IDEATE 2023 is meant to be an opportunity for IMII’s minerals company, post-secondary and research institutions members to engage together to learn about and discuss problem areas identified by the minerals industry which they believe are amenable to applied research with the potential to lead to the development of innovative solutions.
The name IDEATE comes from the ideation stage/phase/mode of project development. While there may be several different definitions of the stage (e.g., “the process of generating a broad set of ideas on a given topic, with no attempt to judge or evaluate them”), it is important that all participants question the obvious, challenge the norm, and come up with new ideas. The ideation phase is meant to be a place to come up with novel, perhaps unconventional, ideas. It doesn’t matter if these ideas turn out to be plausible or not; participants are to focus on idea generation.
IDEATE is series of industry sessions and workshops laid out to identify challenges observed across a series of mining related topics which are:
Research partners will be encouraged to submit an Expression of Interest (a two-pager) under IMII’s IDEATE program by October 16th. Applications will be reviewed by industry subject matter experts by October 31st. Applications selected by industry will be invited to submit a full proposal. Those selected will be eligible for a $5,000 grant to prepare the proposal and complete some preliminary work to support the proposal. The preliminary work is described on the next page. Working groups of industry subject matter experts will be formed to help support your proposal’s development.
The Expression of Interest proposal and the guidelines can be found below.
Questions and completed Expressions of Interest are to be submitted to Jared Galenzoski @ RDprojects@imii.ca.