Keeping NETMIN in focus: scientific results shared in the academic community

The 53rd INTERNATIONAL OCTOBER CONFERENCE on Mining and Metallurgy, organized on 3-5 October 2022 in Bor, Serbia, proved to be a generous setting for reiterating some of the most relevant results obtained by a Romanian-Serbian team of researchers from the two countries during their cooperation framework of the project NETMIN RORS-308 „Forming of network for enhancing environmental protection from pollutants of mining cross border areas”. The training sessions with students and stakeholders in the mining areas, blended with workshops and phytoremediation studies showed that when science meets practice great results can be obtained in service of environmental projects. Local communities in mining areas can benefit from these results, should they choose to implement phytoremediation to deal with combating the negative effects of mining upon soil, with significant impact both in Bor area (Serbia), where mining is still active, and in the Romanian former mining areas in Caras-Severin and Timis counties.