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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement number: 642477

Project acronym: ¡VAMOS! Project title: ¡Viable Alternative Mine Operating System! Funding Scheme: Collaborative project

D1.6: Dissemination Plan, web portal and publication material

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Due date of deliverable: 31/01/2019 Actual submission date: 18/01/2019 Start date of project: 01/02/2015 Duration: 48 Months Organisation name of lead contractor for this deliverable: DAM Participating: MUL, MIN, MML, GeoZS, CF, EFG, FZG, FORVV

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Contents LIST OF FIGURES .......................................................................................................................................................5

LIST OF TABLES .........................................................................................................................................................5

LIST OF ANNEXES ......................................................................................................................................................6

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ...........................................................................................................................................7

1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .....................................................................................................................................8

2 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................9

2.1 THE ¡VAMOS! PROJECT ......................................................................................................................................... 9 2.2 DELIVERABLE D1.6 ................................................................................................................................................. 9

2.2.1 Objectives ..................................................................................................................................................... 9 2.2.2 Approach .................................................................................................................................................... 10 2.2.3 Timetable .................................................................................................................................................... 11 2.2.4 Deviations ................................................................................................................................................... 11

2.3 ¡VAMOS! DISSEMINATION TEAM ........................................................................................................................... 11 2.4 KEY ASPECTS OF THE ¡VAMOS! IDENTITY ................................................................................................................. 12

3 TARGETED AUDIENCES ................................................................................................................................... 13

4 DISSEMINATION TOOLS & PLANNING ............................................................................................................. 13

4.1 COMMUNICATION TOOLS AND CHANNELS ................................................................................................................. 13 4.1.1 News ........................................................................................................................................................... 13 4.1.2 Print ............................................................................................................................................................ 14 4.1.3 Online .......................................................................................................................................................... 16 4.1.4 Social media ................................................................................................................................................ 19 4.1.5 Audio/Video ................................................................................................................................................ 19 4.1.6 Events ......................................................................................................................................................... 21 4.1.7 Sustainable Mining Forum .......................................................................................................................... 26 4.1.8 Advisory board ............................................................................................................................................ 28 4.1.9 Cooperation with other projects ................................................................................................................. 28 4.1.10 Scientific publications ................................................................................................................................. 30

4.2 MAPPING OF CHANNELS – TAILORED STRATEGIES TO SPECIFIC STAKEHOLDER GROUPS ........................................................ 30

5 CONCLUSIONS ................................................................................................................................................ 32

5.1 EFFECTIVITY TOWARDS TARGET GROUPS ................................................................................................................... 32 5.2 INDIVIDUAL PARTNERS’ DISSEMINATION .................................................................................................................... 35 5.3 THIRD PARTY PUBLICATIONS ................................................................................................................................... 35 5.4 KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS ............................................................................................................................. 35

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List of figures Figure 1; Brochure ................................................................................................................................................. 14 Figure 2; Roll-out banner and site entrance banner ............................................................................................ 15 Figure 3; The ¡VAMOS! WP5 team at Vareš, Bosnia & Hercegovina .................................................................... 16 Figure 4; The LARV decorated flags and logo's ..................................................................................................... 16 Figure 5; Website main page ................................................................................................................................ 17 Figure 6; Screen-dump of ¡VAMOS! Downloads page (or: Information Observatory) ......................................... 18 Figure 7; Front slide of PowerPoint presentation ................................................................................................. 20 Figure 8; Distribution of Demo Days visitors over target groups.......................................................................... 21 Figure 9; Ex-mining engineer Éamonn de Stafort citing a miner's poem to Koen Verbruggen (GSI) and Bonnie Coxon (Newcrest Mining) at the Silvermines Demo Day ...................................................................................... 22 Figure 10; Damen's booth at CEDA Dredging Days, November 2015 ................................................................... 23 Figure 11; Uwe Restner from Sandvik presenting at Minex Europe, 2015 ........................................................... 23 Figure 12; Frank Bosman (Damen) presenting at EASME Cluster Event on Raw Materials, December 2017 ...... 23 Figure 13; Gorazd Žibret leading a joint EU-project workshop in Bled, January 2018 ......................................... 23 Figure 14; José Almeida (INESC Tec) presenting at the joint conference in Bled, January 2018 .......................... 23 Figure 15; Toni Nikolic (FZG) presenting at Geo-expo 2018, Neum, BiH, October 2018 ...................................... 23 Figure 16; Silvermines Demo Day agenda and site tour schedule ........................................................................ 24 Figure 17; Visitors Day at Lee Moor, October 2017 .............................................................................................. 25 Figure 18; ¡VAMOS! Technical Manager Stef Kapusniak from SMD presenting at Visitors Day’s brief in Silvermines, October 2018 .................................................................................................................................... 25 Figure 19; Project Manager Paul Arthur (SMD) showing local stakeholders around at Silvermines .................... 25 Figure 20; Visitors being demoed at the Control Cabin in Silvermines ................................................................ 25 Figure 21; Visitors on board of the LARV at Silvermines ...................................................................................... 25 Figure 22; EVA being explained by Carlos Almeida from InescTEC on the Visitors Day at Silvermines ................ 25 Figure 23; Screen-dump of Linkedin group front page "Sustainable Mining Forum"........................................... 26 Figure 24; Page view analytics of ¡VAMOS! Sustainable Mining Forum ............................................................... 27 Figure 25; Visitor analytics of ¡VAMOS! Sustainable Mining Forum ..................................................................... 27 Figure 26; Follower origin per industry type ......................................................................................................... 27 Figure 27; Follower origin by location................................................................................................................... 28 Figure 28; Andreas Nüchter from ZfT presenting at Real Time Mining Conference, October 2017 .................... 29 Figure 29; Frank Bosman presenting for delegates of EU’s DG Grow at a visit to Damen headquarters, July 2018 ............................................................................................................................................................................... 29 Figure 30; Mr. Koen Verbruggen from Geological Society of Ireland explaining the Magcobar pit bathymetry to other participants at the Silvermines Demo Day .................................................................................................. 30 Figure 31; Publications aimed at target groups .................................................................................................... 30 Figure 32; Events aimed at target groups ............................................................................................................. 30 Figure 33; Edine Bakker presenting the ¡VAMOS! project during the Mines and Technology conference, November 2017 .................................................................................................................................................... 33

List of tables Table 1; Mapping of dissemination channels to target groups (estimate) ........................................................... 31 Table 2; Target groups involvement in ¡VAMOS! ................................................................................................. 34 Table 3; Key Performance Indicator scores .......................................................................................................... 35

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List of annexes Annex A; Website statistics Annex B; Dissemination activity report; Publications Annex C; Dissemination activity report; Events Annex D; ¡VAMOS! Press list Annex E; Press release coverage Annex F; Silvermines stakeholder survey analysis

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List of Abbreviations AB Advisory Board Group of external experts, advising the project

AUV Autonomous Underwater Vehicle A submersible robot performing tasks underwater

EVA Exploration VAMOS AUV An AUV built specifically for ¡VAMOS! GA Grant Agreement Generally referring to Grant Agreement 642477

of the ¡VAMOS! project GSI Geological Survey of Ireland KPI Key Performance Indicator Measure focusing on aspects of organizational

performance LARV Launch & Recovery Vessel Vessel used to lower, lift and store the MV MV Mining Vehicle Prototype tracked vehicle for submerged

mining operations PR Public Relations

RASCI Responsible, Accountable, Supportive, Consulting, Informed

A method/model to assign or show roles to project team members

SEO Search Engine Optimization Method to enhance online retrievability SMF Sustainable Mining Forum An online discussion forum for ¡VAMOS! WP Work Package Sub-stage and/or sub-plan of Project

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1 Executive Summary This report presents the results of the Dissemination Plan which was designed to leverage the aims of the ¡VAMOS! project. The consortium has used the plan (finalised in M12) as a baseline for further review, and adapted its methods during implementation, in line with stakeholders’ perceptions and lessons learned. Specific channels are evaluated in this report for their reach, effectiveness in targeting particular groups, and other factors. Over time, actions were taken to ensure the effectiveness of communication and dissemination activities. The main challenges we encountered during the project were sharing information between partners about their publications, and sharing of raw material, and the relatively small budget for this task.

The (intermediate) results coming from the project and the way we presented it, resulted in quite an impressive impact, particularly in online media. Besides the channels originally chosen, it must be noted that a considerable amount of interest was generated by the Visitors Days which were organised during the two trials to showcase the ¡VAMOS! technology. This was an unforeseen method of interaction, but fitted in well with the task of demonstrating the technology within WP5, and provided valuable interaction with our target groups, including key industrial players. The buzz that was created with these events was re-used in an effective manner via media channels, resulting in further response. The KPI’s which were defined initially, are largely met, in terms of number of attended events, joint EU conferences, own and third party publications in various media and online activity. In addition, this deliverable contains the results of a stakeholder engagement survey held at the Silvermines Demo Day. In addition to contributing to task ST1.4.2 this enquiry underlines the power of communication in relation to local acceptance of the project’s activities in the field, and mining in general. The effort which was put into releasing publications, attending and organising events, and approaching target groups through the network of the consortium partners eventually paid off. For future exploitation it is recommended to further convey the outputs from WP6 (Feasibility, Viability and Market-Up-take) - or: project assets - to specific target groups in the most suitable way.

With this it can be concluded that the project complied with Grant Agreement, Art. 38.1, which states: “The beneficiaries must promote the action and its results, by providing targeted information to multiple audiences (including the media and the public) in a strategic and effective manner.”

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2 Introduction

2.1 The ¡VAMOS! Project Estimates indicate that the value of unexploited European mineral resources at a depth of 500-1,000 meters is ca €100 billion, however, a number of physical, economic, social, environmental and human constraints have as yet limited their exploitation. ¡VAMOS! will provide a new Safe, Clean and Low Visibility Mining Technique and will prove its Economic Viability for extracting currently unreachable mineral deposits, thus encouraging investment and helping to put the EU back on a level playing field in terms of access to strategically important minerals. Deriving from successful deep-sea mining techniques, the ¡VAMOS! mining solution aspires to lead to: Re-opening abandoned mines; Extensions of open cut mines which are limited by stripping ratio, hydrological or geotechnical problems; and opening of new mines in the EU. ¡VAMOS! will design and manufacture innovative automated excavation equipment and environmental impact monitoring tools that will be used to perform field tests in four mine sites across Europe with a range of rock hardness and pit morphology. ¡VAMOS! will: 1. Develop a prototype underwater, remotely controlled, mining machine with associated launch and

recovery equipment 2. Enhance currently available underwater sensing, spatial awareness, navigational and positioning

technology 3. Provide an integrated solution for efficient Real-time Monitoring of Environmental Impact 4. Conduct field trials with the prototype equipment in abandoned and inactive mine sites with a

range of rock types and at a range of submerged depths 5. Evaluate the productivity and cost of operation to enable mine-ability and economic reassessment

of the EU's mineral resources. 6. Maximize impact and enable the Market Up-Take of the proposed solutions by defining and

overcoming the practicalities of the concept, proving the operational feasibility and the economic viability.

7. Contribute to the social acceptance of the new extraction technique via public demonstrations in EU regions.

2.2 Deliverable D1.6

2.2.1 Objectives The overall overarching objective of Work Package (WP1) is (ref. Grant Agreement): “This work package aims to set the background for this research, to ensure that research and development is user-driven throughout the project, that the innovation agenda is aligned to the mine sites’ conditions and market needs and to valorise the results and findings to the wider community of stakeholders to ensure maximum impact. Specific applicable objectives include: … “d. Develop a public web portal and an Information Observatory on alternative inland mining and associated PR material e. Disseminate results and findings to the wider community of stakeholders via the publication of articles and the participation to relevant conferences.”

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The description of D1.6 in the GA is broken down into the following sub-deliverables: 1. Web portal and initial content 2. Maintaining the web portal with updated content 3. Project Publication material 4. Information Observatory 5. Dissemination Plan 6. Yearly update of the dissemination plan

The tasks (ref. GA ST 1.4.3) associated with Dissemination are described as follows: “(…) describe the strategy for different stakeholders to create maximum impact and (…) provide a yearly update of the intended applied and scientific dissemination activities.” This document describes the results of the ¡VAMOS! dissemination strategy which aimed at reaching the different relevant stakeholders in an effective way, describing the applied and scientific dissemination activities within the project’s scope. Specific tasks and goals which the team has set in the Dissemination Plan (released in project month M2) are:

• Elaborate the consortium’s strategy for dissemination activities (ensure the coherency of the ‘core messages’) across the various channels used, etc.;

• Identify communication targets and correspondent communication channels; • Enhance stakeholder involvement throughout the course of the project (provides a basis for

engaging with stakeholders); • Development of project’s identity and communication pathways: a project website, the project

image, etc.; • Bridging with other European projects addressing mining in the ocean floor and joint leverage of

dissemination efforts; • Public awareness raising, communication and outreach activities that will translate results and

scientific deliverables into publications and materials for dissemination in the media and for a wider, non-specialised, audience.

Additionally, activities did also include classic public relation tools such as presentations at external conferences and workshops to reach specific audiences such as policy makers, technology investors and financiers.

2.2.2 Approach In this document the target audiences will be addressed firstly (Chapter 3; Targeted Audiences). Next, the tools used for communicating and disseminating are reviewed (Chapter 4; Dissemination Tools & Planning) Lastly, in Chapter 5 Conclusions are drawn, coupling the communication tools to their effect on target groups.

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2.2.3 Timetable

Release month

Scope in deliverable

M6 An initial version of this deliverable was submitted on 03-09-2015 M12 Yearly update and final specification of the intended dissemination M48 Final version including evaluation (this version)

2.2.4 Deviations The foreseen intermediate releases in M25 and M36 were cancelled after a project amendment.

2.3 ¡VAMOS! dissemination team The writing and reviewing of this plan was done by various experts in communication and PR from a subset of participants of WP1, as indicated on the deliverable front sheet. However, when it comes down to exposure and disseminating, every participant has something useful to say and, therefore, we allowed everyone to give their feedback. This organisational structure is defined in a RASCI table as shown below.

