SynCom CuLiWell Kick-off

24 Feb 2025, 00:00 → 25 Feb 2025, 13:30 Europe/Berlin

HIDA Spreepalais in Berlin-Mitte, Anna-Louisa-Karsch-Straße 2 10178 Berlin

Monday 24 February

12:30 Welcome & Lunch

Welcome, meeting goals and program

Welcome, meeting goals and program
Introduction to the SynCom Programme

Roundtable introduction of partcipants

Short introduction to the project

Objectives, actions, deliverables

World Café

Tables of 5-6 people to discuss scientific knowledge (aim is to hear expertise of different partners); 10 min per table.
Topics come from the Homework:
• What are the most important findings from your work related to Cu/Li from geothermal water in the NGB that should be communicated in a syntheses paper?
• What is the most interesting scientific question related to the topic?
• What is the most urging (societal/economically relevant) question when it comes to the development of Copper or Lithium extraction from geothermal fluids of the North German Basin?

15:00 Coffee break

Presentations by guests and partners

1 Impulsvortrag BMWK: Bergrecht und Geothermie

Speaker: Dr Hartmut Kühne (Referat Rohstoffabbau und Rechtsrahmen des Bergbaus, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz)

2 Das Li+Fluids Projekt

Speakers: André Stechern (BGR - Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe), Katharina Alms (Fraunhofer IEG)

3 Lithium resources in geothermal brines of the Upper Rhine Graben and possible extraction technology

Speaker: Elisabeth Eiche (KIT - Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)

4 Impulsvortrag DERA: Aktuelle Entwicklungen auf dem internationalen Kupfermarkt

Speaker: Ulrike Dorner (Fachbereich Rohstoffwirtschaft, Deutsche Rohstoffagentur (DERA))

5 Electrochemical Methods for Cu Extraction

Speaker: Sylvia Sander (GEOMAR)

6 Wrap-up Day 1

18:15 Austausch über Rohstoffförderung aus deutschen Geothermiebohrungen beim Abendessen

Tuesday 25 February

Getting started for the new day

Presentations by partners and guests

7 Geothermal Reservoir Modelling Capacilities of OpenGeoSys

Speaker: Haibing Shao (UFZ - Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung)

8 Critical raw material extraction from a fracture-dominated Enhanced Geothermal System

Speaker: Hannes Hofmann (GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geofoschung)

9 The occurrence of natural Cu and Li deposits and possible connections to CuLiWell

Speaker: Philipp Weis (GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geofoschung)

Discussion – defining specific project goals

• What do we want to achieve with the project?
• Whom do we want to reach?
• What are precise actions that the project should take?
• What are our project deliverables?

10:30 Coffee break

Planning for the Synthesis paper

• Which topics should be covered? Who is writing what?
• What format (Scientific paper? White paper? How to be distributed?)

Puffer für spontane Themen; weitere Ideen + Aufgabenverteilung (nächste Schritte)

12:45 Lunch and Fairwells