Nach vielen Feinabstimmungen ist nun die erste Ausgabe von MiReBooks in gedruckter Form erhältlich. Diese Bücher werden die Bergbauausbildung auf ein höheres Niveau bringen, indem sie VR- und AR-Elemente in den Unterricht einbeziehen!
Europa braucht mehr Experten, die die komplexen Fragen einer Social Licence to Operate (#SLO) beherrschen, da derzeit viele Rohstoffprojekte aufgrund heftigen öffentlichen Widerstands stark verzögert werden.
Koordiniert vom RIC Leoben Education Team wird eine Allianz von Experten zum Thema SLO aus Forschung, Universitäten und Industrie eine maßgeschneiderte Doktorandenschule konzipieren und durchführen, die sich an den Herausforderungen der Industrie orientiert und durch innovative Lehr-/Lernmethoden unterstützt wird.
Die erste Ausgabe der Doktorandenschule findet 2025, in drei Phasen, statt:
Weitere Details unter: https://www.proslo.eu/
PROMISE ist ein internationaler 24-monatiger Joint Master’s Studiengang in Sustainable Mineral and Metal Processing Engineering, der auf eine nachhaltige Zukunft des Aufbereitungssektors abzielt. Bis zu 84 Erasmus-Mundus-Stipendien können vergeben werden, aufgeteilt auf vier Jahrgänge.
Bewerbungen für den dritten Jahrgang sind noch bis zum 31. Dezember 2023 möglich.
Das Programm eignet sich ideal für Bachelorabsolventen der Fachrichtungen Mineralaufbereitung, Bergbau, Metallurgie und Chemieingenieurwesen sowie anderer eng verwandter Studiengänge.
Das Programm bietet ein Vollstipendium in Höhe von 1400 EUR pro Monat und deckt zusätzlich alle Studiengebühren an den vier Partneruniversitäten ab: Universität Oulu (Finnland), Montanuniversität Leoben (Österreich), Universität Zagreb (Kroatien) und Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (Chile).
Mehr Information auf: https://www.master-promise.eu/
Jetzt bewerben: https://www.master-promise.eu/how-to-apply/
Das RIC freut sich, das von der TU Bergakademie Freiberg koordinierte ERASMUS+-Projekt „EdUp“ zu unterstützen, das darauf abzielt, ukrainischen Hochschulen in der gegenwärtig schwierigen Zeit digitale Kursinhalte und Curriculumsverbesserungen zu ermöglichen.
Mit EdUp werden wir die bereits bestehenden Unterstützungsaktivitäten ausbauen, die es ukrainischen Hochschulen ermöglichen, ihre Studienprogramme durch die Aufnahme digitaler Kurse von Partnern auf dem neuesten Stand zu halten und diese in ihre Lehre zu integrieren. Das Projekt wird eine digitale Plattform mit neuen Kursen anbieten, die bereits ermittelte Bedürfnisse abdecken, und die Möglichkeiten für UA-Partner zur Erstellung digitaler Kurse erweitern. Im Rahmen dieses Projekts wird das RIC / die Montanuniversität Leoben in den nächsten zwei Jahren eine Auswahl an Bildungskursen anbieten.
18. bis 20. Oktober 2023 in Dubrovnik/Kroatien
Möchten Sie die neuesten Trends im mechanischen Hartgesteinsabbau kennenlernen?
Dann kommen Sie mit uns im Oktober nach Dubrovnik! Dem Team des RIC gelang es, Experten von SANDVIK und EPIROC einzuladen, die ihre neueste Technologie präsentieren werden!
Außerdem werden Maschinen für den Einsatz in extrem niedriger Abbauhöhe von DOK-ING, innovative Spreng-Verfahren, sowie Einblicke in Forschungsprojekte rund um den Bergbau mit Robotern und Mikroorganismen vorgestellt.
Alle Informationen und die Möglichkeit zur Anmeldung finden Sie hier: https://dim-esee.eu/
Duration: 01/2020 – 12/2022
RM@Schools-ESEE focusses on an innovative programme to make science education and careers in RM attractive for young students, especially in the ESEE region. It is in line with RM@Schools 3.0, the flasgship programme for EIT Raw Materials and will share tools and activities with the latter. An active learning approach will be proposed to schools by RM Ambassadors (experts in some RM-related issues and trained teachers) by involving students in experiments with RM-related hands-on educational kits, in excursions to industries, and in science dissemination activities. The students will be asked to become Young RM Ambassadors themselves (science communicators) by creating dissemination products and/or collaborating with ewxperts during public events. All the produced materials and the best communication materials realised by students will be accessible online to be shared with a wider public.
