Periodic Reporting for period 2 - BATTERY 2030PLUS (BATTERY 2030+ large-scale research initiative: At the heart of a connected green society)
Période du rapport: 2022-03-01 au 2023-08-31
The transition towards a carbon neutral society, reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 percent by 2030, is the goal of the European commission. It requires batteries with ultra-high performance beyond today's capabilities. Energy and power density need to approach theoretical limits, and outstanding lifetime and reliability as well as enhanced safety and environmental sustainability must be achieved.
Batteries are a key enabler to increase energy security, reduce the environmental footprint in different areas, and help forge a climate-neutral society while creating new markets and jobs. Battery 2030+ will lay a scientific and technological foundation to enable the next generation of high-performance, safe, and sustainable batteries in Europe. These novel battery technologies will have a societal and an environmental impact on many levels.
Battery 2030+ brings together the most important stakeholders in the field of battery research and development to work on concrete actions that support the implementation of the European Green Deal, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, as well as the European Action plan on Batteries and the European SET-Plan.
The Battery 2030+ aims are to:
• invent ultra-high-performance batteries that are safe, affordable, and sustainable, with a long lifetime.
• develop new battery chemistries and battery concepts.
• provide new tools and breakthrough technologies to the European battery industry throughout the value chain, including manufacturing and recycling.
• accelerate battery development through realization of new tools in the area of digitalization.
• enable long-term European leadership in both existing markets such as transport and stationary storage and future emerging sectors like robotics, aerospace, medical devices, and Internet of things, etc.
Batteries are a key enabler to increase energy security, reduce the environmental footprint in different areas, and help forge a climate-neutral society while creating new markets and jobs. Battery 2030+ will lay a scientific and technological foundation to enable the next generation of high-performance, safe, and sustainable batteries in Europe. These novel battery technologies will have a societal and an environmental impact on many levels.
Battery 2030+ brings together the most important stakeholders in the field of battery research and development to work on concrete actions that support the implementation of the European Green Deal, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, as well as the European Action plan on Batteries and the European SET-Plan.
The Battery 2030+ aims are to:
• invent ultra-high-performance batteries that are safe, affordable, and sustainable, with a long lifetime.
• develop new battery chemistries and battery concepts.
• provide new tools and breakthrough technologies to the European battery industry throughout the value chain, including manufacturing and recycling.
• accelerate battery development through realization of new tools in the area of digitalization.
• enable long-term European leadership in both existing markets such as transport and stationary storage and future emerging sectors like robotics, aerospace, medical devices, and Internet of things, etc.
Cooperation between the this Battery 2030PLUS and the six R&I LC-BAT- projec1s 12,13,14-2020
An important achievement was to get all the project leaders to sign the Collaboration agreement. This laid the foundation for deepened collaboration. Regular meetings with continuous follow up on the progress for each project in relation to the Battery 2030+ roadmap has led to a mutual interest in each other’s research. Questions and curiosity have followed - and several meetings involving two, or three projects, discussing things like AI to better explore self-healing mechanisms, sensor devices to monitor degradation in batteries and other cross-functional topics. This kind of operational collaboration bringing researchers with different expertise together is usually where the magic of co-creation and unexpected breakthroughs happens.
See figure "Projects interactions".
Policy Engagement in Battery Partnership BEPA
During 2021 the European partnership for batteries (BEPA) was launched. In the board and association delegation five delegates from academia (including RTOs) were open for election. Battery 2030+ CSA partners occupy all these five positions and take an active part in formulating R&I actions and negotiate with the representatives from the EU commission.
Updated roadmap
Battery 2030+ has updated the roadmap with a wide feed-back process including stakeholders within the entire Battery 2030+ initiative, academia, RTOs and industry from 24 countries in Europe. The roadmap follows the main tracks from the previous while including updates on most recent developments in battery research, development and commercialization. It outlines the ambition to radically transform the way we discover, develop, and design battery materials, components, and systems for use in real applications. It is our aim to make a European research effort to support the need to establish a European battery cell manufacturing.
Identify and contribute to guidelines and best practice for data sharing & FAIR Data
The Battery 2030+ initiative provides common guidelines for sharing and structuring data as well as spreading best practice between the projects, but also to the worldwide battery community. We develop a common infrastructure by input on tools, standards, data management and experimental and modelling activities. This is a prerequisite to share, collaborate and accelerate for example new battery materials.
Contribute to European curricula in future battery technologies and young scientist engagement
The consortia identify education needs, educational curricula for master and Ph.D. courses as well as for life-long learning, and for training on pilot-lines. One online seminar on Li-ion cell production was organized by Battery 2030+ together with the Big-Map and LiPlanet. Li-ion cell processes, materials and cell design were covered.
Contribute to common exploitation and IPR strategies
Battery 2030+ strengthen the connections between the research projects to facilitate the transfer of results and information from academic research to industry. The CSA encourages a common ground in dissemination, exploitation and communication and dissemination activities. This creates the interest from industry and other relevant stakeholders, save resources for implementing activities, and create larger impact on policy makers.
All of the projects are now participating in the Horizon Results Booster.
Co-organiser of Battery Innovation Days and more
Together with Batteries Europe, BEPA, and the two IPCEIs we arranged BID, Battery Innovation Days in November 2021. The conference was online and brought together numerous players and experts from the battery field, including representatives from the European Commission.
