Ecological rehabilitation and long term monitoring of post mining areas
Two-day meeting of the project cosortium, hosted by VUHU, took place on 16,17 April 2026. The project partners participated in-person and online. Curent, completed and future tasks and activities have been thorougly discussed.
REECOL project objectives and results were presented at KOMEKO2026 conference.
During a session on projects in which Instytut KOMAG is involved, the project coordinator, Poltegor-Instytut, delivered a presentation “REECOL – Ecological rehabilitation and long-term monitoring of post-mining areas”.
The REECOL informational banner was also displayed throughout the conference.
The REECOL team’s monthly online meeting took place last week. The issues disscussed included among others:
Deliverable 4.1. Method for a steered sucession of low-growing plants and its field testing has been uploaded on the Deliverables website: https://reecol.komag.eu/deliverables/.
On the last Friday of January, the project partners took part in the periodic online meeting. The issues discussed included among others: REECOL progress meeting in Czechia, workshops to be held this year, review of Audit Catalogue (one of results of our project), work on Deliverable D4.5 that is to be completed this year.
REECOL partners involved in the work package 5: ‘Short and long term monitoring of ecosystem rehabilitation’ met online to discuss the completed, current and future activities. Ideas for a research paper were also shared.
The automated spraying system designed in REECOL project to support land reclamation in post-mining areas was presented in a paper “Automated Spraying System for Post-Mining Land Reclamation –Structural Design and Functional Testing” published in Mining Machines.
The system is part of a non-contact remediation technology, for degraded soils, the development of which is one of the project’s key objectives.
Here is direct link to the paper: https://tinyurl.com/3sx6tv4r
The last periodic meeting in this year took place. Fruitful discussions and summings up took place.
On 4–5 November 2025, our team gathered in Szczyrk to take part in the KOMTECH Conference project session and to hold our progress meeting. Both in-person and online participants joined the discussions, covering completed tasks, ongoing work, and future activities within the project. After hard work, we deserved a reward. We had a trip to Guido Coal Mine, thus moving our focus from the “surface” to the “underground”.
At the KOMTECH conference organized by Instytut KOMAG in Szczyrk, REECOL objectives and results were presented during a dedicated session.
