The first workshop of the EU Interreg cooperation project "recomine SN-CZ-Plus" with the title "Innovative Exploration" took place on the 29th and 30th of October 2024 at the Helmholtz-Institut Freiberg für Ressourcentechnologie (HIF) am HZDR in Freiberg. Many thanks to our colleagues from the Czech Geological Survey, Helmholtz-Institut Freiberg für Ressourcentechnologie (HIF) am HZDR (Sandra Birtel, Anne-Kristin Jentzsch, Jan Černý) ERZLABOR Advanced Solutions GmbH (Petya Gutzmer, Kai Bachmann, Dirk Sandmann) and TheiaX GmbH (Erik Herrmann and Christian Christesen) as well as Richard Gloaguen and exploration department at HIF.

Special thanks for the excursion at the Sächsisches Landesamt für Umwelt, Landwirtschaft und Geologie (LfULG) drill core archive goes to Tom Járóka and Manuel Lapp.

We are grateful for all the profound discussions during the workshop and looking forward to the second workshop in the Czech Republic in April 2025.