Mining Magazine July 2017 | Page 19

SWITCHING ON SUSTAINABLE MINING
IMP @ CT project received € 7 million funding from the EU ’ s Horizon 2020 programme . Will Brexit have any impact on this ? No , this particular project is safe . We actually found out that we got this funding a week before the Brexit referendum , even with the trigger for Article 50 . We ’ ve started the project , and as you know , we ’ re not out until we ’ re out .
The Horizon 2020 programme is something that the UK bought into , so even with a hard Brexit , that ’ s going to be a commitment that the UK has . For this particular project , which ends in 2020 , we ’ ll be able to see it through . We don ’ t really have to worry about .
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