New hands-on tools for supporting experimental activities at school will be set up and developed as well as successful educational tools realised in other projects will be used in the RM@Schools-ESEE network to share common benefits. Finally, some career orienting actions will be performed both at European and local level. International RM@Schools Summer Camps for the most motivated and interested students from all the partners’countries will be organised as well as local Career Orientation Days where RM@Schools students will interact directly with universities and companies to obtain information on job opportunities in the different sectors.
Partner: Montanuniversität Leoben (RIC Leoben, Lead), AGH University of Science and Technology, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Foundation myclimate, Geological Survey of Sweden, National Technical University of Athens, Technical University of Kosice, Technische Universität Wien, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, University of Miskolc, University of Zagreb
Dubrovnik International ESEE Mining School
Duration: 04/2017 – 03/2025
The main objective of the project is knowledge transfer, as well as strengthening innovation capacities in the mining, recycling and waste management sectors. This is a lifelong learning project that will be implemented in close partnership with industry stakeholders in all project consortium countries.
During the years of project implementation, the following key topics were / are analyzed:
• 2017: Zero waste management
• 2018: Deep intelligent mining
• 2019: Small mining sites
• 2020: Recycling
• 2021: Innovation in Exploration
• 2022: Innovation in Orebody Characterization
• 2023: Innovation in Extraction
• 2024: Innovation in Ore Processing
The knowledge and skills gained at DIM aim at increasing the employability of mining engineers. In the long run, the programme will lead to an increase in sustainable mining and processing activities, which will result in economic growth and the creation of employment in respective countries.
Partner: Montanuniversität Leoben (RIC Leoben), University of Zagreb, Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute, Dnipro University of Technology (NMU Ukraine), University of Miskolc, Technical University of Kosice, AGH University of Science and Technology, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Mining & Geology (UNIBG-RGF), University of Mining and Geology St. Ivan Rilski (Sofia)
Embedding digital thinking into the heart of the mining business
Duration: 09/2020 – 08/2023
Tapping the full potential of a “DIGITAL MINE” by embedding digital thinking into the heart of the mining business, by improving digital skills of mining personnel and by enhancing the cooperation along the entire digital mining value chain.
Europe urgently needs to reduce its import dependency in respect to a multitude of raw materials. In order to do so, Europe‘s mining industry must completely redesign the process of traditional mining via the adoption of pioneering innovations, accompanied by extensive use of data analytics and new types of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
Under the coordination of the Montanuniversität Leoben, the EU-funded illuMINEation project highlights significant aspects of digitalisation in underground mining activities with the core objective of improving the eficiency as well as health and safety of European mining operations and its personnel.
The project establishes a robust multi-level distributed IoT platform including cloud/edge computing and distributed data management, with data sourced from large sensor networks.
Advanced user interfaces, dashboards and AR/VR applications will allow for an optimised information flow. A rigorous cyber security approach ensures that all data is properly protected.
Via digitization of key mining aspects, such as the mineral deposit, rock mass stabilty, equipment condition monitoring, safety of mining personnel as well as the working and mining environment, the illuMINEation project addresses all of the three key factors that influence the sustainability and profitability of mining operations: Occupational Health & Safety performance (incl. health & safety aspects of the nearby community), environmental impacts, and efficient resource extraction.
The project consortium consists of 19 partners from six European countries (AT, SE, PL, DE, ES, FI).
Innovative digital sustainable aggregate systems
Duration: 06/221 – 05/2025
The European aggregates extractive industry is, by far, the biggest non-energy extractive industries in the EU (Eurostat 2017): 26000 estimated extraction sites:
81,26% of the total EU mining and quarrying sites, 3000 million ton extracted and supplied to the EU internal market, ~ 220000 persons directly employed. Hence the EU faces the need of sustainable and competitive future for European Raw Materials specially in the construction sector due to a greater anticipated demand for products linked to human well-being, health, safety and sustainability. DIGIECOQUARRY will exploit the aggregates industry´s great potential through a coordinated approach towards construction materials management with the final goal of reducing EU external supply dependency as well as leading an efficient use of resources.
DIGIECOQUARRY will develop systems, technology and processes for integrated digitisation and automation real-time process control, to be piloted in 5 EU quarries with the target of improving health and safety conditions for workers. The pilot campaigns will lead to improved efficiency of processes maximizing quarry resources and sustainable management of water, energy emissions, minimised environmental impact and expanding the EU aggregates and construction business. Coupling Artificial Intelligence approaches with cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things concept, make Industry 4.0 approach possible and the smart sustainable extractive site a reality. All phases of the process, from extraction to the end user are covered by DIGIECOQUARRY, ensuring communication with policy makers, social acceptance activities and international cooperation with Colombia and South Africa to share knowledge and best practices. The development of innovative an Intelligent Quarrying System (IQS) will increase the sustainable supply of minerals for the construction sector as well as enabling the sustainable extraction of EU´s mineral resources in existing and new quarries.
