Periodic Reporting for period 3 - BEST (Batteries Europe Secretariat)
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2024-05-01 al 2025-04-30
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.
In the final year of the project, Batteries Europe has reinforced the engagement of the entire European Battery R&I community by consolidating its role as a central actor of the ecosystem since its inception in 2019, animating an inclusive and well-represented network of stakeholders through publications, participation in key fora, and the organization of flagship events such as the yearly Plenary Sessions ( two editions under RP3: 2024 and 2025), the co-organization of Battery Innovation Days 2024, and representation at the RTR Conference 2025 in collaboration with BEPA and Battery2030+. Alongside this, efforts were directed at consolidating and developing synergies across the EU Battery R&I community through monthly coordination meetings with BEPA, Battery2030+, IPCEIs, and EBA250, as well as joint participation in several high-level European events, delivering the strong message of a shared European research and innovation mission. In line with the objective to reduce time to market of technologies and improve competitiveness, the third edition of KPIs Benchmarking, the Guidelines on Common Reporting Methodologies, and the Batteries Europe Roadmap 2025 were delivered, offering policymakers, industry, and researchers a robust evidence base to align strategies and accelerate innovation. Cross-disciplinary collaboration was strengthened with the organization of six thematic workshops in June 2024 on digitalization, education and skills, safety, sustainability, social sciences and humanities, and hybridization, engaging over 200 participants and creating new opportunities for collaboration across initiatives and sectors. To ensure open access to knowledge, the Batteries Europe website was further enhanced into a comprehensive “one-stop shop,” featuring a new directory of EU-funded projects, networks, and national battery programmes, thanks to the support of NRCG members. Talent attraction and skills development were supported through a dedicated Task Force, which, building on earlier position papers, organized the workshop “European Battery Education: Bridging Gaps for a Sustainable Future” in June 2024, fostering dialogue on reskilling, vocational training, and cross-industry knowledge transfer essential to meet the sector’s needs toward 2030. Finally, on the international front, Batteries Europe continued to update and expand its Fact Sheets and, together with BEPA and EBA250, undertook a fact-finding mission to North America in October 2024, culminating in Deliverable D5.3 with recommendations to the European Commission on rethinking R&D funding, strengthening collaboration with like-minded countries, and improving coordination of EU research activities. Altogether, these activities have reinforced Europe’s strategic, scientific, and industrial leadership in batteries, laying a solid foundation for the future development of a cost-competitive and sustainable European battery value chain.
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.
Throughout the project, Batteries Europe delivered a set of exploitable results that provide strategic guidance, practical tools, and policy-relevant recommendations to reinforce Europe’s battery R&I ecosystem.
ER1 – Technology Roadmap
ER2 – Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda (SRIA)
ER3 – Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
ER4 – Reporting Methodologies
ER5 – Position Papers on Cross-Cutting Topics
ER6 – International R&D&I Funding and Benchmarks for KPIs
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.
Throughout the project, Batteries Europe delivered a set of exploitable results that provide strategic guidance, practical tools, and policy-relevant recommendations to reinforce Europe’s battery R&I ecosystem.
ER1 – Technology Roadmap
ER2 – Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda (SRIA)
ER3 – Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
ER4 – Reporting Methodologies
ER5 – Position Papers on Cross-Cutting Topics
ER6 – International R&D&I Funding and Benchmarks for KPIs