Innovative Exploration Drilling and Data Acquisition (I-EDDA) is a Network of Infrastrucutres in the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) "RawMaterials".

As exploration goes deeper drilling costs increase, as does the need to extract as much information as possible from each drilled meter. I-EDDA aims to bring together drilling engineers and geoscientists in order to develop new on-site measurement technologies and drilling methods. The network is partly built around the Swedish National Drilling Infrastructure (Riksriggen) that is operated by Lund University. It has a capacity to core drill to 2.5 km and is available to the scientifc community at cost. Through on-site testing of innovative core analysis methods, downhole logging and sampling technologies, environmental studies and drilling technology, exploration drillers and researchers will advance the state of the art of exploration drilling and handling the data that the new analysis methods will generate. This will result in the drilled boreholes having greater value for the exploration and mining companies and, as the data get integrated into the interpretation chain, the need for fewer boreholes.