Initial situation

The projects which InWent GmbH supports by up to 50% transmit experience gained in restructuring the east German lignite industry to meet the demands of a market economy and ecology to specialists and managers working in the Romanian lignite industry, to scientists, and to civil servants.

Partner

• ZukunftsAgentur Brandenburg GmbH, Steinstr. 104-106, 14480 Potsdam, Germany
• TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Gustav-Zeuner-Str. 1a, 09596 Freiberg, Germany

Approach

Altogether, five businesses and institutions led by ZukunftsAgentur Brandenburg GmbH and the Bergakademie Freiberg Technical University collaborated with LMBV in a joint venture. LMBV's role was to conduct, together with Brandenburg's Landesamt für Bergbau, Geologie, und Rohstoffe, a one-week training workshop on the theme of “Closing/ rehabilitating lignite pits” at the University of Petrosani in June 2006. The workshop focused on explaining:

• the principles of land planning, mining, and water law planning procedures, and the EC mining and planning law applicable from 2007;
• information on public participation in planning processes;
• information on planning and implementing recultivation and monitoring; and
• the principles of post-privatisation restructuring.

Result

LMBV conducted a one-week workshop with 25 specialists and managers from the Romanian energy industry, and was able to transmit information on the sustainable, socially acceptable, postclosure maintenance-free rehabilitation of what remains after lignite mining has ended.