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Australian mining education and training expertise showcased at Perumin 2013
01 Oct 2013
For the first time, the Australian Pavilion at Perumin included an exclusive space to promote Australian education and training capabilities for the mining industry. The ‘Australian Education and Training Lounge’ featured Australia’s education brand Future Unlimited and two Australian institutions: Griffith University and University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI).
The objective was to promote Australian education and identify opportunities for collaboration with local education institutions and industry. Perumin is the largest mining convention in Peru, and one of the most important in the region.
The Australian Education and Training Lounge attracted the interest of many attendees at Perumin. In particular, potential students, local institutions and industry professionals were very interested in learning about study and professional development opportunities in Australia and exploring collaboration opportunities between institutions.
Representatives from the two participating institutions also had the opportunity to deliver two presentations on their institution capabilities. The first was within CIEMIN, the Mining Engineering Students Congress, where students learned about opportunities for further study in Australia, and the second was a briefing directed at local institutions and industry representatives.
Perumin also included Australian experts as keynote speakers within the ‘Innovation and Technology Meeting’, which took place during the convention. In this meeting, Mike Trefry, Senior Principal Research Scientist Land and Water at CSIRO, delivered a technical keynote lecture titled ‘Integrated Assessment of Deep Sedimentary Structures: Exploring deep aquifer resources in the Perth basin, Western Australia’.
The technology meeting also featured a thematic block on education and human resources for the mining industry, which included presentations by Professor Peter Dowd, Executive Director of Mining Education Australia (MEA), who presented on establishing and sustaining education and research excellence, based on MEA’s model for mining engineering training in Australia, and by Cecilia Bouroncle, Education Manager, Austrade Lima, who delivered a presentation on skills development strategies, based on the Australian model, in collaboration with SkillsDMC.
All Australian presentations were very well received by the audience, who interacted through questions and demonstrated interest in exploring further opportunities in the near future.
Diana Arbelaez (Research Manager, CSRM-SMI-UQ), Cecilia Bouroncle (Education Manager, Austrade Lima) and Guie Hartney (Regional Director, Griffith University) at the Australian Mining Education and Training Lounge, Perumin 2013.