Name Title Organisation Dissemination Role1

Ben Littler Communications Advisor Damen R Frank Bosman D1.6 responsible Damen A Jan-Hein Reeringh Communications Advisor Damen C Björn Smets Communications Advisor Online Damen S Luis Lopes2 Project Manager / WP1 leader La Palma Research Centre C All partners All partners S, I

1 R= Responsible, A=Accountable, S= Supportive, C= to be Consulted, I=to be Informed 2 Luis Lopes succeeded Edine Bakker

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2.4 Key aspects of the ¡VAMOS! identity The ¡VAMOS! identity consisted of a package of tools, as elaborated in Paragraph 4.1 Communication tools and channels.

All of these should have a uniform appearance, and -in addition- comply with GA Art.38.1.2. Information on EU funding.

In all dissemination activities the ¡VAMOS! logo was used:

Wherever the ¡VAMOS! acronym was used in text, attention was paid to the use of the exclamation marks and capital letters, since this format contributes to the project identity. In general the exclamation marks were indeed used in publications from project members.

The obligations regarding the use of the EU emblem and the text were also pursued largely in our communication, or we were able to point third parties to this notification. The text is as follows: “This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 642477”.

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3 Targeted Audiences At the start of the project the team identified the following groups of potential stakeholders:

1. Mining companies and mining exploration companies; 2. Investors and R&D funding organizations; 3. Regulators and policy makers; 4. Research centres and academic staff 5. Environmental NGOs; 6. Associations representing the mining community; 7. The European Commission and its relevant agencies; 8. General public

We used this as an initial point of reference for project dissemination and communication throughout the project lifetime, that was followed at all times. Alongside this we predefined the motives and interests associated with each group (See Table 1, page 31). However, due to the existing network of the project participants some groups were better reached than others.

4 Dissemination Tools & Planning This chapter describes the applicability and assessment of tools to ¡VAMOS! project activities. The dissemination of project results took various forms and used different media channels. Dissemination activities are not meant as a one-time distribution of relevant research results. Therefore, repeatedly conveying messages was used to build awareness and interest, and showing (and sharing) relevant information in the course of the project. As can be read in section 0, the Visitors Days which were held during the trials offered additional means of connecting with stakeholders. The tests took place at sites for which the respective owners had their own interests in publication also. At the early stage of each test period the Dissemination Team got in contact with the owners to discuss their wishes and conditions with respect to publication. In both cases this resulted in signed contracts to lay down the agreements. As a consequence the process of publishing became more complex and slower, as multiple people had to approve a news item or article. In the case of a fast moving channel like Twitter this was certainly an obstacle. It also led to a severe delay of releasing the project movie, due to a strict judgement of the content and difficult communication by Imerys, the owner of the first test site in Devon, UK.

4.1 Communication tools and channels The Team determined the following list of communication tools and/or channels to be deemed relevant. An overview of publications is given in Annex B; Dissemination activities; Publications. This table also contains some of the publications done by third parties, but not all, as it is almost impossible to track them.

4.1.1 News a) Press releases (max. 500-750 words to be sent to relevant media in relevant regions).

A total of 5 press releases were done, derived from web news articles (see under item b) below). The method for dissemination was through a press list to Mining media (property of Damen, see Annex D; ¡VAMOS! Press list). In addition, the text was sent to all the partners for further dissemination though their networks. It turned out to be impossible to create an overall list of media contacts, because PR departments of the various companies/institutions see this as propriety information, which they do not want to share.

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Coverage of the latest press release was analysed for its impact (copying), see annex E. We did not reach the target of once per 3 months, which was clearly a overestimated figure. Despite this, press releases were issued during the most important stages of the ¡VAMOS! project development, which guaranteed increased coverage.

b) Web news (max. 300 words to be published on the website). In the beginning of the project news items were regularly posted on the website. However, we did not reach the target of 1x/month. This was due to the lack of information to be shared, especially after the first field trials, where there was not much to report on. While the WP5 team was preparing for the second trial, it was soon discovered that this was not going as smooth as hoped for, and would possibly lead to abandonment of the location. When an alternative test site was found reporting picked up again.

4.1.2 Print a) Articles

Printed articles to be published in magazines or journals: • Besides press releases, separate articles with relevant journalists were carried out,

which appeared in both print and online. • Company newsletters, both print and online, formed an extra channel for some

partners (SMD, BMT, Damen, Sandvik, EFG, LPRC, Trelleborg, GeoZS, ZFG, MUL etc) • 14 Scientific articles in academic journals were published by a number of partners

individually, or as a group. See annex B. b) Public Deliverables

The project deliverables which are marked PU are published via the website, and send to target groups upon request.

c) ¡VAMOS! Journal It was decided that this type of media would be too labour intensive and costly and it was therefore abandoned.

d) Brochure (D.1.6.3) In M9 a brochure was published, which was later than originally planned, but it included up-to-date and appealing 3D renderings of the prototype equipment as it was envisaged to function in a working environment. The combination of graphics and scientific substantiating text makes the leaflet attractive to a broad range of target groups. The brochure was designed as a triptych type of folder, when expanded on A4 landscape size approx. Initially an amount of 2500 copies were printed, and distributed in 50pcs per participant, and 100pcs for main partners. In addition, the leaflet was available in PDF format on the project’s website. All the partners had access to the high resolution image through the internal SharePoint project site, including printing/folding instructions, so it could (and can still) be reproduced at any local printing house when necessary.

Figure 1; Brochure

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There was an update of the leaflet after the first field trials, as images of the equipment in action became available. The first batch of folders was by then almost depleted. The batch with updated leaflets of again 2500 copies was distributed amongst the partners in January 2017, and estimated to be handed out to people for about 2/3. So, in total we believe approx 4000 leaflets were handed out during conferences, exhibitions and other national and European events.

e) Poster (D1.6.3) A poster in the similar style as the brochure, but with less text and strong visuals instead, was designed. This was used at communication boards or entrances of event venues, to attract participants to a stand and to simply increase awareness. The poster is 210 x 594 mm in size, so half of an A2 size. Initially an amount 100 copies were printed, and distributed to the partners for their convenience. The poster was an important dissemination tool at exhibitions and trade fairs.

f) Roll-out banner Two roll-out banners were produced according to the style of the poster. They are about 2 metres high by 70 centimetres wide, and were utilised at exhibitions, workshops and other similar events. The banners were mainly used by Damen, because it would have been quite costly and impractical to send it around Europe. The banners were also used at the two Demo Days in the field trial period.

Figure 2; Roll-out banner and site entrance banner

g) Other PR material

Various other items were produced to promote the project at workshops, exhibitions and other events, during testing and demonstration of the prototype equipment, etc.: • 4 Full size flags with the ¡VAMOS! logo, one left at SMD and one at Damen. The third

was mounted on the LARV, and the last one on the Office buildings during the field trials. At several occasions a group photo was made with the flag put up, and sent around.

• 6 banners with ¡VAMOS! logo and with WP5 participants logos fixed on the LARV and Office buildings during the field trials

• 1 banner to use at mine site entrance during field trials, styled as the leaflet and containing logos from respective mine site owners, and EU funding acknowledgement.

• Table flags with the ¡VAMOS! logo, used at project meetings, also when convening with EC representatives and Advisory Board.

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The material had a good effect on the branding of the project, both via published photos and within the team itself. It created a positive atmosphere amongst project people, which contributed to strengthen the bonds required within shared workloads.

4.1.3 Online A website was launched on 19 April 2015. The address is: http://vamos-project.eu/ See Figure 5; Website main page for an impression. The website contains the Objectives and Approach of the ¡VAMOS! project amongst other important aspects of the project. Background on the subject of Raw Materials and aspects of inland mining is given. The consortium is introduced, and means of contacting or supporting the project team are highlighted. A News section is included. A substantial amount of (fresh) content was added regularly. The website was updated several times per year. The Calendar under the Events section was kept up to date to announce conferences, workshops, trade fairs and other events at which (partners) from the project would be present, to offer the readers the opportunity to meet the team. Other Mining or Raw Materials related events –mainly in the EU region- without ¡VAMOS! presence were also announced, to help create an overview for the ¡VAMOS! stakeholder community. On the Main Page also the ¡VAMOS! Twitter page is accessible. A Contact page was added, containing an contact form with the applicable privacy statement attached. Through the Contact Form we received approx. 10-15 requests per year for more information, mainly from journalists, students, suppliers and an exemplary EU project. We can conclude that the contact form was appropriate to reach target group “General Public”. The GA specifies the setup of an Information Observatory (referred to as deliverable D1.6.4). With respect to this, all relevant and public deliverables, PR material and scientific publications are available under the Downloads section of the website. This serves as an inventory, of relevant information of the project in a structured and practical way, so that it becomes useful knowledge. The Information Observatory is supported through linkage from other dissemination channels such as social media (i.e. Twitter and LinkedIn). For technical reasons it was not possible to trace the number of downloads. See Figure 6 for a screenshot of the page.

Figure 3; The ¡VAMOS! WP5 team at Vareš, Bosnia & Hercegovina

Figure 4; The LARV decorated flags and logo's

http://vamos-project.eu/

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Figure 5; Website main page

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Figure 6; Screen-dump of ¡VAMOS! Downloads page (or: Information Observatory)

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4.1.4 Social media The following additional media channels were used a) ¡VAMOS! Twitter (https://twitter.com/ProjectVamos) b) ¡VAMOS! LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/%C2%A1vamos/) It was decided that Facebook would not be the applicable tool to address our target groups. Most professionals use LinkedIn and sometimes Twitter. General public use also Twitter, YouTube and Instagram. The latter 2 are intensively used by young people. We preferred YouTube to be most fit for covering our field trials and address general (and young) social media user groups. Twitter was used to give newsfeeds on a more intensive basis, which was particularly useful during the field trials, when almost each day there was something interesting to report. Images, videos and the status of the project development were shared, reaching the ¡VAMOS! stakeholder groups in an easy-to-follow manner. In total, 227 tweets with information about the project were created and shared with more than 400 followers. Feedback of the various stakeholder groups is seen in the form of retweets and likes on the ¡VAMOS! posts. This was particularly noticeable during the field trials, where the status and footage of the ¡VAMOS! technology were constantly re-shared (see: example). The response on Twitter was considered as positive. LinkedIn was used for feeding and discussion with part of our target groups, through the Sustainable Mining Forum, see section 4.1.7. This channel was also used for news updates, in parallel and in addition to the project website. It allowed for more interaction with the project stakeholders. Feedback was received through comments, likes and shares on the project’s posts. The response on LinkedIn was considered as very positive, see section 4.1.7 YouTube or Vimeo will be considered an option, once the project movie becomes available. This will give a new layer of information to the stakeholders.

4.1.5 Audio/Video a) Photos & artist impressions

At several project events (WP meetings, Technical and Advisory Board Meetings, during test site investigation visits, and the field trials) photos were taken. These were all shared within the project team via the SharePoint project site. Some of the material was published on the ¡VAMOS! website, to go with a News item. Artist impressions were made by rendering of 3D models, that came available during the concept engineering phase (WP2 System Architecture phase). These renderings were used in various publications: the brochure, poster and roll-out banner, and in presentations and press articles.

b) Presentations A PowerPoint template was made and shared amongst project members, to encourage the use of a “project house style”. The initial project summary presentation consists of 23 slides and was shared through the SharePoint project site and website, and therefore anyone can download it. It describes the objectives, work plan, consortium and roles with the purpose of explaining the whole process from the initial to the last phase and how the partners will be involved in the development. After the first field trial in the UK, a second presentation was made, containing more information about the design and the approach and results of the first trial phase. In below Figure 7, the first slide of the PU presentations is shown:

https://twitter.com/ProjectVamos

https://www.linkedin.com/company/%C2%A1vamos/

https://twitter.com/ProjectVamos/status/1051862998128713738

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Figure 7; Front slide of PowerPoint presentation

In addition, 2 restricted (“RE”) dissemination level project presentations were made, containing slides with project internal information. Slides of these may be used and edited by the project team for use in external presentations, depending on the event/audience.

c) Films

The initial idea was that each time a key milestone was reached in the project and/or every time an interesting product/research result was achieved, a short (max. 1-2 min.) film/documentary would be produced and disseminated. In practice, the project partners generally did not regard this type of publication as suitable, for various reasons:

• Too sensitive, from safety or technological point of view • Too low quality • Too costly

Also, it turned out to be inefficient to organise, and collect the footage. A short movie was made in M16, intended to be used at conferences and exhibitions, in presentations and on the website. The purpose of this movie was to attract the audience of various target groups in a strong visual manner, in order to get attention and provide more information on the project. It partly made use of 3D animated simulations that were available at the time. This 2 minute “Teaser movie” was selectively used, and not shared via the website. It worked very well at conferences and exhibitions, mostly running in a loop on a screen at a booth. A second project movie was produced at the end of the project, to cover the whole project and particularly zoom in on the applicability of the technology. It is of course possible to explain the project approach or the technology part by part, but the duration of the movie is limited and a technical-commercial storyline was seen as most fit for use. It was considered to be crucial to also include a social aspect, by highlighting local stakeholder perception of the ¡VAMOS! Project. The link to the movie on YouTube can be found via the ¡VAMOS! website.

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4.1.6 Events The ¡VAMOS! project was promoted at more than 55 events, as follows: a) Presentations or workshops at relevant exhibitions (events organised by 3rd parties) b) Stakeholder workshops (events organised by ¡VAMOS!)3 c) Relevant exhibitions d) Visitors Days (or: Demo Days) With respect to a) and c) the team regularly investigated all opportunities suitable for promoting the project or to extend our network. About 55 events were attended, where the project was proposed in some form. All events can be found in Annex C; Dissemination activities; Events.

