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EFGeoWeek #372 | 3 March 2025

06/03/2025
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Norrman: Deep planning - Improving underground developments through inter- and...

The rapid urbanisation and global need for resources have led to an increased use of the underground, resulting in conflicting interests and an urgent need for subsurface planning. The concept of geosystem services is suggested for communicating the diverse values of the subsurface, and to support subsurface planning for ensuring sustainable and equitable underground developments.

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5th IPGC - Abstract Submission Deadline Extended!

The abstract submission deadline for the 5th International Professional Geology Conference is now extended until 31 March 2025. Mark your calendars for the conference in Zaragoza (5–7 November 2025).

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European Geologist 58: Water - making the invisible visible

EFG announces the release of issue 58 of its peer-reviewed Diamond Open Access publication, the European Geologist. The new issue is entitled "Water - making the invisible visible"

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Global Geoscience Professionalism Group launches new website

The Global Geoscience Professionalism Group (GGPG), of which the European Federation of Geologists (EFG) is a founding member, just launched its new website. The website is designed to inform and […]

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EFG at the TRiPGiFT Final Conference

The European Federation of Geologists (EFG), as a partner of the TRiPGiFT Erasmus+ project, participated in the Final Conference: “Training Pupils on Geosciences through Virtual Field Trips” on 11 February […]

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TIMREX: EIT-Labelled Master’s in Innovative Mineral Resource Exploration

The application period for the TIMREX EIT-Labelled Master’s Programme in Innovative Mineral Resource Exploration is now open. This Master’s programme provides a strong theoretical foundation in robotics, innovation, data science, […]

Within the framework of the CEEGS project, the European Federation of Geologists (EFG) announces a video contest on CO2 storage and geothermal heat extraction.

Our new classroom posters invite students to uncover the minerals needed to create green technologies such as electric vehicles and solar panels. From quartz to cobaltite, discover more about the minerals that power the innovations helping us to reach ...

Earth Science Week promotes responsible stewardship of Earth through events and opportunities to discover Earth sciences, involving community groups, educators, and citizens. Each October, the Geological Society coordinates Earth Science Week, in coope...

Geothermal Innovation Award 2025 has been awarded to EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg

There is a force all around us—unseen, unfelt, and yet profoundly influential. It guides the migration of birds across continents, whispers secrets to ancient rocks, and shields us from cosmic storms. This force is as mysterious as it is essential, sha...

Growing up, I didn’t know what it meant to “do research”. I did some research projects in high school, but research as a field path was totally foreign to me until I started university. Unlike me, the young students who participated in this year’s Arct...

We have entered a new era of “harsh” geopolitics. Those were the words of the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in her keynote speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 21, 2025. It is an era with geostrategic rivalries wh...

Steel built the EU—is it standing up for steel today? As unfair trade, high energy costs and an uneven transition that lacks sufficient support threaten its survival, EU leaders must decide to invest in economic security and social stability or not.

Proposals to ease reporting requirements praised by business interests, panned by green groups

A large part of the country's resources has fallen under Russian occupation.

Discussions should indicate how to realise a “step-change” in competitiveness and help draft a steel and metals action plan this spring.

Plan should break the link with gas to renew industry and speed green energy, experts say

In this Policy Triangle, supported by European Movement International, we delve into civil society and the Green Deal.

A recent analysis of Europe’s CO2 storage market reports an integrated EU-UK CO2 storage market could dramatically lower costs for carbon capture and storage development. So why isn’t it happening?

In a letter seen by Euractiv, Spain says they want to ease burdens for business, but that the most important thing is to "unlock capital flows forward the green transition."

Member states collectively spent €36 billion on LNG imports before December 2024, with nearly half of the money going to the US.

Tailoring what governments buy is ‘one of the most important ammunitions we have’ in fighting climate change and economic decline.

An international team of researchers is developing a model of Mars’s evolution that could unlock some of its long-held secrets, including whether it once harboured life.François Forget, a space scientist from the Pierre Simon Laplace Institute in Franc...

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The Horizon Papers

On this page, you can find links to the draft Horizon Europe work programmes for 2025, and the official work programmes for 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. These are the documents that spell out the research topics, timing and budgets the Commission plans.

Research lobbies have reacted enthusiastically to a report by members of the European Parliament that endorses the creation of a standalone FP10, the next EU research and innovation Framework Programme, and calls for dramatic budget increases.

Several old fossil fuel wells in the north of England were going to be used for fracking. Instead, they may now be a template for the UK's geothermal industry.

Istanbul is one of the world's biggest cities, growing larger still every year. Its rapid expansion is putting enormous stress on its water supplies.

The planet's glaciers have lost 5% of their ice in little over 20 years, according to a major study.

BGS is looking for an experienced leader to serve as Chair of its Board. This role is crucial in guiding BGS, ensuring strong governance and delivering public value.

Dr Goodenough has been awarded the Coke Medal by the Geological Society, which recognises those who have made a significant contribution to science.

Developed at NASA JPL, the science instrument gives researchers a more detailed picture of high-temperature surfaces, such as land scorched by wildfire, than previous infrared instruments.

Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world's strongest ocean current, researchers have found. This melting has implications for global climate indicators, including sea level rise, ocean warming and viability of m...

Researchers led by Prof. Li Nuo from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a method to simulate the concentrations of unmeasured geochemical elements in rock and stream sediment samples.

Aston University microbiologist Dr. Jonathan Cox has written an article for the journal Microbiology on the dangers posed by raw sewage in the seas around the UK.