Two main objectives are behind the ARTeMIS project: (i) The short-term objective is to educate highly-qualified and well-trained exploration geologists with high employability potential thanks to strong competences on field geology, logistics, use of new technologies, cultural and linguistic sensitivity (ii) The long term objective deals with the modern development on geology. Indeed, geology is science with strong economic and environmental impacts. Therefore, the students need to know and practice basic geology, the original natural approach, such as mineralogy, petrography, geochemistry... but more and more they need to know modern technologies such as GIS, spectroscopy, programming, data management, and so on. This inevitably leads to a large variety of jobs but will also lead to a diversity of the possible formation. These new job opportunities also open to people who were neglected by the classical geology and these new developments make geology possibility for career to physically disabled people, such as in the logistics, in sample preparation and analysis. Our project aims to investigate this neglected diversity and the possible arrangements and adaptation were able to be discussed thanks to the involved people.
Metals are at the core of our modern societies (cell phones, batteries, building, …) and, despite advances in material recycling technology, the demand for base (e.g., Cu, Fe, Zn, Pb) and strategic (e.g., In, Ge, Ga, Te, Se, Sb) metals in support of the green and digital transition constantly increases (European Commission, 2023). Therefore, new deposits must be discovered and mined, creating a demand for geologists with highly-qualified and well-trained exploration skills. By being trained on specific targets, where the objects and the geology are known, will bring experience to the students for their future work in non-explored areas. This new generation of students needs to know the ore deposit geology (recognize protoliths from altered rocks, map alteration areas, follow and map mineralized structures on the field, and along drill cores) and be competent with the new tools for data acquisition and processing. Additionally, the students must integrate environmental and SLE-SLO issues, e.g. evaluate the environmental impact of mining and processing the explored deposits. Moreover, the development of new spectroscopic portable devices, as well as field logistic, can also offer jobs in geology to students with disabilities.