The Visitors Days were not anticipated for in the Plan initially, but turned out to be an excellent opportunity to engage with various target groups and were, therefore, pursued. Although very labour intensive in preparation, we got very positive responses to both of the Demo Days. Apart from project partner representatives, at the Lee Moor Demo Day, 6 external visitors were present. The second Demo Day at Silvermines over 60 which included 15-20 people from the local community, and multiple industrial players and some regional governmental representatives. The Lee Moor site was contained within a working mine lease – this makes open access difficult, which explains the lower number of external visitors. A number of employees from the mine owning company visited the site, to study the equipment, also outside of the Demo Day. In the below graph the distribution of all external visitors at both Demo Days over the target groups is shown:

Figure 8; Distribution of Demo Days visitors over target groups

Important sub-groups which were not pre-defined as target groups were OEM’s, dredging and mining contractors. These visitors are contained in the Investors group in Figure 8. Within the group of Research and Academics a large number of visitors came from Geological institutions, who are sometimes linked to mining companies, but often also to regulating bodies, environmental groups or mining associations.

3 This activity was carried out under sub-task ST1.4.2 and separately reported on in deliverable D1.5

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Interested locals were well represented at Silvermines. Local politicians and members of the Historical Society participated in the program, by giving presentations. Former mine workers visited the site on the Visitors Day and on an ad-hoc basis. The local content complemented the historical, social and cultural significance of mining to sustainable innovative exploitation of resources.

Figure 9; Ex-mining engineer Éamonn de Stafort citing a miner's poem to Koen Verbruggen (GSI) and Bonnie Coxon (Newcrest Mining) at the Silvermines Demo Day

The promotion of the project taking place at Silvermines was conducted jointly with promotion by the lease holder of the site –SIGA Hydro. This company also was seeking support for the intended future use of this abondoned mine as a Hydro Power Storage facility, and so we had a common interest in involving local stakeholders for our activities. The WP1 team decided that it would be relevant to execute a stakeholder survey, to get insight on the impact of the project. As deliverable D1.5 “Stakeholder workshop reports” was already submitted earlier on in the project, we have presented the results of this survey in Annex F of this deliverable, as it also sheds a light on the effect of our communication. The conclusions from stakeholder engagement is that proper and tailored dissemination and communication of the project is necessary to effectively engage stakeholders. The ¡VAMOS! team can say that this was achieved with the results obtained from the survey. Stakeholders views on the state of the project and on the technology itself were learned and their opinions will be taken into account for the future development of the project. Due to common interest, the results of the stakeholder survey was shared with the site owner. Figure 9, and Figure 16 to Figure 22 represent the Demo Day held at Silvermines, with except Figure 17 being of Lee Moor. Figure 10 to Figure 15 represent various other events that were attended.

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Figure 10; Damen's booth at CEDA Dredging Days, November 2015

Figure 11; Uwe Restner from Sandvik presenting at Minex Europe, 2015

Figure 12; Frank Bosman (Damen) presenting at EASME Cluster Event on Raw Materials,

December 2017

Figure 13; Gorazd Žibret leading a joint EU-project workshop in Bled, January 2018

Figure 14; José Almeida (INESC Tec) presenting at the joint conference in Bled, January 2018

Figure 15; Toni Nikolic (FZG) presenting at Geo-expo 2018, Neum, BiH, October 2018

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Figure 16; Silvermines Demo Day agenda and site tour schedule

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Figure 17; Visitors Day at Lee Moor, October 2017

Figure 18; ¡VAMOS! Technical Manager Stef Kapusniak from SMD presenting at Visitors Day’s

brief in Silvermines, October 2018

Figure 19; Project Manager Paul Arthur (SMD) showing local stakeholders around at Silvermines

Figure 20; Visitors being demoed at the Control Cabin in Silvermines

Figure 21; Visitors on board of the LARV at Silvermines

Figure 22; EVA being explained by Carlos Almeida from InescTEC on the Visitors Day at Silvermines

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4.1.7 Sustainable Mining Forum The ¡VAMOS! project team is supported by the Sustainable Mining Forum, of which the Advisory Board is a subset. The Sustainable Mining Forum (SMF) is formulated as an on-line community, sharing information and views on sustainable mining. The online LinkedIn platform is utilised to provide a virtual meeting place of experts, industry and academic stakeholders. The SMF can also be used to disseminate news and results. This activity is carried out under sub-task ST1.4.1 and separately reported on in deliverable D1.4. At the end of 2017 we decided to create a new forum on the basis of functionality of a LinkedIn Company. This made it possible to better comment and share posts among members. At the time of writing this final deliverable, the Forum had a total number of members of 211. The visitors analytics show an average of approx.100 page views and 35 unique visitors per month.

Figure 23; Screen-dump of Linkedin group front page "Sustainable Mining Forum"

The following graphs show analytical data of the forum over the last 12 months as per release date of this deliverable. The peaks in the graphs can be related to the dates of the Demo Days and articles and/or News items published online.

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Figure 24; Page view analytics of ¡VAMOS! Sustainable Mining Forum

Figure 25; Visitor analytics of ¡VAMOS! Sustainable Mining Forum

Figure 26; Follower origin per industry type

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Figure 27; Follower origin by location

The demographics show (as seen in Figures 26 to 27) that followers mainly come from the Mining & Metals or Oil & Energy industry, and also to a large extent from Research institutions. They originate mainly from the EU, as can be seen in the figures. It suggests that the stakeholder impact via LinkedIn was mainly realised in target groups 1, 4 and 6.

4.1.8 Advisory board The Sustainable Mining Forum also serves as the meeting place for The Advisory Board (AB). The activities of the AB are carried out under sub-task ST1.4.1 and separately reported on in deliverable D1.4. AB members used the LinkedIn group sometimes to like, comment or forward posts on the Sustainable Mining Forum when it was still active. After this point, the Advisory Board members were mainly active during project meetings.

4.1.9 Cooperation with other projects Sharing resources with other EU projects for joint discussion, dissemination actions and/or joint appearances was carried out on several occasions, throughout the project lifetime: • On 8 March 2016 partners MML and SMD presented and took part in the MINATURA Pan-

European workshop, Cardiff, UK. See https://minatura2020.eu/event/minatura2020-pan-european-workshop/

• RTM conference on 10-11 October 2017 in Amsterdam, organised together with Real Time Mining (https://www.realtime-mining.eu/), Unexmin (http://www.unexmin.eu/) and Solsa (http://www.solsa-mining.eu/).

• Strongmar conference on 16th of November 2017, http://www.strongmar.eu/site/2017-strongmar-conference-63

• EASME Raw Materials Cluster Event on 12 December 2017 in Brussels. Account of that can be found online at multiple places, a.o. on http://www.lapalmacentre.eu/unexmin-and-vamos-at-the-h2020-cluster-event/ Sharing with numerous other H2020 projects.

• Conference “Use of robotics and automation for mineral prospecting and extraction” on 30 January 2018, organised together with Real Time Mining and Unexmin. (http://www.geo-zs.si/PDF/Monografije/Conference_Bled_Proceedings_RD.pdf)

• EASME organised workshop “Social Acceptance in the European Raw Materials Sector” on 5 June 2018, see https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/workshop-social-acceptance-european-raw-materials-sector. Sharing with numerous other H2020 projects.

https://minatura2020.eu/event/minatura2020-pan-european-workshop/


https://www.realtime-mining.eu/

http://www.unexmin.eu/

http://www.solsa-mining.eu/

http://www.strongmar.eu/site/2017-strongmar-conference-63


http://www.lapalmacentre.eu/unexmin-and-vamos-at-the-h2020-cluster-event/

http://www.lapalmacentre.eu/unexmin-and-vamos-at-the-h2020-cluster-event/

http://www.geo-zs.si/PDF/Monografije/Conference_Bled_Proceedings_RD.pdf

https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/workshop-social-acceptance-european-raw-materials-sector

https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/workshop-social-acceptance-european-raw-materials-sector

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• On July 19 2018, a delegation of the European Commission from DG RTD and DG GROW visited the Dutch Maritime Technology, see https://maritimetechnology.nl/en/european-commission-officials-visit-dutch-maritime-technology-sector/. Presentations and movies of ¡VAMOS! and the Blue Nodules project (http://www.blue-nodules.eu/) were shared.

• Various other attendance from partners took place at EASME Raw Materials Weeks, or conferences organised by other H2020 projects.

• Another notable instance outside of H2020 – but still EU related – took place at the ¡VAMOS! Demo Day in Silvermines on 24th October 2018, where several members from iCRAG where present. iCRAG, the Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences, is Ireland’s national geoscience research centre supported by Science Foundation Ireland, the European Regional Development Fund, Geological Survey of Ireland and industry partners. The Director of GSI gave a presentation, stressing the importance of innovative EU projects and collaboration.

Of course, the involvement of ¡VAMOS! in all of the above was shared via the project’s website, Twitter, LinkedIn and partner channels. By participating in these events the project benefited from dissemination by other projects, the EU and other institutions. The events are listed in the List of Events in Annex C.

Figure 28; Andreas Nüchter from ZfT presenting at Real Time Mining Conference, October 2017

Figure 29; Frank Bosman presenting for delegates of EU’s DG Grow at a visit to Damen headquarters, July 2018

https://maritimetechnology.nl/en/european-commission-officials-visit-dutch-maritime-technology-sector/

https://maritimetechnology.nl/en/european-commission-officials-visit-dutch-maritime-technology-sector/

http://www.blue-nodules.eu/

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Figure 30; Mr. Koen Verbruggen from Geological Society of Ireland explaining the Magcobar pit bathymetry to other participants at the Silvermines Demo Day

4.1.10 Scientific publications At the outset of the project there was no formal plan made for releasing scientific publications. The focus of resources within the project was largely on developing and proving equipment in an operational environment. While there were not a KPI defined, we are happy to report that 14 peer reviewed articles were published over the project period. Some partners have indicated to write articles after the project end, in 2019. Over a 48 month project, this is an fairly good average of 4/year. Scientific publications are available under the Downloads section of the website, and through open access repositories.

4.2 Mapping of channels – Tailored strategies to specific stakeholder groups Table 1; Mapping of dissemination channels to target groups (estimate)Table 1 summarizes the main tailored communication channels that the project consortium used to reach the specific stakeholder categories. From the Lists of Publications (Online and print) and Events (Annexes B and C) it can be derived that the distribution of these channels over the target groups are as follows. Please note that only numbers of publications/events are counted. Little can be said about the size of the audience, because of insufficient data.

Figure 31; Publications aimed at target groups

Figure 32; Events aimed at target groups

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ID Target group Main communication channels Online/ News Print Social Media Events Partner network

1 Mining companies ¡VAMOS! website, online news

Press releases and articles in mags

LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube

Trade show, conference, workshop, visitor day

BMT, SMD, Damen, Sandvik, Trelleborg, MML

2 Investors ¡VAMOS! website, online news



Trade show, conference, workshop, visitor day

BMT, SMD, Damen, Sandvik, MML

3 Regulators and policy makers

¡VAMOS! website, online news

Press releases and articles in mags, scientific papers

LinkedIn, Twitter Conference, workshop, visitor day

BMT, GeoZS, EFG, FORRV, FZG, CF, MML

4 Research and academics

¡VAMOS! website, online news


LinkedIn Conference, workshop, visitor day

EFG, MUL, InescTEC, Damen, CF

5 Environmental NGOs ¡VAMOS! website, online news



Conference, workshop, visitor day

CF, EFG

6 Mining associations ¡VAMOS! website, online news



Conference, workshop, visitor day

SMD, Sandvik

7 European Commission

¡VAMOS! website Press releases and articles in mags, scientific papers

LinkedIn, Twitter Conference, workshop, visitor day

BMT, Damen

8 General Public ¡VAMOS! website Articles in popular science mags

Twitter, YouTube Workshop, visitor day All

Table 1; Mapping of dissemination channels to target groups (estimate)

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5 Conclusions This Chapter aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the Dissemination strategy. Firstly the extent to which target groups were reached is evaluated. Secondly the extent to which we made proper use of the communication channels is assessed. Finally an evaluation of the process and organisation of the whole project period is considered.

5.1 Effectivity towards target groups We can derive from Table 2; Target groups involvement in ¡VAMOS!, that most of the target groups could have learned about the project in some form. We don’t know exactly, however, to what extent they were impacted; it is in fact hard to measure such a parameter. Therefore, Table 2 is only an estimation based on our experiences. There were no tailor-made approaches defined to specifically target these groups. It seemed sometimes that it was difficult to actively involve categories 1, 2, 3 and 5. They were addressed in many ways through publications and conferences (see Figure 31 and Figure 32), but we got little spontaneous feedback. Toward the end of the project it felt appropriate to approach potential customers directly by inviting them to attend the field trials of the prototype equipment. The presence and feedback which was encountered from key industrial players, such as heavy-lift vessel contractors, industrial minerals and quarrying and mining visitors, dredging contractors etc., having an interest for various reasons, was very positive on most aspects. Investors and funding organisations (target group 2) were harder to connect to. Edine Bakker from La Palma Research Centre visited the conference Mines & Money and had some 1:1 talks with investors and mining companies. In general mining companies reacted positively if they were already part of the existing network of partners. The mixed success can be explained by 2 factors:

1. Susceptibility; Mining industry is generally conservative, and focused on mining in dry conditions. 2. Timing; Mining industry is mostly interested in the performance of the equipment, whereas the

validated results of field testing only now start to become available.

The clear environmental advantages are inherent in the ¡VAMOS! technique, and this was widely communicated in our tools. Yet, we did not get a lot of response from environmentalist groups. It might be the case that they can more easily get interested in the ¡VAMOS! concept by the time the team is able to prove with real data, that the prototype is a solution that eliminates many of the environmental concerns that come with conventional inland mining of raw materials. Deliverable 6.3 – Environmental Impact Assessment – can help in this respect. However, it is more likely that the response rate is low, because we did not engage with environmental NGO’s and specialists through targeted dissemination. At the same time the expert opinion that we received from Renee Grogan, one of our Advisory Board members (See deliverable D1.4), was very positive and constructive. While the Advisory Board is not being a major and fast means of disseminating, it illustrates that promoting the ¡VAMOS! environmental advantages though direct contacts might increase leverage in target group 5. Throughout the design and build stage, several target groups showed increasing interest, whereas some stakeholders were involved from the very start, such as EC and Research groups through joint H2020/Raw

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Materials events. The workshop at the conference in Bled showed interest from the academic world, who saw potential for future for research and development, e.g. in robotics both for inland and offshore mining. What particularly stood out was the indirect interest by the mining industry media and (popular) scientific world. We were approached by several journalists from media writing for these audiences, wanting to do a story about the project.

