Le 5 novembre 2025, les travaux du projet MATTER ont été présentés aux collègues de l’Institut thématique interdisciplinaire (ITI) GeoT (Géosciences pour la transition énergétique)n à Strasbourg.

Résumé de l’intervention :

At both European and national levels, policies designed to reduce dependence on critical materials, and to extract minerals from Europe’s subsoil are taking shape since the early 2010s. In particular, lithium is of interest to many industrial and political actors, due to its role in energy transition strategies. These extractive projects are made possible by a diversity of financial flows. Who provides the capital? What narratives justify the financing of these mining projects? What territorial projects do they support? Focusing on the case of lithium in the Rhine Graben, the aim of this presentation is to analyze the resource-making processes by which this material element is embed within territorial projects.