Deepen your understanding of the social issues and impact mineral exploration activities can have on a community.

Mineral exploration is raising new challenges and expectations daily, and ‘first boots on the ground’ exploration teams are uniquely placed to answer the demands.

You’ll learn from various exploration and community relations experts via video and audio clips, interactive exercises and online discussion forums.

This course will give you the insights, tools and skills for enhancing community relationships at the first stages of a project. It will help you to build a knowledge base critical to future development.

What you'll learn

• Develop a social database to build a community profile and social knowledge base.
• Grasp critical steps and considerations in stakeholder mapping.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the skills and principles of dialogue.
• Identify potential impacts on and opportunities for communities associated with exploration projects.
• Align data, community feedback and impacts, and describe their interaction and suitable systems for exploration teams to record and respond to these.
• Analyse and assess whether options for strategic investment are appropriate to various phases of exploration.

Course Curriculum

• Module 1: The global exploration context
• Module 2: Community Profile
• Module 3: Meaningful engagement

• Module 4: Managing impacts and opportunities 

   

Time commitment

This is an online course that will require roughly 30 hours to complete.

• Over 6 weeks
• 3-4 hours of online content and study per week
• 90-minute webinar each week (scheduled to best align with the time zone of participants)

Assessment
There will be 4 assignments to apply the learning of this course.

Certification and accreditation
Students who successfully complete the course will receive a Certificate of Completion to verify their skills and achievements.

Who should attend

This course is suitable for practitioners involved in mineral exploration:

• geoscientists
• community relations workers
• consultants
• early-stage regulators.
   

Entry requirements
There are no prerequisites for this course.

Note that all course materials are in English, Spanish and Portuguese. If numbers allow, the webinars may also have interpretation into these languages.