Figure 33; Edine Bakker presenting the ¡VAMOS! project during the Mines and Technology conference, November 2017

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ID Target group Communication objectives

Main communicational messages

Geographical engagement

level EU National

Content made in

WP4

Success rate5

1 Mining companies

Define and quantify key benefits and disadvantage

Position prototype as technically and economically feasible in a clear and entire way, especially compared to conventional inland mining

X

X WP6 +

2 Investors Quantify investments and ROI for a full scale system

Position prototype as economically feasible in a clear and entire way, that allows access to minerals that cannot be accessed in any other way for inland mining and potentially offshore

X X WP6 +/-

3 Regulators and policy makers

Outline current and propose new policy and legislation

Position prototype as a safe, sustainable, socially acceptable and favourable solution when properly regulated

X X WP6 +/-

4 Research and academics

Demonstrate scientific and technical aspects

Position prototype as technically feasible and showing future room for research and development, both for inland and offshore mining

X X +

5 Environmental NGOs

Demonstrate environmental aspects and enhance support

Position prototype as a solution that eliminates many of the environmental concerns that come with conventional inland mining of raw materials

X X +/-

6 Mining associations

Create awareness Position prototype as a serious new alternative compared to conventional inland mining

X X +

7 European Commission

Provide information on submerged mining as a solution for EU Raw Material policy

Position the extraction method as a technically, economically and environmentally feasible, also supporting EC policies and strategies to secure access to mineral raw materials from EU sources.

X +

8 General Public Create awareness Position extraction method and infrastructure as a safe, sustainable, low impact, socially acceptable and favourable solution, supporting local communities

X X ++

Table 2; Target groups involvement in ¡VAMOS!

4 Besides WP1, the content for the communicational message was mainly provided in this WP 5 Estimated or proven success rate of getting the message accross

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5.2 Individual partners’ dissemination The ¡VAMOS! partners also contributed with their own communication activities, in line with the strategy of this plan. As far as these actions were reported to the task leader, they are included in Annexes B & C. This delivered a broad spectrum of in-depth publications on different technology aspects of the ¡VAMOS system, such as robotics, geology, deep sea mining, cutting technology,…

5.3 Third party publications Numerous third party (online) articles were published. We counted over 130, but probably there were more. The majority were copies from press releases, but there were also a number of thematic or edited articles. We were approached by several journalists writing for reputable magazines; articles were published by New Scientist, Underwater Technology, The Economist etc. From TV stations we got interest from Slovenian and Chinese television (CCTV), Euronews. Not all of these have materialised (yet), but it shows the awareness amongst media about the project.

5.4 Key Performance Indicators The following KPI’s were determined in version 2 (M12) of this deliverable. The last column shows that all goals were achieved:

Dissemination channel KPI Success indicator(s) Status Project website Number of unique

visitors and website hits, page views, average time spent, deliverable/document downloads

More than 1000 visits, and 100 document downloads per year will be considered a positive result.

+100% 16419 visits (No. of downloads could not be traced)

Social media: ¡VAMOS! LinkedIn (Sustainable Mining Forum)

Number of members, and number of posts and comments related to project news.

More than 200 LinkedIn members, with more than 20 posts and 50 comments per year

100% 211 LinkedIn visitors 44 posts

Cooperation with other EC projects and platforms

Number of joint actions implemented with organisations that don’t participate in the ¡VAMOS! consortium

¡VAMOS! will exchange information with at least 5 other EC projects and platforms and will implement more than 4 joint actions (e.g. joint events) throughout its lifetime.

+100% Collaborated with 7 EU projects

Project presentations at external events

Number of conference papers and presentations, type and size of events, number of attendees.

It is foreseen that ¡VAMOS! will be presented at least 4 major events, with an average number of 200-350 attendees.

100% Disseminated at 55 events, with 37 presentations

Table 3; Key Performance Indicator scores

Annex A; Website statistics

1/14/2019 1

VAMOS

Reporting period Mar 15, 2015 - Dec 31, 2018

16 419 visitors

Total number of users (Users who have initiated at least one session during the date

range.)

21 592sessions

Total number of Sessions within the date range.(A session is the period time a user is actively engaged with your

website, app, etc. All usage data (Screen Views, Events,

Ecommerce, etc.) is associated with a session.)

64%

Bounce rate(The percentage of single-page sessions in which there was no

interaction with the page. A bounced session has a duration of 0

seconds.)

As a rule of thumb, a bounce rate in

the range of 26 to 40 percent is

excellent. 41 to 55 percent is roughly

average. 56 to 70 percent is higher

than average, but may not be cause

for alarm depending on the website.

Anything over 70 percent is

disappointing for everything outside of

blogs, news, events, etc.

52 725pages

Total number of pages viewed by visitors within the date range.(Pageviews is the total number of pages viewed. Repeated views

of a single page are counted..)

VAMOS

Returning visitors

New visitors

86%

14%New visitors vs Returning visitors


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1/14/2019 3

VAMOS

Acquisition report(top channels: where our visitors are coming from)

27,0%

40,6%

29,9%

2,4%

Organic searchReferralDirectSocial

Explanation:(direct)[(none)] - Visitors who visited the site by typing the URL directly into their browser. 'Direct' can also refer to the visitors who clicked on the links from their bookmarks/favorites, untagged links within emails, or links from documents that don't include tracking variables (such as PDFs or Word documents).[referral] - Visitors referred by links on other websites. (Links that have been tagged with campaign variables won't show up as [referral] unless they happen to have been tagged with utm_medium=referral. )[organic] - Visitors referred by an unpaid search engine listing, e.g. a Google.com search.


VAMOS

TOP 10 most visited pages(top channels: where our visitors are coming from)

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Dissemination Activities; (Controlled) Publications

Date Publication1 Partner Dissemi-

nation tool

Publication details Type of audi-ence2

No. of copies

Countries addressed

March 2015 GeoNews, EFG’s monthly electronic newsletter

EFG EFG partner of ¡VAMOS! Project http://eurogeologists.eu/wp-content/up-loads/2015/08/a_GeoNews-March-2015.pdf

Scientific commu-nity, industry, pol-icy makers

50,000 EU, USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa

May 2015 European Geologist Journal 39

EFG ¡VAMOS!, Developing a Revolutionary Underwater Mining System http://issuu.com/efgoffice/docs/egj39_final



May 2015 EFG project news EFG ¡VAMOS! project Scientific commu-nity, industry, pol-icy makers


June 2015 DPC Magazine Damen Adver-torial

Article “¡VAMOS!: Making mining clean & green” in Environ-mental Supplement in IHS Dredging and Port Construction Magazine

Industry, Scientific Community

600 World

August 2015 EFG project news EFG ¡VAMOS! project Scientific commu-nity, industry, pol-icy makers


August 2015 Damen Magazine #3 Damen Article Title “Working to develop Europe’s hidden resources” Industry, Civil So-ciety

? World

Oct 2015 GeoNews, EFG’s monthly electronic newsletter

EFG EFG projects | ¡VAMOS! http://us8.campaign-ar-

chive2.com/?u=7622a1c0fc286079ff6a153b7&id=5e9810c9f

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1 State the type of the dissemination activity: publications, conferences, workshops, web, press releases, flyers, articles published in the popular press, videos, media briefings, presentations, exhibitions,

thesis, interviews, films, TV clips, posters, Other. 2 Choosing the type of public: Scientific Community (higher education, Research), Industry, Civil Society, Policy makers, Medias, Other ('multiple choices' is possible).

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http://eurogeologists.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/a_GeoNews-March-2015.pdf

http://eurogeologists.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/a_GeoNews-March-2015.pdf

http://issuu.com/efgoffice/docs/egj39_final

http://us8.campaign-archive2.com/?u=7622a1c0fc286079ff6a153b7&id=5e9810c9fb



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Date Publication Partner Dissemi-nation

tool

Publication details Type of audience No. of copies

Countries addressed

Nov 2015 European Geologist Journal 40

EFG ¡VAMOS!, Developing a Revolutionary Underwater Mining

System

https://issuu.com/efgoffice/docs/egj40_final



Nov 2015 EFG project news EFG ¡VAMOS! project Scientific commu-nity, industry, pol-icy makers


Nov 2015 PEM (Port Engineer-ing Management)

Damen Article Article based on press release “”VAMOS delivers conceptual design plans for submerged mining prototype”

Industry, Policy Makers

? World

Dec 2015 UT3,#6,2015 (Society for Underwater Tech-nology)

public Article Article based on press release “”VAMOS delivers conceptual design plans for submerged mining prototype” and back-ground of the project. Find here the online version: https://issuu.com/ut-2_publication/docs/ut3_small_sin-gle_for_issuu_final


2500 World

Jan 2016 FOCUS magazine BMT Article Find here the online version: http://bmt-group.org/6V3-3Z8AY-C2CDBBEJ70/cr.aspx

Industry, Scientific Community, Civil society

10,000 copies

Europe

Feb 2016 EFG project news EFG ¡VAMOS! project Scientific commu-nity, industry, pol-icy makers


Feb 2016 EFG project news EFG ¡VAMOS! project Scientific commu-nity, industry, pol-icy makers


11 March 2016

ZfTFlyer ZfT Flyer ZfT flyer on intelligent robots (German language) Industry, Civil So-ciety, Policy Mak-ers

1000 cop-ies

Germany

25 March 2016

Finance & manager GeoZs Article The Finance magazine is daily newspaper, targeting busi-ness sector in Slovenia; the topic of the article is robotics, and VAMOS project is briefly described in one paragraph (pg. 22, last paragraph in right column) Article describes main aims and the purpose of the project, and GeoZS role in it .(Slovenian language)

Industry 10.000 Slovenia

https://issuu.com/efgoffice/docs/egj40_final

https://issuu.com/ut-2_publication/docs/ut3_small_single_for_issuu_final

https://issuu.com/ut-2_publication/docs/ut3_small_single_for_issuu_final

http://bmt-group.org/6V3-3Z8AY-C2CDBBEJ70/cr.aspx

http://bmt-group.org/6V3-3Z8AY-C2CDBBEJ70/cr.aspx

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tool


Countries addressed

May 2016 European Geologist Journal 41

EFG ¡VAMOS!

https://issuu.com/efgoffice/docs/egj41_print3



May 2016 EFG project news EFG ¡VAMOS! project Scientific commu-nity, industry, pol-icy makers


June 2016 Maritiem Nederland Damen “Damen Dredging Equipment breekt door in diepzeem-

ijnbouw” Article on involvement of Damen in DSM and the

¡VAMOS! project

Industry ? Netherlands

4 Aug 2016 Općina Vareš public Webarticle on site investigation for Lake Smreka, Vares, BiH.

Find here the online version: http://www.vares.info/node/606

Civil Society ? BiH

August 2016 Bobovac FORRV Article Article on site investigation for Lake Smreka, Vares, BiH. Civil Society ? BiH

Sep 2016 OCEANS'16 MTS/IEEE Monterey conference

INESC TEC Scientific paper

André Dias, José Almeida, Alfredo Martins, Carlos Almeida,

António Ferreira, Bruno Matias, Filipe Silva, Pedro Sousa,

Miguel Moreira, Tiago Miranda, Joel Oliveira and Eduardo

Silva, “Air and Underwater Survey of water enclosed spaces

for ¡VAMOS! Project”, Proceedings of the OCEANS'16

MTS/IEEE Monterey conference, Monterey, California, USA,

19-23 September, 2016.

Scientific commu-nity

World

Nov 2016 UT3,#4,2016 (Society for Underwater Tech-nology)

public Article Article based on press release “”VAMOS reaches deisgn freeze milestone”. Find here the online version: https://issuu.com/ut-2_publication/docs/ut3_is-sue_4_c1_nov_2016_sing


2500 World

Nov 2016 Damen Dredging Journal Issue 2, Q4 2016

Damen Article Inside-out article on ¡VAMOS! incl interviews with Sander Steenbrink, AB member and Stef Kapusniak, Technical Mgr. Journal is send together with DPC magazine

Industry 2000 World

https://issuu.com/efgoffice/docs/egj41_print3

http://www.vares.info/node/606

https://issuu.com/ut-2_publication/docs/ut3_issue_4_c1_nov_2016_sing

https://issuu.com/ut-2_publication/docs/ut3_issue_4_c1_nov_2016_sing

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Nov 2016 European Geologist Journal 42

EFG ¡VAMOS! https://issuu.com/efgoffice/docs/egj42_print



Dec 2016 AT MINERAL PRO-CESSING Europe

Damen Article Article based on press release “”VAMOS reaches deisgn freeze milestone”. Find here the online version: http://www.at-miner-als.com/en/artikel/at_VAMOS_reaches_De-sign_Freeze_Milestone_2714854.html

Industry ? EU

Dec 2016 EFG project news EFG Article ¡VAMOS! project Scientific commu-nity, industry, pol-icy makers


2016 Mineralne surovine GeoZS article Project iVAMOS! http://prenit.geo-zs.si/geozs/PDF/PeriodicnePublikacije/Bil-ten_2015.pdf

mineral industry, geologists

300 hard-copies, web

Slovenia

16 Feb 2017 International Mining Trelleborg Article Trelleborg designs hoses for Pan-European mining R&D pro-ject https://im-mining.com/2017/02/16/trelleborg-designs-hoses-pan-european-mining-rd-project/

Industry ? World

March 2017 Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., Nafplio, Greece,

ZfT Scientific paper

Michael Bleier and Andreas Nüchter. Low-cost 3D Laser Scanning in Air or Water Using Self-calibrating Structured Light, In Proceedings of the 6th ISPRS International Work-shop 3D-ARCH 2017: "3D Virtual Reconstruction and Visual-ization of Complex Architectures", Int. Arch. Photogramm.


