12/10/2025
Critical raw materials – knowledge, responsibility, and the future: the vision of students from St. Ivan Rilski University of Mining and Geology for green transition and sustainable development
Event within the National Scientific Program "Critical and Strategic Raw Materials for Green Transition and Sustainable Development"
On December 4, 2025, the Museum of Mineralogy, Petrography, and Mineral Resources at St. Ivan Rilski University of Mining and Geology once again became a space for science, ideas, and public debate. For the second consecutive year, a student competition was held there, dedicated to a topic of high scientific significance and the need for broader public understanding—critical raw materials.
The event brought together outstanding students from four specialties of the Faculty of Geological Exploration and Mining Technology, who presented their own vision of the essence, study, protection, and promotion of mineral resources defined as critical and strategic for the modern economy through posters and Story Map projects. It is particularly important that the competition was held within the framework of the National Scientific Program "Critical and Strategic Raw Materials for Green Transition and Sustainable Development," specifically within the framework of Work Task I.7.6, led by Assoc. Prof. Boris Valchev, PhD – "Improving the information environment in Bulgaria on the availability of primary mineral resources by creating a framework for ensuring reliable information security," as well as in close connection with the activities and work tasks under Work Package I.4 "Effective extraction and processing of raw materials in Bulgaria and potential for by-product extraction of critical raw materials."
The participation of students in such initiatives is essential to the success of the program. Students are not just learners, but like-minded individuals and partners in the efforts to promote scientific knowledge.
Event within the National Scientific Program "Critical and Strategic Raw Materials for Green Transition and Sustainable Development"
On December 4, 2025, the Museum of Mineralogy, Petrography, and Mineral Resources at St. Ivan Rilski University of Mining and Geology once again became a space for science, ideas, and public debate. For the second consecutive year, a student competition was held there, dedicated to a topic of high scientific significance and the need for broader public understanding—critical raw materials.
The event brought together outstanding students from four specialties of the Faculty of Geological Exploration and Mining Technology, who presented their own vision of the essence, study, protection, and promotion of mineral resources defined as critical and strategic for the modern economy through posters and Story Map projects. It is particularly important that the competition was held within the framework of the National Scientific Program "Critical and Strategic Raw Materials for Green Transition and Sustainable Development," specifically within the framework of Work Task I.7.6, led by Assoc. Prof. Boris Valchev, PhD – "Improving the information environment in Bulgaria on the availability of primary mineral resources by creating a framework for ensuring reliable information security," as well as in close connection with the activities and work tasks under Work Package I.4 "Effective extraction and processing of raw materials in Bulgaria and potential for by-product extraction of critical raw materials."
The participation of students in such initiatives is essential to the success of the program. Students are not just learners, but like-minded individuals and partners in the efforts to promote scientific knowledge.
On December 4, 2025, the Museum of Mineralogy, Petrography, and Mineral Resources at St. Ivan Rilski University of Mining and Geology once again became a space for science, ideas, and public debate. For the second consecutive year, a student competition was held there, dedicated to a topic of high scientific significance and the need for broader public understanding—critical raw materials.
The event brought together outstanding students from four specialties of the Faculty of Geological Exploration and Mining Technology, who presented their own vision of the essence, study, protection, and promotion of mineral resources defined as critical and strategic for the modern economy through posters and Story Map projects. It is particularly important that the competition was held within the framework of the National Scientific Program "Critical and Strategic Raw Materials for Green Transition and Sustainable Development," specifically within the framework of Work Task I.7.6, led by Assoc. Prof. Boris Valchev, PhD – "Improving the information environment in Bulgaria on the availability of primary mineral resources by creating a framework for ensuring reliable information security," as well as in close connection with the activities and work tasks under Work Package I.4 "Effective extraction and processing of raw materials in Bulgaria and potential for by-product extraction of critical raw materials."
The participation of students in such initiatives is essential to the success of the program. Students are not just learners, but like-minded individuals and partners in the efforts to promote scientific knowledge.
