

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Why should we care about critical minerals?
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 12:00 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: Where are minerals found, who controls access to them, and why has this become such an important geopolitical issue?

Smart technologies, from phones, electric vehicles, to wind turbines and batteries all depend on a relatively small group of minerals and rare earth elements. As demand for these technologies accelerates, so does the strategic importance of the resources that make them possible.

The transition to renewable energy requires speed, while resource extraction raises difficult questions about environmental risk, scientific uncertainty and national security.

But what minerals are we actually talking about? How are they mined? Where are they found, who controls access to them, and why has this become such an important geopolitical issue?

This panel brings together researchers from different disciplines to explore where science and politics intersect. Critical minerals are not only about geology and technology, but also about supply chains, industrial competition and great power politics.

Panel:

Devyn Helen Avhild Remme
PHD student at CET/Department of Geography, UiB

Eoghan P. Reeves
Professor of Aqueous Geochemistry, UiB.

Iselin Stensdal
Senior researcher, Fridtjof Nansen Institute

Eric Young
PHD fellow, SINTEF Ocean.

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Not in Bergen? Join us on Zoom: https://uib.zoom.us/j/68564708990?pwd=ewthhbZsyKuLwZlHyzby2ARBJdqxGm.1
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Bergen
- **state**: HO
- **country**: Norway
- **location**: Jekteviksbakken 31, 5006 Bergen, Norway
- **lat**: 60.38973
- **long**: 5.31392
- **full address**: Jekteviksbakken 31, 5006 Bergen, Norway, Jekteviksbakken 31, 5006 Bergen, Norge, Bergen, Norway

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Bergen Global CMI/UiB (https://allevents.in/org/bergen-global-cmi-uib/3143799)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 12:00 pm (+01:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Jekteviksbakken 31, 5006 Bergen, Norway, Jekteviksbakken 31, 5006 Bergen, Norge, Bergen, Norway
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Bergen Global CMI/UiB
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Contests
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Why should we care about critical minerals? ?
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