10 April 2017 EFGeoWeek #14 EFG Article ¡VAMOS! dominates the Real Time Mining Conference Scientific commu-nity, industry, pol-icy makers


18 April 2017 EFGeoWeek #15 EFG Article ¡VAMOS! opens ERE1.1 at the 2017 European Geosciences Union conference



April 2017 Večernji list FORRV Article Article “Zamrli Vares vraca se u zivot zahvaljujuci megapro-jektu EU” in local Sarajevo newspaper

Civil society ? Bosnia & Hercegovina

https://issuu.com/efgoffice/docs/egj42_print

http://www.at-minerals.com/en/artikel/at_VAMOS_reaches_Design_Freeze_Milestone_2714854.html



http://prenit.geo-zs.si/geozs/PDF/PeriodicnePublikacije/Bilten_2015.pdf

http://prenit.geo-zs.si/geozs/PDF/PeriodicnePublikacije/Bilten_2015.pdf

https://im-mining.com/2017/02/16/trelleborg-designs-hoses-pan-european-mining-rd-project/

https://im-mining.com/2017/02/16/trelleborg-designs-hoses-pan-european-mining-rd-project/

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April 2017 International Mining BMT Article Theme article on future mining Industry ? World

April 2017 ELMA update Damen Article Article ‘Verborgen Europese schatten van onschatbare waarde’

Industry ? The Nether-lands

1 May 2017 European Geologist Journal 43

EFG Article Project description Scientific commu-nity, industry, pol-icy makers


15 May 2017 EFGeoWeek #18 EFG Article Positive results for the ¡VAMOS! underwater Positioning, Navigation and Awareness system



17 May 2017 EFG Project News #7 EFG Article Project update for EFG members Scientific commu-nity, industry, pol-icy makers


29 May 2017 EFGeoWeek #21 EFG Article ¡VAMOS! Market Survey Scientific commu-nity, industry, pol-icy makers


31 May 2017 GeoNews May EFG Article EFG projects | Positive results for the ¡VAMOS! underwater Positioning, Navigation and Awareness system



28 June 2017

GeoNews June EFG Article EFG projects | ¡VAMOS! Market Survey Scientific commu-nity, industry, pol-icy makers


June 2017 2nd International Conference Mining in Europe AIMS 2017

Damen abstract F.W.A.M. Bosman, M.O. Winkelman, K. Slager, ¡VAMOS! – A Horizon 2020 project


EU

June 2017 OCEANS'17 MTS/IEEE conference


Bruno Matias, Jose Almeida, Antonio Ferreira, Alfredo Mar-tins, Hugo Ferreira, Eduardo Silva; “Underwater navigation sensors calibration in inland water spaces” Proceedings of the OCEANS'17 MTS/IEEE Aberdeen conference, Aber-deen, UK, 19-22 June, 2017


World

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9-14 July 2017

IFAC 2017 World Congress, Toulouse, France The 20th World Congress of the International Fed-eration of Automatic Control


M. Bleier, A. Dias, A. Ferreira, J. Pidgeon, J. Almeida, E. Silva, K. Schilling and A. Nutcher, “Signed Distance Function Based Surface Reconstruction of a Submerged Inland Mine using Continuous-time SLAM”, IFAC 20th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, 2017.


? World

22 July 2017 GeoNews July EFG Article EFG projects | ¡VAMOS! Market Survey Scientific commu-nity, industry, pol-icy makers


July 2017 Solid Ground #2 Sandvik Article Article in customer magazine “Underwater frontier” Industry ? World

11 Sep 2017 EFGeoWeek #35 EFG Article Joint conference of UNEXMIN & ¡VAMOS! Projects: USE OF ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION FOR MINERAL PRO-SPECTING AND EXTRACTION -



21 Sep 2017 GeoNews September EFG Article EFG projects | Joint conference of UNEXMIN & ¡VAMOS! Projects: Use of robotics and automation for mineral pro-specting and extraction



21 Sep 2017 GeoNews September EFG Article EFG projects | ¡VAMOS! field trails about to start in UK Scientific commu-nity, industry, pol-icy makers


26 Sep 2017 EFGeoWeek #37 EFG Article Mine robotics and automation: joint conference of UNEXMIN & ¡VAMOS! projects



Sep 2017 European Geosci-ences Union General Assembly 2017, EGU Division Energy, Re-sources & Environ-ment, ERE

LPRC Research article

C. Sword (2017) Viable Alternative Mine Operating System: A novel underwater robotic excavation system for flooded open-cut mines. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.08.058


? World

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.08.058

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Q3-2017 Maritime Holland no. 6 2017

DDE Interview Interview with Olivier Marcus, Product Group Dredging Di-rector of Damen Shipyards. ‘Leading by example, the role of Dutch companies in the in-ternational dredging industry.

Industry, scientific community

? The Netherlands

10-11 Oct 2017

Real Time Mininig Conference

INESC TEC, BMT, ZfT

Paper Michael Bleier et al, “Real-time 3D Mine Modelling in the ¡VAMOS! Project” http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/docu-ments/23129/19.Real-time%203D%20Mine%20Model-ling%20in%20the%20%C2%A1VAMOS%21_RTM2017-19_1b.pdf


50 EU

10-11 Oct 2017

Real Time Mininig Conference

LPRC Paper C. Sword, E.Bakker “¡VAMOS! Viable Alternative Mine Operating System: A Novel Underwater Mining System”


50 EU

23 Oct 2017 New Scientist Fugro, LPRC Article Robotic underwater miners can go where humans can’t https://www.newscientist.com/article/2151183-robotic-under-water-miners-can-go-where-humans-cant/

Industry, Scientific Community, Civil Society

? World

27 Oct 2017 GeoNews October EFG Article EFG projects | Joint conference of UNEXMIN & ¡VAMOS! Projects: Use of robotics and automation for mineral pro-specting and extraction



28 Oct 2017 New Scientist - Article (Web) article in the New Scientist ‘Underwater drone will change mining’. https://www.newscientist.com/arti-cle/2151183-robotic-underwater-miners-can-go-where-hu-mans-cant/


? World

31 Oct 2017 EFGeoWeek #42 EFG Article Successful demonstration of ¡VAMOS! technology in UK Scientific commu-nity, industry, pol-icy makers


14 Nov 2017 EFGeoWeek #43 EFG Article UNEXMIN & ¡VAMOS! – joint conference, Slovenia, January 2018 | Unexmin



16 Nov 2017 Strongmar Confer-ence 2017

INESCTEC Paper Pedro Jorge, Rui Martins, Miguel Ferreira Presentation “GeoLIBS: Towards real-time identification, classification and quantification of complex minerals in un-derwater mining applications”


? EU

http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/23129/19.Real-time%203D%20Mine%20Modelling%20in%20the%20%C2%A1VAMOS%21_RTM2017-19_1b.pdf




https://www.newscientist.com/article/2151183-robotic-underwater-miners-can-go-where-humans-cant/





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16 Nov 2017 Strongmar 2017 SMD Paper Strongmar Conference 2017 ‘a Sea of Technology’ S. Kapusniak - “Underwater mining, Inland & Offshore”


? EU

20 Nov 2017 EFGeoWeek #44 EFG Article UNEXMIN & ¡VAMOS! – joint conference, Slovenia, January 2018 | Unexmin



20 Nov 2017 Chronicle Live SMD Article https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/business/business-news/un-derwater-mine-robot-developed-wallsends-13929904

Civil Society ? UK

30 Nov 2017 GeoNews November EFG Article EFG projects | Joint conference of UNEXMIN & ¡VAMOS! Projects: Use of robotics and automation for mineral pro-specting and extraction



Nov 2017 European Geologist journal

BMT, GeoZS, LPRC

short sci-entific ar-ticle

Bakker E, Žibret G, Rainbird J (2017) The ¡VAMOS! Sustainable Underwater Mining Solution. Eu-ropean Geologist 44: 58-62. Link to the article

Geologists, ex-perts

50.000 EU, USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa

Nov 2017 Meet Sandvik #3 Sandvik Article Article in customer magazine “SANDVIK PARTICIPATES IN UNDERWATER MINING PROJECT”

Industry ? World

Nov 2017 Inside #4 Sandvik Article Article in internal company magazine “MECHANICAL CUT-TING - LET’S GO!”

Industry ? World

Nov 2017 Solid Ground #2/17 Sandvik Article SMRT Magazine & Web Portal: #2/2017 in Magazine https://www.rocktechnology.sandvik/globalassets/news-me-dia/pdf/solid-ground-2-2017.pdf

Scientific Commu-nity, Industry

? World

6 Dec 2017 Sonistics SMD Web arti-cle

https://www.sonistics.com/2017/12/smds-underwater-mining-tech-improves-environmental-viability/

Industry ? UK

11 Dec 2017 EFGeoWeek #48 EFG Article ¡VAMOS! – First Stage Testing Complete Scientific commu-nity, industry, poli-cymakers

50,000 EU, USA, Canada, Australia, SA

21 Dec 2017 NBC News - Article “Robots are replacing humans in world's mines. Here's why.” https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/robots-are-replac-ing-humans-world-s-mines-here-s-why-ncna831631


? World

22 Dec 2017 GeoNews December EFG Article EFG projects | Joint conference of UNEXMIN & ¡VAMOS! Projects: Use of robotics and automation for mineral pro-specting and extraction


50,000 EU, USA, Canada, Australia, SA

Q4-2017 Dredging Journal Damen Article Article in customer magazine “VAMOS on trial” Industry ? World

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/business/business-news/underwater-mine-robot-developed-wallsends-13929904

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/business/business-news/underwater-mine-robot-developed-wallsends-13929904

http://eurogeologists.eu/the-vamos-sustainable-underwater-mining-solution/

https://www.rocktechnology.sandvik/globalassets/news-media/pdf/solid-ground-2-2017.pdf

https://www.rocktechnology.sandvik/globalassets/news-media/pdf/solid-ground-2-2017.pdf



https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/robots-are-replacing-humans-world-s-mines-here-s-why-ncna831631

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/robots-are-replacing-humans-world-s-mines-here-s-why-ncna831631

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29 Jan 2018 Times.si website GeoZS Webarti-cle

Z roboti po zalitih in opuščenih rudnikih Civil Society 61010 Slovenia

29 Jan 2018 Finance newspaper GeoZS (Web) ar-ticle

Z roboti po zalitih in opuščenih rudnikih https://oe.fi-nance.si/8864017?cctest&&cookietime=1517922360

Civil Society 147682 Slovenia

30 Jan 2018 Conference SMD Abstract Stef Kapusniak “Advances in Subsea Mining” At “Use of robotics and automation for mineral prospecting and extraction”, Joint Conference of UNEXMIN, ¡VAMOS! and RTM Projects Bled, Slovenia

Industry, Scientific Community, Pol-icy Makers

80 EU

30 Jan 2018 Conference SMD Abstract Stef Kapusniak “!VAMOS! prototype testing” At “Use of robotics and automation for mineral prospecting and extraction”, Joint Conference of UNEXMIN, ¡VAMOS! and RTM Projects Bled, Slovenia


80 EU

30 Jan 2018 Conference INESCtec Abstract Jose Almeida et al “EVA - Exploratory VAMOS AUV” At “Use of robotics and automation for mineral prospecting and extraction”, Joint Conference of UNEXMIN, ¡VAMOS! and RTM Projects Bled, Slovenia


80 EU

30 Jan 2018 Conference INESCtec Abstract P.Jorge et al “GeoLIBS: Towards real-time ore grading systems in under-water mining applications” At “Use of robotics and automation for mineral prospecting and extraction”, Joint Conference of UNEXMIN, ¡VAMOS! and RTM Projects Bled, Slovenia


80 EU

30 Jan 2018 Conference FZG Abstract T.Nikolic “Geological properties of open pit “Smreka” Vares as a pilot site for testing new mine technology” At “Use of robotics and automation for mineral prospecting and extraction”, Joint Conference of UNEXMIN, ¡VAMOS! and RTM Projects Bled, Slovenia.


80 EU

https://oe.finance.si/8864017?cctest&&cookietime=1517922360

https://oe.finance.si/8864017?cctest&&cookietime=1517922360

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30 Jan 2018 Conference ZfT Abstract A.Nüchter, M.Bleier “Real-time 3D mine model updates in the !VAMOS! Project” At “Use of robotics and automation for mineral prospecting and extraction”, Joint Conference of UNEXMIN, ¡VAMOS! and RTM Projects Bled, Slovenia


80 EU

30 Jan 2018 Conference BMT Abstract J.Rainbird “The !VAMOS! Sustainable Underwater Mining Solution”


80 EU

30 Jan 2018 STAznanost website GeoZS (Web) ar-ticle

Na Bledu o razvoju robotov za pridobivanje surovin iz težko dostopnih nahajališč http://znanost.sta.si/2477138/na-bledu-o-razvoju-robotov-za-pridobivanje-surovin-iz-tezko-dosto-pnih-nahajalisc

Civil Society unknown Slovenia

30 Jan 2018 STA.si website GeoZS Article Na Bledu o razvoju robotov za pridobivanje surovin iz težko dostopnih nahajališč


31 Jan 2018 Dnevnik (newspaper) GeoZS (Web) ar-ticle

Robot bo raziskal tudi idrijski rudnik živega srebra https://www.dnevnik.si/1042799865/lokalno/gorenjska/robot-bo-raziskal-tudi-idrijski-rudnik-zivega-srebra


5 Feb 2018 Radio Odmev GeoZS Radio Pogovor z Gorazdom Žibretom Civil Society 9000 Slovenia

6 Feb 2018 Vares website - Web arti-cle

Web article https://www.vares.info/node/854

Civil Society ? BiH

6 Feb 2018 Radio Bobovac - Web arti-cle

Web article http://radiobobovac.com/portal/index.php/vijesti/ostale-vijesti/item/2214-projekt-podvodnog-rudarenja-na-jezeru-smreka

Civil Society ? BiH

6 Feb 2018 Mining Technology SMD Web arti-cle

VAMOS: accessing abandoned mine sites with underwater robots. Web article and interview with Paul Arthur, SMD https://www.mining-technology.com/features/vamos-access-ing-abandoned-mine-sites-underwater-robots/