EIT International Summer School “From dreging to deep-sea mining”
Duration: 01/2020 – 12/2022
Striving for independence from the import of Critical Raw Materials, the EU has made considerable investments towards reaching marine mineral resources. A European deep-sea mining industry would have a potential of creating a hundreds-billion market and thousands of new jobs. The current knowledge about deep-sea mining and particularly about the impact of mining activities on the marine environment is quite diversified and often contradictory. This is not conducive to the acceptance of seabed mining by society due to the absence of a clear and holistic picture of seabed mining and its possible environmental footprint.
The DSM-School project is aiming to become a platform for the elaboration and dissemination of knowledge in deep-sea mining to increase awareness of wider society on state-of-the-art mining technologies, recent investigations on the environmental impact of seabed mining activities, marine mineral resources, as well as economic, political, social and legislative aspects. The project will reach the wider society with communication tools such as a two-week summer school organized in Germany, the Netherlands and Norway, the Internet, and public events.
https://www.ntnu.edu/igp/dsm-summer-school
Partner: Montanuniversität Leoben (Chair of Mining Engineering and Mineral Economics), Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, IHC Mining B.V., Norwegian University of Science and Technology, STICHTING NEDERLANDSE WETENSCHAPPELIIJK ONDERZOEK INSTITUTEN, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Delft University of Technology
Open ESEE – East & South-East Europe
Duration: 04/2018 – 03/2022
The aim of OpESEE (Open ESEE – East & South-East Europe) master’s degree program is to create highly qualified mechanical and process engineers from the ESEE region with a specialization in maintenance for raw materials services for the ESEE region. To avoid brain-drain and to improve the economic development of their home region it is very important that students stay and work in their home countries after having completed their high-quality education. The training focus not only on the transfer of technical know-how but also in the knowledge transfer of entrepreneurship and innovation. By developing real innovative business models students shall be encouraged to found their own start-up business. The aim is to use the full potential of creative ideas and inventions from the ESEE region and to make innovations happen where they have their origin.
Partner: Montanuniversität Leoben (RIC Leoben), Liebherr-International AG, Dnipro University of Technology, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Ovidius University of Constanta, Technical University of Kosice, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Trinity College Dublin, University of Miskolc, University of Sarajevo
Rare earth reduction in high performance permanent magnet electric machines
Duration: 1/2020 – 12/2022
The highest torque densities for motors in EV vehicles are obtained with Neodymium Nd magnet. But Nb is considered to be a critical material for Europe due to two reason.
• The Forecast of the demand predicts that it will exceed the production in the following years
• The production is out of Europe
This is why it is extremely interesting to look for alternatives to these magnets based on material which are not as critical as Nd. In this context, implementation of Cerium (Ce) substituted alloys could alleviate the need for Nd raw material up to 6-10 %. However, Ce-based magnets are known to be less performant than Nd magnets, therefore, it becomes mandatory to redesign electrical machine in order to optimize the implementation of these new magnets.
In LowReeMotors projects, two different electrical machines will be designed manufactured and tested based on Ce magnets that will substitute an existing equivalent Nd based motors.
The design will be developed focusing for mass production. In that way, the aim of the project is to develop two new motor products based on that topology.
Mixed Reality Handbooks for Mining Education
Duration: 01/2019 – 12/2021
MiReBooks produces a series of Virtual & Augmented Reality based interactive mining handbooks as a new digital standard for higher mining education across Europe.
In the project “MiReBooks” a series of virtual and augmented reality-based (Mixed Reality, MR) interactive mining handbooks will be produced as a new digital standard for higher mining education throughout Europe. Many current challenges in mining education will be confronted in an innovative way, by combining classical paper-based teaching materials with MR materials and their transformation into pedagogically and didactically coherent MR handbooks for integrative classroom use. The approach will be used in the future also in other disciplines. With MiReBooks the way of teaching will change as instructors will be able to engage their students in a more effective way and offer them an enriched content repertoire as well as an increased comprehension opportunity.
The array of possible industrial mine environment examples that students can be immersed into becomes endless and thus the industry will receive graduates that are familiarized in-depth with a holistic view on the industrial context. Students will enter the job market skilled as digital natives and highly influence the way the industry will work and develop in this way in the future. Mixed Reality is certainly a most promising way to enable users to make the most of their learning experience and thus leverage the improvement of operational efficiencies and innovation.
