The ProSUM project developed the very first EU-wide and open-access Urban Mine Platform (UMP) located at www. urbanmineplatform.eu.This dedicated web portal is populated by a centralised database containing all readily available data on market inputs, stocks in use and hibernated, compositions and waste flows of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE), vehicles and batteries (BATT) for all EU 28 Member States plus Switzerland and Norway. The UMP’s user-friendly design features dedicated applications, allowing the user to select and produce charts and to download resulting data ‘on-demand’ in a quick manner. The knowledge base is complemented with an extensive library of more than 800 source documents and databases. With the ability to view the metadata, methodologies, calculation steps and data constraints and limitations are made explicit, allowing the user to review key information and to get an idea of the data quality of the sources used for this massive prospecting effort.
Addressing target audiences and expressing needs
- To raise awareness and possibly influence policy
- Grants and Subsidies
- Use of research Infrastructure
- Collaboration
- Other type of Investment
The Urban Mine Platform has a huge potential in helping decision making for investments by the private and public industry, in raising awareness and in policy making. We need relevant data from different sources to keep the platform up to date and grants/funding to be able to maintain the platform live.
- Public or private funding institutions
- EU and Member State Policy-makers
- International Organisations (ex. OECD, FAO, UN, etc.)
- Research and Technology Organisations
- Academia/ Universities
- Private Investors
R&D, Technology and Innovation aspects
We are currently seeking funding to enable the data to be brought up date.
