Cooperative Projects to Share Good Practices towards More Effective Sustainable Mining—SUGERE: A Case Study

The supply of raw materials is a global challenge to be addressed; themes such as “sustainability”, “responsibility”, and “eco-compatibility” represent the cornerstones for proceeding towards “wise” management georesources. According United Nations’ SDGs, economic development countries must go hand in with improvement their environmental, health, social sustainability. From this perspective, exploitation georesources needs handled an interdisciplinary approach that tackles not only technical, economic, environmental issues, but also social, legislative, human health ones. In recent years, Europe has promoted several cooperative projects aimed at boosting sustainability extractive industry. To achieve guarantee concrete truly sustainable mining, it necessary build strengthen educational training skills. With these objectives mind, first results EU–Africa SUGERE Erasmus+ project are presented here. objects implementation Bachelor, Master, doctoral curricula geology mining engineering promotion socioeconomic thanks experts who able cooperate work manner local mine exploitation.