Join the IRTC Training and Become a Raw Materials Risk Manager
March 31 – April 3, 2025 | daily from 9.30-12.00 CET
700 € regular fee, 500 € for (PhD) students
Including preparatory material, course materials; excluding examination and certification fee of 250 EUR (examination is voluntary)
Are you a researcher, professional or government official and want to understand critical raw material risks?
After completing the course, you will be capable of identifying material supply risks and understanding the challenges and mitigation options related to critical raw materials. The course delves into these topics with a variety of lectures, exercises, and group tasks. Your trainers will be Luis Tercero Espinoza (Fraunhofer), Dieuwertje Schrijvers (WeLOOP) and Alessandra Hool (ESM Foundation). Upon successfully passing the final examination, you will be a “Raw Materials Risk Manager”, certified in accordance with ISO/IEC 17024. You can find upcoming certification dates here.
Specifically, you will learn to:
- define risks associated to criticality
- apply risk concepts to raw material security of supply
- distinguish the common criticality assessment methodologies
- know risk types for specific stakeholder groups
- comprehend criticality indicators and their data bases
- reproduce the EU criticality assessment
- distinguish different levels of analysis
- identify common risk types for specific stakeholder groups
- assign mitigation options according to specific goals and risk types
- understand latest development in the regulatory framework on critical raw materials
- determine the impacts of regulatory developments on different stakeholder groups
The number of participants is limited.
The IRTC-Training has been endorsed by the European Federation of Geologists (EFG). Holders of the title European Geologist (EuroGeol) receive a 20% discount on the IRTC training course. This training is accredited with 18 CPD points (Continuing Professional Development).