? World

12 Feb 2018 EFGeoWeek #55 EFG Article VAMOS: accessing abandoned mine sites with underwater robots - Mining Technology



http://znanost.sta.si/2477138/na-bledu-o-razvoju-robotov-za-pridobivanje-surovin-iz-tezko-dostopnih-nahajalisc



https://www.dnevnik.si/1042799865/lokalno/gorenjska/robot-bo-raziskal-tudi-idrijski-rudnik-zivega-srebra

https://www.dnevnik.si/1042799865/lokalno/gorenjska/robot-bo-raziskal-tudi-idrijski-rudnik-zivega-srebra

https://www.vares.info/node/854

http://radiobobovac.com/portal/index.php/vijesti/ostalevijesti/item/2214-projekt-podvodnog-rudarenja-na-jezeru-smreka



https://www.mining-technology.com/features/vamos-accessing-abandoned-mine-sites-underwater-robots/

https://www.mining-technology.com/features/vamos-accessing-abandoned-mine-sites-underwater-robots/

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12 Feb 2018 EFGeoWeek #55 EFG Article The Joint Conference of UNEXMIN and ¡VAMOS! in Bled - Eurogeologists



28 Feb 2018 GeoNews February EFG Article EFG projects | Joint Conference of UNEXMIN and ¡VAMOS! Scientific commu-nity, industry, pol-icy makers


5 March 2018

EFGeoWeek #58 EFG Article The ¡VAMOS! Sustainable Underwater Mining Solution - Eu-rogeologists



13 March 2018

Mining Technology MML Web arti-cle

Finding tin on the seafloor. Webarticle and interview with Mike Proudfoot of MML, with reference to ¡VAMOS! https://www.mining-technology.com/features/finding-tin-sea-floor/


? World

12 April 2018 Mining Technology Partners

LPRC Podcast Podcast about the project with Edine Bakker http://miningtechnologypartners.com/episode-6-project-vamos-edine-bakker-la-palma-institute/


? World

31 May 2018 2018 OCEANS - MTS/IEEE

InescTEC Scientific paper

2018 OCEANS - MTS/IEEE Kobe Techno-Oceans (OTO), Kobe, Japan A. Martins, J. Almeida, C. Almeida, B. Matias, S. Kapusniak and E. Silva: "EVA a Hybrid ROV/AUV for Underwater Min-ing Operations Support"

Scientific Commu-nity

World

7 June 2018 Sarajevo Times - Web arti-cle

http://www.sarajevotimes.com/the-largest-water-well-in-bih-is-located-in-vares/

Civil Society BiH

18 June 2018

EFGeoWeek #73 EFG Article H2020 projects gather in Brussels to network about the so-cial acceptance in the European Raw Materials Sector - Eu-rogeologists



26 June 2018

Dredging Summit & Expo 2018

Damen Scientific paper

Dredging Summit & Expo 2018 by WEDA “Novel solution for Mining minerals: ¡VAMOS!” M.O. Winkelman, D. Dijxhoorn and O.P. Marcus


World

21 Aug 2018 EFGeoWeek #82 EFG Article ¡VAMOS! preparing for second field tests in Ireland Scientific commu-nity, industry, pol-icy makers


https://www.mining-technology.com/features/finding-tin-seafloor/

https://www.mining-technology.com/features/finding-tin-seafloor/

http://miningtechnologypartners.com/episode-6-project-vamos-edine-bakker-la-palma-institute/

http://miningtechnologypartners.com/episode-6-project-vamos-edine-bakker-la-palma-institute/



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8 Sep 2018 The Nenagh Guardian

- Web arti-cle

“VAMOS: Progress with Silvermines hydro-electric plan.” Interview with Siga Hydro. https://www.nenaghguardian.ie//news/roundup/arti-cles/2018/09/08/4161546-progress-with-silvermines-hydroe-lectric-plan/print

Civil society ? Ireland

1-5 October 2018

IROS 2018 InescTEC Scientific papers

2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Ro-bots and Systems in Madrid - Spain Jose Almeida, António João Almeida Bernardo Ferreira, Bruno Matias, Caio Lomba, Alfredo Martins, Eduardo Alexandre Pereira da Silva: "VAMOS Underwater Mining Machine Navigation System" Jose Almeida, Alfredo Martins, Carlos Almeida, André Dias, Bruno Matias, António João Almeida Bernardo Ferreira, Pedro Jorge, RUI Martins, Michael Bleier, Andreas Nuechter, John Pidgeon, Stef Kaspuniak, Eduardo Alexandre Pereira da Silva: "Positioning, Navigation and Awareness of the VAMOS Un-derwater Robotic Mining System"


? World

18 Oct 2018 Slovenian television GeoZS Televi-sion

TV show “Let’s bite science” https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/ugriznimo-znanost/174569559

Civil society 418,920 Slovenia

12 Nov 2018 EFGeoWeek #94 EFG Article Press release: Field demonstration of ¡VAMOS! technology is a success at Silvermines, Ireland - Eurogeologists



18 Nov 2018 Damen Magazine Damen Web arti-cle

Innovative spirit – The EU’s contribution to Damen’s RD&I, Part III https://magazine.damen.com/innovation/innovative-spirit-the-eus-contribution-to-damens-rdi-part-iii/

Scientific Commu-nity, Industry, Civil Society, Policy makers

? World

23 Nov 2018 Solid Ground Sandvik Web Arti-cle

“Onward and downward” Article in online Sandvik customer magazine https://solidground.sandvik/onward-and-downward/


? World

https://www.nenaghguardian.ie/news/roundup/articles/2018/09/08/4161546-progress-with-silvermines-hydroelectric-plan/print



https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/ugriznimo-znanost/174569559

https://magazine.damen.com/innovation/innovative-spirit-the-eus-contribution-to-damens-rdi-part-iii/

https://magazine.damen.com/innovation/innovative-spirit-the-eus-contribution-to-damens-rdi-part-iii/

https://solidground.sandvik/onward-and-downward/

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30 Nov 2018 Projektowanie i Kon-strukcje Inżynierskie

SMD, Damen

Article (web and print)

“Górnictwo podwodne: szansa dla gospodarki, wyzwanie dla inżynierów” (“Underwater mining: a chance for the economy, a challenge for engineers”) http://www.konstrukcjeinzynierskie.pl/fragmenty/190-f2018/flistopad2018/2432-gornictwo-podwodne-szansa-dla-gospodarki-wyzwanie-dla-inzynierow (full pdf also available)

Industry ? Poland

20 Dec 2018 Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology channel

Sandvik Film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fhIXNZrBso Project movie for Sandvik promotion

Scientific Commu-nity, Industry, Civil Society, Policy makers, General Public

485 views (as per 10/1/2019)

World

20 Dec 2018 UT3 issue 6 - Online maga-zine

¡VAMOS! Almost gone, article in UT3 from Society of Under-water Technology https://issuu.com/ut-2_publication/docs/issuu_19th_ut3j_is-sue_six_2018?e=1400639/66508690


? World

16 January 2019

Project movie All Film Available through website http://vamos-project.eu/ and You Tube

Scientific Commu-nity, Industry, Civil Society, Policy makers, General Public

World

http://www.konstrukcjeinzynierskie.pl/fragmenty/190-f2018/flistopad2018/2432-gornictwo-podwodne-szansa-dla-gospodarki-wyzwanie-dla-inzynierow



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fhIXNZrBso

https://issuu.com/ut-2_publication/docs/issuu_19th_ut3j_issue_six_2018?e=1400639/66508690

https://issuu.com/ut-2_publication/docs/issuu_19th_ut3j_issue_six_2018?e=1400639/66508690

http://vamos-project.eu/

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13 May Society of Underwater Technology (Branch meeting in Aberdeen)

SMD Presen-tation

Hilton Aberdeen, UK http://www.sut.org/event/aem_130515/?tribe_event_dis-

play=past&b=62


UK

11 June 2015

European Federation of Geologists

EFG, SMD Presen-tation by

Stef Kapusniak (SMD)

Workshop “Mining in a crowded country”, North of England

Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers (NEIMEE) Eu-

ropean Federation of Geologists (EFG), Newcastle (UK)

http://eurogeologists.eu/workshop-mining/


48 EU countries

6-10 July 2015

TU Freiberg summer school

SMD Presen-tation by

Stef Kapusniak (SMD)

Course “From Dredging to Deep-Sea Mining”, Freiberg, DE http://tu-freiberg.de/sites/default/files/media/professur-bergbau---tagebau-13453/Veranstaltungen/sum-merschoolfreiberg.pdf

Students (Scien-tific community)

World

1-3 Sept 2015

IOTCE 2015

International Ocean Technology Conference & Expo International Convention Center, Qindao, China http://www.iotce.org/


World

8-10 Sept 2015

Offshore Europe 2015

SMD http://www.offshore-europe.co.uk/ Aberdeen SPE Offshore Europe is one of the world's largest technical conference and exhibitions for the offshore E&P industry.

Industry 63,000+ World

22-25 Sep-tember 2015

17th International Conference on Transport & Sedimen-tation of Solid Parti-cles

Mark Winkel-man

(Damen)

Leaflets Audience is mainly academic, however the field of interest is 1/3 Mining, 1/3 Dredging and 1/3 Bulk Processing Industry. There are several papers directly related to the develop-ments in the ¡VAMOS! project. These have been discussed within the Damen team and a summary has been distributed amongst the respective partners / TU Delft http://www.aqua.ar.wroc.pl/ts17/


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http://eurogeologists.eu/workshop-mining/

http://tu-freiberg.de/sites/default/files/media/professur-bergbau---tagebau-13453/Veranstaltungen/summerschoolfreiberg.pdf



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29-30 Sept 2015

Deep Sea Mining Summit 2015

SMD, Damen

http://www.asia.deepsea-mining-summit.com/ Sands Convention Center, Singapore

Scientific Commu-nity, Industry, Pol-icy makers

World

20 Oct 2015 Congress of the Insti-tute of mining

Stef [SMD] Presen-tation

The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical En-gineers, Newcastle https://www.mininginstitute.org.uk/


UK

22 Oct 2015

AUT 2015 Autonomous Underwater Technology, technical conference & exhibition by Australasian Hydrographic Society & The So-ciety for Underwater Technology Parmelia Hilton Hotel, Perth, Australia http://d3c6l3uum4x5po.cloudfront.net/wp-content/up-loads/2014/09/AUT-22-Oct-2015-Flyer-Registration-Form-v3.pdf


Australasia

1-6 Nov 2015

UMC 2015 Stef [SMD], Eduardo [In-

esc]

Presen-tation

Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront Hotel, Tampa Bay, Fl, USA http://www.underwatermining.org/welcome.html


World

3-7 Nov 2015

5th World Maritime Technology Confer-ence

Rhode Island Convention & Omni Hotel Providence, Rhode Island, USA, http://www.sname.org/2015wmtc


3-5 Nov 2015

10th Fennoscandian Exploration and Min-ing

EFG Leaflets Levi, Lapland Finland, http://fem.lappi.fi/en


1000 Finland, Sweden, Norway, and North west-ern Russia

http://www.asia.deepsea-mining-summit.com/

https://www.mininginstitute.org.uk/

http://d3c6l3uum4x5po.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/AUT-22-Oct-2015-Flyer-Registration-Form-v3.pdf



http://www.underwatermining.org/welcome.html

http://www.sname.org/2015wmtc

http://fem.lappi.fi/en

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3-5 Nov 2015

First International Me-tallic Mining Trade Show

EFG, EDM

Poster and leaf-

lets at EDM booth

Seville Exhibition and Conference Centre (FIBES), Seville, Spain, http://mmhseville.com/?lang=en

Industry 10.000 Portugal, Spain, Chile, Mex-ico

3-6 Nov 2015

Europort 2015 / CEDA Dredging Days

Damen Roll up banner, folders, teaser movie

Theme CEDA Dredging Days: “Innovative dredging solutions for ports”, Ahoy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands http://www.europort.nl/ Talked to various academic and industry people, contacts were made and shared within the project management team Teaser movie shown at Damen’s DD booth


30.000 World

4-5 Nov2015 World Mining Summit Toronto, Canada http://wms.americanleaders.com/

Industry

4-6 Nov 2015

Third International Fu-ture Mining Confer-ence

Sydney, Australia, http://www.future-mining2015.ausimm.com.au/


9-11 Nov 2015

Sustainable Ocean Summit 2015

Theme: "Sustainable Development and Growing the Blue Economy - the Next 50 Years" Marina Mandarin Hotel, Singapore http://www.oceancouncil.org/site/summit_2015/


50-100? World

17-18 Nov 2015

Minex Europe SMD, Sandvik,

EDM

Presen-tation (Uwe

Restner, Sandvik)

Hotel Savoyen, Wien, Austria http://www.minexeurope.com/2015/


100-200 EU

25-26 Nov 2015

Africa Mining Summit Hilton Bominti Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey http://www.africaminingsummit2015.com/index.php

Industry, Policy makers

Africa, some European

30 Nov – 4 Dec 2015

Mines and Money Business Design Centre, London, UK http://www.minesandmoney.com/london/

Industry World

9-10 Dec 2015

Offshore & Deep Sea Mining event

SMD Tower Hill - Dexter House, London, UK http://www.ibcenergy.com/event/Offshore-Deep-Sea-Mining-Conference

Industry World

http://www.fibes.es/

http://mmhseville.com/?lang=en

http://www.europort.nl/

http://wms.americanleaders.com/

http://www.futuremining2015.ausimm.com.au/

http://www.futuremining2015.ausimm.com.au/

http://www.oceancouncil.org/site/summit_2015/

http://www.minexeurope.com/2015/

http://www.africaminingsummit2015.com/index.php

http://www.minesandmoney.com/london/

http://www.ibcenergy.com/event/Offshore-Deep-Sea-Mining-Conference

http://www.ibcenergy.com/event/Offshore-Deep-Sea-Mining-Conference

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19-21 Janu-ary 2016

INTRAW annual workshop

CF, EFG, GeoZs

Poster and leaf-

lets at EFG booth

International Cooperation on Raw Materials http://intraw.eu/


50 EU, US, Australia, South Africa, Japan, Can-ada

2-4 February 2016

TUSExpo InescTec Presen-tation by Eduardo

Silva

The Unmanned Systems Expo (TUSExpo), World Forum, The Hague, The Netherlands http://tusexpo.com/


