Over 500 people came together for GEO Week 2018 from 29 October – 2 November 2018 in Kyoto, Japan. The week’s events focused on GEO’s three priority engagement areas: the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Paris Climate Agreement, and the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Gerardo Herrera and Veronika Kopackova represented EuroGeoSurveys and the Earth Observation Geohazards Expert Group. Click here to download the summary of the...

The workshop on “UN Framework Classification for Sustainable Resources Management in Europe”, was organised in the frame of the EU Raw Materials Week on 16 November 2018 in Brussels, by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), the European Commission, the European Federation of Geologists (EFG) and EuroGeoSurveys (EGS). Click here to download the press...

We would like to update you about the progress of the PanAfGeo project and the substantial visibility it is providing EuroGeoSurveys and its members. Click here to download the...

The EGS Marine Geology Expert Group (MGEG) had its annual meeting back-to-back with the 4th EMODnet project meeting in Shengjin, Albania on 24th September. Altogether 19-member organizations were present at the meeting. Additionally the meeting was attended by Jennifer Valerius (BSH, Germany) and Valerii Rokitshkij (Ukranian PSRGE), who gave their presentations on national marine geological issues. Most of the meeting was spent on national reports, but we also discussed GeoERA and its marine parts and amongst other issues possible staff exchange and equipment inventories. The EMODnet project had its 4th project meeting in Shengjin Albania the last week in September. During the meeting the 75 participating delegates from 29 European countries decided upon activities to finalize the project according to set tender by April 2019. During the last six months of the project partners will deliver last updates on data and the work package leaders will update EMODnet Geology data products, such as the seabed substrate, sediment accumulation, bedrock stratigraphy and lithology, coastal behavior, geological events and susceptibility, and marine mineral maps into scale 1:100,000 or the best available scale. Additionally some new features will be released for the first time, such as; geomorphology, Quaternary geology, and submerged landscapes of the European continental shelves during various postglacial time slices. Click here to download the...

We would like to update you about the progress of the PanAfGeo project and the substantial visibility it is providing EuroGeoSurveys and its members. Click here to download the...

MINDeSEA is the flagship project of GeoERA on seabed mineral deposits in the European Seas. The first Newsletter contains the following content: The MINDeSEA Project GeoERA Starts News and Events Download the MINDeSEA Newsletter...

The Commission has published its proposal for Horizon Europe, an ambitious €100 billion research and innovation programme that will succeed Horizon 2020. The proposal was made as part of the EU’s proposal for the next EU long-term budget, the multiannual financial framework (MFF). Various building blocks were taken into account including the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020, the Lab-Fab-App report (informally the Lamy report), foresight studies and various other reports. Horizon Europe will incorporate policy missions to ensure the effectiveness of research and innovation funding by pursuing clearly defined targets. The Commission has engaged policy experts to develop studies, case studies and reports on how a mission-oriented policy approach will work. Read more about the next research and innovation framework programme.   ...

A Memorandum will be signed today, 26 April 2018 at Palais des Nations in Geneva, between EuroGeoSurveys and UNECE. This cooperation chiefly contributes in realizing a European Geological Knowledge Base for all resources. Download the press release...

“EU Raw Materials 2050: Roadmap to Success”  took place in Brussels on 17 April 2018. This Horizon2020 funded project brought together diverse stakeholders – including five European Technology Platforms (ETPs): Sustainable Minerals Resources, Forest, Construction, Sustainable Chemistry and Advanced Materials. The conference discussed the work of VERAM, its methodologies and its results including the launch of the “Research and Innovation Roadmap 2050: A Sustainable and Competitive Future for European Raw Materials”.  To learn more about the future of raw materials in Europe and the importance of the sector to European competitiveness, jobs and growth, as well as the need and capacity to innovate, we invite you to visit the VERAM Final Conference webpage. Images and presentations are also available. The full post-event report is available...

FORAM project just released his third newsletter! Find out more about: – the last World Resources Forum 2017 – the questionnaire for stakeholders – the global mapping of existing Raw Materials initiatives – the INTRAW and FORAM project round table during the last Raw Materials Week edition Click here to download the...