Technically, the MiReBooks-assisted lectures will include Smartphones with a special App that allows the students to trigger additional information (3D images, videos) from augmented illustrations within the MiReBooks textbooks. In addition, with virtual reality goggles they will be able to immerse themselves into a virtual mining environment/3D-filmed sequence of a real mine process.
Montanuniversität Leoben (RIC Leoben, Lead), Epiroc Rock Drills, KGHM, LTU Business, Luleå University of Technology, LKAB, RWTH Aachen, Tallinn University of Technology, Technische Universität Graz, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, VTT – Technical Research Centre of Finland, Università degli Studi di Trento
Rare earth reduction in high performance permanent magnet electric machines
The highest torque densities for motors in EV vehicles are obtained with Neodymium (Nd) magnets. But Nb is considered to be a critical material for Europe due to two reasons:
• The forecast of the demand predicts that it will exceed the production in the following years
• The production is out of Europe
This is why it is extremely interesting to look for alternatives to these magnets based on material which are not as critical as Nd. In this context, implementation of Cerium (Ce) substituted alloys could alleviate the need for Nd raw material up to 6-10 %. However, Ce-based magnets are known to be less performant than Nd magnets, therefore, it becomes mandatory to redesign electrical machinery in order to optimize the implementation of these new magnets.
In LowReeMotors projects, two different electrical machines will be designed, manufactured and tested based on Ce magnets that will substitute an existing equivalent Nd based motors.
The design will be developed focusing for mass production. In that way, the aim of the project is to develop two new motor products based on that topology,
Duration: 01/2020 – 12/2022
Partner: Montanuniversität Leoben (Chair of Polymer Processing), French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, KU Leuven, Magneti Ljubljana d.d., MONDRAGON GOI ESKOLA POLITEKNIKOA S. COOP., Valeo Powertrain Systems
Im Gegensatz zu anderen Sektoren wie der Forstwirtschaft, dem Lebensmittelsektor oder der Textilbranche besteht noch keine allgemeine und umfassende Zertifizierung mineralischer Rohstoffe. Das up-scaling Projekt CERA befasst sich mit der Entwicklung eines neuen Zertifizierungsschemas für mineralische Rohstoffe. CERA besteht aus acht Arbeitspaketen, in denen die DMT und ihre Partner (LTU Business, Universität Leiden, Montanuniversität Leoben und der TÜV Nord CERT) eine enge Arbeitsgemeinschaft bilden.
Bei der Zertifizierung von Rohstoffen sind die folgenden Eigenschaften erforderlich:
CERA
CERA – Certification of Raw Materials
01/2017 – 12/2020
EIT RawMaterials – Upscaling
MUL (Partner), DMT, TÜV NORD CERT, University Leiden, Advisory Board, Joint Research Centre, Fairphone, University of British Columbia, University of Southern Denmark, Euromines
Lehrstuhl für Geologie und Lagerstättenlehre – Frank Melcher
Total: € 1.444.178
MUL: € 261.963
SLIM plant die Entwicklung kosteneffektiver und nachhaltiger selektiver Bergbaumethoden basierend auf nichtlinearen Gesteinslösungsmodellen mittels Sprengtechnik. Die Lösung soll mithilfe neuer Sprengstoffe und einer neuen Spreng-Software welche auf Daten aus Gesteinsanalyse-Fragmentierungsmodellen zurückgreift optimale Fragmentierung, minimale Sprengschäden am Gestein und geringe Vibrationen erreichen. Die Weiterentwicklung der Lösungsmethoden wird über lange Sicht die Kosten und den Umwelteinfluss senken und die Akzeptanz in der Bevölkerung erhöhen. Die MUL war wesentlich an der Projekterstellung beteiligt, was sich auch über den größten Anteil an der Gesamtförderung zeigt und ist zudem Projektleiter des Arbeitspaketes „Umweltverträglichkeit und Sicherheit“, aber auch in den anderen Arbeitsgebieten des Projektes maßgeblich beteiligt.
Slim
Slim – Sustainable Low Impact Mining solution for exploitation of small mineral deposits based on advanced rock blasting and environmental technologies
11/2016 – 10/2020
H2020
MUL , Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, 3GSM Gmbh, Benito Arno E Hijos Sa, Bureau De Recherches Geologiques Et Minieres, Va Erzberg Gmbh, Investornet-Gate2growth Aps, Lulea Tekniska Universitet, Maxamcorp International Sl, Minpol Gmbh, Minera De Orgiva Sl, Technische Universitaet Graz, Zabala Innovation Consulting, S.A.
Lehrstuhl für Bergbaukunde – Finn Ouchterlony
Total: € 6,979,200.00
MUL: € 1,173,812.50