The project was a 15-month Coordination and Support Action (CSA) in preparation for a large-scale research initiative on future battery technologies, BATTERY 2030+.
The BATTERY 2030+ initiative aims to support the transition to a climate-neutral Europe, as described in the European Green Deal, and to be an important tool in the Green Recovery Plan, in which energy storage with batteries is a key technology. For Europe to become globally competitive and to keep and increase its number of jobs, we need excellent research aligned with the long-term vision of supporting emerging battery cell production, to deliver sustainable ultra-high-performance battery solutions for industrial sectors and society in general.
The BATTERY 2030+ vision is accordingly to invent the sustainable batteries of the future, to provide breakthrough technologies to the European battery industry throughout the value chain, and to enable long-term European leadership in both existing markets (e.g. road transport and stationary energy storage) and future emerging applications (e.g. robotics, aerospace, medical devices, and the Internet of things).
BATTERY 2030+ consists of a core group of 17 partners, all leaders in their fields, from nine European countries. Furthermore, several European associations and networks are engaged in a supporting organisation reference group comprising 70 universities and roughly 90 companies.
The specific objectives of this CSA were threefold:
- to formulate the BATTERY 2030+ roadmap with a vision, extending past ten years, of inventing the sustainable batteries of the future; the roadmap defines key obstacles to overcome in order to achieve ultra-high-performance sustainable batteries with smart functionalities that are safe, low cost, scalable, durable, and predictable with long lifetimes;
- in line with the roadmap, to propose R&I actions to be implemented in the following years; and
- to obtain official support and engagement from key stakeholders and EU Member States for the vision and goals described in the BATTERY 2030+ roadmap.
BATTERY 2030+ proposes a “chemistry-neutral” approach to transformational research actions as the fastest way to discover new battery materials and concepts and to enable and improve the different generations of battery chemistries described in the SET Plan action 7.
To achieve these objectives, the project was structured as three Technical Work Packages and one additional Work Package dedicated to project management.
