Vectors to Accessible Critical Raw Material Resources in Sedimentary Basins (Vector)

欧盟80%的工业原材料是进口的，这使得欧洲供应链极易受到干扰，并威胁到欧盟制造原材料密集型技术的能力，如电动汽车、风力涡轮机和ICT硬件，这些技术对于绿色和数字转型至关重要。欧洲拥有巨大的矿产潜力，但由于缺乏可持续、低影响的勘探方法以及社会对矿产项目的反对，开发受到限制。有了VECTOR，我们将创造新的知识来克服这些技术和社会障碍，释放欧洲的原材料潜力，并提高欧盟原材料供应链的弹性。要克服这些问题，就需要对采掘业的商业模式进行重大变革，并采取更加以人为本的做法。矢量项目的前提是，任何可持续的人类活动的先决条件是将环境和社会成本降至最低，并将所有利益攸关方纳入围绕这一问题的决策过程。VECTIVE的总体目标是提供以证据为基础和可获得的知识，将科学和社会途径整合到成功的矿产勘探和采矿中。我们方法的第一个支柱是地质勘查工具包，它基于一种全新的工作流程，使用基于机器学习的、侵入性较小的地质、地球化学和地球物理测量的集成。该工作流程将在三个欧洲沉积盆地中得到验证，并将在全球范围内推广。第二个支柱是一个社会接受程序，它首次确定了欧洲公众在决定矿产开发时所引用的价值观。这将产生一个社会接受指数和反映不同价值观观点的新知识体系。第三个支柱是一个综合工具包，由一个独特、分散、多模式、自学和互动的平台组成，该平台将同时考虑地质勘探潜力和社会经济因素，以对更适合勘探并最终适合采矿的区域进行数据驱动、量化和综合评估。这些结果将通过一个吸引人的网络界面免费提供，该界面旨在支持循证决策以及联合国气候变化框架委员会和联合国新闻和社会事务部。

The EU imports 80% of its industrial raw materials making European supply chains highly vulnerable to disruption and threatening the EU's ability to manufacture raw material-intensive technologies, such as electric cars, wind turbines, and ICT hardware, that are essential to the green and digital transformations. Europe possesses significant mineral potential but development is limited by the lack of sustainable, low-impact exploration methods and by social opposition to mineral projects. With VECTOR we will generate new knowledge to overcome these technical and social barriers, unlocking Europe's raw material potential and improving the resilience of EU raw materials supply chains. Overcoming issues will require major changes of the business models in the extractives industry and to integrate a more human-centred approach. The VECTOR project is based on the premise that a prerequisite to any sustainable human activity is to minimize the environmental and social costs and include all the stakeholders in the decision making processes around this. VECTOR's overall objective is to deliver evidence-based and accessible knowledge that integrates the scientific and social pathways to successful mineral exploration and mining. The first pillar of our approach is a geological prospectivity toolkit based on an entirely new workflow using machine learning-based integration of less invasive geological, geochemical and geophysical measurements. The workflow will be validated in three European sedimentary basins and will be transferable worldwide. The second pillar is a social acceptance procedure that identifies, for the first time, the values that the European public invokes when deciding about mineral development. This will result in a Social Acceptance index and a new body of knowledge that reflects diverse values-based perspectives. The third pillar is an integrated toolkit consisting of a unique, distributed, multimodal, self-learning, and interactive platform that will consider both geological exploration potential and socio-economic factors to yield a data-driven, quantitative and integrative assessment of regions more suitable for exploration and, eventually, mining. The results will be freely available via an engaging, web-based interface designed to support evidence-based decision making and the UNFC and UNRMS.