Project duration: 1 January 2018 – 20 March 2020

Objective

Accident causation studies highlight the fact that up to 96% of all accidents and incidents are caused by human error, with only 4% due to unsafe work conditions. Research and applications of behavioural principles have established behaviour-based safety initiatives as potentially effective solutions to certain occupational health and safety challenges. In 2016 Eurostat reported that in the EU-28 in 2013, there were approximately 3.1 million non-fatal accidents with at least four days of absence and 3,674 fatal accidents in. In the same year, the percentage of the EU-28 population suffering from one or more work-related health problems, caused or made worse by work, was on average 7.4 %.

RMSafeMate’s objective is to deliver an education-based course, which would facilitate the development of a behaviour based safety approach in participant companies in the raw material sector. Industry both large and small is leading the content definition for the programme. The education partners will jointly accredit the programme. Delivery will be through flexible lifelong learning in order to allow participants to access expert knowledge and apply skills in their own company context regardless of geographic location. The industry input and the flexible delivery mode is proposed to allow the final programme to be offered by other EIT RawMaterial education partners to industry participants across all the CLC

The solution (technology)

Industry and academia will collaborate to design, develop, and deliver an accredited course in Behaviour Based Safety for the partner companies of the Raw Material KIC.

Accident causation studies highlight the fact that up to 96% of all accidents and incidents are caused by human error, with only 4% due to unsafe work conditions. Research and applications of behavioural principles have established behaviour-based safety initiatives as potentially effective solutions to certain occupational health and safety challenges. Behaviour Based Safety focuses on worker behaviour and human factors rather than the more traditional approach of engineering safeguards and organisational rules. It is about taking safety beyond engineering, beyond rules and procedures and bringing about a state of heightened awareness in employees.

Unlike the typical top-down control approach to industrial safety, behaviour-based safety (BBS) provides tools and procedures employees can use to take personal control of occupational risks. The aim is to change behaviour and foster a positive, open safety culture. This in turn leads not only to reduced injuries and illness but also to improved morale, quality, performance and productivity.

Partnership

• University of Limerick, Ireland (Lead Partner)
• Aughinish Alumina Ltd, Ireland
• Health and Safety Authority of Ireland, Ireland
• Raptor, Ireland
• Innan AB, Sweden
• Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Sweden
• Swerea MEFOS AB, Sweden

Objective 

RM@Schools 3.0 promotes a wide dissemination action on RM-related themes in Schools and Society through strategic European partnerships among Research, School, and Industry. Students 10-19 years old will become RM Ambassadors to a wider community, since they will be involved in experiments with RM-related hands-on educational kits, excursions in industries, and science dissemination by using both their native and the English language.

The solution (technology)

RM@School 3.0 is a Wider Society Learning project, focused on an innovative program to make science education and careers in RM attractive for youngster. An active learning 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 in industries, and in science dissemination activities. The students will be asked to become Young RM Ambassadors themselves (science communicators) and to create dissemination products focused on issues related to RM (i.e. videos, cards, comics, etc), by using their native language (student age: 10-13 yrs) or both their native and the English language (student age: 14-19 yrs). Local Competitions for awarding the best communication products as well as an annual European Conference with delegates from European schools (students and teachers) will be annually organized. In addition, teachers will be trained to become RM Ambassadors themselves in the future at school, and selected groups of students will be trained on digital competence and video making and/or on activities suitable to be proposed during Public Events in order to work together with RM Ambassadors. All the produced materials and the best communication materials realised by pupils will be accessible online on the website of the project to be shared with a wider public.

Partnership

• Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy (Lead Partner)
• Alma Mater Studiorum – Universita di Bologna, Italy
• Bay Zoltan Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research, Hungary
• Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
• Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission), France
• ECODOM, Italy
• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Fraunhofer), Germany
• Geological Survey of Slovenia (GeoZS), Slovenia
• Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU), Sweden
• Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden
• Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria
• Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen), Germany
• Stichting Wetsus European Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology, (Wetsus), the Netherlands
• Tallinna Tehnikaülikool, TTÜ – Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, UPM (Technical University of Madrid), Spain
• Universidade Nova de Lisboa (New University of Lisbon) – Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FCT NOVA), Portugal
• Università degli Studi di Milano – Bicocca (University of Milano – Bicocca), Italy
• Université de Liège, Belgium

Project duration: 01 January 2018 – 31 December 2020

Objective

The solution (technology)

Students 10-19 years old will become RM Ambassadors to a wider community, since they will be involved in experiments with RM-related hands-on educational kits, excursions in industries, and science dissemination by using both their native and the English language.

Partnership

• Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy (Lead Partner)
• Aalto-Korkeakoulusaatio (Aalto University), Finland
• Alma Mater Studiorum – Universita di Bologna, Italy
• ART-ER S. Cons. p a., Italy
• Bay Zoltan Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research, Hungary
• Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission), France
• ERION, Italy
• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Fraunhofer), Germnay
• Geological Survey of Slovenia, GeoZS, Slovenia
• Geological Survey of Sweden, SGU, Sweden
• Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden
• Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria
• Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen, RWTH Aachen, Germany
• Stichting Wetsus European Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology, (Wetsus), The Netherlands
• Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• TU Clausthal (Clausthal University of Technology), Germany
• Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, UPM (Technical University of Madrid), Spain
• Universidade Nova de Lisboa (New University of Lisbon) – Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FCT NOVA), Portugal
• Università degli Studi di Milano – Bicocca (University of Milano- Bicocca), Italy
• Université de Liège, Belgium

Project duration: 1 January 2021 – 31 December 2023

Objective

RM@Schools 4.0 is emerging from RM@Schools 3.0, the WSL Flagship programme of EIT RawMaterials, and running in parallel with RM@Schools-ESEE, dedicated to the ESEE region.It is supporting the RawMaterials Academy’s efforts towards young students (11-19 years old) across Europe to promote a wide dissemination action on RM-related themes in schools and society through strategic European partnerships among research, university, school, and industry.