200 World

21-22 Feb 2016

SME 2016 Annual Conference & Expo

The future for mining in a data driven world, Phoenix, Ari-zona, USA, http://www.smeannualconference.com/

7-8 March 2016

MINATURA2020 Pan-European workshop

MML, SMD Presen-tations, leaflets

MINATURA2020 Pan-European workshop, Cardiff, UK https://minatura2020.eu/event/minatura2020-pan-european-workshop/ Mike Proudfoot (MML) “Marine placers” Stef Kapusniak (SMD) “Deep sea minerals”


50 EU

6-9 March PDAC EDM Poster and leaf-

lets

PDAC Metro Toronto Convention, Toronto, Canada http://www.pdac.ca/convention


23.500 World

11-17 April 2016

Bauma 2016 Damen, Sandvik

Leaflets Bauma: The World's Leading Trade Fair for Construction, Building Material and Mining Machines and Construction Ve-hicles and Equipment sets future trends, Munich, Germany, http://www.bauma.de/index-2.html

Industry Europe, World

12-14 April 2016

PIMBIS EDM, Min-eralia

Poster and leaf-

lets

http://www.pimbis.com/index.html


500+ Portugal

2-5 May 2016

OTC 2016 Offshore Technology Conference, NRG Park, Houston, Texas, USA


68,000 World

18-19 May 2016

Mining in Europe Damen, Sandvik

Leaflets, posters

(First International Conference) of Mining in Europe, Aachen International Mining Symposia, RWTH/Aachen University, Kármán-Auditorium, Aachen, Germany http://www.aims.rwth-aachen.de/


Europe

23-25 May 2016

CIME 2016

China (Beijing) International Mining Exhibition (CIME), Bei-jing, China, http://www.bjminexpo.com/en/

Industry 22.000 World

http://intraw.eu/

http://tusexpo.com/

http://www.smeannualconference.com/



http://www.pdac.ca/convention

http://www.bauma.de/index-2.html

http://www.pimbis.com/index.html

http://www.aims.rwth-aachen.de/

http://www.bjminexpo.com/en/

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13-17 June 2016

Wodcon XXI Damen Leaflets World Dredging Congress & Exhibition Topic: Innovations in dredging The Hyatt Regency, Miami

https://westerndredging.org/index.php/events/wodcon-xxi


World

14-15june 2016

EMRA 16 INESC TEC Presen-tation by Eduardo

Silva

Newcastle University, UK http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/emra2016/programme.html


80 EU

9 Sept 2016 2nd Annual Meeting of Challenger Society

SMD Presen-tation

Deep-Sea Ecosystem Special interest group University of Liverpool http://www.challenger-society.org.uk/Challenger_confer-ence_2016


UK

14-15 Sept 2016

2nd European Dredg-ing Summit

Damen http://wplgroup.com/aci/event/dredging-summit-europe/ Industry Europe

9-13 Oct 2016

Underwater Mining Conference

SMD Leaflets 45th Underwater Mining Conference http://www.underwatermining.org/ Orakai Songdo Park Hotel 151, Techno park-ro, Yeonsu-gu Incheon, South Korea


World

28 Nov-1Dec Mines and Money / Mines and Technol-ogy

Business Design Centre 52 Upper Street, London N1 0QH, UK http://london.minesandmoney.com/ http://minesandtechnology.com/

Industry World

30 Nov 2016 INTRAW Workshop on future scenarios on international raw materials provision

EFG Leaflets Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Scientific Commu-nity, Industry, Pol-icy makers

100 EU

30Nov-2Dec 2016

EU Raw Materials Week

LPC Leaflets, poster-session

Sheraton Hotel, Brussels http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/news-room/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=8915


EU

29 - 30 No-vember 2016

Offshore and Deep Sea Mining

Damen (Coenraad)

Leaflets Radisson Edwardian Bloomsbury, London https://maritime.knect365.com/offshore-deep-sea-mining/


50 World

30Nov-2Dec 2016

SOS2016 Leaflets Hilton Hotel, Weena 10, 3012 CM Rotterdam, Netherlands. https://www.ilago.ovh/sustainableoceansummit/


World

https://westerndredging.org/index.php/events/wodcon-xxi

http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/emra2016/programme.html

http://www.challenger-society.org.uk/Challenger_conference_2016

http://www.challenger-society.org.uk/Challenger_conference_2016

http://wplgroup.com/aci/event/dredging-summit-europe/

http://www.underwatermining.org/

http://london.minesandmoney.com/

http://minesandtechnology.com/

http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=8915

http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=8915

https://maritime.knect365.com/offshore-deep-sea-mining/

https://www.ilago.ovh/sustainableoceansummit/

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9-10 Feb 2017

EFG/UNECE confer-ence

EFG Leaflets EFG/UNECE conference: International cooperation on natu-ral resources: geoscientists’ contribution to enhanced gov-ernance, policy making and attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences


100 EU

22-25 Febru-ary 2017

Samoter 2017 Samoter Veronafiere Exhibition Centre, Verona, Italy http://www.samoter.it/en/


23-27 April 2017

EGU 2017 LPRC Presen-tation

European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017 Austria Center Vienna (ACV) http://www.egu2017.eu/.


250 Europe

1-4 May 2017

OTC 2017 Offshore Technology Conference, NRG Park, Houston, Texas, USA http://2017.otcnet.org/


68,000 World

15-16May 2017

EMRA `17 INESC TEC Presen-tation by Alfredo Martins

Girona, Spain http://emra-17.marinerobotics.eu/


95 EU

22-23 May 2017

6th Annual Deep Sea Mining Summit 2017

https://www.deepsea-mining-summit.com/


World

7-8 June 2017

Mining in Europe Damen, Sandvik

Leaflets Sandvik booth,

presenta-tion FB

Mining in Europe, Aachen International Mining Symposia, RWTH/Aachen University, Kármán-Auditorium, Aachen, Ger-many http://www.aims.rwth-aachen.de/


500 Europe

20 June 2017

Strongmar 2017 INESC TEC Presen-tation

Thematic Workshop on Sensing the Deep Sea http://www.strongmar.eu/site/sensing-the-deep-sea-59 “Perception technologies for underwater mining” by Prof. Ed-uardo Silva, ISEP / INESC TEC, Porto


25 EU

19-22 June OCEANS'17 MTS/IEEE

INESC TEC Presen-tation by Alfredo Martins

http://www.oceans17mtsieeeaberdeen.org/ Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, Aberdeen, UK

Scientific commu-nity, policy makers

World

http://www.samoter.it/en/

http://www.egu2017.eu/

http://2017.otcnet.org/

http://emra-17.marinerobotics.eu/

https://www.deepsea-mining-summit.com/


http://www.strongmar.eu/site/sensing-the-deep-sea-59

http://www.oceans17mtsieeeaberdeen.org/

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1 Sept 2017 Transport and Sedi-mentation 18

Damen Leaflets http://www.aqua.ar.wroc.pl/ts18/index.php Institute of Hydrodynamics CAS, Prague, Czech Republic


80 World

14-15 Sept 2017

EIT Raw Materials Brokerage Event

Brokerage event and Workshop on Drones, robotics and au-tonomous systems for exploration and mining, Helsinki, Finland https://eitrawmaterials.eu/events/drones/

Scientific commu-nity, industry, in-vestors

World

19-22 Sept 2017

Exposibram 2017 Damen, LPRC

Leaflets Exposibram Mining Trade fair, Belo Horizonte, Brazil http://exposibram.org.br/eng


10-11 Octo-ber 2017

Real Time Mining Conference

Damen, LPRC, ZfT

Presen-tations, leaflets

Koninklijke Industrieele Groote Club, Dam 27, Amsterdam https://www.realtime-mining.eu/


80 EU

24 October 2017

¡VAMOS! Visitors Day All, except MIN

Demon-stration, leaflets

Report of the day can be found in http://vamos-pro-ject.eu/successful-demonstration-of-vamos-technology-in-uk/


35 EU

31 October – 2 November 2017

11th Fennoscandian Exploration and Min-ing (FEM 2017)

Sandvik Leaflets

http://fem.lappi.fi/en Levi, Lapland, Finland


1000 EU

16th Novem-ber 2017

Strongmar con-ference

INESC TEC, SMD

Presenta-tions by

Pedro Jorge, Stef

Kapusniak



EU

6-10 Nov 2017

Raw Materials Week LPRC, EFG Poster EU Raw Materials Week 2017, Brussels https://europa.eu/newsroom/events/raw-materials-week-2017_en


World

9 Nov 2017 Europort 2017 / CEDA Dredging Days

Damen (Klaas)

Presen-tation,

leaflets, posters banner

Ahoy, Rotterdam http://www.europort.nl/about-europort/profile


30.000 World

27-30 No-vember 2017

Mines and Technol-ogy

LPRC (Edine)

Presen-tation, leaflets

Mines and Technology (co-located with Mines and Money), Business Design Centre, London http://london.minesandtechnology.com/

Industry 1000 World

12 dec 2017 EASME Mining Clus-ter Event

BMT, Inesc, Damen, LPRC

Presen-tation, leaflets

Cluster event for ongoing mining projects funded by H2020 Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Covent Garden Building, Brussels, Belgium https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/about-easme


60 EU

http://www.aqua.ar.wroc.pl/ts18/index.php

https://eitrawmaterials.eu/events/drones/

http://exposibram.org.br/eng

https://www.realtime-mining.eu/

http://vamos-project.eu/successful-demonstration-of-vamos-technology-in-uk/

http://vamos-project.eu/successful-demonstration-of-vamos-technology-in-uk/

http://fem.lappi.fi/en


https://europa.eu/newsroom/events/raw-materials-week-2017_en

https://europa.eu/newsroom/events/raw-materials-week-2017_en

http://www.europort.nl/about-europort/profile

http://london.minesandtechnology.com/

https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/about-easme

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30 january 2018

Use of robotics and automation for min-eral prospecting and extraction

BMT, SMD, Damen, IN-ESC, ZfT, Sandvik,

GeoZS, CF, EFG, FZG,

FORVV

Presen-tations, leaflets, posters, pop-up banner

Joint Conference of UNEXMIN, ¡VAMOS! and RTM Pro-jects,Bled, Slovenia Several presentations by Stef Kapusniak, Jose Almeida, Pedro Jorge, Toni Nikolic, Andreas Nüchter, Jenny Rainbird


90 EU

13-15 March 2018

Oceanology 2018 Fugro, Inesc, SMD

Leaflets http://www.oceanologyinternational.com/ Excel London, UK


8000 World

9 April 2018 Dnevi industrijske ro-botike 2018 (Days of industrial robotics 2018)

GeoZS presenta-tion

Conference about use of robotics in industry, title of presen-tation "Use of robotics for mineral prospection and extrac-tion" by Gorazd Zibret http://dnevirobotike.si/

robotics experts approx. 30 Slovenia

23-24 May 2018

Mines of the future Sandvik

Leaflets at

Sandvik booth

Mines of the future, Aachen International Mining Symposia, RWTH/Aachen University, Kármán-Auditorium, Aachen, Ger-many http://www.aims.rwth-aachen.de/


500 Europe

28-31 May 2018

OTO ‘18 Inesc Presen-tation

OCEANS'18 MTS/IEEE (OTO ‘18) Kobe Convention Center, Kobe, Japan http://www.oceans18mtsieeekobe.org/

Scientific commu-nity, policy makers

World

12-15 June 2018

Mine Water Solutions 2018

Mine Water Solutions, Vancouver http://2018minewatersolutions.com/ Vancouver Campus of the University of British Columbia


350 World

12-13 June 2018

EMRA ‘18 Inesc Presen-tation,

Leaflets

5th EU-funded Marine Robotics and Applications Workshop (EMRA’18) University of Limerick, Ireland http://emra-18.marinerobotics.eu/


100 EU

25-28 June 2018

Dredging Summit & Expo 2018

Damen Presnta-tion, leaf-

lets

Presentation “From High to low-end mineral mining” by Mark Winkelman, Damen https://dredging-expo.com/


450 World

http://www.oceanologyinternational.com/

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/ExCeL+London/@51.508208,0.025427,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x47d8a80ce609e50d:0xa0de5f705d7aec7!8m2!3d51.5084601!4d0.029846

http://dnevirobotike.si/


http://www.oceans18mtsieeekobe.org/

http://2018minewatersolutions.com/

http://emra-18.marinerobotics.eu/

https://dredging-expo.com/

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5-6 July 2018

Strongmar 2018 Con-ference “In the black”

SMD, Inesc Presen-tation, confer-ence chair

Conference “In the black” – Deep Sea Mining Challenges- Workshop supported by EIT Raw Materials http://www.strongmar.eu/site/robotics-for-underwater-mining-%E2%80%93-from-exploration-to-exploitation-61

Presentation “Underwater perception technologies” by José Miguel Almeida, InescTec

Conference chair by Stef Kapusniak, SMD


EU

10-14 Sep-tember 2018

UMC 2018 Inesc, SMD, Fugro

Presen-tation

Underwater Mining Conference - Deep-Sea Mining: Chal-lenges of Going Further and Deeper Advances in Marine Research and Subsea Technology Be-yond Oil and Gas Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway http://www.underwatermining.org/welcome.html ”EVA a robotic vehicle for underwater mining operations sup-port“ Presentation by Eduardo Silva, InescTec


150 World

27 Septem-ber 2018

THRIVE 2018 LPRC Online presenta-

tion

“Flooded Mine? No Problem, Mining with Underwater Ro-bots” by Luis Lopes from LPRC Conference from The Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Ex-ploration http://www.smethrive.com/index.cfm/about/


USA

18-19 Octo-ber 2018

GEO-EXPO 2018 FZG Presen-tation

„Geomehaničke i geološke osobine stijena na PK “Smreka“ Vareš rađene za potrebe projekta Vamos“ by Toni Nikolič at 8th scientific and expert conference by Geotechnical Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina Hotel Sunce in Neum http://www.geotehnika.ba/savjetovanja_en/2018_ne_en.html


