The kick-off of the European R&D innovation action MINEYE is a fact.

This new project, which was granted a funding of almost 6 million Euros under Horizon Europe, is meant to improve the mining value chain at all levels in order to increase Europe’s access to valuable and strategic minerals or metals. The objective is also to limit the environmental impact of mining activities in general.

SPACEBEL is part of the MINEYE consortium gathering a total of 13 partners form nine European countries under the leadership of NGI (Norwegian Geotechnical Institute).

Thanks to a combination of cutting-edge Earth observation techniques integrating in situ observations and digital solutions, MINEYE will offer competitive and sustainable cloud-based technologies in order to optimise the entire mine life cycle ranging from exploration, sustainable exploitation over operations to closure and post-closing phase.

Given the complexity of the current geopolitical and economic context, raw materials have become extremely vital for Europe’s industrial competitiveness and the evolution towards a greener future.

Scheduled for completion by 2028, the MINEYE approach will bring adequate solutions to the financial, environmental and social challenges at stake in the field of mineral exploitation in Europe.

SPACEBEL is bringing our expertise related to Earth observation applications and Space data access management to the MINEYE project covering the following activities :

• EO database preparation;
• environmental footprints monitoring to detect possible pollution;
• ground surface monitoring to assess the mine stability;
• integration of various products and monitoring solutions into a comprehensive platform adapted to optimise mining operations and assist decision making.

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