The solution (technology)

RM@School 4.0 is an innovative program to make science education and careers in RM attractive for youngster. An active learning is 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 in industries, and in science dissemination activities. The students are asked to become Young RM Ambassadors themselves (science communicators) by creating dissemination products focused on some issue related to RM and /or collaborating with experts in supporting public events. Local and International Competitions for awarding the best products developed by students, public events as well as an annual European Conference with delegates from European schools (students and teachers) will be annually organized. These events will be the chance for exchanging ideas and experiences in the atmosphere of inclusion and collaboration. In addition, teachers will be trained to become RM Ambassadors themselves in the future at school and digital tools will be developed. All the produced materials will be open and accessible online to everyone on Virtual Centre, on-line platform devoted to the project, as well as the best communication materials realised by pupils will be uploaded on the website(http://rmschools.isof.cnr.it/) to be shared with a wider public.

Partnership

• Aalto University, Finland
• Università di Bologna, Italy
• Bay Zoltan Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research, Hungary
• ERION, Italy
• European Association of Mining Industries, Metal Ores & Industrial Minerals (EUROMINES)
• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Fraunhofer), Germany
• Geological Survey of Slovenia (GeoZS), Slovenia
• Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU), Sweden
• Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria
• The Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy
• Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen), Germany
• Riga Technical University, Latvia
• Stichting Wetsus European Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology (Wetsus), Netherlands
• Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
• Technical University of Madrid, Spain
• New University of Lisbon – Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FCT NOVA), Portugal
• University of Milano- Bicocca, Italy
• Université de Liège, Belgium
• University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Belgium
• Italian National Research Council (Lead Partner), Italy

Project duration: 01 January 2020 – 31 December 2022

Objective

The solution (technology)

RM@Schools-ESEE is expanding the RawMaterials Academy’s efforts towards young students (11-19 years old) across Europe to promote a wide dissemination action on RM-related themes in schools and society through strategic European partnerships among research, school, and industry.

Partnership

• Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria (Lead Partner)
• Geological Survey of Sweden, SGU, Sweden
• Foundation myclimate, Switzerland
• Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy
• AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
• National Technical University of Athens – NTUA, Greece
• Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
• Technische Universitaet Wien (Vienna University of Technology), Austria
• Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF), Germnay
• University of Miskolc, Hungary
• University of Zagreb – Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering (UNIZG-RGNF), Croatia

Project duration: 01 January 2020 – 31 October 2022

Objective

The solution (technology)

A wide range of activities – lectures, workshops, idea camps will be transferred from developed to RIS countries.

Partnership

• AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland (Lead Partner)
• Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, l’Energia e lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile (ENEA), Italy
• Consorcio Campus Iberus, Spain
• KGHM Cuprum sp. z o.o. Centrum Badawczo-Rozwojowe (KGHM Cuprum Ltd. Research & Development Centre), Poland
• Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Finland
• National Technical University of Athens – NTUA, Greece
• Odessa Institute of Trade and Economics of Kyiv – National University of Trade and Economics, Ukraine
• Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
• Waste Management and Recycling Cluster – National Key Cluster, Poland

Project duration: 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2020

Objective

RMTechFlow is a two-year-long lifelong learning project aiming at coaching at least 180 KIC (Knowledge and Innovation Community) partners’ academics and staff members from tech transfer offices in better scouting, analysing and boosting promising technologies towards market exploitation. The strategic goal is to improve the chances for impact of KIC upscaling projects. Learning opportunities will revolve around hands-on co-located workshops, as well as operations on real IP business cases.

The solution (technology)

The project will train researchers and technologists from KIC universities and research centres in developing and positioning their technologies in line with industry needs. Similarly, the project will train staff from tech transfer offices and innovation management agencies in getting organized to better support the former. Both target audiences will be offered top-level professional learning experiences such as:

1. 1.5 day face-to face workshops, featuring seminars, hands-on work on real cases, and discussion of success stories brought by one corporate speaker.
2. MOOC-alike contents made available online, featuring recordings of the main workshop sessions, slides, practical tools and exercises.
3. Experiential learning through the participation to one industry trade show.
4. Experiential learning via the provision of one-to-one technology acceleration coaching services.

Partners

• Hub Innovazione Trentino S.c.a.r.l. (HIT), Italy
• AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
• FLSmidth A/S, Denmark
• LTU Business AB, Sweden
• Tecnalia Ventures, S.L., Sociedad Unipersonal, Spain
• Trinity Dublin College, Ireland

For more information, please visit the project web page.

Project duration: 1 January 2016 – 31 December 2019

Objective

The solution (technology)

The advanced mathematical methods for optimisation will be published and be available for new projects in industrial control. The technological cooperation will strengthen the global competitiveness of the European mining industries. The “Rock Vader” prototype will be optimized for industrial commercialisation and also will be used for demonstrating the new technologies not only to the mining industry but also to universities and students. The developments aimed in this proposal fit well in the typical curriculum scheme of universities: Students will write bachelor and master thesis in the field of the developments done in this project. A researcher/student exchange for a defined project period between MUL and VTT will contribute to a knowledge transfer within the KIC community.

Partnership

• Sandvik Mining and Construction GmbH, Sweden (Lead Partner)
• DMT GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
• KGHM Cuprum sp. z o.o. Centrum Badawczo-Rozwojowe (KGHM Cuprum Ltd. Research & Development Centre), Poland
• Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria
• Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. VTT), Finland
• Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten AG, Germany