Battery 2030+ was also co-organiser of the Green Batteries Conference 2021 hosted by Fraunhofer and EUSEW 2021.
New web page and increased presence in social media
In 2021, Battery 2030+ launched a new web. It is more graphically appealing, easier to navigate, encourage engagement, showcase scientific progress and promotes events as well as our projects and Roadmap. During the last year we can see an exponential growth in our social media channels through our activities that engages our target groups. We have now surpassed 5000 followers on Twitter.
An important achievement was to get all the project leaders to sign the Collaboration agreement. This laid the foundation for deepened collaboration. Regular meetings with continuous follow up on the progress for each project in relation to the Battery 2030+ roadmap has led to a mutual interest in each other’s research. Questions and curiosity have followed - and several meetings involving two, or three projects, discussing things like AI to better explore self-healing mechanisms, sensor devices to monitor degradation in batteries and other cross-functional topics. This kind of operational collaboration bringing researchers with different expertise together is usually where the magic of co-creation and unexpected breakthroughs happens.
See figure "Projects interactions".
Policy Engagement in Battery Partnership BEPA
During 2021 the European partnership for batteries (BEPA) was launched. In the board and association delegation five delegates from academia (including RTOs) were open for election. Battery 2030+ CSA partners occupy all these five positions and take an active part in formulating R&I actions and negotiate with the representatives from the EU commission.
Updated roadmap
Battery 2030+ has updated the roadmap with a wide feed-back process including stakeholders within the entire Battery 2030+ initiative, academia, RTOs and industry from 24 countries in Europe. The roadmap follows the main tracks from the previous while including updates on most recent developments in battery research, development and commercialization. It outlines the ambition to radically transform the way we discover, develop, and design battery materials, components, and systems for use in real applications. It is our aim to make a European research effort to support the need to establish a European battery cell manufacturing.
Identify and contribute to guidelines and best practice for data sharing & FAIR Data
The Battery 2030+ initiative provides common guidelines for sharing and structuring data as well as spreading best practice between the projects, but also to the worldwide battery community. We develop a common infrastructure by input on tools, standards, data management and experimental and modelling activities. This is a prerequisite to share, collaborate and accelerate for example new battery materials.
Contribute to European curricula in future battery technologies and young scientist engagement
The consortia identify education needs, educational curricula for master and Ph.D. courses as well as for life-long learning, and for training on pilot-lines. One online seminar on Li-ion cell production was organized by Battery 2030+ together with the Big-Map and LiPlanet. Li-ion cell processes, materials and cell design were covered.
Contribute to common exploitation and IPR strategies
Battery 2030+ strengthen the connections between the research projects to facilitate the transfer of results and information from academic research to industry. The CSA encourages a common ground in dissemination, exploitation and communication and dissemination activities. This creates the interest from industry and other relevant stakeholders, save resources for implementing activities, and create larger impact on policy makers.
All of the projects are now participating in the Horizon Results Booster.
Co-organiser of Battery Innovation Days and more
Together with Batteries Europe, BEPA, and the two IPCEIs we arranged BID, Battery Innovation Days in November 2021. The conference was online and brought together numerous players and experts from the battery field, including representatives from the European Commission.
Battery 2030+ was also co-organiser of the Green Batteries Conference 2021 hosted by Fraunhofer and EUSEW 2021.
New web page and increased presence in social media
In 2021, Battery 2030+ launched a new web. It is more graphically appealing, easier to navigate, encourage engagement, showcase scientific progress and promotes events as well as our projects and Roadmap. During the last year we can see an exponential growth in our social media channels through our activities that engages our target groups. We have now surpassed 5000 followers on Twitter.
The Battery 2030PLUS is highly visible in dialogues with different stakeholders and takes active part in different policy forum such the launch of Horizon Europe. The coordinator of Battery 2030PLUS is invited at high level state visits. This is a platform to explain the EU battery landscape and community and get public and political acceptance.
The expected results are batteries with longer life, higher energy density that can be recycled. The projects are on low TRL-level, so the “socio-economic” impact is not obvious, but the research results will be important in order to establish a vital European battery industry, which in turn will serve European competitiveness.
AEM picturing the research in Battery 2030+
Eleven stories written by the researchers in Battery 2030+ are published in Advanced Energy Materials. The topics covers the roadmap, recycling of Li-ion batteries, self-healing as an emerging battery technology, how to unify the description of ontology data, high-throughput experimentation, digitalization and alike – in all 275 pages.
Excellence seminars
To widen, share and enhance collaboration between the researchers in the international community we arrange Excellence seminars. Prominent researchers from the U.S China and Europe bring free educational knowledge and insight to the research community.
The expected results are batteries with longer life, higher energy density that can be recycled. The projects are on low TRL-level, so the “socio-economic” impact is not obvious, but the research results will be important in order to establish a vital European battery industry, which in turn will serve European competitiveness.
AEM picturing the research in Battery 2030+
Eleven stories written by the researchers in Battery 2030+ are published in Advanced Energy Materials. The topics covers the roadmap, recycling of Li-ion batteries, self-healing as an emerging battery technology, how to unify the description of ontology data, high-throughput experimentation, digitalization and alike – in all 275 pages.
Excellence seminars
To widen, share and enhance collaboration between the researchers in the international community we arrange Excellence seminars. Prominent researchers from the U.S China and Europe bring free educational knowledge and insight to the research community.