EU-Projekt MIREU
- Förderprogramm / Programme: Horizon 2020
- Laufzeit / Duration: 2018 – 2020
- Projekttitel / Project name: „MIREU – Mining and Metallurgy Regions of EU“
- Info: www.mireu.eu
Projektpartner / Project partners: 30 Partner aus ganz Europa
Das Horizon-Projekt MIREU will ein Netzwerk von Bergbau- und metallverarbeitenden Regionen in Europa aufzubauen, mit dem Ziel, gemeinsame Wege für die Bewältigung der Herausforderungen in solchen Regionen zu entwickeln. Dabei sollen verschiedene Ebenen und Stakeholder – Politik & Behörden, Bergbau- und Industriebetriebe, Regionalentwicklungsorganisationen, NGOs und auch die BewohnerInnen mit einbezogen werden. Die Rolle des Vereins Eisenstraße ist es, hier einerseits „weiche“ Faktoren wie Erfahrungen mit industrie- und bergbauaffiner Kultur, soziokulturelle Erfahrungen und das Thema „Demographie“ aus der Regionalentwicklung, und auf der anderen Seite Erfahrungen mit Förderprogrammen aus der ländlichen Entwicklung (Leader, Interreg usw.) einzubringen.
The project MIREU aims to establish a network of mining and metallurgy regions across Europe with a view to ensure the sustained and sustainable supply of mineral raw materials to the EU. The network will help the regions to share knowledge and experiences when facing the challenge to establish and maintain an extractive industry. MIREU will facilitate an exchange between all interested stakeholders in the regions, namely regulatory authorities, political and administrative bodies, development agencies, mining companies, non-government organisations, as well as the general public. The project will develop a shared knowledge base, taking into account the region-specific geographic and economic features, cultural, societal and language diversity, and their historical developments. The network will also learn from experience in other regions of the World. This knowledge base will allow to understand what has been conducive and what hampering to the development of extractive and metallurgical industries. It will also provide the context for a bottom-up integration of these activities into their respective socio-economic and socio-cultural context. Development is about people and, therefore, bringing people into the decision-finding procedure in order to achieve a ‘social license to operate’ will be a key aspect of the project. Guidelines and recommendations for actions to be taken to foster a sustained and sustainable development of the extractive industries will be developed in close co-operation with a range of selected regions from the European Union. These regions will form a nucleus and multipliers for a more extensive network beyond the life-time of the project.