The GREENET network aims at updating and processing, according to the new informational paradigms, of the data referring to the mineral resources for construction and of those with an eco-industrial use in the West and North-West Euroregions, by developing an innovative excellence research network in which a large number of users are integrated. The project lying at the basis of the elaboration of this network is implemented within a partnership, consisting of 8 units, of which 2 companies with a research-development type of activity, a university and five industrial units, these also being part of the beneficiaries of the results of the research.

The general objectives of the project aim at: elaborating, developing, integrating and strengthening an excellence research network on the sustainable and ecological management in the W and NW regions of Romania of the mineral resources for construction and of those with an eco-industrial exploitation; implementing a strategy for identifying the requirements of the sector by creating new knowledge in various scientific and economic environments; bringing into being and promoting intelligent and efficient production services, of advanced materials and multi-functional products; increase of the degree of development, assimilation and transfer of knowledge and services to the economic environment from the field of working and protection of the mineral resources, in the context of a sustainable environment.