International projects

Horizon Europe
EURATOM
Interreg
EIT RawMaterials
Erasmus+
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
COST
Horizon 2020
FP7
FP6
UNESCO
Bilateral projects
Other programmes

Horizon Europe

Project title Principal investigator	Duration
DANube SEdiment Restoration: towards deployment and upscaling of sustainable sediment management across the Danube River basin (DANSER) Ivica Pavičić	01/01/2025 – 31/12/2028
Agile Exploration and Geo-modelling for European Critical Raw materials (AGEMERA) Franjo Šumanovac	01/08/2022 – 31/07/2025

EURATOM

Project title Principal investigator (Affiliated entitiy)	Duration
Partnership for european research in radiation protection and detection of ionising radiation : towards a safer use and improved protection of the environment and human health (PIANOFORTE) Želimir Veinović	01/08/2022 – 31/07/2025

Interreg

Naziv projekta Voditelj projekta na ustanovi	Trajanje projekta
Transforming abandoned wells for geothermal energy production (TRANSGEO) Tomislav Kurevija	01/05/2023– 30/04/2026
Fostering the implementation of shallow geothermal hybrid heating and coooling systems in the Danube Region (Danube GeoHeCo) Tomislav Kurevija	01/01/2024– 30/06/2026

EIT RawMaterials

Project title Principal investigator	Duration
OPTIMALMINE – A paradigm shift in mining and quarry efficiency in Europe Anamarija Grbeš Babić	01/06/2025 – 31/05/2027
EMeraldinho II - Stimulating Innovation & Entrepreneurship in EMerald Master Sibila Borojević Šoštarić	01/01/2025 – 31/12/2027
TIMREX-CRM - T-shaped Master for Innovative Mineral Exploration extended towards the CRM Act Sibila Borojević Šoštarić	01/01/2025 – 31/12/2027
NRE-ElectRA – Electric, Remote control, Automatic Narrow Reef mining Equipment Sibila Borojević Šoštarić	30/09/2023 – 31/12/2025
PRO-SLO PhD Winter/Summer School Marta Mileusnić	01/10/2023 – 30/09/2026
RIS Internship programme: broadening University-Business Cooperation Sibila Borojević Šoštarić	01/01/2022 – 31/12/2024
EMERALDinho Stimulating Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Resources Engineering Sibila Borojević Šoštarić	01/01/2022 – 31/12/2024
TIMREX - T-Shaped Master Programme for Innovative Mineral Resource Exploration Ana Maričić	01/01/2022 – 31/12/2024
RECO2MAG - Grain boundaries engineered Nd-Fe-B permanent magnets Marta Mileusnić	01/01/2022 – 31/12/2023
DIM ESEE-2: Implementing innovations Sibila Borojević Šoštarić	01/01/2021 – 31/12/2024
RM@SCHOOLS-ESEE – Raw Material at Schools-ESEE Marko Cvetković	01/01/2020 – 31/12/2022
MOBI-US – Structured mobilities for ESEE raw materials master programs Uroš Barudžija	01/01/2020 – 31/07/2021
ENGIE – Encouraging Girls to Study Geosciences and Engineering Iva Kolenković Močilac	01/01/2020 – 31/12/2022
TrainESEEv.2. – Training trainers in East and Souteastern Europe Sibila Borojević Šoštarić	01/01/2020 – 31/12/2021
iTARG3T – Innovative targeting & processing of W-Sn-Ta-Li ores: towards EU's self-supply Sibila Borojević Šoštarić	01/01/2019 – 31/12/2021
MineHeritage – Historical Mining - tracing and learning from ancient materials and mining techniques Marta Mileusnić	01/01/2019 – 31/12/2021
rESEErve – Mineral potential of the ESEE region Sibila Borojević Šoštarić	01/04/2018 – 30/11/2021
InvestRM – Multifactor model for investments in the raw material sector, case study Bosnia and Herzegovina Sibila Borojević Šoštarić	01/01/2018 – 31/12/2021
REEBAUX – Prospects of REE recovery from bauxite and bauxite residue in the ESEE region Igor Vlahović	01/01/2018 – 31/12/2020
MINERS – Mine Emergency Response and Rescue School Dalibor Kuhinek	01/01/2018 – 01/03/2020
DIM ESEE – Dubrovnik International Mining School Vječislav Bohanek	01/04/2017 – 31/12/2020
ESEE Education Initiatives Sibila Borojević Šoštarić	01/01/2019 – 31/12/2019
EIT RM HUB – Regional Center Adria Vječislav Bohanek	2018. trajno
Raw materials University Day Zagreb Antonija Zrno	01/01/2018 – 31/12/2018
ESEE S – ESEE Scholarships Antonija Zrno	01/01/2017 – 31/12/2018

