Better Life with MgO

Πρακτικά της Εναρκτήριας

Πρακτικά της Πρώτης Συνάντησης Προόδου

Πρακτικά της Ενδιάμεσης Συνάντησης

Ημερομηνία Ολοκλήρωσης: 30.09.17

This Deliverable compiles the dissemination activities carried out in the project during this period. Grecian Magnesite is active in disseminating the project and maximizing its impact. For this reporting period, GM launched the current web-site, Facebook and Linkedin pages, issued a communication brochure and installed several Notice Boards, presented posters in a National and an International Conference, participated in several Greek Life Task Force Events in Xanthi, Thessaloniki and Athens. Finally GM engaged in networking activities with several stakeholders (mainly EIPPCB, SEV, GMEA, Magnesitas Navarras, Magnesitas de Rubian, TIMAB Fertilizers and CaO Hellas) to promote policy, replication and transfer issues.

Completion Date: 21.12.16

The main purpose of the relevant action is to effectively disseminate and communicate the project to all relevant stakeholders and target audience. The development of the strategy to accomplish this is based on the main objectives of the project implementation, but also on the requirements set Grant Agreement. The development of the plan conducted by the project team aims at raising awareness and informing stakeholders and target audience and maximizing the impact of the project.

The plan was developed taking into account the different recipients of the dissemination and communication activities by identifying the target groups:

• General public of the local community (students, families)
• Collective bodies (e.g. associations, federations, organizations) and Media of local level
• Companies and industries on the limestone mining
• Local and regional authorities and national bodies (e.g. Ministry of environment, Central Macedonia Region, Chalkidiki's Regional unit, Polygyros municipality)
• Scientific community (universities, research centers)
• Policy and decision makers at EU, national, regional and local level (e.g. EC, central government, , EIPPCB)

The strategic plan includes an overview of all dissemination opportunities identified through communication tools such as event attendance (e.g. conferences, workshops, etc.), project publications (e.g. notice boards, brochures, news releases as well as conference papers, articles in professional journals etc.) and project presentations (e.g. to local stakeholders, etc.) complemented also by online activities based around the project website, and through the main social platforms (e.g. Linkedin, Facebook, etc.). The communication and dissemination activities have been designed and are addressed to target the key audiences and stakeholders and to maximize awareness of the objectives, means and results.

Different means for communicating and disseminating the project are foreseen that include traditional methods, such as printed and electronic promotional material, news releases, website, scientific journals and more innovative and interactive approaches such as demonstration films, communication platforms, which will be supplemented by events directly related to the project (e.g. workshops, site visits) and events of wider scope (participation to conferences, etc.).

Follow the conferences and events in the News&Events Section

So far, dissemination material includes:

Noticeboard, Banner, Flyer

The Deliverabe can be found here: Deliverable D.1.1.1

Ημερομηνία Ολοκλήρωσης: 21.12.16

The objective of this deliverable was to update/modify the values of the impact indicators (values for reference, state-of-play at the beginning of the project, state-of-play at the end of the project) considered at the proposal stage and introduce additional ones where necessary. The main expected results remain the same. The key impact indicators have to do with:

• Water Consumption
• Waste Management
• Energy consumption
• Circular economy practices
• MgO by-product used
• Chemicals substitution
• SO2 emissions
• Area potentially affected
• Human population affected
• Total Area affected

Ημερομηνία Ολοκλήρωσης: 29.12.16

The basic design of the pilot installation was undertaken partly in house and partly by an external partner selected by a bidding procedure. Through this collaboration the design of the plant was finalised on schedule and produced the layout of the plant and the specifications for each of the equipment using deliverable B.1.1 as input. The optimization of the reactor pipe was aided by a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) study taking into consideration the efficient use of the magnesium oxide sorbent. The study was conducted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki after a bidding procedure. Both environmental and installation permits have been issued according to Greek and EU legislation. More information on the design can be found here.