On 25-27.09.2024 REECOL partners met in Chania, Greece to carry out a two-day meeting regarding the project progress. There were also partners attending online. TUC (School of Mineral Resources Engineering) was the host of the meeting. In addition to presentations
WP5 team met online to disccuss soil sampling plans and progress

REECOL team involved in WP 5: “Short and long term monitoring of ecosystem rehabilitation” continues work on collecting of soil samples. They met online to plan soil sampling campaign in Greece on the Ptolemais mining site at the end of
REECOL present on SDIMI 2024 conference

REECOL research results were shared on the 11th international conference on sustainable development in the minerals industry SDIMI 2024. During ‘Mine Closure’ session, PPC and TUC gave a presentation of their paper entitled: “Certification and ecological reclamation of mined areas:
WP5 team met online

BRGM organized another online meeting with partners involved in WP 5: Short and long term monitoring of ecosystem rehabilitation. A deliverable to be elaborated and soil sampling campaign to be carried out in Greece in September this year were discussed.
REECOL presented on geoENV2024 conference

REECOL ideas and research results were shared by TUC during geoENV2024 – the 15th International Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, held on 19-21 JUNE 2024 in Chania, Greece.A poster covering one of issues we focus on in our project
Partners met online to disscuss WP5

The REECOL partners met online to work on work package 5 (WP5): Short and long term monitoring of ecosystem rehabilitation. They discussed:1) the choice of indicators to be measured on the sites that will be either rehabilitated during the project
Visit in Konin mine – drone flights and collecting soil samples

Two REECOL teams: from Instytut Techniki Górniczej KOMAG and from Poltegor-Instytut visited Konin Brown Coal Mine. KOMAG team carried out drone flights to collect data for calculation of NDVI. NDVI, i.e. normalized differential vegetation index – is used to determine the
REECOL ideas shared with the Faculty of Environment at the University of Jan Evangelista in Ústí nad Labem

Faculty of Environment at the University of Jan Evangelista in Ústí nad Labem is another university with which VUHU shared the REECOL project ideas.
REECOL project presented during EGU24 conference

On the international conference EGU 24, during a session “Mining and Post-mining innovative solutions for mining waste, and risk assessment for sustainable development”, the project partner School of Mineral Resources Engineering of Technical University of Crete gave a presentation covering
REECOL ideas shared with Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague

VUHU shares the REECOL ideas (rehabilitation methodologies and approaches etc.) with universities. A great occasion for this was an excursion of Czech and foreign students of the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague at the Mostecká basin, guided by