Erasmus+

Project title Principal investigator	Duration
Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Sustainable Mineral and Metal Processing Engineering (EMJM PROMISE) Gordan Bedeković	01/02/2022 – 31/01/2028
Geothermal Energy Capacity Building in Egypt – GEB Tomislav Kurevija	15/01/2021 – 15/01/2024
Circular Economy Lab & Observatory (CiELO) Lidia Hrnčević	01/09/2020 – 31/08/2023
Living Opportunities for Our Planet (LOOP) Lidia Hrnčević	01/09/2019 – 31/08/2022
A New Energy Culture: Sustainability and Territories (NECST) Lidia Hrnčević	01/09/2014 – 31/08/2017

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Project title Principal investigator	Duration
Ensuring Water Security in a Changing Climate (IAEARER7017) Zoran Kovač	01/01/2024 – 31/12/2028
Evaluating Groundwater Resources and Groundwater-Surface Water - Interactions in the Context of Adapting to Climate Change Zoran Kovač	01/01/2020 – 31/12/2023
Using Nitrogen and Oxygen Stable Isotopes in the Determination of Nitrate Origin in the Unsaturated and Saturated Zone of the Velika Gorica Wellfield Jelena Parlov	01/01/2020 – 31/12/2021
Isotope Investigation of the Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction at the Well Field Kosnica in the Area of the City of Zagreb Jelena Parlov	01/01/2016 – 31/12/2017

COST

Naziv projekta Voditelj projekta	Trajanje projekta
Recovery of Mining District Network (REMINDNET) Biljana Kovačević Zelić	19/10/2023 – 18/10/2027
European network for innovative recovery strategies of rare earth and other Critical metals from electrical and electronic waste (ReCreew) Anamarija Grbeš	25/03/2015 – 24/03/2019

Horizon 2020

Project title Principal investigator	Duration
Hydrogen Storage In European Subsurface (HyStorIES) Bruno Saftić	01/01/2021 – 31/12/2022
Strategic planning of regions and territories in Europe for low-carbon energy and industry through CCUS (STRATEGY CCUS) Domagoj Vulin	01/05/2019 – 30/04/2022
Security of Explosives pan-European Specialists Network (EXERTER) Vječislav Bohanek	01/06/2018 – 31/05/2023
ENabling Onshore CO2 Storage in Europe (ENOS) Bruno Saftić	01/09/2016 – 31/08/2020
Minerals Policy Guidance for Europe (MIN-GUIDE) Darko Vrkljan	01/02/2016 – 31/01/2019

FP7

Project title Principal investigator	Duration
Groundwater and dependent Ecosystems: NEw Scientific basIS on climate change and land-use impacts for the update of the EU Groundwater Directive (GENESIS) Zoran Nakić	01/04/2009 – 31/03/2014
Pan-European coordination action on CO2 Geological Storage (CGS EUROPE) Bruno Saftić	01/11/2010 – 31/10/2013
European value chains for CO2 (ECCO) Bruno Saftić	01/09/2008 – 31/08/2011

FP6

Project title Principal investigator	Duration
CO2NetEast Bruno Saftić	01/10/2006 – 01/10/2009
Assessing European capacity for geological storage of carbon dioxide (EU GEOCAPACITY) Bruno Saftić	01/01/2006 – 01/01/2009
CO2, from Capture to Storage (CASTOR) Bruno Saftić	01/09/2008 – 31/08/2011

