Mining the Future: Innovation, Technology, and Sustainability

The Symposium on Mining Engineering and Geo-Resources, part of the 6th Doctoral Congress in Engineering (DCE25), will take place at FEUP, Porto, Portugal, on June 30th and 1st of July 2025.

This Symposium is organized by PhD students of the Doctoral Program in Mining Engineering and Geo-resources (PDEMGR) at FEUP, with the support of CERENA-FEUP.

Topics for submission include (but are not limited to):

  • Exploration and Feasibility;
  • Mining Extraction;
  • Mineral Processing;
  • Environmental Mining Impact;
  • Mining Life Assessment (including Resources Assessment, Mining Planning, Mine Closure, Recycling, Life Cycle Assessment, Occupational Assessment, etc.);
  • Energy Resources Engineering;
  • Critical raw materials to leverage the energy and digital transition;
  • Sustainable supply of raw materials.

Submissions

Format: Oral or poster communications

Please follow the abstract template (maximum 1 page) according to the Instruction for Authors available under the Registration page. The submission must be done through the SCI-MEET platform.

For more information, please click HERE.

Registration & Payment

Registration is mandatory for all participants through the SCI-MEET platform.

The Doctoral Program in  Mining Engineering and Geo-resources (PDEMGR) will cover the registration costs for any PDEMGR student from FEUP.

A limited number of registration waivers will be granted to other students, researchers or professors from FEUP, depending on the number of attendees. For any questions, please email up202202395@edu.fe.up.pt.

Abstracts will be included in the Book of Abstracts only if at least one author of each accepted abstract is registered and has paid the registration fee (attended the event).

Please note that at least one author per submitted abstract (oral or poster communication) must register for the Congress as soon as possible to secure participation.

Program

|| The full program will be available soon ||

Communications

Oral communication:  

  • Prepare a PowerPoint presentation to support your talk.
  • An editable PowerPoint template will be available soon.
  • Language: Presentations and slides must be in English.

Poster communication:  

  • The poster exhibition will be held in FEUP’s B Corridor, where posters will be displayed on the corridor windows.
  • Posters should be formatted in portrait mode, size A1 (841 mm height × 594 mm width).
  • Language: Posters must be in English.
  • An editable poster template will be available soon.

Publications

All accepted abstracts, with at least one author registered in the Congress with a paid fee, will be included in the event’s program and the Symposium Book of Abstracts.

|| The Book of Abstracts will be available soon ||

Awards

Authors of accepted abstracts presented at the Congress will be eligible for the Best Oral and Best Poster Communication Awards.

Symposium Committees 

Symposium Chairs:

  • Maria de Lurdes Proença de Amorim Dinis, FEUP
  • João Santos Baptista, FEUP

Symposium Organizing Committee:

  • Maria de Lurdes Proença de Amorim Dinis, FEUP
  • João Santos Baptista, FEUP
  • Jorge Manuel Cabral Machado de Carvalho, FEUP
  • Maria Cristina da Costa Vila, FEUP
  • Miguel Tato Diogo, FEUP
  • Beatriz Paiva Bento, Doutorado de Nível Inicial, FEUP
  • Ernesto Coelho, PhD student PDEMGR, FEUP
  • Oludare Joseph Olufe, PhD student PDEMGR, FEUP
  • Rania Rebbah, PhD student PDEMGR, FEUP
  • Tiago da Costa Silva, PhD student PDEMGR, FEUP
  • Ana Carolina de Almeida Pinto, Student M.EMG, FEUP
  • João Pinto dos Santos Sá Pereira, Student M.EMG, FEUP
  • Pedro Sousa Meixedo Silva, Student M.EMG, FEUP
  • Vasco Reis, Student M.EMG, FEUP
  • Ana Catarina Silva, Student L.EMG, FEUP

Symposium Scientific Committee:

  • Maria de Lurdes Proença de Amorim Dinis, FEUP
  • João Santos Baptista, FEUP
  • Aurora Magalhaes Futuro da Silva, FEUP
  • Joana Alexandra Silva Duarte, FEUP
  • Jorge Manuel Cabral Machado de Carvalho, FEUP
  • José Manuel Soutelo Soeiro de Carvalho, FEUP
  • Maria Cristina da Costa Vila, FEUP
  • Miguel Tato Diogo, FEUP
  • Rui Jorge Coelho de Sousa, FEUP
  • António Fiuza, FEUP
  • Beatriz Paiva Bento, FEUP

Contact: up202202395@edu.fe.up.pt (Tiago Silva)