{"id":6187,"date":"2026-02-27T09:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T08:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/?p=6187"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:43:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:43:28","slug":"upcoming-presentation-by-the-esm-critical-raw-materials-as-geopolitical-leverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/2026\/02\/27\/upcoming-presentation-by-the-esm-critical-raw-materials-as-geopolitical-leverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Presentation by the ESM: &#8220;Critical Raw Materials as Geopolitical Leverage&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Join the presentation \u201cCritical Raw Materials as Geopolitical Leverage? Security of Supply Between Dependency and Geopolitics\u201d with Alessandra Hool, Managing Director of the ESM Foundation, on May 20, 2026, hosted by the Kaderschule Z\u00fcrich. The presentation will be held in German.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Critical raw materials such as rare earths, lithium, and cobalt are essential for the energy transition, digitalization, and defense. This lecture will highlight their economic and technological significance, analyze risks to supply security and the resulting geopolitical tensions, and discuss strategies for securing raw materials\u2014from companies, the EU, other major powers, and Switzerland\u2019s scope for action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kszh.ch\/impulsveranstaltungen\/anmeldung-naechster-impulsvortrag\">Register now<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the presentation \u201cCritical Raw Materials as Geopolitical Leverage? Security of Supply Between Dependency and Geopolitics\u201d with Alessandra Hool, Managing Director of the ESM Foundation, on May 20, 2026, hosted by the Kaderschule Z\u00fcrich. The presentation will be held in German. Critical raw materials such as rare earths, lithium, and cobalt are essential for the&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/2026\/02\/27\/upcoming-presentation-by-the-esm-critical-raw-materials-as-geopolitical-leverage\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":6183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-upcoming-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6200,"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187\/revisions\/6200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esmfoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}