The Nexpert project
Nexus for Expertise in Sustainable Mineral Resource Development
The EU faces an important shift to sustainable raw material supply chain, which is key to achieving the climate and environmental goals set out in the European Green Deal. This transition requires trained individuals with interdisciplinary knowledge of sustainable mining, environmental management, and circular economy practices. The high resource potential in Greenland combined with EU’s demand for minerals and its expertise in prospecting, exploration, extraction, processing and refining, makes a solid base for the Partnership and supports the development of Greenland’s mineral resource sector as a future supplier of critical raw materials to the EU.
The consortium, led by RWTH Aachen University and including Aarhus University, the University of Eastern Finland and Pinngortitaleriffik/Grønlands Naturinstitut, brings together expertise from both the mining and environmental sectors. This collaboration ensures that students, educators and the general public have access to high quality digital learning resources that address the complex challenges of CRM extraction and management.
Motivation
The NEXPERT project aims to foster academic collaboration, share and create innovative digital teaching materials, and exchange knowledge to promote the sustainable, secure supply and responsible management of mineral resources development.
The founding of NEXPERT supports EUs transition to a sustainable supply of raw materials by providing interdisciplinary access to knowledge on mineral resource extraction, sustainable mining processes, environmental management, the circular economy at the university level and by raising awareness in society.
Project results
When universities add mining expertise to non-mining courses, they give students real-world knowledge from the raw materials sector. A carefully chosen set of digital teaching materials and activities helps teachers teach more effectively and helps students learn better. NEXPERT gives future leaders in the EU’s raw materials sector the skills they need to support sustainable change and stay competitive worldwide.
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