Periodic Reporting for period 2 - BEST (Batteries Europe Secretariat)
Reporting period: 2023-05-01 to 2024-04-30
BEST project 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 Research &Innovation community and assist the existing platform in the achievement of their ambitious goals. BEST consortium engages experts from industry stakeholders, academia, policy makers, researchers and citizens from all the value chain in working groups. BEST contributes 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 work performed by BEST Project in the second year of activities was focused on achieving its specific objectives, therefore animating a community already established, and well represented, by means of publications of results, participation to discussion in different fora, organization of events and missions. BEST consortium continued its effort of maximising the collaboration with all relevant EU R&I initiatives on Batteries. Monthly periodic meetings with BEPA, Battery2030+, IPCEIs and EBA250 took place to coordinate common initiatives, share updates and to collaborate on common topics. In order to improve the visibility of these joint initiatives common visual identity for the EU R&I initiatives on batteries was created. A number of events have been attended jointly with the other partners of the EU R&I battery community, among which the Battery Innovation Days 2023, co-organized by Batteries Europe; World Circular Economy Forum 2024; IPCEIs battery convention and others. The BEST consortium delivered the second edition of the KPIs Benchmarking D3.7 as well as the Batteries Europe Road Map D3.4 and the European Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda D3.2. Cross-disciplinary work has been undertaken by Batteries Europe in its second year of activities with the publication of six different position papers on cross-cutting topics and the preparation of thematic workshops on digitalization, education and skills, safety, sustainability, social science humanities and hybridization. In specific, the Education and Skills task force delivered a position paper which is addressing, among others, also the challenges of attracting talent to the batteries sector and making proposals on how to transform the perception of battery production into an opportunity by attracting local talent to strengthen the workforce. Finally, Batteries Europe was also the co-organizer of the Battery Young Research Award, that took place within the Battery Innovation Days 2023 (11.2023).
The Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) help understand where the battery technology is at the moment regarding performance, durability, cost, sustainability, etc. and the Target KPI’s are what values we are targeting in the future. These are indeed important to understand and appreciate, how battery technology is developing and the future challenges.
With this specific activity, Batteries Europe is addressing a number of impacts pre-identified at proposal phase, such as: Scientific excellence; Industrial digital transition; Reduce time to market and Public acceptance.
Understanding what research and development needs to be done and prioritised in battery research is essential to support the industry development and advancements in this area. The goal of the Roadmap is to provide input to the many national, regional and European research programs and indeed to those research efforts co-funded and funded by industry with a basis to understand what should be investigated and why it should be investigated.
With this specific activity, Batteries Europe is addressing a number of impacts pre-identified at proposal phase, such as: Scientific excellence; Industrial digital transition; Reduce time to market and Public acceptance.
Understanding what research and development needs to be done and prioritised in battery research is essential to support the industry development and advancements in this area. The goal of the Roadmap is to provide input to the many national, regional and European research programs and indeed to those research efforts co-funded and funded by industry with a basis to understand what should be investigated and why it should be investigated.