February 17-18, 2025
Before the IRTC25 conference, a 1.5-day introductory training covering the fundamentals of criticality and the evaluation of critical raw materials took place, providing essential background to make the most of the conference. Successful participation, assessed via an exam, provided participants with a certificate as “Raw Materials Risk Manager (Basic)”, in accordance with ISO/IEC 17024.
A special highlight of this course edition was an intervention by Dr. Braeton Smith from Argonne National Laboratory, who presented insights on the US criticality assessment.
The training was held at the Geological Survey of Slovenia, within walking distance of the conference hotel, in the afternoon of February 17 (starting from lunchtime) and on February 18, throughout the whole day (from 8:30 to 17:30).
Participants had the opportunity to 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
Our Training is EFG endorsed. Holders of the title European Geologist (EuroGeol) are eligible for a 20% discount on the IRTC training course.