Period: 15.12.2015 — 15.12.2019.
Project supported by the EU RFCS fund (contract no RFCR-ct-2015-00004) and the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (grant 3582/FBWiS/2016/2).
Project participants:
- Central Mining Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa) — project coordinator,
- Strata Mechanics Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences:
- Laboratory of Mine Ventilation,
- Laboratory of Rock Deformation.
- DMT GmbH & Co. KG (Germany),
- Imperial College London (United Kingdom),
- University of Exeter (United Kingdom),
- University of Oviedo (Spain),
- Technical University of Ostrava (Czech Republic),
- HUNOSA (Spain),
- French National Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks (France),
- Kompania Węglowa S.A. (from 2016 — Polska Grupa Górnicza S.A., Poland).
This project aims to develop a methodology to manage environmental impacts and risks during and after coal mine closure and provide a generic tool that allows the industry to implement the methodology at any site. MERIDA will develop a best practice manual to be used by industry and decision-makers to assess systematically the major closure environmental risks, both qualitatively and quantitatively. IMG PAN has been involved in subsidence and gas emission risks.
Website: https://meridaproject.com/index.html
Contact person: Assoc. Prof. Jerzy Krawczyk