Greetings from Aalto

1. Greetings from
Aalto
Prof. Rodrigo Serna
METYK seminar
December 13th , 2016

2. Aalto University’s
international programs
on sustainable raw
materials processing

3. European Mining, Minerals and
Environmental Program
• An international cooperation program celebrating its 20th
anniversary in 2016!
• An consortium of top-level universities offering exchange programs
in mining and mineral processing
• Various partner universities in its history,
current partners include:

4. European Mining, Minerals and
Environmental Program
• European Mining Course (EMC)
• Two-year joint triple degree program offered by a consortium of
Europe's leading universities in resource engineering: Aalto
University, TU Delft and RWTH Aachen University
• Program builds on the strengths and the complementary expertise
in earth sciences of these three universities, leading to a high-
quality degree in mining engineering

5. European Mining, Minerals and
Environmental Program
• European Mineral and Recycling Engineering Course (EMREC)
• MSc mobility program offered by two European leading universities in
resource engineering: Aalto University and TU Delft
• Leads to an outstanding qualification in mineral and recycling process
engineering

6. European Mining, Minerals and
Environmental Program
• Accomplishments of the Federation of European Mining Programs
(FEMP):
• The preservation of mining and minerals engineering programs at several
universities
• Build relationships between 5 geographically diverse universities
• Educating over 750 students with 61 nationalities
• Contributions > 2 million Euros since 2001 for students
• Participation in Erasmus Mundus program from 2008-2014
with > 4 million Euros in scholarships to 62 (most non EU) students
• 5-10% of students continued with PhD or MBA
• Alumni employed by 240 companies, 50 countries
• Network of ~25 companies in 12 countries on 3 continents
• Organized 16 annual meetings with > 2000 participants at 12 locations in 6
countries

7. European Mining, Minerals and
Environmental Program
From 8 to 780 students and alumni in 20 years

8. EMMEP’s current industrial partnersEuropean Mining, Minerals and
Environmental Program
• Current industrial sponsors

9. Circular Economy Design Forum
• EIT-Raw Materials Master’s education project
• Creates a network of universities interested in promoting
entrepreneurship in metallic raw materials production
• Three academic partners (Aalto University + Freiberg University +
Wroclaw University of Technology) and an industrial partner
(Outotec)

10. Circular Economy Design Forum
• ”Training the trainers” event coordinated by Aalto Ventures
Program
• Entrepreneurial education in the context of circular economy

11. • Circular Economy Entrepreneurship in
System Integrated Metals Processing
(CEE SIMP)
• EIT-Raw Materials Doctoral education program
• Pilot course successfully carried out in Spring 2016
• Doctoral level course of 5ECST organized by Aalto University
together with its eight partners; KU Leuven, TUDelft, Lund
University, Tallinn University of Technology, Lappeenranta
University of Technology, Outotec, Jernkontoret and Dimecc

12. Circular Economy Entrepreneurship in
System Integrated Metals Processing
(CEE SIMP)
• CEE SIMP in a nutshell
• Two year project, pilot in spring 2016, from February to June
• 2nd course in spring 2017 with a 50% increased intake (from 20
metallurgists, chemists, environmental scientists and geologists to
30 students) in a slightly modified form (expansion approved by
EIT).
• Focus on circular economy, entrepreneurship and utilization of
waste streams from metals processing

13. Circular Economy Entrepreneurship in
System Integrated Metals Processing
(CEE SIMP)
Course aims
• Students:
• Development of an entrepreneurial insight
• ”Lectures + assignments + campus = knowledge + opportunity = successful course”
• Multidisciplinarity – learning from peers’ different approaches
• Participation of industry actors, presence of the partner companies in the Summer
Camp and Idea Camp.
• Interaction with students, speakers and industry representatives
• Companies:
• New feasible ideas for utilization of process waste

15. Shaping the future:
science and art together
with technology and
business