REECOL

At the EURECA-PRO 4th International Conference on Responsible Consumption and Production (22-24.09.2025, Chania, Crete), the project partner TUC (the School of Mineral Resources Engineering) presented its ongoing research projects during Session II: Clustering Workshop on Sustainable Pathways in Critical Raw Materials and Post-Mining Transitions.
In the presentation “Innovative Approaches for Sustainable Transition of Former Coal Sites: A Review of ErEnMine, MidSafe, and REECOL research projects”, the activities of #REECOL project were presented and the synergies with the other research projects were highlighted. Key information about #REECOL was also communicated to the conference attendees through the project’s informative roll-up banner.

REECOL was presented to attendees of TUR 2025 conference organized by Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza w Krakowie and The Polish Ceramic Society. Instytut KOMAG gave a presentation about the development and field tests of technology of non-contact soil remediation technology developed by them in the project. The project informative roll-up banner was also displayed.The conference homepage: https://www.tur.agh.edu.pl/en/homepage/

Today, project partners met and discussed the current tasks. Arrangaments regarding upcoming activities were also made.

Based on the research carried out in REECOL, TUC elaborated a scientific paper entitled: Spatiotemporal Analysis of Vegetation Health and Moisture Dynamics in Rehabilitated Mining Quarries Using Satellite Imagery. It has been published in Environmental Processes  (Springer Nature).
LINK to the paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40710-025-00781-3.

REECOL partners’ monthly meeting took place. The main focus was on work packages WP4, WP5 and WP6 – current and future activiites. Upcoming progress meeting in Poland was also shortly discussed.

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.

A paper elaborated within REECOL project, titled “Environmental rehabilitation and post-mining land use of the Premogovnik Velenje area”, was presented by Premogovnik Velenje during a traditional event 49th “Skok čez kožo” that was held in Ljubljana on 11.04.2025.

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