TERRA - Teaching and Research Conference series started

1st European Conference on TEaching and Research in Sustainable Resource ExtrAction - TERRA - Boppard, Rhine River, Germany, 6-8 September 2023

Europe’s raw materials sector needs 1.2 million jobs but faces serious skill shortages by 2030. Such challenges will only be solved through significant changes in how the European university sector engages with students and society, offers educational programs, educates professionals, and pursues research and innovations.

TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology team Tony Hand , Karin Robam and Veiko Karu were active participants and speakers at the First TERRA Conference.

The letter?T?represents the combination of hard and soft skills that are an increasing requirement of many employers today. Future mining, resource, and geology engineer needs T-shaped education to find the solutions that raw materials sector currently faces. The important skills: Deep expertise in the selected field; Communication skills; Problem-Solving skills; Collaboration skills; Project Management.

CircPro course is a fully online course open for any student from any university in the World. You can register until 18 September to take this course in the autumn semester of 2023, and you can join also in the spring semester of 2024 (registration starts January 2024).

The course aim is to build knowledge and capacity in state-of-the-art circular economy and resource efficiency practices – to ensure that future graduate engineers have the skills to develop more sustainable processes in raw materials value chains.

How to be a successful PhD student? What skills and knowledge are the most valuable for the PhD student in the 21st century? During the entrepreneurial school series the PhD candidates will identify the needs of modern society and implement the practical use and commercialisation aspect of the dissertation project. PhD students will increase their knowledge and experience, improve their networking in-between academic fields and industry on how to bring the research results to the market and do the commercialisation and upscaling.

Full TERRA programme

Thanks to the Institute of Mineral Resources Engineering, 德国亚琛工业大学 , for organizing an excellent event where mining academics, researchers and students could collaborate and make new partnerships for future development. Thanks to all participants for their active participation in oral presentations and poster sessions.

Thank you! We will meet again!

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