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Batteries Europe Secretariat

Project description

A new secretariat to energise Batteries Europe

The European technology and innovation platform Batteries Europe is a one-stop shop for battery related R&I. The EU-funded BEST project will establish a secretariat to boost the role of Batteries Europe by gathering academia, industry and research expertise. It will consolidate the Battery R&I community and support the existing platform by forging synergies and consolidating the workflow among the initiatives. The overall aim of BEST is to facilitate free and inclusive access to information and strengthen industry-research collaboration to push technology developments to reduce time to market of new solutions. The secretariat will organise workshops per objectives, complemented with experts’ interviews, discussion forums and scientific papers reviews.

Objective

Batteries Europe Secretariat (BEST) proposal aims to enrich, strengthen and extend the key role of Batteries Europe by gathering academia, industry and research expertise within the Secretariat to consolidate the Battery R&I community and assist the existing platform in the achievement of their ambitious goals. BEST consortium will engage in its experts working groups industry stakeholders, academia, policy makers, researchers and citizens from all the value chain, especially broadening involvement on underrepresented domains and countries. BEST will contribute to gain synergies among battery R&I stakeholders’ landscape, consolidate the workflow among the initiatives, facilitate free and inclusive access to information, strength industry-research collaboration to push technology developments to reduce time to market of new solutions, reinforce European talent attraction capacity and provide fact-based orientations to policy makers. The Secretariat will gather expertise to develop Strategic R&I agenda, design updated roadmaps, establish KPIs per application (transport, stationary, portable, etc.) to nurture the SET Plan, contribute to standards and reporting methodologies harmonization, promote education on battery fields and rise social awareness. The Secretariat will organize workshops per objectives, complemented with experts’ interviews, discussion forums, scientific papers review, etc. to confront current state of the art with future trends, considering international tendencies.
BEST is formed by 11 partners and 4 affiliated entities, led by Innonergy, with ZABALA, CLERENS SINTEF, VDI/VDE INNOVATION, CICenergiGUNE INSTM (UNIMIB, UNIPV, POLITO), EERA, EASE and ENEA. The partners are promoters of main European initiatives related to batteries that has facilitated the establishment of collaboration flows to bring Batteries Europe Platform to next stage in 36 months, with a budget of 2.999.889 €.

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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions

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Call for proposal

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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01

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KIC INNOENERGY SE
Net EU contribution

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€ 343 341,84
Address
JOHN F KENNEDYLAAN 2 6E VERDIEPING
5612 AB Eindhoven
Netherlands

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Region
Zuid-Nederland Noord-Brabant Zuidoost-Noord-Brabant
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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Total cost

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€ 403 570,59

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