CRMA update (Antje Wittenberg, BGR)

Quiz 

Historic Estimates (Tuomas Leskelä, GTK)

CRIRSCO-UNFC Bridging Case Study (Janne Hokka, GTK)

Bridging methodology - Introduction and Czech National System to UNFC (Zbyněk Gabriel, CGS)

Bridging methodology - Slovenian ABC to UNFC (Duška Rokavec, GeoZS)

Bridging methodology - Bridging the Hungarian National System to UNFC (Zoltán Horváth, SARA)

Bridging methodology - Bridging the Austrian National System to UNFC (Sebastian Pfleiderer, GSA)

UNFC Case studies - Norway (Janja Knežević Solberg, NGU)

UNFC Case studies - Slovenia (Duška Rokavec, GeoZS)

UNFC Case Studies - Germany (Antje Wittenberg, BGR)

Experience of using and classification harmonizing UNFC in Ukraine (Mariia Kurylo, UAG)

Please contact [email protected] for more information about the training.

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