Rethinking Resources

Innovations to secure Europe's future

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Academic Responsibility

Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Stefan Böschen

Research and teaching field “Society and Technology”
Human Technology Center (HumTec), RWTH Aachen

Website

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Elisabeth Clausen

Research and teaching field Advanced Mining Technologies
RWTH Aachen

Website

Contact Person

Kim Kolbet

kim.kolbet@leonardo.rwth-aachen.de

Schedulue

Start

09.04.2024

Time

Tuesday, 6:30 – 8:00 pm

Place

S02 | (1386|202)

Claßenstr. 11
52072 Aachen

Language

German

Resources permeate our everyday lives as a matter of course, but the sustainable procurement and utilisation of these resources poses a challenge. Contemporary societies have become dependent on resources in a wide-ranging and complex way. The secure supply of resources and secure access to resources are therefore rightly seen as a major challenge. What is more, the emergence of a new world order raises the question of a secure and sustainable supply of resources with particular urgency.

Against this background, the crucial question arises: Whether and, if so, in what way can Europe make itself independent of resources? The answer to this question depends on many factors, which we will explore as part of the module. These include, in particular, the complex dependencies in the extraction and utilisation of raw materials, the criticality of resources, challenges for a secure supply of raw materials and, of course, the question of the sustainability of selected raw material supply paths.

In order to make the strategic aspects of this topic tangible, the module is carried out in the form of a business game.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, students will be able to…
… describe the importance of sustainable resource extraction and explain the role of domestic mining against the background of a secure supply of resources.
… describe different types of resource extraction and differentiate between them based on their respective requirements and framework conditions.
… develop the social embedding of resource extraction as a relevant issue in a subject-specific way.
… discuss the background and elements of a resource strategy and contextualise the resource strategy and other key points of the Federal Government’s resource policy.
… recognise and describe the interdependencies of various factors (economic, ecological, social) and be able to apply them to specific examples.
… reflect on the strategic issues of resource dependency of transformation processes.
… understand the dynamics and framework conditions of debates in public-political spaces.
… practise role-taking and consider forms of self-positioning and positioning by others.

Program

09.04.2024

Introduction to the topic – course schedule

Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Clausen

Prof. Dr. Stefan Böschen

RWTH Aachen

23.04.2024

Dimensions for a secure raw material supply (criticality); raw material supply EU and Germany, raw material markets