MIN-NOVATION Baltic Network Meeting in Örebro, Sweden, 18-21.06.2012

Monday, June 18 begins MIN-NOVATION project Baltic Network Meeting in Örebro, Sweden. Tallinn University of Technology is represented by TUT Mining Department professor Ingo Valgma and teaching assistant Veiko Karu.

 

MIN-NOVATION is a European Union Baltic Sea Region project “Mining and Mineral Processing Innovation Network for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises in Waste Technologies”. Project partners are from Poland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Estonia.

MIN-NOVATION aims to create a trans-national network with regional networks as building blocks of effective multi-lateral cooperation. The activities carried out on the regional and transnational level will secure better access to knowledge, state-of-the-art technologies and good practice to SMEs (small and medium enterprices) active in the mineral waste management & prevention sector. The project will address all the waste management challenges and opportunities which face the Baltic Sea Region mining industry, which should be understood as extending to all forms of extraction of natural non-renewable resources. 

MIN-NOVATION Baltic network (MBN) has set up with the essential role of facilitating diffusion of knowledge and good practices between regions. This will involve providing transnational feedback to regional issues, and elevating cross-regional issues to status of transnational priority areas.

MIN-NOVATION project is part R&D activity in Department of Mining and is related to the study of “Sustainable and environmentally acceptable Oil shale mining”, AR12007, “Conditions of sustainable mining”, GRANT7499 - mi.ttu.ee/ETF7499; „Backfilling and waste management in Estonian oil shale industry“, GRANT8123 - mi.ttu.ee/ETF8123

Additional information

Veiko Karu, Department of Mining

veiko.karu@ttu.ee

http://mi.ttu.ee/min-novation/
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Overview of 6th MRN meeting in Estonia

Min-Novation meeting was held on June 5, 2012. The meeting was organized by the Department of Mining, Tallinn University of Technology.

Min-Novation meeting was attended by 23 people from mining enterprises, Ministry of the Environment and Department of Mining.

The aim of the meeting was to present ideas and assumptions of the MIN-NOVATION project and give interesting lectures.

The first part of the meeting dealt with MIN-NOVATION project topics in a talk given by Veiko Karu. After Veiko Karu, Ingo Valgma gave presentation “Mining activities in Norway” and introduced journal “Mining and Environment”. Then had Kalle Pirk presentation “Competence centre of oil shale”. The first part of the meeting ended with a presentation by Viktor Undusk from VKG “Backfilling technologies in oil shale mines”.

Heidi Soosalu started the second part of the meeting by giving an overview talk “Mine collapses in NE Estonia – detection, identification and causes”. Then gave Ülo Sõstra an overview talk “Tectonics of the continental and offshore territory of Estonia and its structural evolution in Proterozoic and Phanerozoic”. This was followed by presentations by doctoral students Aleksander Pototski and Merle Otsmaa.

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