Ecological rehabilitation and long term monitoring of post mining areas
The project partners from Greece – TUC and PPC met online. They discussed the activities related to the development of the audit catalogue used to evaluate and certify the best practice of the ecological rehabilitation in post-mining areas, which is a subject of work package 6 (WP6) of the project. In particular they discussed the development of guidelines for the users of this audit catalogue.
The REECOL partners’ completed the project progress meeting, hosted by BRGM on 13-15 MAY 2025. The attendees worked intensively and effectively to keep the project on the right track. Fruitful disscussions took place and important decissions and plans were made.
On the 1st day, the focus was on tasks within WP 4 ‘Development of new solutions for post mining land reclamation and their testing in case study areas’. The 2nd day was devoted to WP 5 ‘Short and long term monitoring of ecosystem rehabilitation’. A tour around BRGM’s facility also took place. During the 3rd day, the presentations and follow-up discussions covered WP 6 ‘Developing an audit catalogue to evaluate and certify ecological rehabilitation industry best practice of post-mining areas’ and WP 2 ‘Promotion and dissemination’.
Today we had the 1st day of our 3-day progress meeting. It is held and hosted by BRGM. The meeting is attended in-person or online.
The presentations and discussion covered amond others: overview of the project progress and WP 4.
Partners met to discuss the project progress. The 1st part of the meeting regarded organizational issues, in particular – preparation of the 1st mid-term report and upcoming project progress meeting (Orleans, France). Then, work packages 4, 5 and 6 were discussed.
Today, two online meetings took place – separately to disscuss tasks in:
– WP4: Development of new solutions for post mining land reclamation and their testing in case study areas
– WP5: Short and long term monitoring of ecosystem rehabilitation.
Meeting of WP4 team:
Meeting of WP5 team:
The project ideas were shared during a conference organized by KOMAG – KOMEKO 2025 .
A presentation about non-contact soil remediation technology being under development in the project.
Additionally, the project roll-up was displayed.
LInk to the conference program: https://komeko.komag.eu/program/
Link to the recording of the presentation: https://youtu.be/Il2xUebwHHk?t=14492
Project partners met online to discuss the project progress, covering current and future tasks, meetings and reporting.
Today, project partners met online to dissuss the project progress. They focused on three work packages:
– WP 4 – Development of new solutions for post mining land reclamation and their testing in case study areas
– WP 5 – Short and long term monitoring of ecosystem rehabilitation
– WP 6 – Developing an audit catalogue to evaluate and certify ecological rehabilitation industry best practice of post-mining areas.
The REECOL partners from Greece – TUC and PPC met online on 05.12.2024 to work together on the project work package WP6 related to the development of an audit catalogue to evaluate and certify the ecological rehabilitation in postmining areas, taking into account industry best practices. More specifically, the main parts of the audit catalogue were defined and the rating system for the items of the catalogue was proposed. The subjects regarding the accompanying dashboard – visualization tool (Task 6.2) and the guidebook for the application of the audit catalogue (Task 6.3) were also preliminary discussed.
TUC team met to work on the development of an audit catalogue to evaluate and certify ecological rehabilitation of post-mining areas. In particular, the frame of the audit catalogue, its chapters with their main subjects and the way of their ratings were presented and discussed.
