General Statements

The Berlin School of Mines (BSM), an independent non-governmental association of academia, political institutions, and companies, provides advanced professional training in various fields related to Economic Geology.

In recent years, Germany lost much of its geoscientific and associated industrial expertise (increasingly, this is a global trend), despite of diminishing resources and exploding raw materials prices. In order to counter this development, we offer our teaching and research platform.

The scientific, industrial, and political interface provided by the BSM shall assist participants to understand, for instance, complex genetic, ecological, economic, and political issues relating to the raw material sector.

Aims of Development Association

The BSM has a number of inter-connected goals that all focus on advanced education for both the specialist and the advanced university student, provided by local and overseas specialists. We will also concentrate at a technology and knowledge transfer via development aid. We want to:

• Corporate & Private Sponsors that provide TAX EXEMPT funding,
• Development Aid Funds from national/international agencies, NGOs,
• Experts from Companies & Public Service Institutions contributing to our teaching with lectures and practical work,
• Course Participants,
• Research Projects (we are open to proposals).