Objective
Global warming, the finite nature of fossil fuels and pollution in our cities have conspired to make renewable energy a European imperative. It is clear that electrical energy storage is a critical issue for the new energy economy and one for which rechargeable lithium batteries, alongside other technologies, has an important potential impact. Although the rechargeable lithium battery, first introduced in 1990, is the most important advance in energy storage in 100 years, it has fallen short in meeting technological demands. Further breakthroughs are sorely needed. Europe is blessed with a number of internationally leading research groups working on lithium-ion batteries. These have shown that nana-materials have the potential to revolutionize battery design. However, if a substantial leap forward is to be made in performance, research into these complex systems requires that a range of skills and expertise must work together in an INTEGRATED network. Eighteen top research groups (from 7 member states and 3 candidate/associated members), accounting for about 70% of European Li battery research, are keen to merge their efforts WITHIN A VIRTUALCENTRE to reduce redundancy, ensure complementarily, optimise collaboration to achieve vital research objectives, and share expensive facilities and resources, e.g. characterization platforms, pilot-plant battery fabrication. Innovative developments within Europe have all too often failed to realize their full potential through the inadequate size and disparity of individual research efforts. Integration will not only secure a sound scientific platform for battery research and training programs (European Masters degree, summer schools and workshops) to ensure long-lasting leadership but also provide, through the creation of an European Economic Interest Group, a more powerful and focussed mechanism for interacting with European industry and handling patent rights.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences chemical sciences electrochemistry electric batteries
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels renewable energy
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry alkali metals
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences pollution
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Keywords
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Topic(s)
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Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Call for proposal
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FP6-2002-ENERGY-1
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Coordinator
PARIS
France
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