The India-Europe Resilience Forum (IERF) was launched on March 28, 2025 as a Track 1.5 Diplomacy initiative.
- This forum, led by four organisations, aims to foster dialogue and collaboration between key stakeholders in India and Europe on shared, ‘non-traditional’ security challenges.
- The IERF is spearheaded by the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies and Hanns Seidel Foundation India, in partnership with the Centre for Social Research, and the Centre for Educational and Social Studies, Chanakya University (CU).
- Following the forum’s launch, an inaugural roundtable on Critical Raw Materials (CRM) convened experts to discuss potential collaboration, opportunities and challenges.
- Both India and the EU heavily rely on imports to meet their CRM demands, a sector largely dominated by China.
Mineral Security Partnership (MSP)
- India became the 14th member of the Mineral Security Partnership (MSP) in June 2023, joining other nations, including the EU.
- The MSP aims to strengthen critical mineral supply chains to support economic prosperity and climate objectives by catalysing investments from governments and the private sector across the entire value chain.
(Source: TH)