100 Balkan re-gion, Europe

26 October 2018

Geological Society – South West Regional Group – Annual Con-ference

SMD Presen-tation

“Offshore Mining and VAMOS” by Stef Kapusniak, SMD at Geological Society – South West Regional Group – Annual Conference Exeter, Devon, UK https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/south_west


UK

3 October 2018

5. Slovenian Geologi-cal Congress

GeoZS presenta-tion

“Use of robotics and automation for mineral prospecting and extraction” by Gorazd Zibret http://www.geo-zs.si/5SGK/index_en.html

geoscientific ex-perts

approx. 30 Slovenia, EU

http://www.strongmar.eu/site/robotics-for-underwater-mining-%E2%80%93-from-exploration-to-exploitation-61

http://www.strongmar.eu/site/robotics-for-underwater-mining-%E2%80%93-from-exploration-to-exploitation-61

http://www.underwatermining.org/welcome.html

http://www.smethrive.com/index.cfm/about/

http://www.geotehnika.ba/savjetovanja_en/2018_ne_en.html

https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/south_west

http://www.geo-zs.si/5SGK/index_en.html

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24 October 2018

¡VAMOS! Visitors Day All, except MIN, MML,

FZG, FORVV

Demon-stration,

presenta-tions,

leaflets

Presentation “¡VAMOS! Project Overview” by Stef Kapusniak, SMD Report of the day can be found in http://vamos-pro-ject.eu/field-demonstration-of-vamos-technology-is-a-suc-cess-at-silvermines-ireland/

Scientific Commu-nity, Industry, Pol-icy makers, (Lo-cal) civil society

85 EU

26-29 No-vember 2018

Mines and Money Mines and Technology (co-located with Mines and Money), Business Design Centre, London


Industry 1000 World

8-14 April 2019

Bauma 2019 Damen Leaflets, video

https://www.bauma.de/index-2.html

München, Germany

Industry, Policy makers, General Public, Media

+50.000 World

29-30 April

2019

9th Deep Sea Mining

Summit 2019

BM Presen-tation, video

Presentation by Jenny Rainbird, BMT https://deepsea-min-

ing-summit.com/ ,London, UK


~100 World

2-3 May

2019

Underwater 3D Mod-

elling & Recording

ZfT Scientific presenta-

tion

Presentation by Michael Bleier, ZfT on “3D underwater mine modelling in the ¡VAMOS! project" http://3d-underwater.cut.ac.cy/

Limassol, Cyprus


USA

13-14 June 2019

AIMS 2019 — 2nd In-

ternational Confer-

ence „Mines of the

Future“

SMD Presen-tation,

leaflets, video

***Under proviso*** presentation by Stef Kapusniak, SMD https://www.aims.rwth-aachen.de/ Aachen, Germany


500 UK

4-7 June 2019

2019 Dredging Sum-

mit & Expo

Damen Presen-tation,

leaflets, video

Co-presentation by Damen/supplier on Non radio-active den-

sity measurement


Chicago, USA


~250 World

http://vamos-project.eu/field-demonstration-of-vamos-technology-is-a-success-at-silvermines-ireland/




https://www.bauma.de/index-2.html

https://deepsea-mining-summit.com/

https://deepsea-mining-summit.com/

http://3d-underwater.cut.ac.cy/

https://www.aims.rwth-aachen.de/


Annex D; ¡VAMOS! Press list

Annex E; Press release coverage

Please see below the media coverage for the press release Field demonstration of ¡VAMOS! technology is a success at Silvermines, Ireland. The release was sent to 388 recipients – International media, Dutch media, Dredging & Mining Release date: 5 November 2018

Social media coverage Statistics as per 13 November 2018, 10:44: Facebook: 3770 reached - 53 Likes – 7 Shares LinkedIn: 21515 Impressions, 1833 Clicks, 150 Likes Twitter: 0 Share – 3 Likes Instagram – 425 likes Comment: Social media coverage is on the below average level in comparison with other news posts. Damen.com overview

https://www.damen.com/en/news/2018/11/field_demonstration_of_vamos_technology_is_a_success_

at_silvermines_ireland

Statistics as per 13 November 2018:

197 page entrances – 247 page views

Average time on the page : 00:03:34

Bounce rate: 84.58%

Source: Direct, Damen Plaza, LinkedIn, Facebook, Organic, Twitter

Geography: The Netherlands, Romania, UK, France

Full overview on last page.

Comment: The numbers are on the below average level in comparison with other Damen news.

Coverage in online media:

1. VAMOS flooded pit mining tech proven in hard rock at Silvermines, Ireland Basic Materials & Resources Monitor Worldwide - 07 Nov 2018 15:06 researchers from companies and institutions, local people etc were present at the VAMOS! technology Demonstration Day, at the Magcobar flooded mine pit, in Silvermines, Ireland. In total 85 visitors participated in the field demonstration to raise...

2. Ireland,Netherlands : Field Demonstration of VAMOS! Technology Is a Success at Silvermines, Ireland TendersInfo – News - 07 Nov 2018 04:59

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REFERRAL

Annex F; Silvermines stakeholder survey analysis

During the Silvermines field trial the ¡VAMOS! team held an Open Day where stakeholders from

different areas and not only from Ireland, were invited to learn more about the project and to see the

technology in action. A stakeholder engagement survey form was created specifically for this occasion

(see last pages of this document) to assess their views on ¡VAMOS!. In total, from the 85 participants,

there were 18 answers. These were received through both online and offline channels (Google forms +

email).

The following sub-chapters make reference to the most relevant questions and respective answers

received. Some conclusions regarding stakeholders engagement, their opinions and desires towards the

¡VAMOS! technology are also drawn, as they might help to shape the future of the mining system. Some

of these are already covered by some of the ¡VAMOS! deliverables under Work Packages 5 and 6.

a) Stakeholders category

The graph shows that stakeholders from almost all categories were present/interested in answering the

survey. The bigger representativity of research centers & academic staff and mining companies is due to

the nature of the project and its focus on geology and mining research activities. The representativity of

local public is also of interest to the project, as it is important to assess the SLO – social license to operate,

the way for mining exploitation. The lack of answers from regulatory bodies and EC bodies implies that

the project needs to engage better with these groups.

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b) How have you heard about the ¡VAMOS! project?

The dissemination and communication of the project to the stakeholders groups has been an important

aspect of the project since the beginning as is seen in this specific report. Stakeholders have learned about

the ¡VAMOS! project through a different number of channels, with personal networking and conferences

being the most relevant ways. This pertains the importance of direct engagement, that should be further

pursued to interact with stakeholders in the future.

c) How do you perceive the mining industry in your country? (Google forms only)

d)

Most of the respondents see the mining activities in a positive way. The ¡VAMOS! line of development,

which focus on an more environmentally friendly approach to mining, can help to shape how mining is

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seen by stakeholders, some of them outside the scope of mining and geology. Stakeholders groups such

as local public and regulatory bodies would benefit from more interaction and information to change their

views on mining activities.

e) Do you consider that mineral exploration and mining are important for your country/region?

(Google forms only)

Most respondents affirm that mining activities are important for their region. This acknowledge the fact

that mining is needed for our everyday lifestyle and that it brings beneficial aspects such as social (more

employment in outermost regions) and economic.

f) How do you evaluate the overall environmental impact of mining? (Google forms only)

Stakeholders see mining has an activity that has a medium impact on the environment – considering

overall mining activities that are largely represented by conventional methods. Innovative approaches to

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mining such as the one present by ¡VAMOS! can help to change this view with actual better environmental

management.

g) How do you see the potential impact of a ¡VAMOS!-like operated mine in your community?

(Google forms only)

The ¡VAMOS! technology is seen as a mining technique that will have minor to medium influence on

local communities. This is due to the actual state of the technology – in a prototype state. This view

might change once further technological improvements has been pursued, together with the final

environmental, feasibility and market uptake considerations.

h) Perceiving of the ¡VAMOS! technology in terms of economic aspects (e.g. Do you believe that

the ¡VAMOS! technology is more beneficial that conventional mining techniques?)

Overall, the answers seem to evaluate the ¡VAMOS! technology as economically beneficial. However,

stakeholders note that this depends on the specific situation and a number of factors: mining area,

environmental concerns, extraction vs market demand, additional test-work required to properly

evaluate, conditions of the deposit, value of the commodities.

i) Perceiving of the ¡VAMOS! technology in terms of environmental aspects (e.g. Are you

comfortable with the environmental measures taken? Do you see additional risks or

unknowns?)

Most respondents are happy and comfortable with the measures taken by the ¡VAMOS! project to

monitor and evaluate environmental conditions while mining and its effects on the environment.

However, they generally state that more information needs to be provided to properly assess

environmental impact. They also show preoccupation with: pit water quality issues, management and

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discharge of suspended solids, leaks and spills, careful monitoring of the release of potential deleterious

substances into the water column and subsequent groundwater contamination.

j) Perceiving of the ¡VAMOS! technology in terms of social aspects (e.g. What do you think the

impact of a ¡VAMOS!-like operated mine would mean for your community? How would your

community like to be informed in the future?)

Stakeholders see the ¡VAMOS! technology has positive regarding social aspects, especially with the

opportunities it can bring to local communities in the form of employment in the direct and indirect mining

industry. Stakeholders also affirm that staying informed about the mining process is very important and

that they want to be kept informed at all times.

k) Perceiving of the ¡VAMOS! technology in terms of technical/technological aspects (e.g. Do you

see the technology as feasible in the short, medium and long-term?)

Most stakeholders see that the ¡VAMOS! technology would only be ready for the market on a

medium to long term. They consider that more testing, especially in harder rock conditions is

needed, together with further advancement in the technological components.

l) Perceiving of the ¡VAMOS! technology in terms of policy aspects (e.g. What do you think

governments should do/change to accommodate the ¡VAMOS! mining technique into the

market?)

Opinions among stakeholders diverge when considering policy aspects. Some affirm that the actual policy

is enough to have a technology like ¡VAMOS! ready, while others consider that new and adapted policies

should be put in place. Raising awareness for the mining topic – on both government and general public

level – was also emphasized.

m) Perceiving of the ¡VAMOS! technology in terms of other aspects

Stakeholders perceive the technology as innovative and exciting. They want to be kept informed of its

evolution and the future plans.

n) Suggestions to improve the technology

Some suggestions to improve the technology were made by some stakeholders. These include: having a

system for larger scale operations, possibility to adapt and operate the system for extreme depths of 4-

5km in a deep sea environment, including more geological data and develop mine planning and, having a

bigger focus on loading/unloading and transport of the components.

Conclusion Proper dissemination and communication of the project is necessary to reach stakeholders. The ¡VAMOS!

team can say that this was achieved with the results obtained from the survey. Stakeholders views on the

state of the project and on the technology itself were learned and their opinions will be taken into account

for the future development of the project.

Attachment: Form “¡VAMOS! Stakeholder Engagement Survey”

¡VAMOS! Stakeholder Engagement Survey

Overall perception of the ¡VAMOS! technology on environmental, social and economic

factors

Contact: Luís Lopes - Project Manager, [email protected]

This survey aims at measuring the impact that the ¡VAMOS! Innovative technology can have on

environmental, social and economic aspects, are perceived by the stakeholders. Answers will help

the ¡VAMOS! team to better align the technology with stakeholders' views and desires. It is

anonymous and we will not collect any sensitive data.

Stakeholders' group (please choose one of the following options):

☐ Mining and/or mining exploration companies

☐ Investors and R&D funding organisations

☐ Regulators and policy makers

☐ Research centres and academic staff

☐ Environmental NGOs

☐ Associations representing mining activities

☐ The European Commission and its agencies

☐ Local Public

☐ Other:

Have you been present in the ¡VAMOS! Open Day in Silvermines?

Have you heard about the ¡VAMOS! project prior to this day? If so, how?

Non-technical questions

This section includes multiple choice questions that aim at evaluating the overall impact and

perception of mining and ¡VAMOS! or its future operations.

How do you perceive the mining industry in your country?

☐ Good

☐ Bad

☐ Other:

Do you consider that mineral exploration and mining are important for your

country/region?

☐ Yes

☐ No

☐ Other:

¡VAMOS! is working with innovative technologies that can open exploration in new ways,

possibly leading to re-opening of old mines – would this bother you?

☐ Yes

☐ No

☐ Other:

How do you evaluate the overall environmental impact of mining?

☐ Minor

☐ Medium

☐ Huge

☐ Other:

How do you see the potential impact of a ¡VAMOS! operated mine in your community?

☐ Minor

☐ Medium

☐ Huge

☐ Other:

Are you interested in receiving more information about ¡VAMOS! after the Open Day?

☐ Yes

☐ No

☐ Other:

Technical questions

This section includes open answer questions that aim at gathering input on specific aspects that

might prove important for the development and market uptake of the ¡VAMOS! project in the

future. If you feel these questions are too technical, please skip them.

How do you perceive the ¡VAMOS! technology in terms of (benefits, bottlenecks, impacts at

local, regional, national level, etc):

a) Economic aspects (e.g. Do you believe that the ¡VAMOS! technology is more

beneficial that convential mining techniques?):

b) Environmental aspects (e.g. Are you comfortable with the environmental measures

taken? Do you see additional risks or unknowns?):

c) Social aspects (e.g. What do you think the impact of a ¡VAMOS!-like operated mine

would mean for your community? How would your community like to be informed

in the future?):

d) Technical/technological aspects (e.g. Do you see the technology as feasible in the

short, medium and long-term?):

e) Policy aspects (e.g. What do you think governments should do/change to

accomodate the ¡VAMOS! mining technique into the market?):

f) Others (mention which):

Thank you for your collaboration!

Please send this survey to: [email protected]

Documents

D1.6: Dissemination Plan, web portal and publication material (final) · 2019. 4. 5. · Participating: MUL, MIN, MML, GeoZS, CF, EFG, FZG, FORVV . Dissemination Level . ... GA Grant