We are excited to invite you to the exhibition titled “Copper. A history of the extraordinary metal” in the Copper Museum in Legnica, Poland, that opened on October 23, 2018 and is one of the milestones of the VirtualMine project.

In addition to multimedia prepared as part of the VirtualMine project, the exhibition will include rich collections of the Copper Museum: minerals, archaeological finds, vessels, weapons and many other objects.

More information about the exhibition and photos are available.

Copper Museum in Legnica, ul. Partyzantów 3, 59-220 Legnica

Tuesday-Friday from 10:00 to 17:00

Saturday from 11:00 to 17:00

You can also visit the exhibition through a virtual walk:

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PART II

KGHM CUPRUM Ltd Research and Development Centre & Copper Museum in Legnica presented the VirtualMine educational tools at the Strzegom Granite Festival on June 14-16, 2019 in Strzegom, Poland.

In 2019, as part of the VirtualMine Project promotion, the festival program has been joined by: mineral rinsing, workshops on construction of mining machines using Roboblocks, lectures on 'What is my house standing on? Geological location of Strzegom' and ‘Geological location of Lower Silesia', as well as the Multimedia Game ‘Life without raw materials’.
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The Final Project meeting was held in Legnica, Poland on June 10-11, 2019. Photos

The EIT RawMaterials Hub: Regional Center Greece, operated by ther School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering of NTUA, organised a Wider Society Learning Workshop in Athens, with participants from Greece, active in Raw Materials WSL Education, and partners from EIT RawMaterials. The workshop was held on May 30 at the Gaiorama museum, and the VirtualMine project as well as the permanent Roboblocks exhibition at the Gaiorama museum were presented to the participants. More...

The School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering of NTUA participated at Athens Science Festival in April 2019, presenting the VirtualMine Roboblocks to the visitors. More...

The first pilot Roboblocks workshop in Greece was held in March 2019 at the Gaiorama Museum of the School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, NTUA, with more than 50 students from 1 secondary school participating in the event. The Roboblocks will remain as a permanent exhibition at the Gaiorama museum, which is visited by many students each year. More...

NTUA developed the educational program “From exploration to exploitation: A minerals adventure” for University students in the form of an entrepreneurship game, aiming at familiarizing undergraduate students with the concepts of Mineral Research and the Exploitation of a given ore deposit.

The first of a series of student's workshops took place on February 22nd, 2019 at the School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens - NTUA. The workshops was coorganized with the EIT RawMaterials Hub: Regional Center Greece, with 43 participants.

Following the first workshop at NTUA, two more workshops took place in March 2019 at the Department of Environmental and Pollution Control Engineering of the Western Macedonia University of Applied Sciences in Kozani, Greece and the School of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with 36 and 30 participants respectively.

The School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering of NTUA supported a students' team at the 5th Educational Robotics Contest in Greece, held in February-March 2019. The Roboblocks of the VirtualMine project were displayed together with project flyers. More...

NTUA presented an overview of EIT RawMaterials Activies in Greece, including the VirtualMine project at the 3rd Greek Raw Materials Community Dialogue in December 2018 in Athens, Greece.

We are pleased to invite you to the opening of the “Fireflies in mine” exhibition, on December 15th 2018, at the the Velenje Coal Mining Museum. The exhibition is organized within the framework of the VirtualMine project.

The Exhibition: Golden Fleece between the Posavje Folds and the Sečovlje salt pans, created by project partner ZAG, is featured on the European Heritage Days website.

The opening of the VirtualMine Exhibition: Copper - A history of unique metal, will be held on October 23rd 2018 at the Copper Museum in Legnica.

In addition to multimedia prepared as part of the VirtualMine project, the exhibition will include rich collections of the Copper Museum: minerals, archaeological finds, vessels, weapons and many other objects.

The exhibition will be divided into four main sections:

1. Copper occurrence in nature

2. Properties of Copper

3. Mining and metallurgy of cCopper ore over the centuries

4. Use of copper in various areas of life

In the Gallery of Contemporary Art Strojnica at Govce, a spectacular event took place on May 12th, 2018, with performance of Jure Tori, a member of the world-renowned Orleki group, and Jure Longyk, whom most people know from the popular music radio show Izštekani. Alja Ferme and Saša Živanović danced tango in the idyllic landscape, surrounded by mining heritage. The event was supported by the VirtualMine project.

At the Strojnica Gallery at Govce, in the newly decorated gallery of contemporary art Strojnica - Liša jašek, there is an exhibition called Odstiranje, which is the work of the pH 15 group under the mentorship of Prof. Marija Jenko from the Faculty of Natural Science and Engineering whereas the scientific part of the project was contributed by Tomaž Majcen (Laško Museum) and Mateja Golež, MSc (Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute - ZAG). The exhibition is supported by the VirtualMine Project.

Sculpture Exhibition at the Strojnica Gallery at Govce, Slovenia.
The exhibition will be open till June 10, 2018, and is supported by the VirtualMine Project

On April 22 2018, Francisco Pedro Luque, CeDInt researcher, visited the facilities of the E.T.S.I. MINES - UPM.

The visit, as part of the VirtualMine project, consisted of knowing the mine that the School has, with the aim of incorporating augmented reality to the dissemination of museums. In the mine, various multimedia contents were also developed for the development of the application, with which it is intended to develop a 3D visualization of the mining process and generate a film that teleports the user to a virtual mine and can interact in it.

The 2nd round of the Roboblocks Pilot Workshops took place in KGHM CUPRUM Ltd Research & Development Centre on January 30, 2018, with more than 70 students from 3 primary schools participating in the event. More... More...

The 1st Pilot workshop with application of roboblocks for over 30 children (altogether with animators’ training) took place on December 19th 2018 in Humanitarium Science Centre in Wrocław, Poland. The partner of the program was Screen by Play Konrad Jurga. More... More...

The comic book “Kobold the Treasurer and a history of raw materials in a nutshell" was created in the framework of the VirtualMine Project. Kobold the Treasurer is a creature who, for ages, has been guarding treasures hiddden under the ground. Wondering with him, you will know the history of man and the raw materials he used. The comic book, translated in several languages, is available More...

PhD. Luca Piovano, a CeDInt researcher of the Virtual Reality and Visual Analytics group, presented his talk ("Virtual and Augmented Reality experiences in mining and other fields") as our contribution to the Raw Materials University Day hosted by the Mining and Energy Engineering School of Madrid, in November 2017. See the presentation More...

Ms. Joanna Świtoń, a KGHM CUPRUM researcher, presented her talk ("Project VirtualMine - as a modeling tool for Wider Society Learning") as our contribution to the Raw Materials University Day hosted by the Wrocław University of Science and Technology, on September 25th, 2017. See the presentation More...

The 2nd Project meeting was held at the Technical University of Kosice, on November 30-December 1, 2017. The project partners had a chance to visit the Slovak Opal Mine, enjoyed a guided sightseeing tour in the Košice city center, and were also invited to participate in the Barbora Day 2017 Celebration. Photos.

VirtualMine Kick-off meeting The VirtualMine Kick-off meeting was held on April 24-25, 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland. The meeting started in Humanitarium Gardens of Experience in Wroclaw where the participants were greeted and showed around the educational exhibition. Subsequently, the partners met at KGHM CUPRUM, where the agenda and further activities under the project were discussed. In the following days, field trips to the relict tin and cobalt mine in Krobica and the "Old Mine" in Walbrzych took place. More...