UNESCO

Project title Principal investigator (Affiliated entitiy)	Duration
Western Tethys meets Eastern Tethys Igor Vlahović	01/03/2020– 29/02/2024

Bilateral projects

Project title Principal investigator	Duration
Influence of Confinement on Detonation Parameters of ANFO Explosives Vječislav Bohanek	01/01/2020 – 31/12/2021
Clay mineralogy in landslide hazard assessment Marta Mileusnić	01/01/2016 31/12/2017
Biomineralization at the nanoscale: from the natural systems to the laboratory Ivan Sondi	01/06/2014 – 01/06/2015
Pottery production in prehistoric cultures, especially Hallstatt culture, of Croatian and Austrian Danube regions Marta Mileusnić	01/01/2014 – 31/12/2015
Tools for modelling past and future global climate change: case study of loess-palaeosol sequences (Quaternary aeolian deposits) from Istria and Kvarner (North Adriatic area) Goran Durn	01/01/2014 – 31/12/2015
The end-Permian and Early Triassic sedimentary environments in the Croatian Dinarides - the example of global warming ocean and a link to calibrate events in the western Tethys Dunja Aljinović	31/10/2013 – 31/10/2015
SULPHATic Evaporite mélanges: basic principles and application to DInarides and Eastern Alps Sibila Borojević Šoštarić	01/01/2012 – 31/12/2013
Comparison of Terroirs of Istria, Vienna and Wachau Goran Durn	01/01/2012 – 31/12/2013
Palaeogeographic history of the Adria plate: palaeomagnetic reconstruction Igor Vlahović	01/01/2007 – 31/12/2013
Occurrence and geochemistry of arsenic in the groundwater of Eastern Croatia and Shanxi province of China-a comparison study Željko Duić	01/10/2011 – 30/09/2013
Paleomagnetyzm i historia termiczna skał permu, triasu i jury rejonu Dynarydów chorwackich, a ewolucja paleogeograficzna i geodynamiczna płyty adriatyckiej Igor Vlahović	07/05/2010 – 06/05/2013
geohazardINFO: Virtualni centar podataka o geohazardima Snjezana Mihalić	01/01/2010 – 31/12/2010
Biostratigrafija i taložni okoliš naslaga perma i trijasa Slovenije i Hrvatske Dunja Aljinović	01/01/2009 – 31/12/2010
Comparison of Jurassic-Cretaceous Sedimentary Successions in the Eastern Alps (Austria) and Dinarides (Croatia): Palaeogeography, Geodynamics and Evolution Igor Vlahović	01/01/2008 – 31/12/2009
Mitigation of the Earthquake Effects in Towns and in Industrial Regional Districts Predrag Kvasnička	16/10/2007 – 16/09/2008
Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction in an Ancestor of the Adriatic Carbonate Platform, Croatia Igor Vlahović	01/09/2005 – 01/09/2008
Određivanje zona sanitarne zaštite oko štipskog izvorišta vode iz aluviona rijeke Bregalnice prema iskustvu zagrebačkih izvorišta iz aluviona rijeke Save Darko Mayer	01/01/2006 – 01/01/2008

Other programs

Project title Principal investigator	Duration
Primjena kalcinirane gline u proizvodnji cementa i betona u cilju smanjenja emisije stakleničkih plinova Sibila Borojević Šoštarić	01/01/2023 – 31/12/2023
Rehabilitation of the coal mining complex in Mostar - BiH Jerko Nuić	01/06/2006 – 01/06/2012
Mollusk Evolution of the Neogene Dinaride Lake System Davor Pavelić	01/11/2005 – 01/11/2009
ALPASS-DIPS (Alpine Lithosphere and Upper Mantel PASsive Seismic Monitoring - DInarides Pannonian Segment) Franjo Šumanovac	01/12/2005 – 01/12/2007
Master Plan for closure and Remediation of Landfills in the Counties of Sibenik-Knin and Zadar, Croatia Darko Mayer	01/02/2005 – 01/01/2006
Seismic Exploration of the Alpine Lithosphere Franjo Šumanovac	17/05/2002 – 17/05/2005
World Correlation on Karst Ecosystem Josip Tišljar	01/01/2000 – 01/01/2004